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Coaching skills are crucial for managers operating in high-change environments. Discover how NIKE helps its managers use a variety of coaching skills. 

Best Practices:

• Emphasize attunement with employee needs and aspirations.
• Teach managers how to coach their people in the moment as a means of behavioral change.
• Ask simple but direct questions to help your people find solutions without giving them the answer.

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Major transformations cannot simply be dictated from the top down. Discover how GE is using coaches to support its FastWorks initiative.

Best practices:

• Remember, executive enthusiasm for an initiative is no guarantee that managers and employees will respond in the same manner.
• Consider investing in internal coaching capabilities to enhance your organization’s ability to support strategic change.

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When it comes to your company's organization design do you focus too much on best practices at the expense of differentiation, maximizing distinctive capabilities or organization efficiencies? Are you equipped to lead truly transformational change? Join Reed Deshler for this engaging webinar!

After you’ve spent time and money to develop your organization design, how will you successfully implement it in your organization? How do you ensure a new design will take root within your business culture? What resources will you need for implementation and how long can you reasonably expect it to take?

Strategic Workforce Planning is piecemeal, and it is hard work. In this interview, Kimbertly Jones, Expert Strategic Workforce Planning Consultant, shares how you can identify skills and competencies in your employees and make better decisions to meet the future mission of your organization.

Key insights:

• How to be best suited to advance your organization’s mission
• Why you should start with the foundation before moving forward with your process
• The greatest challenges in preparing for strategic workforce planning
• Why you need to know what you are looking for in your data

Agile ways of working are expanding across organizations carrying the promise of more effective and faster delivery. Though the genesis of Agile is in software development, the principles of Agile have universal application to other disciplines and ways of working. Organization transformation is one such discipline that aligns with Agile principles and can be executed in a way that leverages the benefits of Agile.

 

Culture holds the promise of helping the collective of an organization's members focus on similar goals and objectives and of encouraging cohesiveness in purpose and intent. There are some foundational principles that can help executives rein in and gain control of their culture (rather than being controlled by it). Join Reed Deshler as he discusses these principles that can be applied to shape a differentiating culture.

Traditional hiring practices are no longer sufficient to attract top talent in today’s highly competitive hiring market. In this exclusive interview, Leela Srinivasan of Lever discusses new research findings on the top recruiting challenges of the day and how design thinking methodologies can improve your access to high quality talent for mission critical roles.

The state of candidate experience? Not good. Employers are lagging in sharing important job information, and less than half of new hires received a phone call from the hiring manager during the onboarding process.

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