NZIM events

Management Soundbite - 'OPD - HR Management System - How are you managing performance in your business?'
with Guest Speaker Jan Alley - Jan Alley & Associates

 Cracking the Corporate Culture Code - Understanding the Unwritten Ground Rules of your organisation
with Steve Simpson

•    Pick up on a powerful concept to enhance organisational performance
•    Get a better handle on your own organisation's culture
•    Understand the strategic sequence of positive culture change

Organisational culture is the invisible but undeniable force that shapes people's behaviour in any organisation. Nothing is more important, nothing can be more potent than an organisation's culture - it is the key determinant of the performance of any work team or business. Up to now, managers have been aware of the concept of organisational culture, but because of a number of reasons have felt powerless to change it.

Steve Simpson smashes the myth that organisational culture is a complex and unmanageable phenomenon and introduces a concept that is as simple as it is powerful. His new concept of Unwritten Ground Rules changes all that. UGRs® are what really drive business performance in an organisation. In essence, UGRs® enable people to understand organisational culture in simple and practical terms.
This understanding leads to the ability to manage and improve the organisation's culture. When the culture is 'right', an organisation has a significant competitive advantage that is impossible to replicate. While systems and products can be copied, culture cannot.

In the breakfast session Steve Simpson gives an overview of Unwritten Ground Rules-UGRs® -what they are and how they impact on individual and group behaviours and how you can use them to get a handle on the culture of your organisation.

  Optional Workshop: 8.45am-9.45am
 
In this accelerated workshop Steve leads participants through a sequence of strategies and a preview of resources that can help their organisation lift their culture and performance to heights unseen before

"A Recipe for Economic Survival for New Zealand".
Guest Speaker: Dr Andrew West, Head of Strategy for Seales Ltd and previously Chief Executive of AgResearch
in conjunction with Waikato Chamber of Commerce

Using the same strategy that got us here is not going to get us somewhere else. But what will?

To date New Zealand has had a penchant for impatient, speculative, intra-generational investment. This strategy has had dismal consequences in terms of long-run, relative, economic performance, with a focus on capital, skills and research. Dr West proposes a series of policy changes that are likely to create a penchant for patient, productive and inter-generational investment.

Join us for an informative thought provoking session.

'Making Work, Work: Thriving in the New Reality 
'
with Guest Speaker Julie Morgenstern (US).

Demanding workloads, a hyper-speed pace, and constantly changing responsibilities create a challenging work environment.  Brand new, counterintuitive skills are required to boost your value and increase job security without sacrificing your personal life. Learn to prioritise your to-do list with confidence, create the time to concentrate in a highly distractible environment, outsmart email and interruptions, optimize your time off to ensure peak performance, and work fewer hours while getting more done. Small changes in your behaviour will put you instantly back in control.

Learning Objectives:

•  Learn to prioritize your to-do list with confidence
•  Create the time to concentrate despite the distractions around you
•  Optimize your time off to ensure peak performance
•  Work fewer hours while getting more done
•  Learn how small changes in behavior can put you instantly back in control
   

About the Speaker:
Julie Morgenstern is an authority on organization and time management. She is not only a business productivity consultant but a fascinating speaker dubbed the “queen of putting people’s lives in order” by USA Today. Morgenstern provides solutions that dramatically improve performance and efficiency.   Julie is renowned for an “inside-out” approach to problems and generating customized solutions that are practical, insightful and easy-to-maintain. Since 1989, she and her staff have worked with clients such as American Express, GlaxoSmithKline, The Miami Heat, the New York City Mayor’s office, Viacom/MTV and Hearst Magazines.

Julie’s first two books, Organizing from the Inside Out and Time Management from the Inside Out, have been made into popular one-hour PBS specials.  Never Check Email in the Morning has been converted into a training program that’s used at Fortune 500 corporations around the globe.  And Julie’s latest book, Shed Your Stuff, Change Your Life, is all about managing change.  It helps readers discover how letting go of the clutter in their lives can generate the energy, clarity and insight to discover, “what’s next?”

As a speaker, media expert and corporate spokesperson, Julie is known for her passionate, articulate style and warm sense of humor. Julie Morgenstern Enterprises helps individuals and companies boost productivity, maximize their impact, and find fulfillment through one-on-one coaching, corporate training, seminars, speeches and products.  Julie is also the co-creator of the The Balanced Life Planner, developed in partnership with and available exclusively through FranklinCovey.

For additional information on Julie Morgenstern, please visit:  http://www.juliemorgenstern.com/

'Rapid Continuous Improvement in Company Financial Performance'
using the new - EV MANAGEMENT®
with Guest Speaker Ian Brammar.

In the current economic environment it is even more important for companies to achieve rapid continuing increases in performance particularly in a company’s “bottom-line”. This is very difficult to do and most companies are stuck with halting, stop-go attempts with no way of prioritising improvements to achieve maximum improvements at minimum cost in minimum time.

Why is this so?

The basic reason is that managers learn plenty about “bottom-upping” techniques, such as Lean, Quality at Source, Six Sigma etc but do not realise that their own “top-downing” management skills and methods became out of date in the early 1950s! These latter skills and methods are completely unsuitable for gaining maximum commercial and financial advantages from the plethora of new “bottom-upping” methods developed particularly over the last 30 or so years.

The purpose of the talk is to give attendees an overview of the how-to for the new, exciting, top-down, total methodology of EV (Expanding Value) Management and Measures. The talk concentrates on how EV is used to achieve real continuous improvement in financial and business performance for all sizes and types of companies. This talk is an absolute must for managers wishing to achieve high financial returns and short, medium and long term stability for their companies.