Mitchell Marks

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Creating the “New Normal”: Using the Global Pandemic as an Opportunity to Rethink and Rebuild Your Corporate Culture

The impact of the global COVID pandemic is still reverberating in organizations and their people. Leaders cannot control the pandemic, but they can control the extent to which their people, processes and systems deal with it. Leaders can use the pandemic as an opportunity in many ways, ranging from immediate workplace enhancements to longer-term organization development: • Specifying new expectations for remote work • Balancing onsite and remote work dynamics • Identifying opportunities to reduce inefficiency and enhance effectiveness at the individual, team and organization-wide level • Clarifying post-pandemic career paths and opportunities • Rethinking and rebuilding corporate culture • Assessing and enhancing organizational design. This presentation highlights case examples of workplace leaders being proactive in not just contending with pandemic fallout but using it to enhance employee productivity, teamwork and overall organizational effectiveness. And, it provides practical tools to aid in creating the New Normal.

Navigating Organizational Change and Transition

Change and transition have always enveloped workplaces and their people. This presentation examines how some people not only survive during disruptive times but actually thrive in ways like improving their personal performance, team work and overall organizational effectiveness. It provides insight into the stages people go through in dealing with change and transition and practical tools for both minimizing the downside consequences and maximizing the upside opportunities. These opportunities include both short-term benefits like maintaining productivity and focus and long-term benefits like enhancing career development and contributing to a desired organizational culture. This session presents both the “science” of workplace change and the practical “application” of tools and techniques for managing change and transition in the workplace. It features colorful stories of how individuals have used these tools during change and transition to enhance both their personal situations and their overall organizational dynamics.

Surviving and Thriving During Organizational Change and Uncertainty

Change and uncertainty have always enveloped workplaces and their people. This presentation examines how some people not only survive during times of uncertainty but actual thrive in ways like improving their personal performance, team work and overall organizational effectiveness. It provides insight into the stages people go through in dealing with change and uncertainty and practical tools for both minimizing the downside consequences of disruption and the upside opportunities. These opportunities include both short-term benefits like maintaining productivity and focus and long-term benefits like enhancing career development and contributing to a desired organizational culture. The presentation presents both the “science” of workplace change and the practical “application” of tools and techniques for managing change and uncertainty in one’s work environment. It also provides colorful stories of how individuals have used change and uncertainty to enhance both their personal situations and their overall organizational dynamics. And, it provides ample time for individuals to share their experiences, express their concerns and ask questions about surviving and thriving during difficult times: • Dealing with distraction from productivity and burnout • Using change and uncertainty as opportunities for personal development and organizational enhancement • Managing the boundaries of remote work • Developing realistic expectations for the impact on career advancement • Maintaining productivity while avoiding burnout • Finding opportunities to rework personal and organizational missions

DEVELOPING A LEADERSHIP STYLE IN TODAY’S BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT--Leading and Managing Your Organization to Excellence

The pressures on executives in today’s work organizations are substantial and varied, including increased globalization, rapid technological advances, changing market conditions and evolving customer expectations. Amidst all these forces, executives must produce short-term results to satisfy superiors and shareholders, while developing a long-term perspective to build customer loyalty and employee motivation. This presentation shows leaders how to balance competing pressures while producing desired business results. It helps participants distinguish between “managing” and “leading” and determine their own style and appropriate actions for moving themselves, their work teams, and their organizations forward.

MAINTAINING PRODUCTIVITY DURING ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE

This presentation for team leaders explains the stages employees go through during times of intense organizational change and shows how to manage each stage to help employees let go of old ways of thinking about and doing things and then accepting new ones. It provides proven methods for maintaining productivity during transition and getting employees focused on new business realities and opportunities.

CULTURE MATTERS

This presentation provides empirical data showing that corporate culture does matter in achieving financial results. It offers a model for building a desired corporate culture. And, it shows the many ways executives and managers directly and indirectly influence employee behaviors and attitudes.

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