Podcasts

Organizational Climate and the Impact on Financial Performance

Research and experience with our clients show there is a direct correlation between organizational climate and financial results, including sales, revenue growth, efficiency and profitability.  Moreover, organizational climate represents one third of the factors that influence the success of any organisation.  In other words, companies that build a positive organizational climate as part of their competitive strategy have a significantly better chance of positioning themselves for sustained growth, talent retention and accelerating results.

Listen to Ed Boswell, CEO of Forum, speak on climate

The Power of Shaping Organizational Climate
Best practice in action at Archstone

Companies that focus on building a positive organizational climate as part of their competitive strategy are continuing to exceed customer expectations, maintain employee productivity, and surpass their competition.

In this latest podcast from Forum we interview Teresa Dalsager, VP of Training at Archstone, about the power of creating a customer-centred climate. Archstone recently significantly increased their employee engagement and customer satisfaction with its Commitment to GREAT programme.

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Achieving Strategic Speed

Focusing on your people and mobilizing them to embrace and accelerate business strategy is the essential driver for achieving growth and performance objectives.  Achieving true Strategic Speed is not about 'going faster,' but comes from reducing time to value and increasing value over time. 

In this podcast Jocelyn Davis, Executive Vice President, discusses the key findings from our global research on how leading companies execute their strategies more quickly and successfully. This research was the basis for the book, Strategic Speed: Mobilise People, Accelerate Execution authored by Forum and being published in June 2010 by Harvard Business Press.

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