The Organization Survivor: SuccessSkills for Today’s Corporate World
In turbulent economic times, when employees are fearful for their jobs, when talented individuals have found themselves out of work due to organizational restructuring, downsizing and outsourcing, understanding the skill sets required to be an “organization survivor” has become critical. It is important to your career to be seen as a key contributor in 21st century corporations – organizations which are increasingly horizontally-structured and team-based – where interpersonal relationship management, system understanding, personal influence and problem-solving skills are the relevant currencies.
The results of our interviews, over the last 15 years, with high-impact individual contributors and with the managers who have selected the best-and-brightest to staff their newly configured organizations have produced a clear, dynamic model for success in the 21st century organization. The model is based on our work with Fortune 100 companies and with entrepreneurial start-ups alike. What has emerged is a blueprint for individual survival and success inside the new organization – a roadmap to being indispensable in your company.
What We Offer.....
The Organization Survivor ™ model reveals why some individuals keep their jobs and emerge as high-impact performers, while others do not, particularly in turbulent economic times, and times of organization resizing, downsizing, outsourcing and change.
Learn to match your unique strengths and skills against the Organization Survivor Profile™, a self-assessment instrument
Understand the importance of individual initiative and the capacity for collaboration as the two key survival instincts
Stock your personal survival toolkit with an enhanced set of skills, including mental agility, personal visibility, boundary-spanning, and action-learning
Learn specific behaviors (things you can say and do) to enhance your survival instincts and skills
How You Can Make Use of The Organization Survival Model…
The Organization Survivor Work Conference is designed as a 2-day conference for executives, managers and individual contributors who seek to enhance their survival skills and develop their competencies as indispensable contributors within their companies. Contact us to reserve a space in one of our open-enrollment programs.
The Organization Survivor core content can be custom-delivered in several formats from a one-hour keynote speech to a multi-day comprehensive work conference for organizations that wish to bring this valuable information in-house. Creating an organization of “survivors” greatly enhances company productivity, creativity and high-performance. Contact us to work with your organization to tailor these concepts to your specific organization environment and needs.
The Organization Survivor model is ideal for HR departments seeking additional talent management, career development, and performance coaching tools. As part of a leadership development curriculum,a Survivor Workshop can teach managers to use the Survivor model and related tools and techniques to coach employees in ways that enhance their performance effectiveness and value to their companies. As part of an on-boarding process, the model and workshop can help cultivate survivor skills during the "first 100 days" and boost the likelihood of a smooth transition. Contact us to bring this model in-house.
The Organization Survivor model can be applied to the outplacement process if the worst has happened and you have lost your job. How can you distinguish yourself to future employers? Our interviews with managers who have had the task of choosing the best and brightest to staff their new organizations have provided a blueprint to do just that. Let us show you how to position your resume and your interview to highlight those “survival skills” that hiring managers have told us they are searching for. Contact us to help you apply this model in your job search process.
The Organization Survivor program is ideal for outplacement and search firms seeking to broaden their offerings of performance coaching tools and techniques. Conducting a Survivor Workshop can be a useful addition to their assessment and placement practices and a way to expand their menu of services to their clients in transition. Contact us to help customize a Survivor Workshop for your search firm.
