Blanchard Perspectives and White Papers
The Ken Blanchard Companies synthesizes observations and commentary about business trends, organizational performance issues, and leadership challenges in a dynamic and globalizing workplace.
These articles often contain best practices for improving and maximizing performance, as well as expert insights on how best to build successful workplace cultures, and evolve behavioral change within organizations.
Leadership Strategies for Making Change Stick
A study conducted by The Ken Blanchard Companies in 2008 paints a telling story about the challenges organizations are facing that demand effective change leadership.
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Managing Coaching for Results and ROI
This paper highlights the business issues that coaching addresses, the benefits of coaching, and the improvements in effectiveness and efficiency that can be realized through the Web-based Blanchard Coaching Management System. Register for Access
Employee Passion: The New Rules of Engagement
The Ken Blanchard Companies looked at the factors that influence employee engagement, satisfaction, and morale to create a new framework for assessing Employee Passion in your organization. Register for Access
The Key to Customer Loyalty
Customer loyalty is a powerful driver of organizational success, and losing a customer is a costly endeavor. It can cost six to seven times more to gain a new customer than to retain an existing one. Register for Access
Leadership skills are linked to P&L
Learn why leadership skills are so critical to a company's P&L. The key to organizational vitality is creating an environment that allows employees to win and be passionate about what they do. By taking care of employees, leaders establish an environment in which the employees take care of the customers at a level that causes the customer to want to return year after year. Register for Access
How to Maximize Your Training Investment
Scott Blanchard and Richard Whiteley, best-selling author and principal with The Whiteley Group, conducted extensive research to identify the key criteria for helping organizations create a sustainable approach to training and close the learning-doing gap. Based on this research, The Ken Blanchard Companies has established a system for ensuring the transfer of learning from the classroom to the work environment. Register for Access
Emerging Trends and Demographic Forces
This report explores emerging trends and demographic forces that will be impacting the workplace and workforce over the next decade. After sifting through hundreds of pages of data, trends, and predictions, we compiled ideas and analyses from expert sources including the Institute for the Future, the American Society for Training & Development, The Futurist, The Herman Group, and others. In addition, we interviewed Blanchard associates and Blanchard clients on past, current, and future workplace issues, the results of which were incorporated into this report. Register for Access
Achieving Excellence, Virtually
Whether virtual teams are in the beginning stages, have recently taken on new members, or are in the process of troubleshooting team problems, leaders and managers can use the strategies described in this white paper to get teams off to the right start, address ongoing working relationships, and ensure that their teams achieve and maintain high performance.
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