Position within a community can be a very powerful tool when used wisely. By widening their view of what makes up a community, Primeast can help leaders build valuable links both within the organisation and with customers and suppliers.

We view community from several angles – the working community (i.e. that group which you belong to daily and is internal to the organisation); the wider corporate community (this will include the worldwide office of your organisation); the local community (the area/locality in which your division/company operates) and the global community (which will include customers, suppliers and other global issues). How can leaders build valuable links both within the organisation and more widely? How does the organisation support the local community? How seriously do participants take the CSR agenda, and what else can they do to make an impact globally?

Benefits

• Leaders are able to leverage added value from outside their operating circles
• Reduced staff turnover/attrition/absence
• Improved customer/supplier relationships
• Being an employer of choice/preferred provider
• New team members reach high performance more quickly

Features

• Networks, change agents and connectors
• Finding out who are the keys to change in each community and how you use their skills and talents
• Extracting the value of different roles in a community/network
• Your role as stakeholder

• Creating a great place to work and work with
• Helping create a place where people choose to work, not for monetary reward but because it is such a great place to be, develop, succeed and grow
• Building a community environment so that neighbours become friends and advocates

• Setting up teams for success – helping leaders understand the team dynamics and building blocks necessary for successful high performing teams. Also examines how to handle mergers and acquisitions to ensure immediate success, and how to mend or reform damaged or dysfunctional teams

• What sustainability means
• Understanding how to build a business which respects the planet both now and for the future
• We debug the CSR myth and help leaders create a truly sustainable business on their own terms

• Live projects for improved teamwork for:
• Community benefit
• Added value to customer/supplier relationships
• Employee engagement and alignment

“Our research shows that sustainability is a mother lode of organizational and technological innovations that yield both bottom-line and top-line returns. Becoming environment-friendly lowers costs because companies end up reducing the inputs they use. In addition, the process generates additional revenues from better products or enables companies to create new businesses. In fact, because those are the goals of corporate innovation, we find that smart companies now treat sustainability as innovation’s new frontier.”

Harvard Business Review, October 2009

To find out more, contact our offices directly, or email leadership@primeast.com.

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