Event Details
January Monthly Meeting - “Change Anything"
| Date: | January 17, 2012, 11:15am – 1:00pm |
| Organizer: | SCHRA |
| Location: | Meyer's Lake Ballroom 3218 Parkway St. NW Canton, Ohio 44708 |
| Price: | $20.00 Members $25.00 Non-Members $10.00 Students |
| Event Type: | Meeting |
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Speaker: Kurt Southam/Southam Consulting
Topic: Change Anything
BIO:
Education
BA, Organizational Communication / English and German, Brigham Young University, 1975.
MA, Human Resource Development / Organizational Behavior, Brigham Young University, 1976.
PhD, Organizational Communication / Organizational Behavior & Management, Ohio University, 1980.
Executive Work Experience
ZANDEX HEALTH CARE CORPORATION, Zanesville, OH
- President / Board Director
- Trustee for Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
- Chairman of the Board, Appletree Homes (Subsidiary of Zandex, Inc.),
ARMOUR SWIFT-ECKRICH, Division of ConAgra, Inc., Downers Grove, IL / Omaha, NE
- Director, Quality Improvement Process and Organizational Development, Armour Swift-Eckrich, 1991 - 1992
- Director, Training and Organizational Development, Armour Food Comp, Omaha, NE 1986 - 1991
WENDY'S INTERNATIONAL, Dublin, OH
- Director, Management Development, Started and operated training/mgt development function for executives for 3,500 restaurant chain.
COOPER ENERGY SERVICES, Mount Vernon, OH
- Manager Personnel Services
Training & Development, Coaching, Consulting & University Experience
- Adjunct lecturer or guest lecturer for Creighton University, Ohio State University, Ohio University, Brigham Young University, Kenyon College
- Adjunct lecturer for Capital University's Executive Masters of Business Administration program
- Chief Executive Network: Facilitated semi-annual two-day meetings of CEOs and other executives on best practices and other agenda issues developed by members of the network
- Designed and implemented the STAR (STrategic Alignment for Results) process. (See STAR web page for more details)
- Member of Coachville and Graduate School of Coaching
- Coached extensively, executives and entrepreneurs
- Coached owners of family-owned businesses
- Executive Team Development
Personal Leadership and Management Philosophy
- The most important asset is management attention. What do people focus on?
- Discretionary effort is a silver bullet and often an underutilized asset. Those who learn how to tap discretionary effort achieve a strategic competitive advantage.
- Effective teams and other relationships are built on mutual purpose and mutual respect.
- Control variances at the source.or facilitate solution thinking of those closest to the issue, obstacle or opportunity and empowering them to act.
- Modeling and reinforcing the maxim: "I have a mission first, a job second."
- Owning the problem when appropriate and making it safe for others to own their problems.
- Continuous improvement, growth and development are crucial to the vitality of the organization and the individual.
- Three things make a good job: 1-opportunity to work and make a contribution, 2-opportunity to learn, 3-have fun.
- Balance in life will sustain long-term performance serving the organization and the person.
- Glory in the success of others.
- Accountability and follow-up with resilience facilitates results, and results provide fulfillment.
- Get the people thing right first and the rest will follow.
- You don't have to be sick to get better.
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The January program has been approved for 1.0 (General) recertification credit hours toward PHR, SPHR and GPHR recertification through the HR Certification Institute. The use of this seal is not an endorsement by the HR Certification Institute of the quality of the program. It means that this program has met the HR Certification Institute's criteria to be pre-approved for recertification credit.
