Any firm, no matter how large or small, whether it’s been around for 100 years or 10 years, needs to think about how to get to what’s next. You don’t have to be Steve Jobs to have the next great idea or create the next great product. What you need is a culture with the five key drivers that spark innovation and take those ideas to reality. This engaging, interactive session explores the five key drivers of innovation in any environment and shows you how to use that business event we all hate – meetings – to drive innovation.
Change is inevitable and necessary for growth. All companies undergo changes unique to their business – whether it’s a merger, an acquisition, downsizing, restructuring – or even simply new leadership - change happens.
Is your organization about to embark on a change that will have a significant impact on your team, a division or your entire organization? Is it important to the success or growth of your business that the change is embraced and successful?
In this session, Emerging Leaders will learn 10 steps that will help support a successful change process and strategies for implementation. Without paying attention to these steps, leaders could find themselves with a large number of employees that are stuck, frustrated, disengaged, and unwilling to move forward.
"By failing to prepare you are preparing to fail." — Benjamin Franklin
If you own, manage, or work for any kind of organization, you have one goal above all else — success. And not just occasional, elusive, or temporary success. You’re looking for:
• Success you understand and can control
• Success you can maintain indefinitely
• Success you can replicate
• Success you can scale
• Success that isn’t dependent on you alone
• Success you can teach to others
In short, you’re looking for PREDICTABLE Success. In this timely, informative yet motivating webinar, experienced business advisor Les McKeown takes you step-by-step through a startlingly simple, intuitive, and universal process that shows you how to bring sustained, lasting, predictable success to your organization. Whether you're the founder/owner of a fast-growing company, a harried executive in a large organization, a manager in a resource-challenged not-for profit, or an HR or OD practitioner wanting to add value in your organization, this webinar will provide you with a precise road map to renewed growth and business success, starting from where you are today.
Whatever your challenge, Predictable Success shows you the exact steps to take to restore equilibrium to your organization, re-ignite confidence in your own management skills, and lead your team forward to the next stage in growth.
This interactive workshop is one of Kirk’s signature presentations where you will learn why optimists are better negotiators, close more deals, take fewer sick days, are more creative, more productive and are better employees. In this moving and touching session you will learn the skills of optimism and how to rise above negativity and how to handle any challenge.
No matter how large or successful an organization appears to be today, there is no guarantee of survival in the future. There have been too many highly visible and painful reminders of this fact over the last several years. While many of these companies appeared to have fallen apart overnight, the decline actually occurred over several years and resulted from a number of actions, decisions, and behaviors that contributed to the demise.
This webinar will provide an explanation of an organizational death spiral and present the warning signs that precede the decline, which often appear well before financial performance is affected.
The principles and concepts presented are equally applicable to healthcare, manufacturing, or service organizations and are just as important to address during good times as they are in a recession.
Most employees today feel overworked and underappreciated. During tough and challenging times when we are asking them to do even more with less, they report feeling even more stressed and fearful than ever before. To keep them from becoming myopic and instead consistently focused on the guests and opportunities at hand, management needs to especially be proactive and positive in difficult times. Dr. Bob Nelson will discuss his research and experience as to how recognition can make a practical difference during tight and recessionary times—even with little time, resources or budget. This session will use current and practical examples of what today’s organizations are doing to keep employees focused and positive in ways that can help the organization to emerge stronger from difficult economic times.
Bob Nelson, Ph.D., will expand your thinking of what recognition means and how you can better and more frequently recognize those you work with -- even with little time, resources, or budget. Far from being “fuzzy notion,” Dr. Nelson will show how recognition represents the single most validated principle for driving desired behavior and performance in today's work environments. He will draw from his own research and doctoral work as well as experience in working with hundreds of organizations on the topic to show how the best companies take a focused and long-term strategic view of employee recognition that systematically integrates the topic into the daily work practices of its managers, identifying and acting on opportunities in timely and specific ways. His session is filled with specific real-life examples and techniques that can be immediately applied back on the job by attendees to systematically leverage, build, and sustain a culture of recognition in their workplace today.
Are you ready to go beyond just surviving in your business? Do you want to thrive regardless of what the current economy does? If so, join Michelle Neujahr as she challenges, educates, and motivates business leaders to chart a new course toward long-term excellence. This content-packed webinar will challenge attendees to get real about the current state of their business and take immediate action to chart a new course. In addition attendees will learn how to keep an eye on the weather, make adjustments when needed and learn to enjoy rough waters. Michelle will inspire attendees to rethink their current strategies, recalibrate more quickly and take action toward reenergizing their organization. As the result of this seminar, you’ll be equipped with simple navigational tools to help you thrive in any type of weather.
During these unprecedented times, how are we to lead our organizations effectively? What leadership approaches do we need in order to be successful? How do we stay grounded when everything seems to be shifting? Thankfully, there are answers to these questions - We'll learn from a leadership story guaranteed to be more severe than anything we'll ever experience today.
The Chief of Naval Air Training, Rear Admiral Mark D. Guadagnini, trains “ultimate ninja warrior leaders.” The training his combat aerial professionals complete is efficient through into book training, real-world skills, and repetition. Guadagnini uses examples from his real life situations to highlight why this training is “100 percent successful.” Guadagnini breaks down his ‘warrior ethos’ into four areas: sense of mission accomplishment, courage of bravery that flows from the sense of mission accomplishment, discipline aggression, and flexibility/ adaptability.
The first warrior ethos is a sense of mission accomplishment. This is the ability to go out under difficult circumstances as a person or with a team and get the mission done, get it done right, and get it done every time. “If the United States military does not accomplish the mission correctly, we [lose the] ability to choose elected officials, the option of sending our children to the schools of our choice, and even simple choices like going to 7-11, Wal-Mart, or Piggly Wiggly to get our coffee.” The American way of life depends on our warriors having the sense of mission accomplishment.
Courage of bravery comes from this sense of mission accomplishment. Courage is “the ability to act, think, and make decisions that will garner a successful outcome despite physical or perceived things that might install fear in a human.”
Because the stakes for America are particularily high, Guadignini said they get their mission done and die trying.
“We train them to win,” Guadagnini said. “You have to determine that you are going to be excellent at what you do. It’s that kind of commitment to excellence that is going to drive your program in the right direction.”
Biography
Rear Admiral Mark D. Guadagnini graduated with distinction from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1980, earning a Bachelor of Science in Economics. After a brief tour with the Navy Fighter Weapons School, he entered flight training, earning his wings in 1982. In June 1983 he went to VA-65, where he made two deployments flying the A-6E Intruder aboard USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69).
In July of 1986, Guadagnini attended the U.S. Navy Test Pilot School. After graduation, he served at Strike Aircraft Test Directorate as a project pilot and was the first Navy pilot to fly the A-6F. He returned to USNTPS as a fixed wing performance and flying qualities instructor. After A-6 and F-14 refresher training, he reported to CVW-8 as LSO and Strike Operations Officer. During his tour, CVW-8 performed the shakedown of USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) and deployed the aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) for combat operations in support of Operations Desert Storm and Provide Comfort. For his efforts he was named COMNAVAIRLANT LSO of the Year in 1991.
In September 1991, he reported to Attack Squadron (VA) 65, serving as the Safety Officer and Maintenance Officer. In May of 1993, he was assigned to the Office of Senator John McCain as a Legislative Fellow. Following his Fellowship, he worked as an aide in BUPERS and at CINCPACFLT.
Guadagnini reported as Executive Officer of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 15 in April 1996 and deployed with CVW-8 in USS John F. Kennedy (CV 67). He assumed command in July 1997 and led the squadron in combat operations as part of Operation Deliberate Force over Bosnia-Herzegovina and Operation Southern Watch over Iraq.
After command, he worked as a liaison between the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the U.S. Congress. In August of 2000, he happily returned to sea duty as Operations Officer, Carrier Group 8, deploying on USS Theodore Roosevelt for Operation Enduring Freedom combat operations. He retuned to combat in 2002 as the DCAG in CVW-17, flying in Operations Enduring Freedom and Southern Watch while deployed aboard USS George Washington. Guadagnini assumed command of CVW-17 on 15 August 2003, deploying aboard USS John F. Kennedy for combat operations in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. In July of 2005, he reported to Navy Personnel Command as the Division Director for Aviation Officer Distribution.
Guadagnini assumed command as Chief of Naval Air Training August 15, 2007.
There comes a time in every leader’s career when he/she is faced with seemingly intractable obstacles. Not in terms of deficiencies in resources or competitive pressures, but in terms of people in his/her organization. Often it comes in the form of a coalition of people who do not like or trust him/her. Sometimes this lack of trust is due to lack of knowledge; they do not know him/her. Or it may be based on lack of faith; they do not think he/she is up to the job. The way the leader handles the situation will determine his/her success or failure as a leader. When facing such situations, the leader owes it to him/herself and the organization to defuse the forces against her and then bring people together. Persuasion becomes the rule of the day.
CHALLENGE YOUR THINKING ABOUT THE CURRENT ECONOMIC CRISIS with John Perkins, New York Times Best Selling Author of CONFESSIONS OF AN ECONOMIC HITMAN
THE HIT MEN STRIKE HOME
What Next and How to Deal With It
The current crisis is a classic hit by economic hit men (EHM) – except this time the victims are us. Drawing on personal experiences described in his New York Times bestselling book, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, John Perkins explains how tools honed during the past four decades in developing countries are enabling the extremely rich to purchase businesses and real estate at fire sale prices; defend abolition of health care, education, and other social programs; and justify privatization of the public sector. However, crises offer opportunities.
Perkins presents a plan for transforming the economy and describes ways each of us can employ our individual passions and skills to not only prosper but also create a world we will be proud to pass on to future generations.
John Perkins' tell-all memoir, CONFESSIONS OF AN ECONOMIC HIT MAN, which is translated in 30 languages, spent 7 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list in hardcover, and more than 12 weeks on the extended list. John has lectured and taught at universities and learning centers on four continents and is a regular lecturer for the Omega Center and at universities and corporations all over the country. John Perkins worked for the international consulting firm of Chas. T. Main from 1971 to 1981, where he held the titles of Chief Economist and Manager of Economics and Regional Planning but, in reality, was an economic hit man. John Perkins is founder and president of the Dream Change Coalition, which works closely with Amazonian and other indigenous people to help preserve their environments and cultures.
The fundamental driver of personal and business success is undoubtedly growth. In his new book on The Momentum Effect, “JC” Larreche has uncovered the mechanisms of efficient and sustainable growth, based on three research tracks involving hundred of corporations. His powerful and pragmatic roadmap for Momentum Strategy will guide you to deliver stronger results easily. It will also help you mobilize your team on a common vision of efficient growth generation.
This webcast is for you if you have asked yourself one of the following questions:
-Why is so much money wasted in marketing?
-How can I develop a powerful approach to my growth targets?
-Where can I get a simple pragmatic tool to mobilize my team around growth?
-What could be a motivating topic for our next management meeting?
-How to make innovation, customer focus, and marketing generate real growth?
As a result of attendance at this Executive Briefing, attendees will:
1. Gain enhanced knowledge, skills, and success in Strategic Planning rather than falling into the traps that almost all organizations do.
2. Learn the results of the Strategic IQ Audits conducted in numerous organizations by the Haines Centre in the past 6 six years, including some strengths that most organizations possess, and the top 12 Common Mistakes almost all organizations make.
Why do so many change efforts fail or have unintended consequences? How can your change initiative be planned and implemented to achieve results that are faster and more sustainable? What is “change fatigue” and how can your organization avoid it? Based on experience with organizations from the Fortune 500 to small nonprofits, Blixt and Eggers will share the key factors that need to be in place for a system change to succeed.
Blixt and Eggers will share their experiences in how to create change efforts that involve the whole system for greater success and sustainability.
Everywhere you look there are life-long career professionals losing confidence in their ability to stay competitive in our rapidly changing society. Concurrently, no one in society has a long-term lock on any market niche and no body of information affords a strategic competitive advantage for very long. The reality of our times is that everyone is feeling at least a little unsure of himself and in that sense everyone is in the same boat.
It's normal to be confused. In this presentation, Jeff Davidson lays out what top professionals do to maintain confidence and balance, independent of the frequency of change to which they're exposed, and how they maintain a sense of breathing space along the way. If you work for a living, you won't want to miss hearing this.
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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.