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Read the latest global press coverage, commentary and interviews with Forum experts and our clients.

• Forum Corporation Receives Third Top 20 Recognition from TrainingIndustry.com

  Jul 2011 — press release

  Forum is the only company to have been named to TrainingIndustry, Inc.'s 2011 Top 20 lists for Leadership Training, Sales Training, and Content Development companies. The recognition was based on multiple criteria including: innovative thought leadership and research, strength of clients, geographic reach, breadth of services and delivery methods offered, industry impact and recognition, and more.

• Forum Named to Top 20 Content Development Companies for 2011

  Jun 2011 — By TrainingIndustry.com

  Forum Corporation has been recognized by TrainingIndustry.com as one of the Top 20 Content Development Companies in the training industry. Forum's subject matter expertise, capability to develop a broad set of tailored training programs across many modalities, and geographic reach were just some of the areas of excellence Forum displayed in being selected to this List.

  Forum is also very proud to be the only organization to have been recognized by TrainingIndustry.com in their 2011 Top 20 Leadership Training Companies, Sales Training Companies, and Content Development Companies lists.

• 6 Proven Principles of Workplace Learning

  Apr 2011 — Training Magazine

  These principles can serve as guideposts for designing workplace learning and can accelerate the cultivation of experience.

• Podcast - CEO Talk Radio - Interview with Jocelyn Davis

  Apr 2011 — CEO Talk Radio

  Professor Robert G. Barnwell interviews the top business thought leaders.  In this podcast, he interviews Forum’s Jocelyn Davis regarding strategy execution. 

• Achieving Strategic Speed

  Mar 2011 — Chief Executive Magazine

  CEOs share a universal concern called "strategic speed"- executing new strategies more quickly and well. 

  Clarity. Unity. Agility. By mobilizing your employees, you ramp up your execution. Forum's Jocelyn Davis explains how to achieve strategic speed by focusing on people.

• Forum Named Top 20 Provider of Leadership Development and Sales Training

  Mar 2011 — press release

  Forum has been named by TrainingIndustry.com as one of the Top 20 providers of both Leadership Development training and Sales training for 2011. Forum is one of only four companies to be included on both lists. It is also the 2nd consecutive year that Forum has been included on their Top 20 Leadership Development providers list.

• Forum and Human Capital Institute Announce Webinar Series

  Mar 2011 — press release

  The Human Capital Institute (HCI), the global association for strategic talent management and Forum Corporation announce the "Leadership Practices for the 21st Century" webinar series. The four-part webcast series will explore each of the four leadership practices that create strategic speed. Registration for this free event can be found at http://www.hci.org/lib/your-2011-strategy-set-success-or-failure.

• Execution, Success, and the Importance of People

  Mar 2011 — American Management Association's MWorld Magazine

  A recent Wall Street Journal study highlighted an increasingly popular organizational response to the unpredictable economy: investment in leadership development- but that headline only tells half the story. Dig beneath it and you'll find that companies don't just lack leaders, they lack leaders with the specific skills needed to implement strategies quickly and well.

• Forum Selected as one of 2011 Top 20 Sales Training Companies

  Feb 2011 — TrainingIndustry, Inc.

  TrainingIndustry, Inc. today announced Forum as one of its 2011 Top 20 Sales Training Companies. This list recognizes the top sales training companies in our industry providing outstanding service, and a proven track record for delivering superior sales training and improving the impact of the sales organization.
  
  TrainingIndustry.com frequently reviews, surveys and assesses sales training companies that provide services to the corporate marketplace. Intended to assist buyers of training services, the Top 20 list is designed to support the corporate procurement process by aiding in the evaluation of potential training providers.

• Sales Negotiation: Prepping to Avoid 4 Classic Pitfalls

  Feb 2011 — Sales & Marketing Management

  Taking action without preparing for a variety of negotiation scenarios often leads to a missed opportunity. Avoid classic mistakes by asking yourself four questions that will go a long way toward being fully prepared for successful negotiations.

• Forum Named Among 2011 Top 20 Leadership Training Companies

  Jan 2011 — from TrainingIndustry.com

  For the 2^nd consecutive year Forum Corporation has been named by TrainingIndustry, Inc. as one of the Top 20 Leadership Training Companies.

  The selected 2011 Top Leadership Training Companies were based on demonstrating excellence in many areas, including thought leadership, assessments or research to support programs, strength of clients and audiences served, geographic reach and participants trained, company size and growth potential, and industry recognition, innovation and impact.

   

• How to Execute Business Strategy Fast and Well

  Jan 2011 — Small Business Trends

  Strategic Speed offers the right guide for small teams that need to learn how to measure value through the speed in which value is delivered. The key is people, not processes. 

  The people factors that drive speed are clarity (shared understanding of your situation and direction), unity (agreement on working together in the shared direction), and agility (willingness to adapt quickly).

• Edge Magazine: Quick off the Mark

  Jan 2011 — from The Institute of Leadership and Management

  A review of Strategic Speed.

  "The authors of this book claim that business success is about who can create the most value smarter and faster than their competitors. The evidence is compelling, supported by case studies of such global names as Vodafone, Holiday Inn, and Lehmann Brothers, dissecting each success and failure...The book provides valuable insight and best practice."

  From Edge magazine- the publication of The Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM).

• Create a Competitive Advantage

  Nov 2010 — Leadership Excellence Magazine

  9 out of 10 leaders believe speed is critical to their success, but just 4 out of 10 believe they are faster than their competition, creating a gap that faster organizations exploit to achieve greater profit and sales growth.

  Leaders must attend to the 'people factors' and incorporate value into their ideas about speed of execution. Leaders who learn that lesson will develop the greatest strategic speed. Sometimes you have to slow down to speed up...

• Achieving Strategic Speed

  Nov 2010 — Management Today (Australia Institute of Management- AIM)

  What enables companies to implement their strategies swiftly and successfully? Most business leaders are concerned about their company's ability to move fast enough to take advantage of opportunities or counter threats. To better understand the impact and growing importance of speed, Forum Corporation set out to identify what enables companies to implement their strategies swiftly and successfully- that is, to achieve strategic speed. Many of the obstacles surface during the transition from strategy planning to strategy execution. Factors directly correlated to leadership capabilities, team structure and the prevailing corporate climate greatly facilitate speed.

• Speed the key to grow & stay ahead in business

  Oct 2010 — The Times of India

  Great business strategies fail due to lack of speedy execution as the people who implement the strategies are not adequately tuned in to the larger objectives of the organisation.

• The Right Kind of Speed

  Sep 2010 — Interview with MindTools and Jocelyn Davis

  Jocelyn Davis, co-author of Strategic Speed, is interviewed by MindTools (UK) for their Expert Interview Series discussing the importance of speed to business success while not jeopardizing quality and focusing on people as the critical element of true strategic speed. Find out how the ‘right kind of speed’ can help your business do better, faster. Jocelyn outlines the components of "strategic speed," including how to motivate people to speed up success.

   

• Forum Issues Leadership Challenges Index

  Sep 2010 — Forum Press Release

  Faced with a still-struggling economy and stalled growth, organizations are increasingly looking to boost performance by developing more and better leaders who can jump-start new strategies, according to the inaugural edition of The Forum Corp.'s Leadership Challenges Index, which ranks learning and development issues of greatest concern to organizational leaders.

• In Transition: Transitioning executives need to hit the ground running in their new positions

  Sep 2010 — Human Resource Executive Online

  It's vital for transitioning executives to hit the ground running in their new positions, and companies are learning that recognizing their talents early and maintaining communication after the move will help ensure those moves work out.

• Management Excellence Book Series Podcast: Strategic Speed

  Aug 2010 — interview with Art Petty and Jocelyn Davis

  Every year, a number of the large consulting firms publish surveys outlining the issues that keep global corporate leaders awake at night. Inevitably, the topic turns to strategy and more specifically to the headaches and challenges of executing strategy.

  For those of us that have labored in the corporate world for a couple of decades, it comes as no surprise that translating ideas into programs and projects and then executing these programs accurately and quickly to seize market opportunities is darned difficult.

  It also turns out that we’re not so good at it for a lot of reasons, most of which have to do with people...

• Accelerating Execution: Three Critical Factors

  Aug 2010 — CPA Trendlines

  If you think you don’t have the time for hand-holding and motivation, then think again. Slowing down to work one-on-one may actually speed up your strategic initiatives.

• Success in Strategic Speed

  Aug 2010 — The Star BizWeek (Malaysia)

  Speaking to StarBizWeek via video link from Boston recently, Ed Boswell discussed the theories in the new book, Strategic Speed: Mobilize People, Accelerate Execution.

• Video interview: Strategic Speed

  Jul 2010 — Thinkers50.com UK

  Strategic Speed co-author and Forum EVP of R&D Jocelyn Davis discusses our latest book with Stuart Crainer of Thinkers50.com in London, UK.

• Three Traps That Slow Down Strategy

  Jul 2010 — BNet UK

  The surprising truth is that you achieve strategic speed by focusing on people. Many executives recoil from dealing with people issues because they equate them with slowing down, with having to wade through a morass of human emotions, questions, quirks, and complaints.

  But skilful mobilisation of people is actually a key differentiator between slower and faster organisations.

• Put People First to Implement Strategies Well

  Jul 2010 — Associations Now

  For organizations to succeed, they need to be faster and smarter than their competition. However, success won't happen with only the most streamlined processes and a ton of resources. What's required to implement strategy quickly and well is making your people the main component.

• 'People Factors' Key to Success

  Jun 2010 — The Arizona Republic

  Ed Boswell, co-author of "Strategic Speed: Mobilize People, Accelerate Execution" (Harvard Business Press, 2010), met with The Arizona Republic to discuss how entrepreneurs can successfully and speedily implement business strategies.
  
  
• “Faster” Companies Widen Revenue and Profit Gap Over Slower Counterparts Through Focus on People

  Jun 2010 — Forum Press Release

  Nine out of 10 organizational leaders believe speed is critical to business success but only 4 out of 10 believe they are faster than their competition, creating a gap that faster organizations are exploiting to achieve greater profit and sales growth, according to the authors of Strategic Speed: Mobilize People, Accelerate Execution (Harvard Business Press).

• Three Keys to Making Behavior Changes Stick

  May 2010 — CLO Magazine- Executive Briefings newsletter

  Done right, investing in sustainable learning enables workers to close the knowing vs. doing gap. For sustainment to work, however, a real shift in thinking is required. For sustainment plans to be successful, they need to fit with the learning environment, the nature of the work, and the work styles and capabilities of the target audience.

• Executing With Strategic Speed

  May 2010 — Harvard Business Publishing video interview

  Ed Boswell explains why you need to slow down to speed up. He is the co-author of Strategic Speed: Mobilize People, Accelerate Execution.

• Need Speed? Slow Down

  Apr 2010 — Harvard Business Review- May 2010

  Ultimately, strategic speed is a function of leadership. Teams that become comfortable taking time to get things right, rather than plow ahead full bore, are more successful in meeting their business objectives.

• 4 'Musts' That Turn First-Time Buyers Into Repeat Customers

  Apr 2010 — Sales & Marketing Business Brief

  What does it take to turn first-time buyers into repeat customers? A study by The Forum Corp. identified four key dimensions of service most important to first-time buyers.

• Forum Recognized As Top Provider of Leadership Development

  Jan 2010 — Forum Press Release

  Forum was named one of the top 20 providers of leadership development training services by TrainingIndustry.com, a leading portal for searching and accessing information about the training industry.

• Learning at Top Speed

  Jan 2010 — CLO Magazine- January 2010

  Given the pace of global competition, it’s not surprising that most business executives are worried that their companies are moving too slowly to keep a competitive edge. In a recent global survey of senior business leaders, The Forum Corp. found that 90 percent of respondents considered speed critical to their business success, but only 42 percent thought they were much faster than others in their industry.

• School's Out?

  Jul 2009 — Human Resource Executive

  Tough economic times have cut into financial resources for executive education and training. As a result, more companies and HR professionals may be steering clear of business schools and looking elsewhere to develop leadership competencies. When programs focus on solving real business problems, they are less likely to be cut.

• Leading A Business in Tough Times

  Jun 2009 — Imaging Executive podcast with Forum CEO Ed Boswell

  In this AIE Imaging Executive podcast, Ed Boswell shares his insights on many topics, including what leaders can learn from history, and what steps to take while navigating an organization through choppy waters.

• Manage Well in Slumps

  Jun 2009 — Investors' Business Daily

  Layoffs, seesaw markets and distracted employees challenge managers in economic downtimes. Research by Forum of companies that successfully navigated past recessions reveals lessons of what managers should do now to emerge from the downturn poised for success.

• Cutting Room

  Jun 2009 — Insight Magazine- Illinois CPA Society

  Cut costs in a bad economy—but don’t go overboard with the shears.

• Despite Recession, Top Salespeople Close Deals by Using Five Smart Strategies

  May 2009 — Forum Press Release

  According to Forum, top salespeople know how to use tough economic times to close deals, increase revenue and strengthen long-term relationships. 

• Stay for the Climb: Enable Star Performers to Reach for Success and Longevity

  May 2009 — The Leading Edge

  Ed Boswell was interviewed for the feature story of the Winter 2009 issue of The Leading Edge.

• Training Without A Campus

  Apr 2009 — The Wall Street Journal

  This article from The Wall Street Journal discusses how firms like Forum are favored over business schools because they offer customizable, cost-effective, and impactful leadership development programs.

• Deep Differences: How to Use Your Sales Team to Differentiate Your Company

  Apr 2009 — Selling Power Magazine

  How to Use Your Sales Team to Differentiate Your Company

• How to Ask More of Your Employees in Tough Times

  Mar 2009 — Monster.com

  Retaining top talent during a recession.

• In Business, Trust is The Key

  Mar 2009 — Minneapolis Star-Tribune

  Trust is the most important word in business. Trust is central to doing business. Without it, you have another word that begins with T: trouble.

• Your CFO's Recession Survival Kit

  Mar 2009 — Business Finance Magazine

  Challenges faced by the financial sector in a recession

• Manage Workplace Climate for Better Business Results

  Mar 2009 — Talent Management Magazine

  Talent Management talks to Forum's Jocelyn Davis, EVP of Research & Development, on the importance of workplace climate.

• Avoiding Small Business Layoffs

  Mar 2009 — BankRate.com

  Alternatives to layoffs during an economic crisis.

• Manage Sales Reps Like Customers

  Feb 2009 — SellingPower.com

  Managing your salesforce in the face of a recession.

• Recession Lessons

  Feb 2009 — Forum Press Release

  Forum is launching management workshops aimed at helping business leaders adapt to change, keep motivation high, engage top talent, and maximize earnings.

• Cutting Pay, Not Workers

  Jan 2009 — Houston Chronicle

  Layoffs--and why leaders are avoiding them in favor of creative cut backs in this recession.

• 10 Steps to Survive A Recession

  Dec 2008 — Workplace Magazine

  Businesses that take 10 important steps have a better chance of emerging from the current recession in a position to succeed.

• Developing Better Sales Managers

  Dec 2008 — CLO Magazine Executive Briefings e-newsletter

  Many sales employees are disconnected from their organizations’ sales strategies and their managers often lack the leadership skills necessary to help them succeed. Sales force effectiveness in economic crisis depends on strategy alignment, management, behaviors and skills, and climate.

• Waypoint and Forum Roll Out New Sales Skills Process

  Nov 2008 — Forum press release

  Waypoint engaged with Forum Corp. to roll out a new sales process and enhance selling skills.

• Sales organizations' ability to weather current economic storm depends on four "people priorities"

  Nov 2008 — Forum press release

  Forum's research reveals what fuels great sales performance-even in these turbulent times. It's all in the people.

• New England Cable News interview with Ed Boswell

  Sep 2008 — September 3, 2008. Forum CEO Ed Boswell is interviewed on NECN Boston

  Managers are being asked to produce the same results with a smaller workforce. The Forum Corporation recommends looking to past recessions for clues to success.

• 10 Leadership Actions to Ride out a Recession

  Aug 2008 — ChiefExecutive.net

  Chief Executive magazine reports on successes and failures of the world's most influential CEOs.

• Training Tomorrow's Talent Poses Challenges Today

  Jun 2008 — Boston Business Journal

  What are companies doing--or what should they be doing--to prepare young executives in the face of the coming retirement boom? Forum CEP Ed Boswell is quoted about the urgency of senior management succession planning.

• Corporate Gravity: Escape Its Powerful Pull

  Jun 2008 — Leadership Excellence Magazine

  Forum's Steve Barry writes about corporate gravity--and how you can escape it's powerful pull.

• Redesigning Performance Management

  May 2008 — HR Executive

  Forum is quoted in this issue of HR Executive focused on strategic issues in human resources.