Ayers Perspective
Strategic Partnering
by Bill Ayers
 In today’s highly competitive marketplace, companies aren’t simply looking to receive a particular service – or set of services – through a relationship with a service provider. They’re looking for strategic partnerships with the flexibility and resources to cover not only a wide variety of defined current needs but also undefined future needs without having to establish new relationships.
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Trends in Career Transition
To look at day-to-day trends in career transition, the Ayers Report sat down with Bob Scumaci, Regional Manager of Career Transition Services, who oversees the Princeton and Parsippany offices, and New Jersey-based senior consultants Bill Clark and Tom Klugewicz.
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Successful Landings
A snapshot of what candidates are finding in the job market – and how.
by Doug O'Connor
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Redeveloping and Redeploying Intellectual Capital
by Terry H. Ebert, ED. D.
Most of the work we have done until now in Career Transition has been focused on helping individuals continue their careers outside of their employers, as a result of downsizing or reorganization. And we certainly will be doing that for years to come [see "Trends in Career Transition"]. But we are beginning to see an interesting new focus of our efforts – toward helping employees continue their careers within an organization – as companies increasingly turn their attention to redeploying or redeveloping the intellectual capital they already have.
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College Day 2007
Making the Most of a Strong Market
This is a good time to be graduating from college! The job outlook for new grads – which has improved steadily over the past five years – will be even stronger this year. That was welcome news for the 100 or so participants at Ayers’ 2007 College Day seminar, held on May 30.
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The CEO and the Monk
A Unique Relationship for Business Success
What happens when the CEO of a multibillion-dollar New York City-based FORTUNE 500 company teams up with a former Catholic monk to change the organization’s corporate culture? A unique program of unorthodox HR initiatives – improvisational comedy, meditation, art workshops, “random acts of senseless beauty”, Break Bread Dinners, Straight Talk Sessions, Morale Teams – that helped the company hold onto its corporate soul as it made the difficult transition from Brooklyn Union, a local utility, to KeySpan Corporation, one of the nation’s premier energy providers.
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Consultant's Corner
Managing The New Wave of Workers
by Jennifer Brown, M.M., M.S.
Not since baby boomers swept into the workplace has there been more friction related to generational differences. The fact that most companies are not ready to go on record with their strategies for dealing with it says something about the magnitude of the issue – and the stakes.
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From the Director's Chair
I am pleased to announce a new feature of the Ayers Report: “From the Director’s Chair.” Joe Bruccoleri, Sue Howarth, and I will share this space in the next few editions. It provides an opportunity for the Directors of our Organizational Effectiveness Consulting practice to look at a variety of organizational development and talent-management issues while sharing our thoughts about the latest OE trends and concepts, as well as observations based on our day-to-day experience with clients. Sue will be kicking this off with an article about a topic that attracted her attention when she attended a recent Conference Board event on the subject of executive coaching. We welcome your input about topics you would like to see us cover in the future.
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