The Strategic Playground: Cultivating and Sustaining a Strategic Mindset — April 18 IN-PERSON Pre-Conference Workshop

The last several years have forced many (most?) organizations into reactive mode: with a constantly shifting environment, organizations are forced to adapt, respond, react.  But constantly reacting is inefficient: it doesn’t allow an organization to thoughtfully plan, deploy resources on more strategic opportunities, and it creates waste as well as stress for the workforce.  As [...]

2024-02-19T08:19:34-06:00February 17, 2024|
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Excellence is About People! — April 18 IN-PERSON Pre-Conference Workshop

There are many things required for organizations to thrive: effective processes, good data and decision making, valuable products & services, a solid strategic plan.  But all of those things -- indeed, organizational excellence itself -- requires people! The Performance Excellence Network -- in partnership with the Wisconsin Center for Performance Excellence and the Iowa Quality Center — is [...]

2024-02-18T10:18:56-06:00February 17, 2024|
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Neuroscience-Powered Leadership — June 6 IN-PERSON WORKSHOP

Neuroscience-Powered Leadership: How Good Leaders Beat High Stress & Burnout “100% Very Satisfied” is the feedback from participants of this workshop hosted by PEN in November 2022. * How can leaders rely on science to mitigate stressors and prevent burnout? * Why do stressed employees become disengaged and unmotivated? * Why does relying on resilience and [...]

2024-02-17T10:47:34-06:00February 17, 2024|
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14 New Year’s Resolutions for Professional & Personal Productivity, Health, Happiness — Jan 2024

As we start a new year, many of us set personal, professional, and organizational goals.  But research shows that up to 80% of New Year’s resolutions are broken, and that the average date of breaking resolutions is about January 20 (that’s why the gym is so crowded the first two or three weeks in January [...]

2024-02-29T07:46:31-06:00January 24, 2024|
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“Best Practices in DEI” Series — Module 2: “Inclusive Leadership Systems” — March 13 Online PEN Workshop

This module is the second of six in an ongoing Best Practices in DEI Series.  Each are intended to be stand-alone, or you can participate in the full series.  Dates and topics of other modules listed below. Series Description Over the last couple of years, we’ve all be made aware (or powerfully reminded) of the [...]

2024-01-04T09:37:07-06:00January 4, 2024|
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Finding Your Ikigai: Aligning Your Career with Your Purpose — Dec 2023

We’re all dealing with a lot: a continuing global pandemic; significant changes in work environments and other organizational challenges (staffing shortages, supply chain issues, workplace toxicity); and the stresses of constant work/life pressures.  The events of the last three or four years have compelled many to reexamine how their professional lives align or harmonize with [...]

2023-12-18T13:59:41-06:00December 18, 2023|
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Insights to Excellence: Exploring 6 Great Practices in 18 Minutes — Nov 16 PEN Webinar

Leaders are dealing with so many challenges these days: continued staffing pressures; continued economic constraints; changing technology (including AI); changing customer preferences, and many more.  Juggling all of these challenges is difficult, at best.  And some organizations are good at managing some of the challenges; others are good at managing others. The Performance Excellence Network [...]

2023-11-13T10:31:07-06:00November 4, 2023|
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Polarity Thinking: Finding the Balance in Everything — Oct 2023

Life is about paradoxes: sickness versus health; richer versus poorer; hot versus cold; better versus worse; happy versus sad.  The same is true in our organizations: success versus failure; growth versus contraction; centralization versus decentralization; efficiency versus innovation.  The truth, of course, is that these poles are not binary -- they’re all on a continuum, [...]

2023-10-23T13:13:03-05:00October 23, 2023|
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“Best Practices in DEI” Series — Module 1: “Intro to DEI: Identifying & Mitigating UNCONSCIOUS BIAS” — January 10 Online PEN Workshop

This module is the first of six in an ongoing Best Practices in DEI Series.  Each are intended to be stand-alone, or you can participate in the full series.  Dates and topics of other modules listed below. Series Description Over the last couple of years, we’ve all be made aware (or powerfully reminded) of the [...]

2023-11-04T16:58:58-05:00October 13, 2023|
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Unleashing the Strategic Mindset: Building More Proactive and Responsive Teams — Oct 19 PEN Webinar

The last several years have forced many (most?) organizations into reactive mode: with a constantly shifting environment, organizations are forced to adapt, respond, react.  But constantly reacting is inefficient: it doesn’t allow an organization to thoughtfully plan, deploy resources on more strategic opportunities, and it creates waste as well as stress for the workforce.  As [...]

2023-09-20T09:45:01-05:00September 20, 2023|
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