Master storyteller, passionate educator and trend translator, Kim Seeling Smith helps organizations move from disruptable to indestructible in the post-pandemic world.
Master storyteller, passionate educator and trend translator, Kim Seeling Smith helps organizations move from disruptable to indestructible in the post-pandemic world.
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The 5 Key Trends to Win at the Future of Work
Are you fully prepared? Kim helps you embrace the Future (NOW) of Work.
The 5 Key Trends to Win at the Future of Work
Format:
Format: 45-90 minute keynote or breakout, half-day facilitation. On stage or online delivery.
This program is perfect for:
Senior leaders
Executive teams
Boards of Directors
HR Professionals
…who’s success depends on understanding and navigating the new world of work.
The audience will leave with:
- Research, case studies and stories to help them understand why embracing these 5 trends is essential to their success over the next decade
- A simple, online survey to do an initial self-assessment against these trends
- Practical steps to help them take the first steps to ensure they are match fit for the future
Description:
COVID-19 will hopefully be the most significant disruption of this decade, but the futurists, demographers and economists amongst us will tell you it certainly won’t be the last.
Some estimates show that businesses are up to 5 years ahead of their predicted technology implementation as a result of the pandemic.
The World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs report, released in October 2020, stated that “…by 2025, the time spent on current tasks at work by humans and machines will be equal.”
But technology isn’t the only thing affecting the future workplace.
Geo-political changes, the climate crisis, social reckoning movements and supply chain challenges are disrupting the very structure of our organizations as well as our products and services.
Our skills disparity is increasing with a dire critical skills shortage occurring in some functions and industries at the same time as a talent glut occurring in others.
And the workforce is now fully empowered – and demanding change – and getting it.
How do businesses win at the Future of Work? By understanding and embracing these 5 Key Trends.
Join us for a highly engaging, though-provoking and thoroughly entertaining trip into the future.
Comments from previous audience members:
- “This was packed with so much information – but delivered in a really engaging way.”
- “Never a dull moment with Kim Seeling Smith.”
- “I loved the stats that you used and how you tied them to the stories you told.”
Is Drinking Your Own Kool-Aid Poisoning Your Business?
Disruptor or disrupted, you choose.
Is Drinking Your Own Kool-Aid Poisoning Your Business?
Format:
Format: 45-90 minute keynote or breakout, on stage or online delivery.
This program is perfect for:
Senior leaders
Executive teams
Boards of Directors
…whose success depends on fending off disruption from their competitors. This disruption could include anything from product innovation, market share or your ability to attract and retain top talent.
The audience will leave with:
- A greater appreciation of the hidden – but equally deadly – types of disruption
- A steadfast understanding of how the stories we tell ourselves as a business can cause us to be disrupted
- A 3 step framework to help you honestly and thoroughly examine the stories you tell yourself as a business to look at – and fix – areas of vulnerability
Description:
Being disruptive is sexy. But let’s face it, not every leader or organization can be disruptive.
Unfortunately every leader – and every organization can be disrupted – and most never see it coming – although they should. Disruption doesn’t happen because a better product or service comes along.
Disruption happens because companies – or industries – drink their own Kool-Aid. They lull themselves into complacency believing the stories they tell themselves about their products, customers and staff.
Stories that are just plain wrong – but are so entrenched they don’t challenge their validity.
Sony never saw the rise of the iPhone – despite the fact that they had the technology long before Apple.
Kodak wasn’t disrupted because of the rise of digital photography. They invented the first digital camera and spent millions on R&D. Kodak was disrupted because they didn’t understand changing consumer preferences in how their people want to view the photos they took – regardless of how they were taken.
This thought-provoking and extremely entertaining presentation will help you identify and examine the stories you tell yourself.
Through this 3 step process, you will be able to identify where you or your organization is vulnerable and begin to develop an action plan to fend off your competitors where you may be the most vulnerable.
Comments from previous audience members:
- “This was packed with so much information – but delivered in a really engaging way.”
- “Never a dull moment with Kim Seeling Smith.”
- “I loved the stats that you used and how you tied them to the stories you told.”
9 Keys to Avoid the Great Resignation
Derived from over 5,000 exit interviews.
Mind Reading for Managers® – Derived from over 5,000 exit interviews
Format:
45-90 minute keynote to day-long training, onstage or online delivery.
This program is perfect for:
Anyone who manages staff who yearns for a simple, practical way to increase employee engagement, wellbeing and profitability with their team.
The audience will leave with:
- An understanding of how you directly impact your team’s performance and what you can do about it
- A proven framework to help hold your staff accountable for great performance (especially with a remote workforce)
- A practical model, based on over 5,000 exit interviews and updated to include the latest international research on the Great Resignation. This model will help you understand (and deliver on) everything your staff needs to be happy, productive and perform at their best. We take the guesswork out of employee motivation.
Description:
The Great Resignation is sweeping the globe. In the US over 4 million people are leaving their roles each month – some without a new role. Many Australian studies show that between 25 – 75% of the Australian workforce is planning to look for another role within the next 6 months.
But why are people quitting? Just like the percentages above, the reasons vary wildly depending on the study.
Luckily, reverse engineering over 5,000 exit interviews gives us significant clues as to what workers really want and what employers need to deliver to hold onto their team through the Great Resignation and beyond.
This model, dubbed the 9 Currencies of Choice® was originally developed in 2010 and has recently been updated for the Post-Pandemic workforce. It has proven to be wildly successful in increasing employee retention, motivation, productivity and profitability.
If your success depends on your ability to hire, inspire and retain a great team, this session is not to be missed.
Real results from clients include:
- The IT Department, within a large, heavy equipment distributor, beat the company’s average employee engagement scores by 23 points.
- A financial services company decreased its employee turnover from 30% to 22% in 1 year.
- One division within an engineering consulting firm went from having the highest employee turnover and the lowest profitability per head to the highest profitability per head in just 6 months – while not losing another staff member for over 2 years.
- According to one site manager, a manufacturing company negotiated a union contract with far less stress than had ever happened previously.
Past speaking engagements for this topic:
- AMP Risk Retreat
- The Executive Connection
- TransUnion
- World Employment Conference
The Spot on Hiring System™ – Hire Well the First Time
Hiring managers and HR professionals whose success requires them to hire the right person every time.
Kim Seeling Smith as your MC/Host – BOOK NOW!
Format: (4-hour breakout to 1 1/2 day full workshop), onsite or online delivery.
This program is perfect for:
- Hiring managers and HR professionals whose success requires them to hire the right person every time
The audience will leave with:
- A step by step system to write a much more compelling position description and job ad – proven to magnetically attract the right candidates while repelling the wrong ones.
- A foolproof interview framework (incorporating personal experience with the latest neuroscience) designed to get the maximum, reliable information from the candidate in an efficient manner.
- The top 3 mistakes that most interviewers make – and how to avoid them.
- A deeper understanding of all different types of candidate assessments available and when to use them (or not).
Description:
We all want to hire people that are SPOT ON for our roles – especially since it can cost 50-200% of an employee’s annual salary to replace them!
Yet a recent study by Hudson found that 44% of hiring managers were not happy with their last hire! That’s because most hiring managers simply rely on ‘gut feel,’ – matching a poorly designed job description with an even more poorly written resume and using a poorly structured approach to interview.
The SPOT ON Hiring System™ (backed by over 5,000 interviews) takes an innovative, systematic and multi-faceted approach to the hiring process and is proven to dramatically increase your ability to hire the right person every time, saving you time, money – and frustration.
This system starts with the SPOT ON™ (Strengths-based, Purpose filled, Organizationally aligned, Target rich, Opportunity Narrative) position profile. Not only is this format easy to write – but it will also help you identify EXACTLY what you need in your role (something few managers do prior to starting to hire).
The system includes a foolproof interview framework (incorporating personal experience with the latest neuroscience) designed to get the maximum, reliable information from the candidate in an efficient manner. And it is rounded out by Evidence-Based Interview™ Questions, situational evaluations and THE RIGHT psychometric assessments.
Using this system gives you confidence that you can rely on the information the candidate gives you and that you’ve gathered enough information to make the right decision.
The SPOT ON Hiring System™ will also accelerate the hiring process – which is key in a candidate-driven market where the good ones go fast!
This will be a highly interactive, fun and incredibly insightful workshop which will give even the most seasoned recruiters and hiring managers new tips, tools, tricks and techniques.
Embedding the SPOT ON Hiring System™ helped a financial services company reduce their employee turnover from 45% to 30% in just one year. It was further reduced to 22% the next year by embedding our Mind Reading for Managers program.
The Unified Theory of Everything: People™
Your holistic model to build and retain a disruption proof workforce.
The Unified Theory of Everything: People™ – Your holistic model to build and retain a disruption proof workforce
Format:
45-60 minute breakout or half-day workshop, on stage or online delivery. One of the highest-rated sessions at the 2020 Atlassian Remote Summit.
This program is perfect for:
Business leaders and HR Practitioners who want to hire better people – and keep them once they have them.
Anyone interested in the latest strategies to hire and retain staff in the post-pandemic world and through the “Decade of Disruption.”
At the end of this presentation, you will:
- Think differently about how you recruit, engage and retain top talent
- Feel more confident about how to win at the Future of Work
- Know specifically what to Do to compete for and keep top talent in the coming decade
Description:
COVID-19 was the first (and hopefully most significant) disruption of this decade, but it will certainly not be the last.
To seize opportunities and overcome challenges presented by the inevitable disruptions that technology and the tension between globalization and localization will bring over the next few years, we must rethink how we hire and manage people because our current practices were designed for a different age and a different workforce.
Good enough will not be good enough in the future. We must be agile, flexible, innovative and resilient.
The Unified Theory of Everything People is a holistic, practical model.
It is based on two decades of extensive research and will help organizations and people leaders with practical solutions they can use immediately to build and retain the workforce they will need to survive this “Decade of Disruption.”
Real results from clients include:
- A financial services company decreased its employee turnover from 45% down to 22% in 18 months by applying this entire model.
- A logistics company stopped the revolving door within their sales department by applying this model’s hiring piece.
- The IT Department, within a large, heavy equipment distributor beat the company’s average employee engagement scores by 23 points by applying the retention piece of this model.
Previous Speaking Engagements for this topic:
- Atlassian Summit 2020 (one of the few non-technical sessions to be included when the pandemic forced the summit to go virtual) and received some of the conference’s highest marks.
- Edutech World eLearning Conference 2020
Kim Seeling Smith as your MC/Host
Kim is a highly engaging MC who dedicates herself fully to your event and makes you shine.
Kim Seeling Smith as your MC/Host – BOOK NOW!
Format:
On stage or online delivery.
This program is perfect for:
Any business audience who needs a credible, thoughtful and highly engaging MC to weave the speakers’ presentations into the conference theme, helping the audience connect the dots and experience the organizer’s desired outcomes.
At the end of this event, your audience will:
- Think more deeply and clearly about the conference theme and speakers’ presentation topics
- Feel as though time out of the office was not only well spent – but highly enjoyable
- Know how the speakers relate to each other and to the conference theme
Description:
Kim was born to MC. Highly engaging and energetic, naturally curious, with exceptional pattern recognition skills, she is extremely adept at creating a flow and managing the audience’s energy throughout your event – whether it lasts 4 hours or 2 days.
Kim’s work as an MC runs the gamut. She can simply show up on the day to introduce speakers, provide the glue between sessions and manage the audience’s energy. Or she can take a much more active approach in helping you develop a theme, shape the event and strategize on speakers.
Comments from previous conference organizers:
- “Kim was one of the best Chairs I have worked with, and she was instrumental in ensuring the smooth running of the event.”
- “Your energy just never ran out – at the end of day 2, you were going like it was the beginning of day 1.”