On November 5th I’ll be doing a webcast for the American Management Association entitled “Fired Up Leadership: How to Make Your Team Thrive.” The webcast is already oversubscribed but the AMA will be making it available to the public at no charge beginning on or around November 10. To receive an email notifcation from the AMA when the webcast becomes available, click here.
Category Archives: Webcasts
Webcast with Avon’s Marc Effron
Join me this Thursday at 11:00 AM Eastern when I will host a presentation by Marc Effron, Vice President of Talent Management at Avon and head of The New Talent Management Network. Marc is a thought and practice leader in talent management who is challenging industry practices when it comes to developing talent. Tune in to learn more about how Marc and his team have transformed Avon into one of the leading talent engines worldwide. You can sign up to attend the free webcast by clicking on employee engagement.
AMA Webcast on Connection Cultures and Employee Engagement
On November 5th from 12:00 P.M. until 1:00 P.M. Eastern, I’m presenting on a webcast for the American Management Association. The webcast is about Connection Cultures, leadership, teams and employee engagement. It will include Q&A with AMA program manager Susan Zeidman as well as from listeners. There is no charge for the webcast. You can register to attend by clicking on employee engagement.
Book Review: Why is Everyone Smiling?
Paul Spiegelman, CEO of the Beryl Companies, has written a wonderful book about Beryl Companies and its extraordinary culture. Rather than write a review of Paul’s book, I’m posting the review written by the business maven and book reviewer extraordinaire Robert Morris (see below). On Monday at 11:00 AM Eastern, I will be hosting a webcast with Paul Spiegelman and you can sign up for it by clicking on employee engagement.
Robert Morris review of Why Is Everyone Smiling?
Webcast: Beryl Companies’ Remarkable Corporate Culture
Tune in on Monday September, 29 at 11:00 AM Eastern to hear my guest Paul Spiegelman, CEO of Beryl Companies, talk about the remarkable corporate culture at Beryl and how it has resulted in high levels of employee engagement and retention. This organization is one of the best examples of a Connection Culture that I am aware of and Paul is an extraordinary leader and author of Why is Everyone Smiling?
For more about the webcast click on employee engagement.
Webcast Tomorrow: H&R Block Connects to Improve Employee Engagement
Tomorrow morning at 11:00 AM EST I will host a webcast with my guest Kristina Patrick, Senior Project Manager for Outreach and Business Development at H&R Block. When H&R Block’s new leaders wanted to engage employees by involving them in a conversation about the firm’s activities, they turned to Kristina. With a meager budget Kristina and her colleagues produced a remarkable internal news and social media platform that had H&R Blockers buzzing. Tune into this webcast to hear how you and your company can increase employee engagement and get the biggest bang out of your internal communications and social media budgets. You can sign up to attend by clicking on employee engagement.
Losing the Level 5 Leader: Why Companies Fall From Great to Good or Worse.
When you look at the companies that Jim Collins has identified as being great, few could be described in those terms today. Why? The short answer is that companies change. Or more specifically, the people leading them change. Collins identified so-called “Level 5 Leaders” as one of the attributes of great companies. These leaders combine a determination to build a great organization with personal humility. No factor is more important to an organization’s success that having Level 5 Leaders because they have a positive effect on employee engagement. They infuse the organization with values such as excellence, work ethic, open-mindedness, humility, and courage to speak truth. These are values that help create a Connection Culture, primarily by increasing the elements of Vision (Inspiring Identity) and Voice(Knowledge Flow) in the organization’s culture.
When a Level 5 Leader hands over the organization to a leader who isn’t a Level 5, the new leader may fail in several ways. He may not be openminded causing people to fear telling him the truth. Lacking sufficient knowledge to make optimal decisions, he makes suboptimal decisions and the organization’s performance declines. Lacking humility, he may fail to be participative by not informing or seeking the opinions and ideas of others. When this value cascades throughout the organization, 75-80 percent of employees will become disengaged so that they stop putting their best efforts in their work and they stop communicating. The failure of communication, once again, leads to suboptimal decision-making and performance decline. The point here is that developing and selecting leaders is critical to sustain superior performance. An organization may be great for a season with a Level 5 Leader on top but if it fails to develop a pipeline of Level 5 Leaders, however, you can be sure it won’t remain there.
Who is responsible for talent management in your organization? Does she have the CEO’s ear? Does he have the resources required to get the job done? Your organization’s future depends on it.
Marc Effron, VP of Talent management at Avon and head of the New Talent Management Network, is a thought and practice leader in talent management. He will be my guest in a webcast on the October 30 at 11AM Eastern. Marc will talk about how he and his team have transformed talent management at Avon with the “One Page Talent Management” approach they developed. You can sign up to hear this webcast live by clicking on employee engagement.
Upcoming Webcasts on Employee Engagement and Social Media
Tomorrow at 11 AM Eastern I will be presenting a 30 minute webcast on Connection Cultures and how they increase employee engagement. This is just one in a series of webcasts I’m hosting at the Leadership and Employee Engagement channel of BrightTALK. In the coming weeks a number of great guests will be sharing their insights about employee engagement including Kristina Patrick, Senior Project Manager for Outreach & Business Development at H&R Block, Larry Ackerman, CEO of The Identity Circle and one of the leading experts today on corporate and individual identity, Marc Effron , VP of Talent Management at Avon and head of The New Talent Management Network, and Paul Spiegalman, CEO of Beryl Companies and author of Why Is Everyone Smiling?. Although some of the webcasts are not yet scheduled, you can sign up for my webcast on Connection Cultures and the webcast with Kristina Patrick of H&R Block by clicking employee engagement.
Webcast with David Zinger, Employee Engagement Expert and Founder of the Employee Engagement Network
Join me tomorrow at 11:00 AM Eastern when I will host a webcast with David Zinger, employee engagement expert and founder of The Employee Engagement Network. David has a wealth of knowledge and wisdom, as well as strength of character. He’s an inspiration to me and to many other professionals who work helping organizations engage their employees. In the webcast David will share his thoughts about the diverse connections that help engage people. To sign up for the webcast, click on employee engagement. If you are unable to join the live webcast, you can still click on the link to see the webcast recording.