WEBCASTS

If the past several months have taught us anything, it’s that we must be nimble and flexible to survive when things around us are changing at an alarming rate. Unfortunately, the bureaucracy with most organizations has rendered them slow, stuck, and unable to innovate. It doesn’t have to be this way.

No matter the business, people are its most important assets. The knowledge they possess defines what the business knows and in turn, its potential for success. But the concurrent and always evolving nature of knowledge can generate complex and unpredictable challenges, resulting in information silos, delayed processes, unresolved problems, and duplication of work.

As the world of work continues to evolve, we are experiencing an exponential change in the latest months. The effects of our global crisis alone have magnified the important focus on designing work around and for our employees, where the lens is not just on them as an employee.

As we navigate our organizations and people through this time of disruption and change, there’s one powerful tool you may be overlooking: Stories. Our guest this month is Josh Newman, Senior Director of Storytelling at Walmart. We will explore with Josh how he uses a process called “Strategic Storytelling” to change social norms, encourage collaboration, and spark innovation at work. We will explore why stories matter, what makes a story “strategic,” and how to use storytelling as a powerful tool to shape and enhance employee experience.

Our engagement surveys tell us that our employees want more developmental opportunities. Our exit surveys tell us that the talent we have invested in has found better opportunities elsewhere. Yet, we have these talent development programs to offer and so many great initiatives to work through! So, we draw from the same well of go-to people. In this chat, learn how to access the multiple wells of talent you already have.

Inclusion & Diversity training often fails to deliver the anticipated results because it does not address two big challenges:

The first challenge facing most D&I training is the word "training". Training programs generally provide information, teach process, view relationships between people as transactional, and are largely about compliance. Training may imply that there is a panacea. Inter-relational topics like inclusion and diversity do not always work well in “training”.