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Organization Development & Change


Organization Development (OD) is an enterprise-wide intervention that is strategically planned in effort to increase an organization’s effectiveness, performance and culture health. OD features changes in employee behaviors, organization systems, organization designs, organization processes and methodologies.

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Transfer Whole System Transformation methodology to the organization resulting in a sustainable journey of staying agile as a function Read More

Scripps: Integrated Talent Management

By Robyn M. Hildal /Vice President, Talent and Diversity, The E. W. Scripps Company

Over the years, Scripps existed as a series of small businesses charged with serving the needs of their local markets.  With this charge came autonomy resulting in each small business addressing its mission in various unique ways as was the case with the way employees were managed.  Generally, Scr... Read More
Amway is a global direct selling corporation with US$10.9b in sales revenue and 20,000 employees spanning the globe. In 2007, a new Growth Through Innovation strategy was initiated with one of its priorities being to become a high performing organization in order to sustain growth for the long term.... Read More

Farm Credit Canada: Cultural Transformation

By Kellie Garrett /Senior Vice-President, Farm Credit Canada

FCC President and CEO John Ryan joined the organization in 1997. At that time, we were becoming profitable after years of deficits and had begun improving our external reputation. We had a silo mentality where people focused on their own divisions and competed with each other for resources and power... Read More
An innovative 5-month project to redesign work at a plant site that incorporates such change management tools as balanced scorecard, stratgic analysis, process design, competency-based training, and performance gap analysis to improve operations.This case study discusses a work redesign project for ... Read More

Corning Inc.: New Product Innovation Process

By Richard O'Leary /President, O’Leary and Associates

For over a century, Corning Incorporated has been a company synonymous with technology-based innovation -- today, the spirit of innovation is stronger than ever. This management case study will look at the evolution of the current Innovation process practiced at Corning. The case will describe the a... Read More
Background Buckman Laboratories is an international, family-owned, specialty-chemical company with headquarters in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.  For more than fifty years, Buckman has provided the world’s leading industries with a broad range of specialty chemicals for the papermaking, water treatme... Read More
A cultural change model for achieving excellence in the five pillars of service, people, quality, growth, and financial performance through balanced scorecard, customer service interventions, accountability interventions, and emphasis on measurement of satisfaction for all stakeholders.  This case... Read More
This article is a change management process for creating and implementing a distinctive firm brand and fostering a unique employer-of-choice culture while driving performance, accountability and innovation to higher levels.  Initiative leverages executive strategic planning and alignment, leadershi... Read More

Kraft Foods: High Performance Work System

By Jane Brent /Director Talent Development, US Foods

Since 1995, Kraft has spent time and effort divesting of businesses, acquiring more profitable businesses, and organizing into one operating company. This new approach led to the current Kraft vision to become the undisputed leader in the food industry by the year 2001. In order to contribute toward... Read More

Lockheed Martin: Rapid Change

By Joseph Grenny /Chairman, Co-founder, The Other Side Academy

Big change, fast—that was the demand made on Lockheed Martin’s tactical jet business. The alternative to meeting this change challenge was not only to lose the largest defense contract in history, but also to become a second-tier subcontractor at best, or be put out of business at worst.  This ... Read More

The Mathworks:

By Deborah Slobodnik /Master Coach for Leaders and Teams

This article outlines a "just-in-time" transition to a cross-functional team structure, bolstered by action learning, exposure to senior executives, and team leader rotation, in order to make dramatic improvements in the efficiency of the operations department. In this article you will find: Objecti... Read More

Mattel: Change and Innovation Process

By Ivy Ross /Vice President and Head of Google Glass, Google

This case study describes Mattel’s Project Platypus – a dynamic change and innovation process for bringing out human potential in an organization through the synthesis of collaborative, action-, and results-oriented experiences, resulting in new business opportunities and high-performance produc... Read More

Dollar General: Performance Management

By Aubrey C. Daniels Ph.D. /Vice President and Head of Google Glass, Google

Dollar GeneralA look at the Performance Management Revolution within Dollar GeneralThis case study follows the work done by Aubrey Daniels International (ADI) with Dollar General Executives to strengthen its position as a customer-driven distributor of consumable basics. In 1999, Jeff Sims, joined D... Read More

Destination Hotels: Executing an Integrated Talent Management Strategy

By Robert Mellwig /Senior Vice President, Really Cool People - Two Roads Hospitality / Lowe Enterprises

Destination Hotels & Resorts uncovers the value of integrating talent management systems and practices to achieve results greater than the sum of its parts.Destination's people management systems and processes were disjointed and untenable, with the majority being highly manual and decentralized... Read More

Avon Products: Global Change

By Marc Effron /President, Talent Strategy Group; Harvard Business Book Author: One Page Talent Management & 8 Steps to High Performance

In early 2006, Avon Products, Inc., a global consumer products company focused on the economic empowerment of women around the world, began the most radical restructuring process in its 120-year history. Driving this effort was the belief that Avon could sustain its historically strong financial per... Read More

Customer and Enterprise Services (CES): Whole System Transformation

By Michael Schecter /President, Talent Strategy Group; Harvard Business Book Author: One Page Talent Management & 8 Steps to High Performance

The Customer and Enterprises Services Division (“CES”) of a Fortune 100 company transformed the experiences of its clients, the internal satisfaction of its talent, and its fortunes by transforming all of its systems, including its talent management systems: It assessed each system that comprise... Read More

Honeywell Aerospace: Six Sigma

By Jeff Osborne /President & CEO, Accumen

The following case study will examine the path of Honeywell’s successful Aerospace business in leveraging Six Sigma as the core productivity strategy that will fuel its aggressive growth plans.  It examines how Honeywell has successfully evolved Six Sigma from a process improvement initiative to ... Read More

Research


Best Practices in Identifying Top Talent/Hi-Potentials

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

• What tools/ frameworks are other companies using to identify high potentials? • How do other companies define potential? (e.g., two-level promotable, personality qualities, learning agility) • How does performance fit into the identification of potential? • What percentage of employees ... Read More

Best Practices in the Organizational Structures of Communications Teams

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

Featuring Case Study Examples from the Following Organizations: • The Vanguard Group • Fidelity • Black Rock Investments • J P Morgan Chase • General Electric • Novartis • Johnson and Johnson Read More

Reinventing Talent Management Beyond the Events of 2020

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

This is not the world we trained for. The arrival and spread of COVID-19 have challenged the medical world, global economy, and national leadership. We find ourselves assuming decisive leadership roles that are only starting to define themselves. Multiple forces have contorted the present and bef... Read More

Best Practices in Large Scale Transformation

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

In a rapidly changing global environment, organizations are exposed to complex issues affecting a wide range of strategic functions. The regulatory environment, competition, employee attitudes, and resistance and reactions to change are some of the challenges organizations deal with on a daily basis... Read More

How to Benchmark Talent Agility in a Future Forward Organization

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

Agile Behavior and Learning Agility are not the same thing. Agile Thinking assumes organizations are organic. Organizations belong to systems of systems where everything occurs within an evolving context. It relies on teams empowered and enabled to act with ad hoc energy at touchpoints in a process ... Read More

Designing Future-Forward Developmental Conversations

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

Going forward, we need a working understanding of “conversation.” It has become the key word in best practices in performance and talent assessment. Common parlance among Human Resources, Training & Development, and Talent Management, their understanding of “conversation” should be broadly s... Read More

Executive Coaching: How to Create a Culture of Executive Coaching

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

A more holistic approach is needed, a rigorous and consistent global process satisfying the true needs across the organization. Read More

Success profiles for C-suite roles

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

Digital transformation seems to permeate every sector and it is no surprise that digital fluency is becoming a game-changing and universal competency of the modern C-Suite Executive. Crisis management and change management also seemed to be crucial requirements of the modern CEO as is the ability... Read More

Success Profiles & Assessments for Field Sales Roles

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

This research looks at the typical competencies and success profiles for Field Sales Roles in market-leading organizations across 5 commercial sectors. What was noticeable in the research was that sales and relationship roles typically had overlapping duties. Read More
6 best-in-class cases that prove success in talent transformation in the new era of digitization. Read More

Learning Development Systems for Managers Across Global Organization

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

To support the implementation of new People Practices, Major Organizations need to provide training for over thousands of HR manager distributed across the global organization. The objectives of the training include both an understanding of the new People Practices Philosophies, the technical detail... Read More

BPI Senior Executive Board Research Digital Tools - Using HR Analytics in a Powerful Way

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

This report looks at 6 multinational, blue chip organizations all at slightly different stages of their strategy to deploy HR Analytics and put it at the heart of their decision-making culture. The organizations reviewed in this report are shown below. 1. Google 2. Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) 3. ... Read More

Cultural Transformation

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

This report looks at 4 multinational, blue chip organizations and presents them as working (and highly successful), working models of organizations that have transformed from a more conservative business model to a business environment of innovation and risk-taking. It addresses the client’s n... Read More

Product Team Organization Design

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

To remain competitive, companies are incorporating more technology and innovating faster than ever. To support the demand, traditional models of the hierarchy have been moving for decades towards flatter, more networked structures. And yet, the size that comes with success continues to challenge the... Read More

GLOBAL TALENT MANAGEMENT TRENDS

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

Continued global commercial volatility and unpredictability means talent strategies are constantly evolving. Talent scarcity remains a pressing concerns for most HR principles and this is being reflected by a heavy strategic focus on talent sourcing and retention. Surprisingly, in a time of b... Read More

Retaining Employees in the Liquid Workforce

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

I put the following quick-react-report together in response to questions concerning how to retain employees beyond the first few years in the organization. Read More

Next Generation/Multigenerational Workforce Transformation Research Report

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

The global workforce is made up of 4 generations. By 2025 there will be five generations in the workforce. Each generation displays some unique behaviors and how they perform tasks. Although multiple generations in the workforce are not new, the makeup of the workforce and the reliance on technology... Read More

Successful Co-Located Human Resource Business Partner Alignment

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

Re-alignment of Human Resource Departments from transactional to the transformational has been taking place for the last 20 years. In the past, HR departments were more of a support organization. Many Senior Managers and Executives believed that Human Resource Departments should be more strategic in... Read More

Best Practices in Consultative Selling, Consensus Building, and Negotiation

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

Consultative Selling is a process that builds relationships. It makes sales, but as important, it secures a continuing partnership. The process takes its time to draw specific information from prospects that gives dimension to the customer’s needs and wants. This information then provides the d... Read More

3 Studies in Process Leadership Technology

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

Process leadership is a big picture approach, a holistic, whole systems look. It aims to build or re-engineer effective processes and manage them for the delivery of business goals. Read More

Best Practices in Contingent Workforce Transformation

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

The US Department of Labor defines a contingent worker as “a temporary member of an organization who does not possess a contract for permanent employment.” Under that guidance contingent workers include, part-time, contractors, on call, workers hired for a specific period, professional employmen... Read More

Successful Co-Located Human Resource Business Partner Alignment

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

Re-alignment of Human Resource Departments from transactional to the transformational has been taking place for the last 20 years. In the past, HR departments were more of a support organization. Many Senior Managers and Executives believed that Human Resource Departments should be more strategic in... Read More

Punishment or Development: What is the purpose of Today’s Performance Management Processes?

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

Over the last few years, a growing phenomenon in performance management (PM) throughout premier companies such as Adobe, General Electric, and JP Morgan Chase has been exchanging the traditional annual performance review for a system of ongoing development discussions. Why has this phenomenon beg... Read More

4 Keys for Aligning Talent Strategies in Emerging Global Markets

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

When business dictates the next step is stretching outside the U.S., organizations must tread with care. While the company may have a domestic talent strategy, there is much to consider when looking for overseas talent. Each country has its own unique set of challenges, from how to obtain and tra... Read More

Contingent Workforce Research Report

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

This report begins with a discussion of the different options available for managing a global contingent workforce program. The data for the program options were gathered from reports and interviews. The discussion is followed by the interviews, summary of results, recommendations, and list of re... Read More

Most Loved Workplace Research

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

A new study from Best Practice Institute has revealed some surprising results. In a global survey of over 150 Fortune 1000 organizations companies, we’ve shown that employees who love their workplace are up to 4 times more likely to perform at a higher level than those who do not. This reveal dat... Read More

Test and Learns

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

“Test and Learn” is a term given to business practices aimed at accelerating performance. It assumes that learning is largely a heuristic behavior of trial and error. It’s a pragmatic learning experience in which people are satisfied with “good enough” solutions that could be optimal ... Read More

Comparison of Performance Management Vendors

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

The following is a survey of tools that enable the employee feedback that supports performance appraisals. The intent is to identify and measure those tools that compete directly with Skillrater. I have found that the “big” tools serve Human Resources and Human Capital Management in extensivel... Read More

Matching Analytics to HR’s Chief Goals

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

Almost every aspect of workforce management and top talent identification is viewed as a “high” or “very high” in terms of importance by the HR professionals in our survey. This shows that analytics has the potential to impact talent management at every level but may also signify that anal... Read More

4 Keys for Aligning Talent Strategies in Emerging Global Markets

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

When business dictates the next step is stretching outside the U.S., organizations must tread with care. While the company may have a domestic talent strategy, there is much to consider when looking for overseas talent. Each country has its own unique set of challenges, from how to obtain and tr... Read More
To provide additional context for the practices presented in this book, we asked each contributor to complete a survey to gain a more comprehensive view of their organizational change and leadership development program. The survey was comprised of six themed sections: 1.) business diagnosis (includi... Read More

On Demand Webinars


Organizations that sustain, and even improve the corporate culture during these times are the ones who lead the way in the new economy. As we continue to navigate these unchartered waters, in an ever-changing landscape, we must rely on the trials and practices collectively to create the Next Practic... Read More

The Secrets to Becoming Fluent in the Language of Change

By Christopher Worley /Professor of Organizational Theory and Management, Pepperdine University - Graziadio Business School

Chris Worley, one of the most prolific and innovative professor-researchers in the field of organization development joins BPI CEO Louis Carter to discuss his newest work and research on how agility is being extended to an idea called change fluency. The idea of change fluency is being applied at fi... Read More

Employee Productivity 2021 & the COVID Changed Workforce

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

Given the changing workforce and work location arrangements moving forward as a result of COVID, organizations have to change the way they measure productivity, while employees need the change the way they stay productive. In this session, we will come together to share and co-create what is alr... Read More
2020 has accelerated the “Future Workplace” predictions, especially related to work-from-home and a shift to a more distributed workforce. Today 80% of employees work from home. While some organizations have embraced this new work environment, and some employees prefer this model, many other ... Read More

The Future of Hiring & Talent Acquisition

By Peter Cappelli /George W. Taylor Professor of Management and Professor of Education - Director Center for HR

Businesses have never done as much hiring as they do today. They’ve never spent as much money doing it. And they’ve never done a worse job of it. It’s impossible to get better at hiring if you can’t tell whether the candidates you select become good employees. If you don’t know where y... Read More
I will discuss why too many organizations fail to execute their strategy and why they tend to develop a sustainable high commitment, high-performance organization. I will show that failures are due to organizational silence, the difficulty of people to speak truth to power about barriers to organiza... Read More

Creating a Culture of Inclusion Where People Soar

By Judith H. Katz /Owner, The Kaleel Jamison Consulting Group

In this session, we’ll discuss the impact of Judging and the need to create a Joining mindset and create a safe environment for inclusion through interaction safety. We will share 4 Conscious Actions for Inclusion that can be easily be practiced and applied. Finally, we will discuss how inclusion ... Read More
Organizations face the critical challenge of preparing future leaders for an environment that will be increasingly unstable, uncertain, and complex. This session will draw on emerging research to provide approaches and practices to help organizations best identify, recruit, assess, and develop leade... Read More
This session is about how emerging technologies are shaping the future of work. We will unpack how emerging technologies are already beginning to change work in positive ways that our organizations can adopt today. We will explore some of the future of work predictions, where they come from, and how... Read More

Best Practices in Next Generation Leadership

By Lu Young /Director, University of Kentucky Center for Next Generation Leadership

In this interactive benchmarking session, we'll discuss the strategies and tactics necessary to prepare for future talent. In the changing workforce, all areas of talent are affected - the way we teach, the way information is shared, the necessary skills and changing job descriptions. In this sessi... Read More

Seeing Around Corners

By Rita McGrath /Professor and Leader of "Leading Strategic Growth and Change" program, Columbia Business School

In this interactive webinar, Columbia Business School faculty member Rita McGrath will introduce a perspective from her forthcoming book, “Seeing Around Corners.” This will relate to how executives can best position themselves to “see” major changes in their environment. Participants will ... Read More

Real World Emotional Intelligence

By Justin Bariso /Author, EQ Applied: The Real-World Guide to Emotional Intelligence

Justin Bariso is the author of "EQ Applied: The Real-World Guide to Emotional Intelligence." Using fascinating research, breaking news analysis, and personal stories he’ll show what this quality looks like in the real world--and provide a glimpse as to how you can begin making emotions work for yo... Read More

How to Define and Measure Inclusion

By Corie Pauling /Senior Vice President, Chief Inclusion & Diversity Officer, TIAA Human Resources

During our session, we will unearth the following: * How we define inclusion within our organizations and what methods are used to create a new definition of diversity and inclusion. * What indices are used that to capture inclusion or leadership effectiveness. * At what levels of the organizat... Read More

Project Revolution

By Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez /Author, The Project Revolution

Every aspect of our lives is becoming a set of projects. The speed of change witnessed in the past decade has radically affected the way we organize and manage our companies and work. Many of the traditional activities in organizations will soon be carried out by automation and robots. In this new l... Read More

Global Diversity & Inclusion Benchmarks

By Alan Richter /Board Member, The Centre for Global Inclusion

Alan Richter, Board Member of the Centre of Global Inclusion and the author of Global Diversity & Inclusion Benchmarks will be presenting his updated findings specifically related to OD, Leadership Development and Senior Leadership buy-in. Read More

Women in Leadership: Expanding Influence and Leading Change

By Sally Helgesen /Premier Expert on Women's Leadership | Best-Selling Author | International Speaker

Sally Helgesen is the bestselling author of seven books including her latest book, "How Women Rise," co-authored with Marshall Goldsmith. In this session, Sally will draw on decades of stories and insights to identify the twelve most common habits that undermine women in their quest to become more s... Read More

Talent Alignment During Leadership Change

By Sandy Ogg /Former CHRO, Unilever and Board Member, INSEAD, CEO.works

During times of leadership change, full alignment between management and employees is more important than ever to create a successful corporate culture. In this session, we'll investigate how business leaders can act as the driving force to creating a strong corporate culture, and an environment whe... Read More

Digital Tools - Using HR Analytics in a Powerful Way

By Agnes Johansen /Vice President People and Leadership, Equinor

HR needs to become a more active business partner to leaders in helping them make more informed leadership decisions. In order to do so, HR must take part in the process of providing data in a highly participative and contextual manner. In an effort to become better at using digital tools for HR an... Read More

What Leaders need to know in order to create and sustain an agile organizational culture

By Mary Eggers /Senior Partner and co-developer of “Whole-Scale® Change.”, Dannemiller Tyson Associates (DTA)

Working with organizations around the globe, we have found it universally true that people support what they help to create. This session focuses on a few of the robust Whole-Scale® principles and models that support an agile, empowered culture. Read More

Agile Transformation

By Mary Tabata /Teaching Assistant, Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School & Senior Research Associate, Best Practice Institute

It’s common to think about how Agile Frameworks transform our development and process life cycles. But how can Agile Thinking transform the culture of our whole organization? Innovating ways to bring Agile to whole systems can create breakthrough change and engage stakeholder on all levels. ... Read More
VR and AR are here. Apple ARKit and Google ARCore are turning two billion phones into a magic lens that can arm your workforce with superpowers. Full-body VR offers a digital rehearsal space of such convincing verisimilitude that learners feel they are actually there. How are Fortune 500 companies d... Read More

Create a Culture of Connection

By Michael Lee Stallard /Expert on how effective leaders boost human connection in cultures to improve performance, Meyer Partners

Leaders who develop and maintain a workplace culture infused with connection so that people feel included, supported and part of the team, see a marked difference in performance. Employees who feel connected to people at work are not only healthier and happier, they are also more productive, more en... Read More

The Generation Creative Leader

By Bruce Cryer /Founder of Renaissance Human

Bruce Cryer draws upon a diverse professional background in business management, leadership development, and resilience training, along with refined artistic skills as a singer, writer, dancer, and photographer in helping people find their creative brilliance in business and personal life. Bruc... Read More

Leadership Lexicon

By Richard Bellingham /Executive Coaching and HR Management Consulting, iobility

The idea is to frame all leadership competencies in a two dimensional grid. On the x axis are the 3 meta-skills of leadership: Identify, Build, and Drive. On the y axis are the four dimensions of leadership: Know and Grow Yourself, Know and Grow Your Team, Know and Grow your Organization, and Kn... Read More

B State: Transforming Your Business and Culture in Rapid Time to Achieve Breakthrough Measurable Results

By Mark Samuel /AuthorFounder | CEO | Rapid Culture Change | Award Winning Author | Speaker | Rapid Breakthrough Results, IMPAQ Corporation

Businesses, especially global ones, are challenged to keep pace with the speed of change in their industry. Emerging competition, regulatory standards, M&A’s, new technology, and changing customer demands are forcing organizations to rethink their business models, corporate culture, organizational... Read More

Best Practices in Finding & Retaining Skilled Workers in Challenging Environments

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

Filling the talent pipeline for skilled workers can be a challenge. Talent acquisition should not hold back growth for technology-enabled manufacturing. How can organizations find and retain talent in challenging environments? Companies are thinking creatively to find ways to address talent short... Read More

Best Practices Next Generation/Multi-Generational Workforce Transformation Research

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

What kind of flexibility, agility, and changes are needed to acquire, hire, develop, and enable the high performance of the next generation/multi-generational workforce? Read More

Talent 2.0: Shifting to Human Capital

By Michael Arena /VP Talent & Development, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Michael Arena shares his insights from his book, Adaptive Space which describes how connections, ideas, information, and resources allow for greater innovation and adaptability in your organization. Read More

BPI Research Presentation - Best Practices in Talent Management Transformation

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

The BPI Senior Executive Board holds a benchmarking and dialogue session the second Tuesday of each month. Come prepared to learn and share your knowledge and expertise - as well as take part in BPI's process of team development and transformation online. Each Senior Executive Board member may bring... Read More
The BPI Senior Executive Board holds a benchmarking and dialogue session the second Tuesday of each month. Come prepared to learn and share your knowledge and expertise - as well as take part in BPI's process of team development and transformation online. Each Senior Executive Board member may bring... Read More

BPI Research Presentation - HR Business Partner Alignment

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

The BPI Senior Executive Board holds a benchmarking and dialogue session the second Tuesday of each month. Come prepared to learn and share your knowledge and expertise - as well as take part in BPI's process of team development and transformation online. Each Senior Executive Board member may bring... Read More

Best Practice Benchmark-it - Transforming Culture after Merger, Acquisition and major change

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

Enabling our company to transform after a merger/acquisition/major change, yet harnessing the existing momentum and bringing them along. Read More

Managing Virtual Workers Today

By Bob Nelson /Author of The 1001 Rewards & Recognition Fieldbook and 1001 Ways to Energize Employees

Forty percent of today’s employees work virtually, soon to be 50 percent by 2020. Thirty-six percent of employees would give up a pay raise for the ability to work remotely; forty percent would be willing to take a pay cut for that option. Is your company maximizing this labor source, making it ... Read More

BPI Senior Executive Board Benchmark-It - Best Practices in Organization Design

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

Join your fellow Senior Executive Board members to share, benchmark, and learn from each other in this critical topic developed by one of your peers. Attendance is highly recommended for all Senior Executive Board members. You are also invited to bring an internal champion of your choice from your t... Read More

Career and Organization Performance

By Jeff Davidson /"The Work-Life Balance Expert®" Motivational Keynote Speaker, Award-winning Author

Learn how to quickly and easily bust through ruts, get into high gear, experience more of what you want, and take charge of your day. Join Jeff Davidson who holds the registered trademark "The Work-life Balance Expert" from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and travels throughout the U.... Read More

Leadership During Crisis

By Martha Johnson /White House Office's Office of Presidential Personnel, Clinton-Gore Administration and Former Administrator, GSA

Inspired by first hand accounts and interviews with leaders throughout the public and private sector, leadership expert Harry Hutson and for GSA Adminstrator Martha Johnson examined leaders effected by tramautic events such as 9/11, the Oklahoma City & Boston bombings, Hurricane Katrina, hostile tak... Read More
What will the workplace by like in 1 year, 5 years, or 20 years down the line. The speed of innovation is moving at light speed. Are you keeping up and ready to capitalize on new technologies and processes necessary to get ahead in today's hyper-charged environment? During this webinar, you'll hear ... Read More

The New Architecture of Organizations

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

Learn and share factors and practices that are affecting the new architecture of organizations including engagement, career portability, opportunity compression, and more! Read More
Best Practice benchmarking is a critical first step toward developing and designing a leading edge program, system, or intervention within your organization. Before you venture out on your own to diagnose your own system, or if you have already begun designing, it is sage advice to look externally t... Read More

J&J Benchmark-It: Transformation

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

We will examine current data, and the Senior Executive Board will give recommendations and advice for next steps toward moving from incremental change management to leading a transformational change. Read More

The History of OD: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

By John Scherer /Co-Director, Scherer Leadership International

This 15 minute learning byte will teach you about the history and foundation of the field of Organization Development outlining the significant contributions of specific theorists and practitioners who helped shape the field today. Read More
BP has a strong multi-year roadmap that will strengthen its current learning landscape for both learners and the business. With strong executive support, this initiative will aim to integrate its learning architecture. During this session, we will engage in active advice, benchmarking, and discussi... Read More
Traditional talent management programs often fail because much essential infrastructure to support it is missing. (About 70 percent of all talent management programs fail in the first 3 years.) Accelerated talent management (ATM) is a planned approach to accelerating the success of talent managemen... Read More
Transformational change is critical to organizations operating in a polyphonic global economy. Making it happen is a complex process, and seldom meets expectations. This webinar will help resolve complexities and lead to your company’s transformation meeting expectations. John Nelson of BT+L ... Read More
Any firm, no matter how large or small, whether it’s been around for 100 years or 10 years, needs to think about how to get to what’s next. You don’t have to be Steve Jobs to have the next great idea or create the next great product. What you need is a culture with the five key drivers that sp... Read More

10 Steps to Prevent Change from Failing

By Tara Powers /★ Best-Selling Author, Award-Winning Leadership & DISC Expert, Talent Management Strategist, Executive Coach, Speaker ★, Powers Resource Center, LLC

Change is inevitable and necessary for growth. All companies undergo changes unique to their business – whether it’s a merger, an acquisition, downsizing, restructuring – or even simply new leadership - change happens. Is your organization about to embark on a change that will have a signif... Read More
Organizational overload is a problem confronting people across all industries and sectors. People have too much to do and too few resources to accomplish it. The problem is overwhelming managers' abilities to sustain focus on strategic priorities and drive key organizational changes. In this session... Read More

Grow Globally: Proven Strategies for Corporate Leadership

By Mona Pearl /Global Strategist, Professor, Speaker, Author

How do you find growth in new markets? How do you beat your competition and lead? As the world becomes more dependent on technology, and as trade borders become seamless, companies need to acquire the tools and skills necessary on how to compete, innovate and succeed in the global market. The webina... Read More

Tactics for Change Leaders

By Deborah Slobodnik /Master Coach for Leaders and Teams

Change is a process, not an event. The real challenge comes during implementation when changes in behavior are required to support the critical business goals. Desired behavioral shifts need to happen at the leadership, team and individual levels, such as increased personal accountability, more tran... Read More

Leapfrogging to Business Breakthroughs

By Soren Kaplan /InnovationPoint, Center for Effective Organizations at USC, Thinkers50 Thought Leader, Fast Company & Inc.

Leapfrogging is about changing the game – creating something new or doing something radically different that produces a significant leap forward. Most leaders and organizations want breakthroughs, but many struggle with the often unspoken leadership principles and practices required for creating t... Read More

How to Create a Culture That Rocks

By Jim Knight /Owner & Founder of Knight Speaker and former Sr. Director of Training & Development, Hard Rock International

This interactive session is effectively designed to highlight best practices to create and maintain a strong internal employee culture. Because of its successes – publically and internally – Jim Knight, former Sr. Director of Training & Development for Hard Rock International will use the viscer... Read More

Kill the Company: End the Status Quo, Start an Innovation Revolution

By Lisa Bodell /Best-selling author and global expert on change and innovation; CEO at futurethink; Advisor/World Economic Forum

Progress doesn’t come from standing still. However, in the ever-changing world of business, many of us have become resistant to change because it can be exhausting and difficult. We’ve become so focused on internal processes and procedures that there’s no time for big-picture thinking and valu... Read More

Evidence-Based Management and Development of Human Capital

By Haig Nalbantian /Senior Partner, Mercer, well-known authority on Human Capital Measurement and Management

Haig Nalbantian is Senior Partner and Founder/Leader of Mercer Workforce Sciences Institute Read More

Multi-Dimensional Organization: Mastering Complexity

By Jay Galbraith /President, Jay Galbraith Management Consultants

Dr. Jay Galbraith is Founder and President of Galbraith Management Consultants. Read More

Change the Culture, Change the Game

By Roger Connors /New York Times Bestselling Author | The Oz Principle | Change the Culture, Change The Game | Fix It | Wisdom of Oz

Hear this dynamic three-time New York Times Bestselling Author, Roger Connors, talk about how to accelerate culture change within your organization and create a culture that ensures effective execution on business strategies essential to achieving the organizational results you need. Learn about the... Read More

Leadership Sustainability: 7 Disciplines That Get Things Done

By David Ulrich /Speaker, Author, Professor, Thought Partner on HR, Leadership, and Organization, The RBL Group

David Ulrich and Norm Smallwood are Partners at The RBL Group Read More
Many companies are familiar with the benefits of Integrated Talent Management. As compelling as these benefits are, corporate HR organizations often remain in silos as they struggle to find a path to Talent Management integration. In this session, Talent Management Strategy expert Andy Rice of Bl... Read More
Many organizations undertake initiatives to transform their culture. The fact is all organizations have a culture. The key question is does the culture support the desired mission and goals? Do employees' beliefs about the stated culture and the actual culture match up? Using the Four Principles for... Read More

Leadership for Sustainability and the Importance of Systems Change

By Peter Senge /Senior Lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Sustainability is not a problem to be solved. It is a future to be created. True leadership is about cultivating the collective capacity so that people shape futures they truly desire. In this webinar, Peter Senge will offer insights and practical methods for leaders across sectors who are seeking t... Read More
While Talent Management Suite implementations are all the rage these days, often companies do not realize all that is involved until they are in the middle of the implementation, leading to increased costs, delayed Go Live dates and poor change management. In this session, Janna Hartsock, HRIS M... Read More

Change Through Crowdsourcing: How to Use Peer-by-Peer Practices to Transform Organizations

By Liz Guthridge /Coach, confidante & consultant for leaders in new roles who want to hit the ground running & excel

Traditional approaches to change management are losing their effectiveness in today’s change weary organizations. Fearful, frazzled and fatigued employees don’t want to pay attention to change experts—or any other experts for that matter. Instead, employees prefer listening to and watching the... Read More

Developing Real Strategic Change Capabilities: How to Integrate Business, OD & Human Capital Thinking

By David Jamieson /Associate Professor & Department Chair, Organization Learning & Development, College of Applied Professional Studies at the University of St. Thomas.

Today’s organization issues and needs are a new playing field for most leaders, professionals and consultants. The list of phenomena driving changes keeps growing. So speed, comprehensiveness and complexity become the characteristics that describe leadership and change issues. In the meantime, the... Read More

How to Create Rapid Culture Change: Achieving Measurable Results Within 6 Months

By Mark Samuel /AuthorFounder | CEO | Rapid Culture Change | Award Winning Author | Speaker | Rapid Breakthrough Results, IMPAQ Corporation

Given the pressures of an increasing number of priorities, limited resources and exponential change in most organizations, organizations must get better at execution. Yet, the challenges of departmental silos, conflicting priorities and breakdowns in coordination between functions and levels in orga... Read More

Influencing Difficult People

By Deborah Slobodnik /Master Coach for Leaders and Teams

Getting real buy-in to new strategies, programs or processes can be a challenge and frustration with some key stakeholders. This webinar provides proven and practical tips to getting real versus espoused buy-in order to lower barriers to change. These tips are based on over 25 years experience as an... Read More
In the business world constant “change” is inevitable and many organizations are finding themselves unprepared to implement the transformation required to address what’s becoming the greatest challenge facing industries worldwide. This element of “change” impacts every aspect of the organi... Read More

How to Build and Sustain a Winning Culture

By John Spence /Executive Consultant, Trainer and Author, John Spence LLC

Culture=Cash! During this information-intensive program, John Spence, one of America's top 100 business thought leaders, will explain why culture is one of the driving forces for creating a highly successful and profitable company. Through specific examples, tools, and techniques, John well clearly ... Read More

Organization Learning in Today’s Business Environment: Newell-Rubbermaid

By Brian Hults /Vice President of Organization and People Development

Brian Hults is Vice President Organization and People Development at Newell-Rubbermaid. Brian shares information on Newell-Rubbermaid's Learning Culture and Succession Planning. Read More

Why You Need a High Performance Coaching Culture

By Thomas G. Crane /Leadership Consultant, Speaker, Author and Facilitator, Crane Consulting

Transformational coaching and organizational accountability build a lasting high-performance organization. During this exclusive BPI online learning session, world renown developmental coach, Tom Crane will walk you through the steps of creating a high-performance coaching culture, and his successes... Read More

Entering a New Stage: Adapting to Change

By David Mann /Founder & Story Specialist, Simple Message

With the amount of change going on in most companies, imagination is critical; you must remain flexible in order to remain afloat. In this webinar, David will show you how to see beyond your own limitations, break your boundaries, and “find your genius.” With humor and insight, he’ll introduce... Read More
In this online training session you will learn how your organization can prosper by building a system of management that dramatically cuts response time and improves execution through high levels of employee engagement. Read More
HR and organizational development professionals today feel more pressure for producing strategic, versus operational, results than ever before. It's a difficult spot to be in as CEOs emerge from the recession asking the tough questions: •Where are all the new leaders we should be getting from our... Read More
Retention and integration of training and development programs is an ongoing issue, as the well-crafted design and agenda have to withstand the heat and friction of re-entry into the day-to-day demands of the work atmosphere. And if you are looking for innovation and a shift in culture, you need pow... Read More

Why We Struggle to Work Together… What to Do About It

By Ralph Jacobson /Founder of The Leader's Toolbox, coach, author, speaker, The Leader's Toolbox

Organization life is often experienced as a high stakes drama with different departments, divisions, teams, and leaders tugging at one another for resources, time, and money. Often the fight is presumed to be about personality differences, power struggles, and ineffective leadership. So we invest th... Read More

Leading Change Changes Leaders

By Zara Larsen /Global Industry & Engineering Executive, Serial Intrepreneur

Change capacity. Every organization needs it, yet isn’t necessarily getting it without considerable leadership talent turnover. Change leaders. Can we develop more or do we have to bring them in from the outside? And either way, why is it that those who lead high impact change quite often leave th... Read More

How to Develop Leadership in Everyone

By Joe Raelin /Principal, The Leaderful Consultancy

In this webinar, Dr. Joe Raelin will introduce an exciting new way to think about and practice leadership, in what he calls, "leaderful practice." Thought to be ripe for the requirements of our 21st Century organizations, leaderful practice replaces the conventional heroic model by introducing the f... Read More
Priszm Brandz (KFC Canada) is one of the largest owners and operators of quick service restaurants in the world. Prior to beginning its transformation, Priszm’s stock price had declined from 9.78 to 1.75. Its past thirteen campaigns had not generated the desired results; same store sales growth ha... Read More

Measuring What Counts: Leadership Effectiveness

By Teresa Roche /Chief Learning Officer, Agilent Technologies, Inc.

In March 2005, Bill Sullivan became Agilent Technologies’ second CEO and declared that our strategic intent was to be the “world’s premier measurement company.” To shift the focus, he outlined a clear set of metrics related to our customers, markets, employees and shareholders and a critical... Read More

Navigating Uncharted Waters - Survive and Thrive in Any Economy

By Michelle Neujahr /Business Growth Coach, Keynote Speaker, The Business Renovation Company

Are you ready to go beyond just surviving in your business? Do you want to thrive regardless of what the current economy does? If so, join Michelle Neujahr as she challenges, educates, and motivates business leaders to chart a new course toward long-term excellence. This content-packed webinar will ... Read More
Do you want to learn, benchmark, and share best practices in leading in the new economy? Best Practice Benchmarking is the core of Best Practice Institute's work. During this session you will meet fellow BPI members, share and learn about each other's practices in leading in the new economy, and as... Read More
What is action learning? Why is action learning so effective as both a change management and a leadership development initiative? What makes the global program at Johnson and Johnson so innovative? These questions and others will be discussed during this informative webinar. During this program ... Read More
OOPS! You just sank more company money into a performance strategy that doesn't work! In these strained economic times when every penny counts, you can no longer afford to invest in the financially flawed activities. As the founder of a behavior-based process that has revitalized companies around th... Read More

Engaging People to Accomplish the Organization’s Most Important Work

By Ralph Jacobson /Founder of The Leader's Toolbox, coach, author, speaker, The Leader's Toolbox

You will walk away from this webinar with a deeper insight into the reasons why major corporate change efforts fail to deliver their intended results. For those leaders and Human Resource executives who want to achieve greater organization success and have a greater return on their development inves... Read More

The Economic Crisis: What Next?

By John Perkins /NYT Bestselling Author, Founder, Dream Change & Pachamama Alliance

CHALLENGE YOUR THINKING ABOUT THE CURRENT ECONOMIC CRISIS with John Perkins, New York Times Best Selling Author of CONFESSIONS OF AN ECONOMIC HITMAN THE HIT MEN STRIKE HOME What Next and How to Deal With It The current crisis is a classic hit by economic hit men (EHM) – except this time the... Read More

Leading in 24/7

By Sally Helgesen /Premier Expert on Women's Leadership | Best-Selling Author | International Speaker

Demographic, economic, and technological changes are transforming how people live and work in organizations and in communities. Our 24/7 global business environment has become increasingly opportunity-rich, demanding, and talent dependent. You will find this interactive webinar time well-spent a... Read More

Communicating Change

By Chris Edgelow /Founder & President, Sundance Consulting Inc.

Poor communication is always a major factor when organizational change falls short of the desired results. Communication is an extremely complex process and unfortunately, most organizations make it more complex rather than simpler in how they approach this challenge. This enlightening webinar cla... Read More

Mobilize Talent

By Ralph Jacobson /Founder of The Leader's Toolbox, coach, author, speaker, The Leader's Toolbox

-Break down organizational silos. -Improve organization performance. -Increase agility in the market. -Implement a new program/business model. Read More
New research is emerging from neuroscience that provides insights into some of today’s biggest leadership challenges. Scientists are beginning to provide answers to issues such as how to more effectively make decisions and solve problems, stay cool under pressure, get on with others, and drive cha... Read More
Traditional expert-driven models for individual, social and organizational change often don’t work. Like the human immune system, individuals, communities and institutions such as MOH, hospitals reject what is perceived as “foreign matter”. When “experts” provide strategies for individual ... Read More

Creating Organizational Change You Can Live With

By Mary Eggers /Senior Partner and co-developer of “Whole-Scale® Change.”, Dannemiller Tyson Associates (DTA)

Why do so many change efforts fail or have unintended consequences? How can your change initiative be planned and implemented to achieve results that are faster and more sustainable? What is “change fatigue” and how can your organization avoid it? Based on experience with organizations from th... Read More

Built to Change

By Ed Lawler /Distinguished Professor of Business and Director, Center for Effective Organizations

Organizations are built to perform, not to change. But in today’s highly competitive business environment, organizations must be ready to change and change frequently. Organizations cannot sustain excellent performance unless they embrace change. The webinar will focus on identifying practices ... Read More