Archived Webcasts and Podcasts

Welcome to a workshop that is inspirational and will provide you with information and thought provoking ideas that you can use.

For decades, research and ongoing workplace surveys around the world, have explored what makes companies, leaders and teams great. Analysis of the results show data patterns and identified one question that showed the greatest correlation to the most positive business outcomes:

At work, do you have the chance to do what you do best every day?

This inspirational and informative “Leading from Strengths” event will allow you to understand why investing in Strengths returns the greatest ROI on performance and talent management. It may challenge your thinking and the myths you have likely believed for many years.

This session is an overview and introduction to Motivation-Based Interviewing. MBI is a 15 year-old interviewing method specifically designed for identifying and hiring high achievers. Traditional behavior-based interviewing focuses almost solely on an applicant's level of skill. This approach has a long history of producing hit-and-miss hiring results. Why? Because it takes more than just skill to succeed! MBI assesses all 3 of the components common to top performers that enable them to achieve above-average results, yet requires no extra interviewing time. The 3 components MBI assesses are - skill, attitude and passion! Please note, this session includes a powerful video that’s not available in an archived version.

Evidence that change is needed right now is apparent as recent studies show on average up to two thirds of employees are dissatisfied with their jobs. This is an alarming statistic for many leaders as the implications for retaining talent and sustaining business outcomes could well be threatened as employees begin to “escape” as the economy begins to recover. The presentation veers away from the traditional concept of employee relationships at the level of contract, negotiation and terms and conditions. Instead, it will examine 5 aspects of relationship at work, and develop specific ideas and practical frameworks, which will encourage further exploration and action. These ideas are designed to enable leaders to build on existing good practices, harness the commitment of their employees and improve results, as well as retain talent.

By writing and speaking about catalytic ideas, an organizational thought leader brings your company impressive advantages, such as brand goodwill, an elevated position in the eyes of your customers, and a shortened sales cycle.

In this interactive webinar, learn how to find your company's thought leaders, help them articulate their very best ideas, and get those ideas out to the world in a way that will build your firm's brand equity and draw your market to you.

The webinar leader, Mark Levy, has worked with distinguished thought leaders, including Marshall Goldsmith, Simon Sinek, David Meerman Scott, Harvard Business School scholars, and several TED and TEDx speakers.

“Profitable Cultures” refers to company culture that facilitates necessary business results while profiting all stakeholders – employees as well as customers and shareholders. In this program, we’ll uncover what's required of leaders in order to cultivate a profitable culture.

More than any other person, it is the leader who sets the culture. Not by what he or she proclaims in an annual all-hands meeting, but through WHO he or she is everyday and HOW he or she engages with others everyday. Who do the members of the organization know their leader to be? How effectively does he or she model the qualities of the desired culture?

Topics covered in this course include:

• Five fundamentals of Profitable Cultures
• Three tools for greater clarity & alignment
• Trust, courage, & leader vulnerability
• Leader intention: what qualities, values, and behaviors must I model for my organization?
• Three components of Skillful Dialogue
• Listening, Curiosity, & Seeking First to Understand

In Part 1 of this 2 part presentation, Jeremy Tozer examined a clear strategic role for HR in enabling the creation of the conditions for organizational success. In particular Jeremy examined the role of HR / learning and development in:

• Developing and sustaining organizational leadership capacity as the primary source of strategic competitive advantage.
• Enabling effective development and execution of business strategy and the leadership of change and transformation —this includes ensuring both work alignment and people engagement.

In this second part, Jeremy will give a quick recap of Part 1 and then examine in detail a proven approach to developing this form of collective leadership capability, an approach which also concurrently develops individual leadership behavior and emotional intelligence —an approach which is guaranteed to more than pay for itself with a measurable financial return on investment.

This will be illustrated with detailed and ROI quantified case studies from Cisco, and consulting assignments from across the USA, Asia, Europe and Australasia with other clients such as ABN AMRO, Pfizer, Philips and MCI.

Participants in this webinar should review the archive of Part 1 at this link http://www.hr.com/en/webcasts_events/webcasts/archived_webcasts_and_podcasts/strategic-hr-enabling-leaders-to-drive-strategy-ex_habeg7ec.html

Can you imagine the excitement people would feel coming to work every day to a company where leaders understand that building a sustainable competitive advantage is based on how leaders treat and develop their people?

Servant leadership offers hope to organizations for creating an environment of mutual trust and respect; a workplace where people can discover and reach their potential. A leadership style where leaders focus on creating a winning partnership for the people and the business; creating growth for both the people and the bottom-line. Find out how servant leadership can help your organization build a sustainable competitive advantage.

The presenter brings 38 years of real world experience in the manufacturing industry, including 26 years of senior leadership: Product Manager, Sales & Marketing Manager, VP of Sales & Marketing, VP of Operations and 13 years as President of two manufacturing companies including one with 10 manufacturing facilities in the U.S., England and Mexico. He also started his own consulting firm in April of 2010.

Anyone leading a team, company or department must be able to:

• persuade
• influence behavior
• get buy-in
• inspire

Vision, objectives, mission statements count for little if you can't clearly express them and persuade others to buy-in to them That's why having effective presentation skills is essential for the leader who is going to stand out above the crowd.

Career opportunities, personal confidence, self-esteem – all improve dramatically when you invest in upgrading presentation skills. The TalkitOut™ Technique as taught by Podium Media & Communications Coaching, is a new way of approaching presentations and speeches.

Hundreds of people around the world have become powerful speakers because of TalkitOut. TalkitOut is an indispensable tool for all leaders.

Often time leaders find it difficult to define, create or believe it’s important to shape them selves as a brand. However, your leadership and reputational capital IS potentially the most powerful form of branding, knowing or unknowingly that you will project into the world. Your “brand” will motivate others to want to work with and for you. Cut roughly 10 years off the learning curve by gaining the step-by-step knowledge and insight to form your own leadership brand immediately then put it into work. These tools can be utilized in many different aspect of your life to improve relationships and effectiveness.

In a recent large scale global survey of CEOs and senior executives 76 percent cited leadership development as important yet only 7 percent thought their organization was doing it effectively! A big part of this gap is caused by traditional needs assessments and gap analysis. This weakness-based approach is ineffective and undermines participant motivation for change. A series of pre and post studies examined the impact of leaders choosing to fix weaknesses versus building on existing strengths. 12 to 18 months later the leaders who magnified their existing strengths showed two - three times more improvement in leadership effectiveness than leaders who worked on fixing their weaknesses.