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Wednesday, June 8, 2016

The Cultural Imperative: The Bedrock of High Performing Organizations

Start Date: 6/8/2016 7:45 AM EDT
End Date: 6/8/2016 10:00 AM EDT

Location:
The Gannett/Tegna Building
7950 Jones Branch Drive
McLean, VA  United States  22107

Organization Name: HR Alliance DC

Contact:
Amy Steinbicker
Email: staff@hralliancedc.org
Phone: 703-433-9576

Sponsor: ADR Vantage and Well-Being at Work

Pre-program:
7:45  - 8:15 AM - Speed Networking
Groups will rotate every 10 minutes through three stations.  HR Alliance DC board members will facilitate high level discussions on five topics: HR Metrics, Health Care Reform, Employee Engagement, Retention and Talent Acquisition.  Participants will choose three of the five topics in which to rotate.  We hope you can join us!

Program:
Research and organizational scholarship consistently point to organizational culture as a major factor in the success or failure of businesses and organizations. An often invisible, but always powerful (and unique) force, organizational culture represents a system of shared assumptions, values, and beliefs, which dictate what is considered “acceptable” at that organization. In short, culture governs how people behave in organizations—it is “the way we do things around here.” While organizational culture is a major influence in both the financial and emotional health of any organization, all too often organizational culture is left to chance—or worse, shrugged off as an impossible hurdle to overcome. This is the difference between high performing organizations and everybody else. High performing organizations do not leave their culture to chance. High performing organizations take a thoughtful, pro-active, enterprise wide approach to ensuring the cultivation and maintenance of a culture that can support long term organizational vision, purpose, and goals.  In this engaging and enlightening presentation, Organizational culture expert Mary Abbajay will share practical, real world strategies, practical tips, and paradigms for creating a high performance culture. Topics covered include:

  • The critical role of HR leaders in the development and cultivation of organizational culture
  • Culture as a differentiator for organizational success
  • Diagnosing current organizational cultural realities
  • Understanding the essential levers of a high performance culture
  • Strategies for articulating, developing, transforming, and aligning organizational culture to organizational success

Speaker: Mary E. Abbajay

Mary Abbajay is the president of Careerstone Group, LLC, a full service organizational and leadership development consultancy that delivers leading-edge talent and organizational development solutions to business and government. 

As a sought after speaker, consultant, and trainer, Mary helps clients develop the strategies, skills and sensibilities needed for success in the 21st century. Her expertise lies in helping clients create dynamic and productive workplaces that foster professional and personal excellence and growth. In short, she is committed to creating workplaces where both the organization and the individual can excel. Mary has supported significant cultural transformation efforts at organizations such as Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, USDA Food Safety Inspection Service, U.S. Department of Transportation/Pipeline Hazardous Materials Administration, U.S. Chemical Safety Board, Deltek Corporation, Ellucian, LLP, and Vornado/Charles E. Smith.

Mary is a frequent expert contributor for television, radio and print publications in the greater Washington area where she provides practical leadership and career advice. Mary currently serves on the Market President’s Board of BB& T and is the Immediate Past Chairman of the Board for Leadership Greater Washington. In 2010, Mary was named as one of Washington Business Journal’s Women Who Mean Business.

Professional Development:

This program has been preapproved by HRCI for 1.50 General credits.  The use of this seal is not an endorsement by the HR Certification Institute of the quality of the program.  It means that this program has met the HR Certification Institute’s criteria to be pre-approved for recertification credit.



This program is has been submitted to SHRM and is valid for 1.5 PDCs for the SHRM-CPSM or SHRM-SCPSM




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Closed: 6/7/2016 9:00 AM

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