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Newsletter #81 January 15, 2020 |
| | 2020 Leadership Training Series
Leadership One class - January 29th Register soon spaces are limited!!
A Six Part Series for Lead Personnel, Team Leaders,
Supervisors and Future Front-Runners
*Sessions may be taken as individual workshops or combined with other series segments to fit the specific needs of attendees.
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| | Resolving Critical
Issues by Taking Advantage of Your Talent
By Pete Tosh The Focus Group
Organizations can be challenged with having the agility to respond rapidly and effectively to their critical business issues. Many formerly successful organizations lacked agility – do you remember A&P, Blockbuster, Circuit City, Borders, Ringling Brothers and Toys R Us?
The larger an organization becomes the greater its talent base and capabilities – but unfortunately communication and problem resolution become more challenging. What’s lacking is not the talent but a means of tapping into the knowledge, skills and experience of that talent – in a manner that generates their buy-in.
There is such an approach – the Action Planning Process. The Action Planning Process consists of a series of steps that:
• Obtains from the individual team members their improvement-oriented proposals for resolving their critical issues
• Then facilitates the team discussing their individual proposals, developing and implementing an action plan that addresses the critical issues
The objectives of the Action Planning Process are to:
• Provide the team members a forum for confidentially voicing their proposals for addressing the critical issues
• Take advantage of the team member’s insights, knowledge and experience - the people who know better than anyone else what should be done
• Improve the working relationships between the team members who ‘must work together’ in order to implement the action plan
The benefits to using the Action Planning Process are:
• The critical issues addressed are ‘real world’, current and of the highest priority to the team – versus ‘top of mind’ reactions during meetings
• Everyone has an equal voice in the process throughout each step creating maximum participation, buy-in and ownership
• Maximum candor since names are never associated with any of the team member’s responses
• It saves meeting time by being able to immediately display and begin discussing the team member’s proposals
• Results in an action plan - that has a ‘life’ after the planning meeting -with accountabilities and deadlines for addressing the critical issues
GEA consultants have successfully utilized this Action Planning Process with organizations in a variety of situations including:
• Team building
• Change management
• Organizational transitions
• Conflict resolution
• Customer service initiatives
• Strategic planning
• Customer advisory boards
Reach out to us at the GEA to discuss this Action Planning Process and see if it might help with your challenge
Buddy McGehee director@georgiaemployers.org 478-722-8282
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| | GEA SPRING CONFERENCE 2020
Sunday May 17, 2020 - Tuesday May 19, 2020 The Westin Savannah Harbor Golf Resort and Spa
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| | | New Year's resolutions for employers By Robin Shea on 1.10.20
Posted in ConstangyTV, Corporate Culture, Discrimination, Drug Testing, Equal Pay, Family and Medical Leave Act, FLSA, FMLA, Gender Identity Discrimination, HR, Marijuana, Paid Leave, Pay Equity, Pregnancy, Sexual Orientation, Wage-Hour
"Let's turn over -- a new leaf."
"And, baby, let's make promises -- that we can keep. We'll call it a New Year's resolution . . ."
Now that the New Year's celebrations are over, it's time to start thinking about resolutions. Ugh.
Here are my top picks for employers. Despite the fact that it's 2020, you'll be happy to know that I don't have anywhere near 20 resolutions. Only nine!
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| | GEA Training 1st Quarter 2020
Webinars
GEA will begin offering Webinars in the 1st Quarter of 2020. More Information to follow and here are some of the topics being considered. Please let us know what topics you would like to see offered.
- Advanced Development Series for Leaders and Managers Overview with Pete Tosh
- Toxic Employees - Pete Tosh
- Legal Updates with Jonathan Martin
- Workers Comp Updates - Claire Cronin and Jason Logan
- Motivating Employees in a Multi-Generational Environment - Buddy McGehee
- GEA Training Opportunities - TBD
Workshops Leadership Training Series - Juandell Wilson
Humphries Consulting, Inc. - January 29, 2020 - Leadership Training Series, Session I
- February 19, 2020 - Leadership Training Series, Session II
- March 18, 2020 - Leadership Training Series, Session III
- April 15, 2020 - Leadership Training Series, Session IV
- May 6, 2020 - Leadership Training Series, Session V
- June 3, 2020 - Leadership Training Series, Session VI
Leading & Encouraging Team Members in a Restaurant Environment - Jay White, JHW Food Safety- February 11, 2020 - Leading & Encouraging Team Members in a Restaurant Environment |
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