5 New Strategic Initiatives That Are Creating Business Impact Right Now

We asked our colleagues across Forum to share strategic initiatives that have a positive impact for clients. We see a gradual shift away from short-term focus on results, and a renewed emphasis on the implementation of strategic initiatives to take organizations forward.  Here are some examples: 1. Re-engage employees through focus on growth Clients are re-engaging [...]

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What Managers Often Overlook

by Tom Atkinson For a recording of the North America and Europe webinar, click here. Here is the final question raised by participants in our recent Forum webinar for North America and Europe entitled “Using Climate to Drive Employee Engagement.”  I was joined by climate expert Henry Frechette of Forum and by Joe Price of [...]

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AsiaPac Webinar questions: Using Climate to Drive Employee Engagement

For every webinar that Forum hosts for a North American and European audience, we also host a separate version for our audience in Asia-Pacific. The Asia-Pacific webinars include presenters, insights, and case studies from across the region. Recently we hosted a webinar called Using Climate to Drive Employee Engagement for Asia-Pacific  (click here for a recording). [...]

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How is Climate Different from Culture, or Engagement?

by Tom Atkinson For a recording of the North America and Europe webinar, click here. Here are some more questions raised by participants in our recent Forum webinar for North America and Europe entitled “Using Climate to Drive Employee Engagement.”  I was joined by climate expert Henry Frechette of Forum and by Joe Price of [...]

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How to Measure and Get Buy-in on Climate

by Tom Atkinson For a recording of the North America & Europe webinar, click here. I recently hosted a Forum webinar for North America & Europe entitled “Using Climate to Drive Employee Engagement.”  I was joined by climate expert Henry Frechette of Forum and by Joe Price of Aflac—which has recently boosted the performance of [...]

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Poised for growth, but do you have the right climate?

The Conference Board reported last week that its global leading economic indicators are all positive and that both consumer and CEO confidence are rising.  The drumbeat of negative economic news we’ve heard over the past year seems to be fading.  Based on the headlines in the financial press, the debate among economists is now shifting [...]

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Climate: Climate, the economy and strategy execution – what are our clients saying and doing?

Forum’s FieldVision enables us to capture recent insights and observations about the market directly from interactions with our clients. This month we share some observations about how the current economy is affecting organizational climate and examples of the impact a positive climate has on driving growth and strategy execution.   Top 10 ways we see the economic downturn affecting climate [...]

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Creating a positive organizational climate during an economic downturn

Tom Atkinson, Director of Customer Research I interviewed Jim Simmons (a pseudonym) recently.  A sales executive for a leading provider of health insurance plans, he is responsible for leading a sales force of independent agents in New England who offer health coverage to employees of companies through the companies themselves.  A particularly challenging aspect of [...]

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12 Signs of a Team That Delivers Quality With Speed

   By Tom Atkinson, Director, Customer Research  What’s the best way to achieve high-quality results when you’re under pressure to deliver quickly?  A recent Forum initiative provides some clues.  Forum’s leadership team took an innovative approach to identifying new business opportunities in today’s demanding economic environment:  It created five cross-functional teams and assigned each team [...]

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