Speaking Topics
Invite Dr. Sheila Margolis to inform and inspire your organization. Speeches are customized to meet the needs of each audience.
Below are sample speeches that she has given in the areas of defining organizational culture, managing organizational change and increasing employee engagement.
Identify Your Core: Use Values to Unite, Guide and Inspire
Learn how to define your organizational core culture
To strategically manage culture, you must first define it. As the culture and change steward, the HR professional leads this effort. In this interactive session, practice the steps for defining the unique principles of your company’s culture that are linked to the organization’s founding and its strategic goals. Be a valued leader for your organization. Make it simple–discover the vital why, the distinctive and enduring how, and the strategic how of your culture. Unite employees around the big picture that captures what you stand for and directs the path for delivering business results. Use this process to inspire employees to live by powerful Core Culture principles each and every day.
Understanding Your Organization’s Culture: Tools to Make HR Practices Strategic
Discover how to define your organization’s culture and align HR practices to culture and strategy (This session has received Strategic Credit by HRCI.)
Culture is your organization’s hidden asset. It should motivate and drive employees to achieve, produce, and excel. But what is culture and how do you harness its power? During this interactive session, discover innovative and practical tools to define and shape your culture and then align it with your HR practices. Be strategic in how you hire, develop, communicate, and manage performance so that you reinforce the distinctive culture of your organization and position it for success.
Managing Change from the Inside Out
Discover an innovative way to lead a change effort in your organization
Is productivity low? Are you merging cultures? Are you changing leaders? Are employees not united by vision and values? If you are experiencing any of these challenges, then discover how to successfully lead a change effort in your organization. Learn this research-based solution for managing change. This step-by-step process begins at the core of your culture and integrates change from the inside out using a systematic audit and alignment process. Meet your organization’s challenges with a fresh approach to managing change in your organization.
Using Organizational Culture to Select the Right Employees
Improve engagement, retention, and the bottom line by aligning your recruitment and selection practices with your organization’s core culture
Companies want productive, committed employees. People want meaningful work. So how do you create such a workplace? This session offers a fresh formula for screening for culture fit. You will learn powerful and practical tools to map your organization’s core culture and audit the alignment of your hiring practices with the culture. Build a workplace where employees understand the culture, personally connect to it, and want to live by it. Play a strategic role in your organization by managing your organization’s valuable asset–its culture.
Managing Organizational Culture: The New Human Resource Competency
Discover how to be a culture and change steward for your organization
Do your HR leaders have the skills to be an effective Culture and Change Steward? This HR competency is vital for preserving the core beliefs of your organization and ensuring that everyone is living by the strategic values that will guide your organization to achieve success. Being able to manage culture and change is the second highest predictor of performance of both HR professionals and an HR department. Having these skills puts HR in the role of providing a strategic contribution to the organization. Discover how to define and shape your culture. Use culture to help your organization sustain its distinctive character and position it to compete. Learn a simple alignment and planning process to ensure that employee activities promote a thriving culture. Use the power of workplace culture to drive change and enhance your firm’s performance.
Engage, Retain, Prosper: Building a Culture of Engagement
Discover what you can do to increase employee engagement in your organization
Employee engagement is a connection between the worker and work. Engaged employees are committed to the company and willing to put forth extra effort to deliver superior performance. Discover the six Universal Priorities that promote employee engagement. Use the Employee Engagement Audit to assess your company’s level of engagement, the pre-engagement threshold motivators and the drivers of engagement. Develop your Employee Engagement Action Plan so that you have a strategy for improving engagement in your organization. Engagement is a responsibility of everyone. Addressing the social and human side of the worker is key to achieving optimal performance. Engaged workers can and do have a profound impact on your company’s success.
The Big-Picture View: Use Values to Unite, Inspire and Get Results
Do your employees see the big picture? Do they know and live by the values that will drive success? To facilitate performance and drive results, you must guide employees in this effort. In this interactive session, practice the steps for defining the inspiring and unique core principles of your company’s culture that are linked to the organization’s founding and its strategic goals. Using case studies, you will learn how to keep it simple, but focused–discover the vital why, the distinctive and enduring how, and the strategic how of your culture. Unite employees around this big-picture view that captures what you stand for and directs the path for delivering business results.
Alignment At Last: Practicing the Principles that Drive Performance
Understand how to live the Core Culture principles and achieve organizational alignment using the Five Ps
Is everyone in the organization practicing the principles critical to your organization’s success? If your company is all about customer service, does everyone deliver great service? If your company is all about innovation, do your processes and practices motivate and support employees so they are innovative? In this competitive landscape, organizations cannot afford deficiencies in execution. Discover a way to focus, unify and align everyone in the organization around a few vital core principles. Get everyone on the same page. Use this practical and actionable approach so that your organization delivers on its promises and excels.
Survive and Thrive with Culture Change
Understand the change process and the questions employees must answer as they experience culture change in their organizations
The Steps to Strategic Planning: Thinking From Inside Out and Outside In
Understand the strategic planning process that starts at the core of your culture and unifies members around defined goals and metrics
Mapping and Understanding School Culture
Apply the Core Culture principles and change management to a school setting
The Human Side of Mergers and Acquisitions
Discover a process to conduct cultural due diligence for mergers and acquisitions
Making the Match: A Job-Seekers Guide to Finding a Workplace to Call Home
Learn techniques for evaluating a workplace for culture fit
The Identity-Image Reflection: Create the Image that Mirrors Your Culture
Ensure that the image your organization projects is aligned with the Core Culture of the organization
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