Speaker: Paul Plotczyk
Date: May 21, 2009: NEHRA Conference Workshop, Danvers MA
Registration: www.nehra.org.

SESSION OVERVIEW

This session introduces an organizational diagnostic tool comprised of 5 criteria that HRD professionals can use to determine the degree to which their corporate culture is employee-centered (valuing internal customers as much as external ones) and aligned with business goals and objectives.

Mr. Plotczyk will discuss how all organizations develop a culture - with or without leadership direction - and how HRD professionals can help leadership proactively identify and leverage this powerful force. Paul will review key elements for HRD professionals to focus on, such as ensuring that the culture supports the organization's business goals in responding to the current economic climate, and aligns with the business goals and strategies required to move beyond the current conditions, as well as continuing to provide employees with meaningful work.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Determine a working definition of culture, where to look to find it in an organization, and what elements comprise culture
• Understand how to draw a visual “blueprint” and formulate a list of questions to determine how the organization's culture is helping or hindering organizational strategy and an employee-centered approach
• Learn the four elements that comprise a successful business model and use them to help identify the areas to improve the conditions for Employer of Choice now and after the recession
• Develop ideas on low-cost activities to increase your company's strength as an Employer of Choice

KEY TAKE-AWAY TOOLS

• Create and use a Blueprint to visually represent the current and future states of the organization's culture and diagnose Action Steps to close the gap
• An outline of the four domains of a business model
• Low-cost activities to increase your company's strength as an Employer of Choice
• Suggestions of where and what to look for in three organizational fields: Artifacts and Behaviors, Values and Principles, Fundamental Assumptions/Mental Models

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Paul Plotczyk is the President of Work Systems Affiliates International Inc. (WSA), and has over 25 years of experience in organizational and cultural change, supported by direct management experience.

He co-published a white paper on leading organizational change called the Courage to Change and has authored numerous articles on the organizational change including The 4 Keys to Successful Change Management, How Changes Efforts Succeed, Why Change Efforts Fail and 4 Keys to Surviving the Economic Meltdown.