Change Management Training Video
Consumer support for sustainable products and practices is growing worldwide. “Going green” will soon be a necessary cost of doing business.
It’s no longer enough to meet minimum legal compliance for environmental standards. A true competitive advantage lies in influencing economic recovery with forward-thinking sustainability practices.
Corporate Social Responsibility vs. Bottom Line
Some executives [...]
Between December 2007, the official start of the current recession, and June 2009 more than 40,000 U.S. organizations held layoffs in an effort to reduce costs, increase profits, and improve shareholder value. Unfortunately, studies over the past two decades have shown that most of the time layoff initiatives rarely actually achieve those objectives. In fact, [...]
Now more than ever team leaders and project directors need the support of senior management to make a success of their projects at work.However, in over 10 years of work with change managers, convincing senior management to approve a proposal continues to be a main source of frustration among group managers.
To try to better understand [...]
Have you had the dreadful experience of presenting a team project proposal to executive management, only to feel at the end that the importance of the proposal fell on deaf ears?
As a team leader and director of a function or a team, you are probably passionate about your work.The value of your group’s work is [...]
Almost every person in charge of a team has had a similar experience.With only a few minutes to present to senior management, you must communicate a proposed project on behalf of your team. You work hard to prepare the perfect presentation, only to met by the executives with stony silence after you are through. What [...]
While businesses are struggling to survive in a turbulent economy, it is very easy to avoid communicating with employees. However, this neglect can have a number of consequences. Employee stress must be recognized and dealt with, or productivity will suffer and profits will be effected as employees call in sick for stress related illness, lose [...]
Heather is a forty-four-year-old woman who is the director of the human resources department at a large brass molding company. In order to reduce the costs linked to poor employee work performance, increasing absenteeism, employee alcoholism and alcohol abuse, excessive sick days, and work related injuries, Heather and the other members of upper management established [...]
A new MetLife Mature Market Institute study, conducted in partnership with Boston College’s Sloan Center on Aging & Work, indicates that the economic downturn has had a greater psychological effect on younger workers than it has on workers of the Baby Boomer and Traditionalist generations. The results of the study are summarized in the report, [...]