We all know employees give of their best when they believe their company is worth working for
Uncover how to improve
Employees’ Attitudes and Behaviours
so yours continues to be a
Company Worth Working For in 2013
Practical ideas from experienced business leaders, thought-provoking authors and renown consultants
We’ve brought together 10 experts in leadership and employee engagement so you can help stakeholders engage with your business vision, values and purpose.
Learn from their expertise and experience as they talk gamification, Social HR, collaboration and innovation, multicultural settings, ROI, trust, authenticity, recognition that changes behaviours, and much more…
Though they work for different companies and on different continents – North America, Europe, Africa, Australasia – the thinking and best practices they share you will find relevant as well.
Join them for the 2013 Worth Working Summit when they share what they’ve found works in practice in many different countries and cultures
You'll hear new insights, ideas, tools and techniques you can apply in your own organisation.
Listening in is easy and FREE! Worth Working Summit 2013 is a virtual online event.
You can listen in no matter where you are in the world via computer, laptop, iPhone, iPad, iPod and other mobile devices.
Over five days we will look in detail at what makes a company worth working for; answering the questions:
- How do you work out what to do differently to increase employee motivation and satisfaction?
- How do you uncover things that have the potential to undermine morale in your organisation?
These are big questions for any business – with complex solutions that shift and change.
Meet your panel of global experts and some of the well-kept secrets they will be revealing…
Helping employees embrace challenges and be innovative
- How to introduce challenges into teams, even those with repetitive roles where command and control appears to work
- 7 ways to provide employees with opportunities to share their concerns and ideas with more senior managers
- What not to do if you want your employees to understand the ramifications of their decisions
- How to give employees stretching challenges that resolve real life problems
- The no.: 1 mechanism for checking your organisation is going in the right direction – hint: its about people
- Why all employees need face-to-face time with their leaders and the difference it makes to performance
- 3 techniques for ensuring employees take responsibility for their own development and do grow year on year
- How giving employees some slack time for thinking each day increased productivity by 6%
Social media goes mainstream: Engraving social media deeply into your culture
- The rise of Social HR: social performance management tools that enable leaders to quantify social media
- Why social media going mainstream is nothing to fear and its role as a business tool that helps people do their jobs
- How to work out which social media apps your employees expect to use at work
- Gamification: how to tap social technologies into organisational behaviour
- The no.1 and no.2 things social media technologies must have for employees to believe they are effective
- The ultimate case study for harnessing social media as an engagement tool from your leadership down
- How to develop equal value propositions for employees that strengthen recognition and networking
- Social media as an enabler: giving employees control over when and where they access corporate information
Business Advisor Fishburn Hedges, Partner, Change Agency, Founder Orato Consulting, NED Communicate TV
Earning trust: Be the change you want to see
- Real life practices and customs that cultivate trust within organisations
- The two key reasons trust is at an all time low and what you can do to overcome them in your organisation
- The no.: 1 skill for building trust that everyone can develop, if they want to
- Why treating trust as the outcome of an engagement process doesn’t work, and what to do instead
- How to involve employees in strengthening trust across your organisation
- A new model for building trust among younger employees without the deference mindset of earlier generations
- How to create an environment where leaders are part of the conversation and people are happy to share ideas with each other
- Why, if organisations don’t co-create a collaborative culture with employees, customers and suppliers, they can’t rebuild trust
Demonstrating the bottom line benefits of engagement
- Why executives need to be visible, and be seen to be rolling up their sleeves, to be effective leaders
- 3 management by walking about practices that are proving particularly effective globally; and how to introduce them
- An incredibly powerful mechanism for helping leaders become comfortable when they are not natural communicators
- New ways to use social media that give people the opportunity to have their voice heard
- Best practice leadership blogging that wins the respect of technology-savvy employees
- Getting the balance between taking people out of comfort zones and into participation, and allowing them to be wallflowers
- How to use step level meetings to help front line employees and senior managers connect and share experiences
- Social media apps employees love for recognition and stories about work well done
Leading high performing cultures that last
- 5 characteristics great leaders have; how to recognise your preferences and practical steps to strengthen them
- The secret to surviving when you personal leadership style doesn’t match the culture of your organisation
- 4 attributes of personality that together create the fundamental pillar of trust essential to constructive relationships
- Why, if you lose your authenticity, you’ll undermine the fundamental pillar of trust
- How to flex your leadership style and take people with you into the future in ways that stall resistance
- What to do when entering a period of culture change to ensure you make wise decisions
- The biggest challenge that consistently catches leaders out around the world when they do not back their good intentions up with action
- Inspirational ideas from great leaders that can be used to strengthen culture in organisations around the world
Mike Nnaji
Deputy Head, Corporate Services, Fidelity Bank
Cut - Adapt - Paste for the best from the West
- How to blend the best of African and Western on-boarding practices
- 4 ways to encourage new employees to live your company’s values
- African practices that encourage people to trust each other and their leaders, that can easily be adopted in the West
- How to encourage trust, confidence and camaraderie among employees from different cultural backgrounds
- Tangible ways of helping new employees deal with culture shock in their first days and weeks
- 3 tips for attracting and retaining top talent in Africa
- What to do if you want employees in Africa to believe that what they do at work matters
- How to help new employees live your organisation’s values in ways that are real
Jo Ann Sweeney
Founder, Sweeney Communications
Duncan Brodie
MD, Goals & Achievements
Distinctive practices that reinforce motivation and job satisfaction
- 6 factors that determine job satisfaction in organisations globally and that are easy to introduce whatever your culture
- Why leaders not only need a plan for long term success, but also need to explain this clearly, before people trust they can deliver
- 4 distinctive people practices from exceptional organisations that reinforce job satisfaction
- How to give employees opportunities to be innovative and creative that also give them a stake in the company’s future direction
- The repercussions when leaders do not clearly explain business objectives, both for employees and long term survival
- How to give employees a sense of ownership around achieving business objectives
- When to use money as a motivator and when to use other forms of reward to strengthen job satisfaction
- 5 practices for helping employees balance high performance at work with personal responsibilities
Todd Revolt
Director, Marketing & Business Development, Tango Card
Creating more players in the game: Recognition that strengthens loyalty, creativity & motivation
- 6 essentials for reward and recognition systems that motivate people to reach your business goals
- When tangible financial incentives work as rewards and when to use non-financial rewards
- How to develop a step-by-step recognition scheme that strengthens loyalty, creativity and motivation within teams
- The no: 1 thing to get right when you are relying on financial incentives to change behaviour
- How to develop a recognition system that works for all your stakeholders: employees, customers, suppliers, partners and affiliates
- The dollar value people most appreciate when receiving gift cards and vouchers as rewards – you’ll be surprised by this
- 5 ingredients for recognition schemes that are both fair and equable and are perceived to be so by end users
- Insights into Atlassian’s fedex days from an insider: why they’re great for creating passion and self-motivation.
James Wright
MD, Red Agency
Citizens of the imagination: Creating, developing and nurturing great teams
- The 6 hallmarks of team members who are working effectively and doing their best day in, day out
- What to do to avoid breakdowns in communication and trust within teams
- How to use open communications to breed a sense of ownership to the team’s goals
- 3 differences constant challenges make to team effectiveness and cohesion
- 2 essentials when using constant challenge to keep a team working effectively
- How managers can ensure their team members have roles and responsibilities that play to their strengths
- Best practice for encouraging creativity and innovation within teams
- Using technology to engage digitally empowered Generation X and Generation Y team members.
Katharina Auer
Global Head of Employee Communications, Zurich Insurance Group
The way we do things round here: Getting into the DNA of culture
- 6 questions to ask of business leaders before creating a communications process around any campaign, project or programme
- The secret for changing culture and bringing company values to life so they get zapped into your cultural DNA
- How to identify peer-2-peer influencers, the go-to people others listen to in your organisation
- Why telling the full story – the good, the bad, the ugly – and consequences will reap massive goodwill among staff
- What to include when using storytelling to share best practice across diverse, multicultural organisations
- The no, 1 and no. 2 questions to ask when using crowdsourcing for listening to views and soliciting feedback
- Top channels for dialogue between leaders and front line staff
- The single most important factor to remember when making culture real and relevant for individuals in their team environment.
Join the conversation, debate the issues, share your own experiences
Once you sign up you will be able to listen to the interviews free-of-charge between 4-8 March 2013.
Each interview lasts around 30 minutes and will be broadcast for a 23-hour period so that you can listen in no matter where in the world you are based.
Every day you will receive an email with all the details for the next day’s interviews so that you have time to plan when you will listen around your work commitments. You’ll be able to listen via a computer, laptop, iphone, ipad and other mobile device.
Additionally, from the day you register, you will be able to join the conversations in our LinkedIn group where you will be able to connect with the speakers and other summit members.
When you register you will also be given the option to purchase the interviews as a CD boxed set at a special discounted rate that is available only to Worth Working Summit members for a limited period.
Why a virtual telesummit …
If we put these speakers in a two-day seminar you would pay thousands of pounds to listen to them – and you wouldn’t get any work done.
Now you can have the same experience without leaving your desk and I’m inviting you to attend this amazing event for FREE!
You don’t have to pay for hotels, flights, meals, seminar fees or any of the other costs usually associated with attending a business event.
And if you purchase the audio downloads then you can listen and listen again to each of the speakers. Every time you listen you’ll hear new nuggets of wisdom.
All you need to do is register today to join the summit and get access to our speakers and their accumulated years of experience.
We’re looking forward to connecting with you…
Jo Ann Sweeney
Director
Sweeney Communications Ltd
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