Becoming a Great Place to Work®: What It Really Takes

In business today, it is impossible to ignore the fact that employees desire great workplaces. They want to look forward to their working environment, the tasks they accomplish, and the people they encounter. These attributes can be summed up in one word: culture. A great workplace has a unique, strong culture based in core values, but how does one build this type of culture in an effort to create a healthy working environment?

In this 60-minute session, Michael Burchell, Vice President for Global Business Development and a senior consultant with The Great Place to Work® Institute, Inc., will walk through the common characteristics of the great workplaces recognized on FORTUNE's 100 Best Companies to Work For® list for 2007. With an emphasis on building trust by bolstering credibility, respect, and fairness, in addition to fostering pride, and camaraderie, the lessons learned from these organizations will propel leaders to choose focus areas and take action in transforming their workplaces.

Questions answered in this learning session include:

• What does it mean to be a great workplace?
• How are organizations recognized on FORTUNE's 100 Best Companies to Work For® list?
• What are common human resources trends among the best companies?
• How does being a great workplace benefit the organization and not just the employees?
• How can I persuade my senior leaders that transformation is necessary?
• What are measures I can try in my organization to improve it?

Learning Objectives:

• Know the financial benefits of building a great workplace.
• Have information to build the business case for senior management buy-in.
• Be able to implement ideas from recognized great workplaces for tackling areas of struggle in your workplace.
• Understand the essential role of trust in effective employee-manager interactions.

Presented by:

Michael Burchell, Ed.D.
Vice President
Global Business Devepopment

Michael Burchell, Ed.D. is Vice President for Global Business Development and a senior consultant with The Great Place to Work® Institute, Inc. In this capacity, Michael serves as a member of the senior management team responsible for the strategy and management of the overall Institute, and leads the Institute's overall sales and marketing efforts. Prior to this role, Michael served as the Director of Consulting Services for the Institute, leading the Institute's team responsible for workplace transformation services. advantage. As a senior consultant, Michael has worked with a variety of companies across a diverse industry portfolio, and in this capacity, has worked with senior leaders in positioning the workplace and strategic culture change as a competitive business.

Michael also worked at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst as an educator and staff manager. A former board member of the Delaware chapter of SHRM, he currently is involved with the OD Network. Michael received his doctorate from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and also holds degrees from Colorado State University and the University of Southern California.

Continuing Education:

• This program has been approved for 1.0 recertification credit hours toward PHR and SPHR recertification through the Human Resource Recertification Institute (HRCI). For more information about certification or recertification, please visit the HRCI homepage.

Product Options:

• CDRom + Transcript (PDF) + Audio CD: $319
• CDRom Only: $217
• Audio CD Only: $199
• Written Transcript Only : $198