Forum Think Tank Concludes People-Centered Leadership Will Take Effort

Dec. 15, 2010 – Naperville, IL – After a daylong examination of the newly-emerging concepts of “Employee Enrichment” and “Human Value Connection,” business leaders and experts from the Forum for People Performance Management and Measurement concluded that more work will be needed to successfully implement these new workplace concepts that can often double performance results.

In an Executive Briefing chronicling the session held in Chicago, the Forum highlights that current “Pornographic Management” techniques can undermine an employee’s sense of personal value and impact that employee’s ability to perform to the full extent of his/her capability and prevent the highest levels of performance.

“These promising motivational concepts will require a tremendous shift in the traditional management paradigm,” according to Forum President-elect Keith Fenhaus, CEO of Hallmark Business Connections. “The people-centered approach asks leaders to step outside their personal comfort zone in order to create an environment that centers an organization’s power squarely within its core talent pool rather than primarily in its administration.”

Forum Director of Research Jennifer Rosenzweig explained that one of the biggest challenges may lie in the inherent difficulty of totally embracing a people-first strategy.

“The consensus of the 2010 Think Tank participants seems to be that we need to do more exploration of the ways that we can help organizations buy in to the concept of helping their employees to grow as a definitive way to improve the performance of the overall organization,” says Rosenzweig.

According to the Forum, practicing a people-centered management and leadership style can have positive bottom line results, in which real value emerges for every constituent.

As a result of the Think Tank discussions and conclusions, the Forum plans to explore more ideas for implementing people-centered leadership in upcoming research and white papers. To read the Executive Briefing visit http://www.performanceforum.org/White_Papers.21.0.html.

The Forum for People Performance Management and Measurement (www.performanceforum.org) is a research center affiliated with the Medill Integrated Marketing Communications graduate program at Northwestern University. A central objective of the Forum is to develop and disseminate knowledge about communications, motivation and management so that businesses can better design, implement and manage Employee Engagement initiatives inside and outside the organization.

The Forum for People Performance Management and Measurement (www.performanceforum.org) is a research center affiliated with the Medill Integrated Marketing Communications graduate program at Northwestern University. A central objective of the Forum is to develop and disseminate knowledge about communications, motivation and management so that businesses can better design, implement and manage Employee Engagement initiatives inside and outside the organization.

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Naperville, IL 60563
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