Charles Garfield

Featured Keynote Programs

Technology represents a vital source of competitive advantage, and technological change is accelerating at a mind-boggling pace. Yet, the more you introduce technology into the workplace, the more you need to emphasize and enhance human creativity. Technology can enable but it cannot create. People create and their ability to do so can be suffocated by an over-reliance on technology for solutions. Dr. Garfield will offer an action plan for developing creativity throughout the organization by integrating the power of technology and human ingenuity.

Industry leader status demands a team-based approach and remarkable management/employee partnership. Dr. Garfield offers an action plan of ¡best practices¡¨ consisting of the ten points necessary for achieving top performance in the modern workplace. Included are leading edge approaches to recruiting, hiring, training and rewarding top performers.

Rapid growth, globalization and downsizings along with change initiatives such as restructuring and redesign have challenged executives, managers and employees to do more with less, better and faster. Viewing change as an "ally not an adversary" is key to sustaining the pursuit of top superior service, profits and performance.

Many of us who swam with the sharks and studied the management approaches of Attila the Hun are looking for more positive and inspiring role models for effective leadership. We are learning that we can redesign organizations but we can't redesign people. The pendulum is swinging back to a model of inspired leadership that enhances credibility while unleashing human effectiveness.

Today's smartest organizations create customer-inspired operations by using innovative, cost-effective technology and building enduring partnerships with employees, customers, suppliers and distributors all on a one-to-one basis.