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Upcoming Events: High Impact Exchange #3, October 2 PeoplePowerPlanningTM: A Workshop on Alternative Recruiting There is an inherent difficulty in the traditional employment model to remain agile to changing business needs and conditions since employees often lack the skill sets and competencies needed in the new business, and because training or development isn't always an effective option in a fast-paced environment. High labor costs as a percentage of the cost of doing business makes it imperative that businesses maximize their return on this investment. Added to these challenges, employers are losing their ability to respond to business issues as they lose retirees and the intellectual capital and institutional wisdom that these employees brought to the table. The third and final Exchange of the 2008 Series presents workforce experts and authors of High Impact Report #4: PeoplePowerPlanningTM: An Emerging Recruitment Model - Cathy Fyock, with Resources Global Professionals, and Parminder Jassal, with The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. This Exchange program will take the format of a hands-on "workshop" and will walk attendees through a blended use of traditional employment (FT and PT employees), contract employees, consultants and outsourcing options to provide an optimally agile workforce with the ability to respond to changing business needs, resulting in People Power, with the best of many worlds: control, ownership and collaboration.
** Exchange event registration is exclusive to High Impact companies and their employees. Past Events: Beyond Planning: The Art of Strategy Execution Thursday, August 7 "On average, 95% of a company's employees are unaware of, or do not understand, its strategy." This is a staggering statistic given that 82% of High Impact executives list strategic planning as one of their most time and energy consuming activities. Business Intelligence: A Methodology for Competitive Differentiation Thursday, June 5, 2008 As businesses of every size struggle to differentiate themselves from competitors, innovative companies are using a new method for setting themselves apart. The first Exchange of the 2008 Series, Business Intelligence: A Methodology for Competitive Differentiation, will explore how analytics can build “business intelligence” and make competitive differentiation a matter of working smarter not harder. Who Owns Your Brand? (hint: it's not you!) Thursday, October 4, 2007 A Shifting Paradigm: The common knowledge concept of brand development - where your brand is a sum total of logo conistency, advertising dollars and name recognition - is rapidly changing. The old question was: "Do they know who we are?" The new questions is: "How do they feel about who we are?" The High Impact Exchange presents a contemporary paradigm: brand development based on consumer brand ownership. Industry experts Pip Pullen (Director of Account Planning, Red7e), Henrietta Pepper (Owner and Founder, the pepper group ltd.) and Michael Wunsch (Director of Interactive Marketing, LeapFrog Interactive) share practical methods on how to:
Sustaining Growth & Staying Competitive: Harnessing the Power of Continual Improvement Neace Lukens' Louis Berman extends a personal invitation to the High Impact Exchange: "As the Louisville managing partner and shareholder, I know that I must constantly challenge my team and myself in order to sustain (our current) growth moving forward. As a result, I consider it a privilege to sponsor and attend this particular Exchange." Defining the Future: Creative Thinking for Strategic Success With the accelerated growth that High Impact companies experience comes an accelerated need for innovative strategy in both the short and long terms. To help you respond to this challenge, the first High Impact Exchange of the 2007 series addresses how to use creative thinking as a tool for strategic success. Learn from the experts: Doe Anderson's David Bonner and Smoothstone's Russ Maney.
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