Transforming Your Workplace Into A Better Place
Speaking

Keynote : Why Work Isn’t Working Anymore

Transforming Your Workplace Into A Place Where People Matter

Based on the themes contained in his book, “Why Work Isn’t Working Anymore – Tools to Transform Your Workplace As If People Mattered,” Karger observes that fewer than half of all employees today are satisfied with their jobs.

After years of meager raises, cuts in benefits, and mass layoffs, it should not be surprising that most employees do not believe their employers care about them beyond their utility as “human resources.”

Most companies have done nothing about the precipitous decline in employee morale. Most deny it exists, at least within their own organizations. Others sit back and hope the problem will resolve itself.

Still others have tried to reverse the spiral with fancy mission statements, making less look like more, and balancing “work” and “life,” as if those were two different experiences.

None of the institutional solutions implemented by corporate America have been effective, leaving most companies whistling past the graveyard, painting a smiley-face on the problem of employee unhappiness and hoping something will change, but not knowing what that something may be.

In this 50 minute address, Karger focuses on why work isn’t working anymore for most employees, how companies have failed to reverse the decline in employee satisfaction by playing their weakest hand, and how you can make a difference, not by covering up the problem, denying it, or justifying it, but by empowering yourself and your managers to effect positive change in the lives of others.

 

To contact Karger about a presentation for your organization, e-mail
karger@crediblyconnect.com.

Training

"Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected." - -William Plomer (1903-1973)

Trainings (Full Day) : Why Work Isn’t Working Anymore
Tools To Transform Your Workplace As If People Mattered

A comprehensive, full-day management training session (“Why Work Isn’t Working Anymore”) PLUS a three hour workshop, “Establishing Credible Connections" that includes 3 simple, manual tools (Milestone Box, Care Cards, and the Manager’s Journal) your managers can use today that will increase retention and satisfaction in the workplace.

This program is based on Karger’s book, “Why Work Isn’t Working Anymore: Tools To Transform Your Workplace As If People Mattered.” In order to maximize results, each attendee is required to have read the book prior to the session.

Why Work Isn’t Working Anymore

Using the 5 Tools of Crediblyconnect Online ™ To Transform Your Workplace As If People Mattered

A comprehensive, full-day management training session (“Why Work Isn’t Working Anymore”) PLUS a three hour workshop, “Establishing Credible Connections" that includes 5 online tools via Crediblyconnect Online™ your managers can use today that will increase retention and satisfaction in the workplace.

This program is based on Karger’s book, “Why Work Isn’t Working Anymore: Tools to Transform Your Workplace As If People Mattered” and includes all the tools discussed therein plus 2 new tools – “News” and the “Question/Answer Database.”

Doing the Right Thing
How To Stay Union-Free for the Right Reasons

A comprehensive, full-day management training session (“Why Work Isn’t Working Anymore”) PLUS a three hour workshop, “Establishing Credible Connections" that includes 5 online tools via Crediblyconnect Online™ your managers can use today that will increase retention and satisfaction in the workplace.

This program is based on Karger’s book, “Why Work Isn’t Working Anymore: Tools to Transform Your Workplace As If People Mattered” and includes all the tools discussed therein plus 2 new tools – “News” and the “Question/Answer Database.”

Sex, Lies and Videotape - But Mostly Just Lies
Sex and Sexual Harassment In the American Workplace

This is the "in your face" sexual harassment avoidance program that has been written about, commented on, loved, hated, but is always effective. It has been described as "a roller coaster ride on the edge -- Karger works at the edge of narrative convention."

Not for the faint of heart, this program is not only entertaining, buy has been very successful for many major corporations. It goes beyond sexual harassment to sexes in the workplace, how men and women are different when it comes to sex, on why we can't get along, ultimately making the prohibitions of sexual conduct in the workplace more understandable and palatable.

"Sexual harassment" is on everyone's lips, but few can even define it.

"Even the former President," Karger reminds his audiences, "had a problem defining 'sex,' and the man was a Rhodes Scholar."

So, while most supervisors understand that demanding sex from a subordinate constitutes sexual harassment, only 5% of all sexual harassment cases involve a bribe or threat for sex. 95% of charges allege the creation of a "hostile or offensive work environment."

How about flirting? Off-color jokes? Suggestive looks? Pinups? Profanity? Touching? Expletives? Asking for a date? Letters and telephone calls? Sexual innuendo? Office romances?

All of these and more are discussed in this fascinating, fast-paced program. Managers learn what constitutes harassment under the law, the risks to them and to their employers, and how to avoid playing a game they can't win.

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