434 on-demand sessions from Fortune 500 CHROs, BPI researchers, and world-renowned leadership experts. All free and open.
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Michele Ryan, HR Director at McDonald’s Restaurants (UK), will present the business need, design, and implementation of programs and practices that support women's leadership development at McDonald's (UK). Michele and her team have an effective, evolving approach to both talent and implementation.
Michele Ryan
Whether you like it or not, the demographic shift is happening and Generation Y (born 1980 – 1995) is coming to the forefront of the workforce. This generation differs from any previous demographic population because “Gen Y” grew up in an era shaped by conditions unheard of before: from digital social lives with 24/7 connectivity, global mobility and unlimited instant access to shared knowledge via the internet to unprecedented environmental challenges and highly individualized lifestyle choices. Consequently, Generation Y’s approach to life and work seems foreign to earlier generations. In fact, it leaves them downright confused: These erratic, demanding, impatient and tech-dependent Trophy Kids are supposed to become our future leaders? In this webinar, Martina Mangelsdorf shares how Generation Y impacts the working world, focusing on five specific areas: •Work Place & Environment •Expectations & Motivation •Leadership & Communication •Attraction & Hiring •Training & Development Martina explains typical Generation Y attributes and stereotypes that should be utilized to leverage Gen Y talent. She also highlights some risk factors and provides a practical checklist to assess whether your organization is ready for Generation Y.
Martina Mangelsdorf
Based on extensive contributions from 79 Expert Panelists around the world, this online research presentation and learning session, along with a new diversity and inclusion model, illustrates what excellent diversity and inclusion work looks like today. We will explore the research and twelve categories that make up the Global Ethics and Integrity Benchmarks, using expert input worldwide. The twelve categories cover a wide range of topics, including vision and goals, leadership, infrastructure, legal compliance, measurement, corporate social responsibility, and others.
Alan Richter
Are you one of those organizations that successfully recruits women, but is significantly less successful at retaining them? If so, you don’t reap the benefits of this key component of the workforce… the positive impact business results and organizational culture that women offer. It’s possible, and it’s time, to do this. Lynne Morton will show you how to take on this important challenge: how to recognize the differences in professional development between men and women… how to structure learning initiatives that look at aspiration and potential in focused and aligned ways… how to create a workforce that can take you to a higher level of success. She brings deep knowledge and personal passion, along with examples of creative approaches that have worked. An award-winning coach and consultant, Lynne will take you beyond the research onto a path for real personal and organizational enrichment.
Lynne Morton
New social technologies are popping up every day to allow us to connect and communicate in new ways. At the core, sites like Facebook are transforming the nature of relationships -- and with that, what it means to be a leader. That's because leadership has long been built on the concept of control -- of people, organizations, and strategies. These new relationships disrupt the idea of control and demand a new practice of openness and transparency.
Charlene Li
Imagine if you, as a leader, could create a work environment that’s consistently healthy and productive and allows all members of your team to excel! Now you can. Leaders today know that being a healthy organization is not optional. A healthy and dynamic working environment is the precondition for generating skills and knowledge, collaborative working relationships, change readiness, resilience, innovation, and a healthy bottom line. Much has been written about what needs to be done, but there is very little guidance as to how to get there. This presentation will introduce participants to a holistic approach to how that integrates ancient wisdom and leading edge practices. The Genuine Contact™ program and approach uses simple and practical tools and approaches that that has a proven track record of success around the world. Create the kind of organization that you want to work in!
Michelle Cooper
We are in the business of learning, not teaching or training. All learning and change require a community to sustain it. Learning is a social phenomenon first and content/clarity second. Community, and a sense of belonging, is created by bringing a cross section of the community into a new conversation. If we maintain the old conversations about making the world predictable, measurable, individual focused and leader driven, nothing will change. The work is to overcome the culture of isolation, fear, and waiting for the leaders to get their act together. This occurs when we shift the conversation from problem solving to possibility, deficiencies and needs to gifts, and blame and barter to ownership and commitment. Peter’s session will be a demonstration of its theory, so the tools of communal transformation will be in the experience. Peter will define a form of leadership that depends on listening, convening, invitation, and the triumph of questions over answers. This session will minimize PowerPoint and maximize experience. No small task in a world of speed, efficiency, and fast food. This is a shift in the ecology of gathering as the way to sustain healthy culture, high performance, and a carbon free way of being together. All this requires a shift in thinking. He will explore a way of thinking about our places (workplaces, neighborhoods, towns) that creates an opening for authentic communities to exist and will discuss what we can do to make that happen. Learn powerful conversations that will shift the focus to engagement and possibility, leading to the creation of a new future. The essence is to take a step forward in our thinking and design about the ways people in communities come together to produce something new for themselves.
Peter Block
Together with former CEO of Girl Scouts of America, and Presidential Medal of Freedom honoree Frances Hesselbein, we will discuss the leadership philosophy, practices, and leadership decisions needed to provide opportunities to women of all ethnicities and socioeconomic status. This is a unique opportunity to learn from one of the greatest leaders and pioneers for women, diversity, and inclusion in history.
Frances Hesselbein
Learn to speak like Barack Obama - with great authenticity and personal power. It is time for you to rise up and find your authentic voice. This is your time. Yes YOU can! Our nation depends on it. Do you sometimes find that you're completely disconnected from the work you're doing and the words you're speaking? Is it sometimes a struggle to get motivated to do your work, even though this is a field you chose? In an effort for consistency and uniformity, companies can often diminish the voice of the individual. When this happens people feel disconnected and disengaged, the company becomes inefficient and strains even harder for consistency, and a vicious cycle is created.
David Mann
Dr. Roosevelt Thomas, recognized by The Wall Street Journal as one of the top ten consultants in the U.S. Drawing from his most recent book, Building on the Promise of Diversity, Dr. Thomas will detail the evolution of diversity in the United States. In particular, he will look at how it has evolved, is evolving and is likely to evolve in the future. Further, he will argue that the field is stuck and will cite a traditional view that diversity is an extension of the Civil Rights Movement's agenda as a principal reason for the current stagnation. His presentation will stimulate thought about the field of diversity and its challenges and opportunities.
R. Roosevelt Thomas
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The Workplace Report is BPI's original workplace culture research and editorial briefing series for CEOs, CHROs, people leaders, talent leaders, and employer-brand teams. It turns BPI's 25 years of research, Most Loved Workplace® certification data, SPARK findings, and current workforce signals into practical analysis leaders can use.
The report format includes executive summaries, research-backed articles, company examples, methodology notes, and practical implications for retention, hiring, culture, leadership, and employee experience. New research and analysis is published on an ongoing editorial cadence at /workplace-report.