Talk Title:

Smash the Silos

Talk Description :

Title: Smash the Silos: Break through the invisible barriers that are making your job harder and negatively (and silently) impacting your training and change initiatives.

Learning Objectives: Organizational silos may be making your life as a Talent and Development Professional more difficult than it needs to be! During this high-energy and interactive 60-minute presentation, T&D professionals will:

1) Learn what silos are, why they still exist and how they impact every area of your work.

2) Dive into the four buckets of organizational health that drive success and how inadvertently, if we are not vigilant, can negatively impact all of your training and change initiatives

3) Leave with immediately actionable ideas to begin naming, claiming, and clearing the silos in your organization so you can support organizational leaders with best practices.

Presentation Summary: Every T&D Professional has been put into the situation where they are charged with implementing a change or fixing a process in the organization. Perhaps it is a leadership improvement process or an employee engagement initiative that is cannibalizing all your time.

But what happens when new information comes in last minute or another department comes forward with conflicting advice, or worse yet you find out they have already been working on this project for months! Or when we find ourselves muttering the infamous “why didn’t anyone think of telling me” phrase over and over again throughout the day! It is similar situations to these that are a constant source of stress, chaos, and confusion for you and your department.

Each and every time, you are put in a tough situation when leaders and/or departments are reluctant to share skills, knowledge, and information with you. It is even worse when they refuse to see how this behavior is a big concern for you and the organization as a whole.

If these scenarios are all too familiar to you, perhaps it is time to do a deeper dive into why a leader or department like this is able to survive in your organization. Often, it is not the leader or department’s fault but rather the presence and acceptance of silos and silo thinking that negatively impact your efforts to make positive changes in your organization.

Silos and silo thinking create barriers to effective communication and collaboration throughout your organization, causing a ripple of negativity.

If left unchecked, these silos will taint your culture and result in behaviors that cause inconsistency, inefficiency, and isolation and stop any attempts at innovation in their path.

Organizational silos wreak havoc in your organization and can make your life as a T&D Professional miserable.

Let’s finally take the steps to name, claim, and smash these silos before they cause you more stress, damage your organizational culture and negatively impact all your business results.

Presented by: Kiki Orski, MBA, RN CEO, Peak Performance Consulting