Avoid The ‘Budget Season’ Trap
When CEOs and their finance chiefs embrace the budget as a strategic tool, they unlock the potential to accelerate performance.
When CEOs and their finance chiefs embrace the budget as a strategic tool, they unlock the potential to accelerate performance.
Despite widespread, longstanding industry understanding of the need for change, far too many companies have hesitated for far too long. This now threatens their very existence.
If organizational values on paper don’t match up with employee’s day-to-day experience, culture suffers. Here’s how to back them up with action.
Companies greenlighting “all hat, no cattle” CAIO hires are making moves that are unlikely to turn out well. Here’s what to do instead.
Whether you’re arguing with the board for a better pay package, trying to change the way your employees handle a task or working on a merger or acquisition, being a skilled negotiator is critical. Here’s how to do it well—even with challenging partners.
As companies face the need to transform frequently, having the right kind of leader becomes even more critical for success.
The $2 billion company’s chief people officer shares secrets for making a remote-only workforce as effective as one that was required to come in.
Traditional investment approaches will cost you. Instead, consider a more nuanced, granular—and often surprising—approach that will position you well for profitable growth.
When CEOs neglect to frequently reassess their company’s main revenue sources, they can’t adjust their products or services to evolving markets and customer demands. Some advice to stem ‘value leakage.’
Getting the right people is the only way to get AI right. Here’s how to master the formula that will soon dominate business.
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1:00 - 5:00 pm
Over 70% of Executives Surveyed Agree: Many Strategic Planning Efforts Lack Systematic Approach Tips for Enhancing Your Strategic Planning Process
Executives expressed frustration with their current strategic planning process. Issues include:
Steve Rutan and Denise Harrison have put together an afternoon workshop that will provide the tools you need to address these concerns. They have worked with hundreds of executives to develop a systematic approach that will enable your team to make better decisions during strategic planning. Steve and Denise will walk you through exercises for prioritizing your lists and steps that will reset and reinvigorate your process. This will be a hands-on workshop that will enable you to think about your business as you use the tools that are being presented. If you are ready for a Strategic Planning tune-up, select this workshop in your registration form. The additional fee of $695 will be added to your total.
2:00 - 5:00 pm
Female leaders face the same issues all leaders do, but they often face additional challenges too. In this peer session, we will facilitate a discussion of best practices and how to overcome common barriers to help women leaders be more effective within and outside their organizations.
Limited space available.
10:30 - 5:00 pm
General’s Retreat at Hermitage Golf Course
Sponsored by UBS
General’s Retreat, built in 1986 with architect Gary Roger Baird, has been voted the “Best Golf Course in Nashville” and is a “must play” when visiting the Nashville, Tennessee area. With the beautiful setting along the Cumberland River, golfers of all capabilities will thoroughly enjoy the golf, scenery and hospitality.
The golf outing fee includes transportation to and from the hotel, greens/cart fees, use of practice facilities, and boxed lunch. The bus will leave the hotel at 10:30 am for a noon shotgun start and return to the hotel after the cocktail reception following the completion of the round.