Now What Do We Do?

Early Bird Session

DATE TIME SPEAKER
Wednesday, January 28, 2009 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM Peggy Grall, President, Peggy Grall & Associates, Inc.

DESCRIPTION:


Inevitably, your company faces crises. Markets plummet, scandal is uncovered, terrorists strike, employees panic and the media begins to circle. When you don’t know what to do, what do you do? Business-as-unusual scenarios demand that HR professionals know how to calm, focus and re-energize themselves, their employees and their customers with tact and expertise. Learn to remain confident in the face of uncertainty and keep your company grounded.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
  • Prioritize people/organizational issues in intense environments
  • Present a determined and positive face to internal and external stakeholders
  • Maintain your sense of integrity and stability during uncertainty
  • Embrace an attitude of joyful courage, no matter what the circumstances
  • Learn to support people in sensitive yet powerful ways

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:


Peggy Grall is a certified business coach and former psychotherapist with 19 years of experience in the areas of individual and organizational change, crisis leadership and conflict resolution. She is also an internationally recognized keynote speaker who addresses company and association leaders looking to boost their “change agility” and deal with organizational conflict more effectively. Her unique background, working in both the human services and corporate sectors, equips her to work with individuals and teams to assess and address the complex people issues affecting change outcomes.

Organizations experiencing mergers and acquisitions, culture transformations and other intense change initiatives have utilized Grall’s skills to help them navigate the high-risk, high-reward atmosphere of significant change. She believes the best way to ensure the success of a change is to strategically equip and fiercely support the leaders of the change. Her approach to change management begins with assessments of key stakeholders and the organization as a whole to determine change readiness. This step is followed by facilitating the development of an organizational change map and skill-building with those responsible for the change. She mentors and coaches the change leaders through every step of implementing the change.