When employees are enthusiastic about making business improvements, their involvement has a tremendous positive impact on your company’s success. The question is: how do you create and sustain an environment where this enthusiasm will thrive? Workplace Development’s practical consulting services, business education, and working tools for improvement make it happen.

Below are some specific ways that Workplace Development Inc., (WDI) can help you put the pieces of the performance puzzle together to build a company of invested business people.

From Open-Book Management by Cathy Ivancic and Jim Bado

Business Education

Is it possible to learn about business and financial terminology and make it fun? Workplace Development is known for its innovative business simulations and interactive learning activities. Building custom train-the-trainer approaches or providing the training on-site, WDI focuses on practical business knowledge that complements your efforts at business improvements.

Credible Two-Way Communication

Who is doing the talking when you talk about financial performance? Through employee challenges, huddles, games and participation in forecasting – you can build more accountability by getting more people into the conversation. WDI helps companies create customized credible two-way communication approaches that strengthen the engagement of employees.

Leadership Skills

Leading in an environment of more transparency and openness requires new skills. WDI’s mid-level leader coaching series helps you to build accountability for results, create excitement for the process, set realistic expectations and broaden the people who take responsibility for business results.

Shared Vision and Goals

Developing a strategic vision, goals and ways to measure your progress can make all the difference in communicating about performance. Because financial results are about the past rather than the future, WDI helps clients to define goals and critical numbers that propel them to toward future success.

Rewards

Shared rewards are a key to engaging people in business performance. Whether they are simple like pizza and gift certificates or more elaborate incentives, the rewards component is a driver of the process. WDI helps companies communicate the rewards of ESOP ownership and create short-term rewards to complement the process.

by Workplace Development's Cathy Ivancic and Jim Bado.

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