Sat.Nov 05, 2011 - Fri.Nov 11, 2011

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Buy-In – The Imperative Strategy

Strategy Driven

In providing research and developing training programs for various large corporations about managing change, we find that the biggest stumbling block for employees from top-down is lack of buy-in. Top executives have the vision, but often fail to get buy-in from managers who have to carry out the change initiative. This lack of buy-in trickles down and pretty soon everyone is at odds with the change because not having been in the initial ideation sessions, they don’t see any value.

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Corporate Cultures – Individual Initiated, Rules and Standards Controlled Environment

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The Individual Initiated, Knowledge and Skills Controlled Environment represents a culture that is moving toward greater consistency in action if not action initiation. These organizations are still largely guided by local controls and individual contributors and lack the more rigorous oversight and activity reinforcement realized in supervisory and leader led companies.

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Share Your Financial Results and Improve Performance

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Should you share your firm’s financial results with this staff? This is one of the questions that business owners face every day, and all too often the answer is no. But no is probably the wrong answer. An organization can very often improve performance and get its employees bought into it’s mission and purpose simply by sharing financial results with the employees.

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Guardrails: Keep Your Projects Out of the Weeds

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Think about if there were no guardrails on the freeway. It would be all too easy to run off the road and find yourself hurt and way off the fast track to your end destination. Business is a fast and zigzagging road – a road that needs guardrails to keep businesses and projects on track. On your road to success (whether it be to increase profits, become an industry leader, capture more market share, etc.), you need to establish your own guardrails so you do not drive your company or project

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Complimentary Resource – Talent Management Helps Small Companies Make Big Moves

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Talent Management Helps Small Companies Make Big Moves by SuccessFactors Learn how small companies can achieve growth and productivity goals and ultimately transform themselves. To move up the business maturity curve, small companies need big ambitions. These companies also need to move up the HR maturity curve and become more process-oriented. Download SuccessFactors’ new white paper, “ Small & Sophisticated: Unique Possibilities of Integrated Talent Management in Small Businesses ,”