The Ayers Perspective
Empower Your Strategic Planning
by William L. Ayers, Jr.
Awareness and management of risk at the highest levels of an organization are fundamental to the success of any business. The financial services industry has learned that lesson – one of the most compelling of the past two years – the hard way. It’s a lesson that applies across business sectors.
KellyOCG, the division to which Ayers belongs, has entered into a partnership to develop a groundbreaking risk-assessment resource that will empower decision-making around global market investments and labor strategies. I’m pleased to announce that this strategic tool – the Global Market Brief & Labor Risk Index – is expected to launch this month.
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From The Director's Chair
Reinventing Normal - Learning to Live With Ambiguity
by Joan Caruso
What has struck many of us here in New York City in the aftermath of the mega-downsizing of late 2008 and early 2009 is that what we are feeling is so reminiscent of the way we felt after 9/11. One client told me about looking out her office window at the parade of box-laden employees exiting a dying Lehman Brothers and feeling a similar sense of shock, sadness, and loss. That made me think back to what we were talking about then: How companies couldn’t go back to managing the way they did before 9/11. We needed to redefine normal. The same is true today. The old, pre-recession normal is gone.
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The Career Transition Difference
Customized, Caring Service
by Terry Ebert
During the frenzy of corporate downsizing activity we’ve witnessed in the past year, an extraordinary number of people have found themselves without jobs. Many are fortunate enough to receive outplacement services as part of a separation support package from their employers; many are not. We’ve gotten to know hundreds of the former group. Each person reminds us why providing personalized outplacement services is so important and that we can – and do – make a difference in their lives at a difficult time.
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Consultant's Corner
The Challenge of Rebuilding Teams
by Lisa Mathis
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Lisa Mathis
Senior Ayers Consultant | Teams are the building block of the decentralized, global 21st century corporation. Right now, like so much else in business, this important work unit is undergoing fundamental changes.
Some are the inevitable result of major, long-term trends. Demographics and globalization, for example, mean that teams are increasingly multigenerational and multicultural. This diversity heightens the potential for misunderstanding, conflict, and miscommunication.
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Ayers Client Spotlight
Beginning with the next issue of the Ayers Report, we will offer our clients a place where they can share their accomplishments with our readers. Whether you’ve received a job promotion, an award, or some other form of recognition; are an active volunteer; have moved to a new company or assumed a leadership role in a professional association – whatever it is that you’re proud of, let us know and we will help you tell the world! Email your news to joan.caruso@ayers.com
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Successful Landings
Flexibility in goals, exploration of alternatives, thorough preparation, a tailored approach to each situation, networking, and persistence all contribute to success in today’s job market. It also pays to make the most of your outplacement program, as these candidates found out.
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Ayers Leadership Series
Maintaining Company Values During Stressful Times
Nearly 200 senior executives and other invited guests gathered at Manhattan’s Union League Club on September 9 to hear William Weldon talk about how, during times like these, Johnson & Johnson maintains the values that keep it on the top ten lists of the world’s most respected companies. This was a return appearance for the Johnson & Johnson Chairman and CEO, who spoke at Ayers’ inaugural leadership breakfast seminar in June 2004.
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New Programs Include Entrepreneurial Forum
On November 5, Ayers will launch the Entrepreneurial Forum – a program for Career Transition candidates looking to go into business on their own. “We wanted to find new ways to support a candidate who was interested in starting a business,” said Business Development Executive Ellen Perlstein. “I thought it would be helpful in general for candidates exploring that path to get insight from those who’ve successfully taken it.”
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Ayers Speaking Engagements
“Staying on Top of Your Game: Career Management Strategies” was the subject of Bill Ayers’ October 13 presentation at the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association’s Internal Auditors Division 2009 Annual Conference in Florida. Ayers spoke to a group of some 100 internal audit directors and accounting firm partners and senior personnel.
On October 14, Ayers Director Joe Bruccoleri gave a program on the “Role of HR in Talent Management & Coaching” to 60 attendees at the October meeting of the Morris County Chapter of the Society for Human Resource Management in New Jersey. The program qualified for credit toward PHR, SPHR, and GPHR recertification. |
