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BUILD
A PROFILE OF YOUR FIRM’S EMPLOYEES AND CULTURE

Value:
$15,000

BETTER UNDERSTAND YOUR EMPLOYEES AND CULTURE

This auction item is designed to help you better understand your employees and your culture so that you can improve employee
engagement in your company. The program has two (2) components:

1.  Online Culture Survey — Gain insight into employee perspectives and be empowered with an actionable understanding of your organizational culture. We survey all of your employees to help determine ways in which the organization can improve its culture to increase employee engagement.

1. Assess Up to 100 Employees — Better understand your
   employees individually and as a group. We will assess and provide feedback about your employees using an
   assessment tool developed by InnerMetrix. The assessment has 3 sections and will tell you the following about each individual:

• Behaviors — This report measures four aspects of a person’s behavioral style. It will rovide tips on how you should and should not communicate with each employee, their ideal work environment, and their preferred method of learning.
• Motivators — This section of the report provides information on the why of employee actions by measuring seven dimensions of value and motivation. Once one knows the motivations that drive their actions, tone can immediately understand the causes of conflict.
• Competencies — This section identifies key competencies to help understand which strengths should be leveraged, which competencies may become strengths, and what skills need to be developed to avoid derailing success.

BENEFITS

From these assessments you will learn information that will help you:

• Communicate better with one another.
• Understand how you can make better hiring decisions.
• Develop training programs.
• Improve teamwork.
• Increase employee engagement.
• Identify ways to reduce turnover.
• Develop better-defined, aligned and more impactful position profiles.

BACKGROUND 

Understanding your organization’s culture and the makeup of its human assets is critical to executing a successful strategy. Knowing your employees and the culture in which they perform are prerequisites to informed, aligned and successful decision-making.
This knowledge sets the foundation for creating actionable awareness around culture; provides a strong mechanism to engage employees; and impacts the whole of an organization, its critical functions, and positions.

Gallup, Inc. recently updated their well-known State of the American Workplace report. From 2010-2012 they surveyed 25 million employees in 189 different countries and 69 languages, asking them their famous 12 questions for measuring employee engagement. The results essentially showed that only 30% of all workers could be referred to as “Engaged Employees”. Engaged employees work with passion and feel a profound connection to their company. They drive innovation and move the organization forward.

This finding implies that 70% of today’s workforce is being paid to be “not engaged” or “actively disengaged.” A staggering 52% of employees are “not engaged”, meaning they essentially do just enough so they won’t get fired, but not more. The remaining 18% are “actively disengaged”. These employees aren’t just unhappy at work; they’re busy acting out their unhappiness. Every day, these workers undermine what their engaged coworkers accomplish.  

What is also clear in Gallup’s findings is that faulty leadership is responsible for the 70% who are “not engaged” or “actively disengaged.” The evidence is supported by the facts that the 70% figure was not spread equally across companies and that there
also were differences within the companies studied. The primary difference was to whom those employees reported. This is important because when employees you have invested in are not engaged, you get less return on your investment.

ABOUT ACTIVATE GROUP 

Activate Group, Inc. helps ambitious and high-growth companies to implement management processes that help the management team
develop solid strategies, make better people decisions, keep focus, strengthen the culture, and align the entire organization. Companies hire us to help their management and organization function better, increase their growth rate and expand their net margins. Our work typically involves business coaching, sales force development, executive coaching, management consulting, process
improvement, hiring process and assessment tools, and group development in the areas of leadership, management, sales, and supervision, time management.

COACH QUALIFICATIONS

Howard Shore, Founder and President

Howard Shore has helped hundreds of executives and teams to improve their business performance. He achieves effective engagement results by exercising his ability to provide proven and practical frameworks customized to the unique needs of each client.
Mr. Shore has an established success record for helping executives better understand, appreciate and address their day-to-day leadership challenges.

During his approximately 10 years as a professional coach and consultant and his preceding professional career of more than 20 years, Mr. Shore has gained the perspective and skills to diagnose a situation quickly and thoroughly, the experience to earn the
respect of a leadership team, and mastery of the tools, techniques and processes to help leaders grow, develop, and implement the changes necessary to improve results. He has found that the best way to help an organization address its business concerns is to create and apply an integrated solution. Slow results, strategies that cannot be implemented, unnecessary research, lots of theory and no action are not acceptable to him. He prefers proven processes, assessment tools, and programs that get meaningful results with a reasonable
amount of effort.

Instrumental in helping hundreds of leaders in companies and divisions of companies to address leadership dysfunction and make positive changes, his work tackles operating business systems in ways that dramatically improve the way you lead and manage your organization. You experience better organizational communication,
alignment and focus around key priorities, and create a stronger culture, resulting in achievement of long-term objectives and bottom-line results. 

Mr. Shore can help management use proven techniques in the areas of: strategic and business planning, meeting facilitation, executive coaching, process improvement, leadership training, and sales-force development to help you achieve your desired results. His education and certification includes:

•  MBA and Bachelor of Accounting, Florida International University, Miami, FL
• Executive Programs:
  Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA and University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
• CPA, State of Florida
• Certified Gazelles Coach
• Certified Executive Coach

Albert Noa, Partner

Albert Noa has over twenty-five years of experience in Strategy Development and Execution, Human Capital Management, System Design and Implementation, Performance Management and Process Improvement across various industries.

Albert has held lead and management positions with KPMG LLP and FPL (Florida Power & Light). He leads Business Process Improvement projects, system implementations, and HR design and analysis efforts for clients across various industries, including several Fortune 500 organizations.

Throughout Albert’s career he has served as a trusted enabler and advisor, combining experience, communications skills and vision with a basic common-sense approach to developing organizations focused on delivery, thought-leadership, process, performance and the execution of strategy. He is a regular lecturer at MSMIS, MBA and International MBA classes at various universities and presenter at various regional and national conferences. Excelling at enabling an environment of teamwork and collaboration, Albert’s team-oriented approach allows for the open sharing of ideas, creating an inclusive and productive atmosphere.

Areas of expertise include:

• Strategy Development, Management and Execution
• Facilitation and Training
• Business Performance Management
• Human Capital Management
• Change Management
• Process Management and Improvement
• Balanced Scorecard
• Business Continuity Planning
• Total Organizational Performance (TOP)
• System Design and Development (People, Process, Technology)
• Adaptive Project Management
• IT Management

The functional areas with specific experience include Information Management, Human Capital Management, Program Management (PMO), and Strategy Management.

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