A CEO’s Guide To Taking Summer Vacation
Bosses need breaks, too. Here’s how to set your team up for success so you can step away and recharge, guilt-free.
Bosses need breaks, too. Here’s how to set your team up for success so you can step away and recharge, guilt-free.
The surprising findings are part of a new initiative from Chief Executive to help the nation’s C-Suites become better digital leaders.
Hint: It has nothing to with their level within the organization or relative seniority.
Despite concerns over talent shortages, employee morale and growing burnout rates, America’s HR chiefs remain confident about prospects for business and the economy—more so than CEOs and CFOs.
It’s been a long, tough haul, and the Covid crisis isn’t quite over yet. Here’s why you don’t want to demand too much—or go too easy.
Try thinking of people as hives that band and disband as needed, and consider work as a task to be accomplished, rather than always as a skill to be hired on an individual basis.
If you see your people as changemakers, rather than employees, you’ll want to break down organizational silos and build and empower fluid, open, integrated, non-hierarchical teams that learn and innovate together.
CEO Steven Aarstol thought he had found the perfect way to attract and retain the best talent. It didn’t work as planned—but the company is still benefiting from the many lessons learned.
It’s about to get uglier in the war for talent. Follow these four steps to get ready—so you’re not on the losing side of the battle.
There is no easy solution, and every option comes with trade-offs and requires investment. But the alternative is to fall further behind the competition as IT talent flows elsewhere.
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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.