How to Promote the Value and Potential of People...
June 24, 2015
Hosted by Jim Blackburn
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Episode Description
Effective leadership of any meaningful endeavor requires the ability to promote the value and potential of the people involved. Yet when leaders, who agree with this important leadership responsibility, are asked how they accomplish this, answers are at best vague. In this edition of the SURVE Hour, host Jim Blackburn and special guest Rebecca Bagley, Vice Chancellor of Economic Partnerships at the University of Pittsburgh, will share their unique insights on this important topic as well as discuss some counterintuitive ideas on how to better pre-qualify, hire, develop and retain high growth and talented knowledge workers. This conversation should be of special interest to all leaders, but most importantly to the business leaders who are frustrated more than they care to admit with chronic under-performing employees as well as the inability to retain the high achievers they so greatly value.
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The SURVE Hour is a different kind of listening experience. This counterintuitive broadcast has been created as a conversation inviting you to be part of the bigger conversation. Each broadcast will consist of an insightful and provocative conversation between Jim Blackburn and a guest who will share how she or he is seeing and experiencing his or her world differently as a business leader, educator, or parent.
The SURVE broadcasts will be of interest to those of us responsible for overseeing the work and development of other people. A wide range of topics will be discussed in a format that will challenge your current beliefs about your awareness of such things as the side effects of busyness and how it undermines core values, the unspoken causes of burnout, the double-edged sword called success, how competing limits growth, the redefinition of work, and how the majority of our struggles are self-imposed, and more.
Jim Blackburn
Jim Blackburn founded the consulting firm SURVE Partners in 1995 based on his observations of the crucial need for the development of strong leadership acumen and acuity at all levels of business management. His work has been with executives of public companies, owners of family businesses, and their management teams facilitating SURVE’s unique learning process that focuses on talent development as a key differentiator in a business’s sustainable success. This personalized learning process contributes to the significant increase in a leader’s ability to work more productively with and through other people. The process, known as “SURVE Learning” has resulted in the development of high-impact leaders as well as increased workforce productivity for businesses that include such brand names as Sara Lee, ConAgra, CRAYOLA, Merrill Lynch, MetLife, Lincoln Financial, Prudential, and more.
Jim is also an author having published his first book, “seeds of Intent”, in 2011. This Amazon Best-Seller was written with the intention of helping the reader discover how to create a more fulfilling and meaningful way of life while experiencing less worry, fear and/or struggle.
Jim is a graduate of Kent State University and has completed Post-Graduate Studies at The Harvard Business School and The American College. He has also served as an Adjunct Professor at the U. of Iowa and UNC Business Schools.
Episode Directory
August 2015
July 2015
June 2015
- 6/24/2015: How to Promote the Value and Potential of People... Listen Now
- 6/17/2015: The Achiever's Burnout Syndrome and how to eliminate it Listen Now
- 6/10/2015: A critically Important Responsibility of any Leader that is too often overlooked Listen Now
- 6/3/2015: The Unspoken Truth about Transformational Change Listen Now
