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February, 2012 Archive

February 23rd, 2012

Per Scott – How Royal Bank of Canada uses engagement surveys to inform and drive business execution

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Per Scott, Vice President of Human Resources for Royal bank of Canada (RBC) shares how RBC is taking engagement surveys to the next level to create a link between business strategies, employee beliefs, and financial outcomes. RBC goes beyond the typical engagement survey to look at critical factors impacting business strategies.  For example, determining if employees understand and believe in the value and effectiveness of new product lines, or differentiating between high and low performing managers.   He also shares enlightening observations around how being a baby boomer, gen X’er or millennial impacts employee job expectations.

Does engagement impact business execution:  absolutely!  Hear Per Scott explain how RBC has effectively integrated engagement metrics to improve business decision making – this week on Business Execution Radio.

February 6th, 2012

Tim Szonyi – From strategy to action: aligning organizations to deliver on business goals

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Tim Szonyi is a Partner at Mckinney Rogers, a global consulting company that helps organizations translate business strategies into tangible results.   Tim discusses the factors that are necessary to translate organizational strategies into actionable goals and “missions” understood and owned by employees across the company.   Some of the critical concepts he shares include what it means to be “mission driven” and the importance of creating an unbroken “narrative chain” that creates a connection between the corporate strategy and what employees  do each day in their jobs.

Gain valuable insight into what it takes to drive business execution by listening to someone who has done it with dozens of companies around the world – listen to Tim Szonyi this week on Business Execution Radio.