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How Successful Strategies Win: Strategy Activation Process

 Brad Haudan and Don MacLean
Strategic change is a process. Do you have the right plan in place & the know-how to execute it successfully?
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If You’re Not Focusing on Your Managers, You’re Failing

 Nolan McNulty
When it comes to learning & development one group isn’t getting enough attention, and these folks often have the most impact on the business: managers.
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Are Your Leaders Leading with a Human-Centric Mindset?

 Root Inc.
Employees are setting the standards. They are forcing the changes. Is your organization listening?
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Quiet Quitting: Fan It or Fight It?

 David Seals
Quiet quitting has been a long-standing issue plaguing organizations worldwide for years. It's time to fix the issue. Do you have a plan?
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The Accountability Myth

 Jim Haudan
Do you hold people accountable or do you CREATE accountability? The difference is important and could change the way your people feel about work.
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First Impressions Matter: Use This Framework for Your New Hire Orientation

 Chris Williams
As a company, you have one chance to make a good first impression on your new hires. What would they say about the impression you make?
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Is Your Organization Ready to Activate Your Strategy? Eight Questions to Ask Today.

 Root Inc.
Is your organization ready for strategy activation? Ask yourself these 8 questions and assess if you're likely to succeed...or struggle.
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Why You Must Be Multilingual

 Curtis Robinson
Are you multilingual? If you take time to learn your internal customer’s language, they'll recognize your effort and become more open to your recommendations.
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5 E’s of Experience: Why Internal Marketing is Key to Strategy Activation

 Root Inc.
Without engaged and excited employees, the best plans are rendered useless. Here are five tips to help you entice employees to help activate your strategy.
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Leadership Lessons from the Flea Circus

 Jim Haudan
Job crafting is a powerful tool and can help employees find long-term enjoyment at work. Is job crafting a priority at your organization?
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How the Banking Industry Can Balance the Employee Experience with the Customer Experience

 Root Inc.
Leaders must prioritize employees while leveraging the latest automated systems, self-service, chat bots & more. Not sure if you're ready? This white paper can help.
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Quotes from Three Decades of Taking Notes on Strategy Activation and Human Change

 Jim Haudan
The lessons learned through others can be extremely impactful on your journey. Here are some quotes to inspire you at work and beyond.
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In Light of Change: Healthcare experts discuss digitization, honesty, the power of storytelling, and more

 Alli Kornrich and Coles Lawton and Aastha Minocha
Dialogue brings people together and elicits curiosity. Hear what healthcare leaders had to say about data, Machine Learning, creating cultures of trust & more.
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Diverse Representation at the Top: What Business Leaders Can Learn from the NBA and NFL

 Aaron Epting
Creating an inclusive and diverse workplace is critical to creating a positive culture and employee experience. Are you taking the right steps?
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Seven Steps to Building an Onboarding Program with Long-Term Retention in Mind

 Chris Williams
Onboarding is critical to retaining talent & empowering employees to contribute to strategic goals. Is your organization onboarding the right way?
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Don’t Be Starstruck by the Bells and Whistles: Why Every L&D Program Needs a Strategy

 Colby Fordham
One of the most important elements of any plan is the "why." If you make your "why" a focus, your initiatives will undoubtedly be a lot more successful.
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How to Ensure That Silos Don’t Divide Your Business: Three Tips for Success

 Root Inc.
Good strategies require different input & strengths to be effective. Silos are debilitating to good strategies. Use these 3 tips to stop silos from blocking success.
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Wondering How to Engage Your People? Start By Transforming the Skeptic

 Root Inc.
To get your people excited about a new initiative, make sure you get the "skeptic" on your side. Here are three tips to do this with success.
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Why is your strategy failing? There are three likely explanations.

 Nolan McNulty
To increase the odds of success, here are three mistakes to avoid when activating your next initiative.
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Storytelling: How to Activate Strategies and Inspire Your People

 Rich Berens
Storytelling is a leadership blind spot that has been facing the business world for the past 20 years. It’s time to address this.
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How to Be the M&A Leader Your People Need: 5 Tips From Inside the Process

 Michael Felden
Organizational change is never simple, and an M&A is no exception. To maximize success, follow these 5 tips that focus on culture, your people & communications.
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Setting Your Strategy up for Success: The 8 Questions Leaders Must Ask

 Root Inc.
While many strategies fail, the truth is that with some thoughtful planning and time, you too can pave the way for strategy activation success.
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The 5 Key Elements for Culture Success

 Root Inc.
An organization's culture is one of its main selling points. Unsure if your culture appeals to today's employee? It's time to figure it out.
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The Three Critical Leadership Tips of 2022

 Jim Haudan and Rich Berens
People are reassessing how they spend their time. If leaders want to keep valuable employees, they need to become active players in the Great Reassessment.
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Four Tips to Transform Employees Into Brand Advocates

 Heather Lee
Employees want to be a part of something bigger, to belong, to go on meaningful journeys & make an impact. Here's how to make this a reality within your organization.
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Six Ways to Engage Customers Via Your People

 Phil Hamburg
Companies that deliver great customer experiences also deliver great employee experiences. Do you have a winning employee strategy in place?
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Four Mindset Shifts Leaders Must Make Now for Future of Work

 Root Inc.
Leading organizations that meet people where they are & can adapt to change is hard, but not impossible when leaders have the right mindset.
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Assumptions Impact Success: The Power of Positive Intent to Build Trust

 Jim Haudan
Assuming positive intent is the single behavior that high-performance teams choose time and again. How’s your intent meter reading?
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From Outdated to In Your Palm: Make Training Work for Today’s Employees

 Holly Grimm
The way we train our employees needs to change. Are you using mobile devices? Are you embracing microlearning? If not, the time is now.
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Leaders Need to Give Power Back to Their People

 Jim Haudan
What if people need to stop waiting to receive what they want and instead start changing their own experience, with or without permission?
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You Can’t Spell Employee Experience Without Change Resiliency

 Nolan McNulty
It's time to help your people understand that while change is out of our control, how we respond to it is very much in our control.
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The Future of Work is an Open Road

 David Seals
To help their organizations realize success, leaders need to create high-quality experiences that unlock their peoples' discretionary efforts. Are you ready?
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CX can never exceed EX

Customer Experiences Can Never Exceed Employee Experiences: 3 Tips to Improve Your EX

 Root Inc.
Employees are your most important customers. It’s time to start treating them that way. Here are three tips to help.
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Simple Actions and a Deep Curiosity Make the Greatest Impact

 Jim Haudan
Today leaders must do more to create a place that reenergizes people & enables them to contribute their best. Here are two key questions to ask.
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Five Steps to Setting the Right Business Priorities

 Root Inc.
Asking the right questions is instrumental in developing the right strategy for your people and your organization. This exercise will help you get started.
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Balancing Digitization and Human Interaction: Can You Get It Right?

 Phil Hamburg
Arming employees with the confidence, knowledge & support to deliver amazing person-to-person interactions is critical. Do you have a winning strategy?
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Blowing Up the Box

Your Brand Can Survive for Decades—You Just Need to Blow Up Your Box

 Gary Magenta
Want to make sure your business doesn't wind up hanging on by a thread? Check out proven success stories and tips to drive innovation.
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Blowing Up the Box

Hilton Hotels: How This Brand is Blowing Up The Box

 Gary Magenta
If you’re delivering the same customer experience today as you were in January 2020, you’re doing things wrong. To help you get it right, let's talk about a brand that is “blowing up the box” on their customer experience. First up: Hilton Hotels.
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Leadership Alignment – Customer Experience Assessment and Tips
Ensuring that leaders are aligned on the customer experience your organization should be delivering is critical. Assess your alignment and odds of success.
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Controlling Change: CX Innovation Through Your People
Your customer experience can never exceed your employee experience. Ensure your employee experience is supporting your brand promises.
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8 Steps to Outstanding CX in a Rapidly Changing World
What happens when everything shifts – when customers’ basic habits, behaviors, and needs change without warning? Get 8 steps for great customer experiences.
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Your Stand on Health and Safety Will Help You Surpass the Competition: Are You Ready?

 Gary Magenta and Heather Lee
Is your organization establishing new health & safety rules as a result of COVID-19? This is an opportunity to create a long-term competitive advantage.
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Stop Medical Distancing and Solve the Patient Experience Challenge

 Annie Alber and Philip Clothiaux and Bridget Stallkamp
Improve patient experience by first identifying points of patient frustration, and then targeting areas on the patient journey that need intervention.
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Traveling During a Pandemic: The Customer Experience is Anything But Consistent

 Gary Magenta
When it comes to enacting change, how do you encourage your people to do it with a consistency that creates an effective and successful CX?
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Intimacy: It’s Not Just for the Bedroom Anymore

 Luke Higgins and Gary Magenta
COVID-19 has created a radical sales shift from exchanging pleasantries to creating intimacy. Developing deeper client relationships is transformational.
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HOLD THE ANCHOVIES! NOT YOUR CONTACTLESS EXPERIENCE.

 Alexa Orr
As you continue to perfect your contactless customer experience, think about how your people will help bring the digital experience to life.
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Fast-Forward: Customer Experience Tips for an Accelerated World – On Demand Webinar
Watch our on-demand webinar to discover steps to transform your CX and tips to engage and lead your team to deliver a reinvented customer experience.
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SHAKING UP THE HANDSHAKE: REINVENTING THE CUSTOMER & EMPLOYEE EXPERIENCE (Part 2)

 Gary Magenta
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, shaking hands or giving hugs when you greet someone is likely a thing of the past. This pandemic has accelerated and intensified the need to reinvent the customer experience, too. We need to reinvent the handshake and CX – and we need to do it right now.
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Shaking Up the Handshake: Reinventing the Customer & Employee Experience (Part 1)

 Gary Magenta
Right now you’re seeing the needs of your customers change dramatically, which requires operations changes.Your employee experience needs to change too.
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Root Talk: Resist and Cease to Exist! Disrupting Your Customer Experience – On Demand Webinar
Watch our on-demand webinar to see how you can differentiate your CX. If you resist, your competitor will capture your customers’ loyalty. Is your existence on the line?
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Musings on Change Cultures & CX Consistency

 Gary Magenta
Today I'm discussing change & consistent CX. Today you need to either keep pace with change or risk failure. And when it coems to CX, organizations need to be consistent because the experiences created for customers are the pathway to success or failure.
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Watch Your CX Ratings Rise: When Research, Training, and Managers Unite
Assess if your managers and front line are ready to adopt the behaviors related to your customer experience strategy. Do this and your CX ratings soar.
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People Versus Bots: The Future of CX is Here
Yes, bots are taking over the tactical, but they won’t replace the humans – they’re here to help humans focus on the bigger and more strategic issues of CX.
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Customer Experience – Your ONLY Differentiator

 Gary Magenta
The importance of exceptional service was ingrained in me before the term “customer experience” was ever created. My grandfather, and then my parents, operated the business with the following mindset: “The customer is always right – even when they’re wrong.”
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Sustaining Change is Hard
My role, leading our CX team, gave me insight into how easy it is to initiate organizational change and how hard it is to sustain real change.
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Recipe For Serving Up An Employee-Led Customer Experience
Download this recipe for the key ingredients and step-by-step instructions to elevate your customer experience.
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Power Your CX Through Your People – On-Demand Webinar
Watch our on-demand webinar to discover how to crack the code on delivering a superior customer experience through your employees.
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7 Steps to Telling Stellar Stories
Despite the well-documented power of storytelling, most leaders are just awful at telling stories. Learn seven ways to become a stellar storyteller now.
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“That’s Not My Job!” and Other Ways to Lower Your Tip

 Colby Fordham
The importance of problem-solving in customer experience: from me, your customer. An open letter to the waitress who rolled her eyes at me.
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Culture Change Secrets Revealed
The fate of your strategy hinges on everyone in your organization getting their heads, hearts, and minds around a new way – the needed culture change.
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Bots: Breakdowns or Breakthroughs?

 Gary Magenta
Customer experience has come a long way. Once only a focus of retailers, it has now become a top priority of almost every industry
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Haggling: Is it the latest trend for in-store retailing?

 Gary Magenta
Consumers have power and retail brands want loyalty, so before you cut and run because the big retailer won’t indulge in a little haggling, try it!
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The Micro Business in a Big Box World

 Gary Magenta
Some of the best customer experiences come from small businesses because the employees act like (or are) the owner. Let's scale that magic.
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Creating Powerful Connections with Customers – Phil Cordell
By focusing on the power of creating connections with customers, Hilton has been disrupting a competitive marketplace for years.
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Wait, the Customer Is Not Always Right?

 Gary Magenta
We all know customers are not flawless, but that doesn't mean they should leave our store dissatisfied with the experience we provide them.
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What Tier of Loyalty Do You Get with 35 Million Miles?

 Heather Lee
When celebrating your most loyal customers, remember to celebrate your employees as well. Their loyalty is why you have such a great customer experience.
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Storytelling Lessons from…Airline Safety Videos? Indeed.

 Heather Lee
Find out the three keys that makeup successful storytelling. They come from an unlikely source that we've all probably experienced... airline safety videos.
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Disrupting the Commercial Real Estate Market with Steve Ramseur
Steve Ramseur serves up the secret sauce on how JLL is building a culture of love that is creating a significant marketplace differentiation.
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B2BCX&U – The Future of the B2B Customer Experience

 Phil Hamburg
Start working on these six customer experience (CX) areas right now and your organization will be what other businesses are looking for in the future.
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Disrupting the Airline Industry with Kerry Philipovitch
Kerry Philipovitch, shares how American Airlines engages and empowers its people to deliver a game-changing customer experience.
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Are Your Leaders Leading with a Human-Centric Mindset?

 Root Inc.
Employees are setting the standards. They are forcing the changes. Is your organization listening?
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Quiet Quitting: Fan It or Fight It?

 David Seals
Quiet quitting has been a long-standing issue plaguing organizations worldwide for years. It's time to fix the issue. Do you have a plan?
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Is Your Organization Ready to Activate Your Strategy? Eight Questions to Ask Today.

 Root Inc.
Is your organization ready for strategy activation? Ask yourself these 8 questions and assess if you're likely to succeed...or struggle.
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Why You Must Be Multilingual

 Curtis Robinson
Are you multilingual? If you take time to learn your internal customer’s language, they'll recognize your effort and become more open to your recommendations.
Read More

5 E’s of Experience: Why Internal Marketing is Key to Strategy Activation

 Root Inc.
Without engaged and excited employees, the best plans are rendered useless. Here are five tips to help you entice employees to help activate your strategy.
Read More

Leadership Lessons from the Flea Circus

 Jim Haudan
Job crafting is a powerful tool and can help employees find long-term enjoyment at work. Is job crafting a priority at your organization?
Read More

Quotes from Three Decades of Taking Notes on Strategy Activation and Human Change

 Jim Haudan
The lessons learned through others can be extremely impactful on your journey. Here are some quotes to inspire you at work and beyond.
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WHEN ONE CUSTOMER LOVES DIGITIZATION AND ANOTHER WANTS A HUMAN CONNECTION – WHAT’S THE RIGHT ROUTE?
Your customers need you to get it right – digitization, that is. In a world where technology is infiltrating every aspect of our lives, how do you balance digitization with human interaction to work best for your customers and company?
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Diverse Representation at the Top: What Business Leaders Can Learn from the NBA and NFL

 Aaron Epting
Creating an inclusive and diverse workplace is critical to creating a positive culture and employee experience. Are you taking the right steps?
Read More

Seven Steps to Building an Onboarding Program with Long-Term Retention in Mind

 Chris Williams
Onboarding is critical to retaining talent & empowering employees to contribute to strategic goals. Is your organization onboarding the right way?
Read More

How to Ensure That Silos Don’t Divide Your Business: Three Tips for Success

 Root Inc.
Good strategies require different input & strengths to be effective. Silos are debilitating to good strategies. Use these 3 tips to stop silos from blocking success.
Read More

Wondering How to Engage Your People? Start By Transforming the Skeptic

 Root Inc.
To get your people excited about a new initiative, make sure you get the "skeptic" on your side. Here are three tips to do this with success.
Read More

Storytelling: How to Activate Strategies and Inspire Your People

 Rich Berens
Storytelling is a leadership blind spot that has been facing the business world for the past 20 years. It’s time to address this.
Read More

How to Be the M&A Leader Your People Need: 5 Tips From Inside the Process

 Michael Felden
Organizational change is never simple, and an M&A is no exception. To maximize success, follow these 5 tips that focus on culture, your people & communications.
Read More

Four Tips to Transform Employees Into Brand Advocates

 Heather Lee
Employees want to be a part of something bigger, to belong, to go on meaningful journeys & make an impact. Here's how to make this a reality within your organization.
Read More

Six Ways to Engage Customers Via Your People

 Phil Hamburg
Companies that deliver great customer experiences also deliver great employee experiences. Do you have a winning employee strategy in place?
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Your People's Great Reassessment

Your People’s Great Reassessment
Enable leaders to help their organizations truly flourish, not only in profitability, but in people engagement and happiness.
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The Future of Work is an Open Road

 David Seals
To help their organizations realize success, leaders need to create high-quality experiences that unlock their peoples' discretionary efforts. Are you ready?
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CX can never exceed EX

Customer Experiences Can Never Exceed Employee Experiences: 3 Tips to Improve Your EX

 Root Inc.
Employees are your most important customers. It’s time to start treating them that way. Here are three tips to help.
Read More

Simple Actions and a Deep Curiosity Make the Greatest Impact

 Jim Haudan
Today leaders must do more to create a place that reenergizes people & enables them to contribute their best. Here are two key questions to ask.
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Is Your Organization Skilled in the Art of Dialogue? 6 Tips for Communication Success.

 Jim Haudan
Dialogue is at the root of all effective engagement and group action. Here are six tips to help ensure that dialogue thrives at your organization.
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Workforce Evolution and the Employee Experience

 Jim Haudan
Employees are resigning from their jobs at rates we’ve never seen before, making it clear that they’re the ones with the power. Leaders and organizations must adapt to meet the needs of today’s workers.
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Workforce Evolution and The Employee Experience
What drove your people to perform in the past is no longer the same. Amidst a workforce evolution, leaders need to evolve their own thinking.
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STRATEGY + VISUAL STORY + DIALOGUE > STRATEGY

 JJ Pastore
Visualization can help take the sting out of change by adding the necessary context that is so often neglected in corporate communication.
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Empathy 2.0: The Answer to Changing Employee Needs

 Nolan McNulty and Heather Roberts Washington
Managers must need to know how to lead with Empathy 2.0 if you want to get the best out of your people. Are they ready?
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Talent Acquisition Managers are Focused On the Wrong Things

 Aleassa Schambers
Hiring managers are focused on the wrong things. Look for the characteristics of high performers and forget everything else.
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Work and the New Worker – Is Your Organization Prepared?

 Root Inc.
As leadership teams discuss plans for hybrid work and culture, they’re relying on HR leaders to successfully develop and engage their people.
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Don’t Lose the Lessons of Virtual!

 Meredith Belman and Lauren Hauge
If your organization hasn’t honed its virtual event skill set yet and still needs to figure out how to combine virtual events with in-person experiences, the time is now.
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Talent Shortage or Subpar Employee Experience? A Tale of Two Cities

 Aleassa Schambers
Yes, it is possible for your organization to rise above the current talent-shortage trend and cultivate its next generation of leaders.
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It’s Not You, It’s Me! The Truth Behind Your Talent Shortage

 Aleassa Schambers
Your talent shortage has more to do with you and your organization than it does with the talent you're trying to recruit or retain.
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Five Simple Ways to Bring a Renewed Energy and Attitude to Your Teams

 Rachel Heydlauff
What are you doing to improve the energy and attitude among your peers and teams? If you're stumped, read on for some tips to create a positive work environment.
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Q&A: Leaders Share Insights on DEI, Mental Health, and the Future of the Workplace

 Jim Haudan
Jim Haudan discusses diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), and mental health with six C-suite leaders.
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Beware of Cultural Echo Chambers

 Rich Berens
We are currently all at risk of cultural tunnel vision. And so we must work harder to establish mutual empathy and stronger connections.
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Three Engaging Questions to Transform Your Team to High Performance

 Jim Haudan
High-performance teams are the result of people committing to build something together that is special. Here are tips to make this happen at your organization.
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Advice from Leaders Who Found Success in 2020

 Jim Haudan
Working from home can be isolating. To help with this challenge, successful leaders weigh in on how to create cohesive and engaged workplaces.
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Building COVID-19 Vaccine Advocacy for Healthcare Organizations from the Inside-Out

 Kalen Stanton and Aastha Minocha and Philip Clothiaux
Health care providers will receive potentially lifesaving COVID-19 vaccines in the coming weeks. The biggest obstacle sn’t access to freezer space or distribution – it's convincing caregivers and then the public to get the vaccine. Here are three critical ingredients to getting authentic buy-in from within your organization.
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The Importance of Financial Literacy in Health Care

Affected More Than Infected: The Importance of Financial Literacy in the COVID-19 Era

 Philip Clothiaux and Aaron Savage and Don Maclean and Sarah Buck
To help health systems shift from crisis response to financial and operational recovery, leaders must engage people in the organization's financial story and encourage accountability for how their efforts affect financial performance.
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Experience Design for Exceptional Patient Experiences

Three Tips to Deliver Top-Notch Health Care Experiences During COVID-19 and Beyond

 Aastha Minocha
Creating an exceptional patient experience is more critical (and more difficult) than ever. How you address challenges dictates patient's perceptions.
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Improving the Patient Experience

Stop Medical Distancing and Solve the Patient Experience Challenge

 Annie Alber and Philip Clothiaux and Bridget Stallkamp
Improve patient experience by first identifying points of patient frustration, and then targeting areas on the patient journey that need intervention.
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SAVING A DEATH: CREATING MEANINGFUL END-OF-LIFE CONVERSATIONS

 Kalen Stanton
In this session, we are joined by Dr. Michael Wilson of the Mayo Clinic. Dr. Wilson studies the end-of-life experience of care in the ICU and has augmented his focus in response to the unique needs and circumstances that have been brought to light by COVID-19.
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Patient Experience Lexicon in the New Normal: How Would You Like Your T(ea)?

 Kalen Stanton and Mercedes Roling
Since people can “shop” for health care just as they scroll the internet researching their next car purchase, it’s clear that patients are now customers.
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HOW TO ENGAGE A CLINICIAN

 Kalen Stanton
Our health industry expert and managing director, Kalen Stanton, and Vanderbilt Health leaders Dr. Paul Sternberg, Chief Medical Officer and Brian Carlson, Senior Director of Patient Experience, share insight on how to inspire and engage clinical teams to deliver personalized patient care.
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Leading Through a Crisis

 Kalen Stanton and Rich Berens and Karen Stigall
In this episode, we’re tackling the very current topic of leading during a crisis. We want to share insight on what health care leaders – and leaders in all industries – should be doing to help guide their people during this unprecedented and very worrisome time.
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10 Musts for Leading Through a Crisis
A guide for maintaining a strategic focus through your crisis response. The assessment will help you discover some of the blind spots within your own organization.
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Enriching the Employee Experience: 7 Guiding Principles to Creating Healthy Teams

 Kalen Stanton and Gary Magenta and Aastha Minocha
When it comes to healthcare, the patient experience is always paramount. But the employee experience must be core to the organization’s strategy and culture.
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Your Next Great Leadership Story

 Kalen Stanton
Leaders need to tell stories because facts tell, and stories sell. Stories create connections. I feel like everyone does have a good story to tell; they just always don't know how to organize their facts in a compelling way.
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Sustaining Change is Hard
My role, leading our CX team, gave me insight into how easy it is to initiate organizational change and how hard it is to sustain real change.
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Why Your Data Story Is Really About Trust

 Kalen Stanton
Our latest In Light of Change podcast features change leaders Dr. Alison Tothy and Eric Passon discussing the power of marrying data with storytelling.
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What’s the Purpose? Navigating the Uncertainty of Change

 Kalen Stanton
If we don’t have that clarity of purpose and direction from the why standpoint, then how much harder is it to envision what our desired future state?
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7 Steps to Telling Stellar Stories
Despite the well-documented power of storytelling, most leaders are just awful at telling stories. Learn seven ways to become a stellar storyteller now.
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Culture Change Secrets Revealed
The fate of your strategy hinges on everyone in your organization getting their heads, hearts, and minds around a new way – the needed culture change.
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Healthcare is Focusing on Patients AND Its People, So I’m Headed Back to My Roots

 Heather Lee
Healthcare is learning from retail and hospitality that in order to achieve the best patient experience they need to invest in the employee experience.
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When Self-Discovery Leads to Lasting Health Behavior Change

 Nolan McNulty
Engaging people in the "why" and "how" enables them to see how they can personally impact the change and how it benefits them and everyone around them.
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200,000 Deaths a Year. Is It Time for a New Approach to Patient Safety?
Dave Willis sits down with John Byrnes, MD and gets answers about preventable medical errors and about a new approach to patient safety.
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The Waiting is the Hardest Part
It's time for healthcare organizations to stop accepting long wait times as just part of the process, because waiting is the hardest part.
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A Patient in your Health System
A patient already has a lot on their plate, scheduling tests and dealing with paper work shouldn't be another burden for them.
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The Surprising Disruption that Fuels Patient Experience
Creating a patient experience that sticks is only possible when the leadership is aligned, managers are well trained and everyone is prepared for disruption.
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Why Patient Experience Matters to Me
Patient matters the most when it's happening to you or a loved one. Read about some missed opportunities that still happen in healthcare in the 21st century.
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Healthcare Reform Act – The State of Readiness

 Aleassa Schambers
Are your people prepared for all of the changes? Do they understand what the end game will look like and the outcomes need to be as a result of the changes?
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How Successful Strategies Win: Strategy Activation Process

 Brad Haudan and Don MacLean
Strategic change is a process. Do you have the right plan in place & the know-how to execute it successfully?
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Why You Must Be Multilingual

 Curtis Robinson
Are you multilingual? If you take time to learn your internal customer’s language, they'll recognize your effort and become more open to your recommendations.
Read More

Quotes from Three Decades of Taking Notes on Strategy Activation and Human Change

 Jim Haudan
The lessons learned through others can be extremely impactful on your journey. Here are some quotes to inspire you at work and beyond.
Read More

WHEN ONE CUSTOMER LOVES DIGITIZATION AND ANOTHER WANTS A HUMAN CONNECTION – WHAT’S THE RIGHT ROUTE?
Your customers need you to get it right – digitization, that is. In a world where technology is infiltrating every aspect of our lives, how do you balance digitization with human interaction to work best for your customers and company?
Read More

In Light of Change: Healthcare experts discuss digitization, honesty, the power of storytelling, and more

 Alli Kornrich and Coles Lawton and Aastha Minocha
Dialogue brings people together and elicits curiosity. Hear what healthcare leaders had to say about data, Machine Learning, creating cultures of trust & more.
Read More

Diverse Representation at the Top: What Business Leaders Can Learn from the NBA and NFL

 Aaron Epting
Creating an inclusive and diverse workplace is critical to creating a positive culture and employee experience. Are you taking the right steps?
Read More

Don’t Be Starstruck by the Bells and Whistles: Why Every L&D Program Needs a Strategy

 Colby Fordham
One of the most important elements of any plan is the "why." If you make your "why" a focus, your initiatives will undoubtedly be a lot more successful.
Read More

Wondering How to Engage Your People? Start By Transforming the Skeptic

 Root Inc.
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 Nolan McNulty and Heather Roberts Washington
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 Brent Shroy
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 Bridget Stallkamp
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 Aaron Epting and Dr. Sarah Garver
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 Jared Page
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 Brent Shroy
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 Aleassa Schambers
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 Brent Shroy
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 Rich Berens
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 Aleassa Schambers
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 Meredith Belman
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 Chris Williams
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 Holly Grimm
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 Jim Haudan
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 Jim Haudan
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 Aleassa Schambers
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 Aaron Epting and Dr. Sarah Garver
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 Jim Haudan
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 Aaron Epting and Dr. Sarah Garver
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 Tracey Fletcher and Heather Roberts Washington
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 Aaron Epting
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 Meredith Belman and Micah Sawyer
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 Jim Haudan
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 Jim Haudan
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 Sarah Buck and Don MacLean
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 Jim Haudan
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The Send Button Is Stuck and the Receive Button Is Broken

 Jim Haudan
Collaboration is powerful. You just have to be wiling to loosen your grip on being right. You need to enter a conversation ready to receive others’ ideas and then layer your thoughts on top of them. By approaching a conversation this way, you’ll wind up with solutions you never thought of before.
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