Building the High-Performing Organization
Jay Romans, Vice President, People, Waste Management
•  Understand the habits and fundamentals of the winning enterprise
•  Learn how to inspire the highest levels of performance out of people
•  Use corporate performance management to uncover the strengths and weaknesses of your enterprise
•  Establish a consistent and executable game plan for success

Winning organizations do not just achieve breakthrough performance once. They achieve the highest levels of performance on a continual basis. Consistency is at the core of model enterprises and good habits are the secret of their success. In this session, you will learn what differentiates a winning organization from a good one and how breakthrough performance can be sustained.

Building the Strategy-Aligned Organization
Michele Seyranian, Executive Vice President, KeyCorp
•  Learn how KeyCorp, a Balanced Scorecard Hall of Fame member, generated alignment among its
business units
•  Understand how the proper communication of strategy is necessary for establishing collaboration and action amongst stakeholders and employees
•  Uncover the core competencies and secrets of the strategy-aligned enterprise

For any winning organization, its strength comes from its ability to get stakeholders, employees and resources focused on strategy. In this session, you will learn to understand how alignment to strategy translates into greater performance.

Performance Management Debate:
Presented by Actuate
•  Balanced Scorecard - is it effective? Or is it dead?
•  Driver Based Planning - will it work for you?
•  What Measures and Metrics REALLY matter?
•  How do you develop key performance indicators?
•  Analytics vs. People: What matters most?

The Performance Power Grid:
Based upon the award-winning enterprise performance management approach presented in "The Performance Power Grid: The Proven Method to Create and Sustain Superior Organizational Performance," (Wiley, 2006), this session reveals an approach that allows an organization to evolve into a performance-oriented environment naturally. You will learn to:
•  Translate conceptual strategic objectives into concrete actions that are meaningful to each employee and focus upon the proper tasks,processes and projects that truly drive performance
•  Apply a model leveraging and complementing performance management methodologies and process improvement initiatives, as well as traditional financial management
•  Manage, measure and monitor financial and/or operational performance and explain 'why' when performance does not meet expectations or targets - in real-time