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Session 1: The Importance of Mobilization in Today's Business Environment
September 29, 2009
7:30 - 9:00 am
Facilitated by: Madeleine Chenette and Saba Hasanie
- Developing a common definition for mobilization
- Origination of the concept
- Mobilization and its impact on current business issues (including profitability and innovation)
- Mobilization and the implications for employee branding
- A SECOR case study – results of a recent Canada wide study
Question for discussion: What does mobilization look like in your organization?
Session 2: Leveraging Your Current Tools to Create Buy-in
November 18, 2009
7:30 - 9:00am
Facilitated by: Philippe Collas and Saba Hasanie
- Building upon the common definition from Session 1:
- Defining the critical dimensions for measuring mobilization
- Building further upon the link between mobilization and employee branding
- Compare and contrast mobilization dimensions to traditional employee surveys
- Developing an approach to gain leadership buy-in on the importance of mobilization
Questions for discussion: How can you leverage your current organizational tools to derive insights? How can you engage your leadership team to view mobilization as a tool for continuous improvement?
Session 3: The Role of Your Management and Senior Leadership Teams
February 17, 2010
Facilitated by: Kathy Kalafatides and Saba Hasanie
- Understanding the role management plays in fostering and improving mobilization
- How to engage your management team on the topic of mobilization
- Defining the importance at both the operational level and leadership level
- How to engage the Union in the mobilization discussion
- Implications of a de-mobilized workforce
- Benchmarking – the good and the bad
Question for discussion: How can you engage your management teams at both the operational and strategic level to be involved in mobilization planning?
Session 4: Developing An Action Plan
April 21, 2010
Facilitated by: Philippe Collas and Saba Hasanie
- How to link metrics used for measuring mobilization to developing an action plan
- Reviewing a typical action plan at the group level and at the unit level
- Defining critical success factors and ensuring proper execution
- Doing follow-ups to measure progression
Question for discussion: How does an effective planning process ensure delivery of performance results within your organization and how do you measure impact?
Facilitator Biographies
Madeleine Chenette
Madeleine is an executive and Board member of SECOR Group, instrumental in the growth of the company where she has been managing partner and successively led its customer strategy practice, leadership and transformation practice, and innovation development. Madeleine is now the Global Lead of all intellectual capital enhancement and development for the group. With extensive experience in three continents, she is a respected and engaging speaker for international conferences on trends and new best practices. Madeleine has worked with and spoken at conferences targeted to Human Resources Professionals here in Canada and Europe and has designed, developed and spoken at three conference focused on this very topic of organizational mobilization.
Madeleine’s compelling views of business challenges are based on extensive global research and twenty years of experience in diversified sectors such as finance, retail, resources, energy, media, telecom as well as health and tourism. Under her leadership, a unique team of savvy business people, creative strategists and executives of top organizations wake up everyday to push back frontiers and win the new market race. National and international clients from TSX listed, Fortune 500 and crown corporations look to her teams to develop their innovation and leadership capabilities.
Philippe Collas
Philippe is an Associate Principal with SECOR Group and has focused his expertise on organizational development and mobilization. Philippe has worked with many organizations across the globe on various issues including leadership development and corporate training. Philippe is a thought leader on mobilization and has spoken at countless events and conference on this very topic. Philippe is also a lecturer of Management Sciences in Paris, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and is a regular lecturer on mobilization in Québec and France.
Prior to SECOR, Philippe worked with AXA Group for over 20 years. In that time, Philippe worked in different fields including marketing, finance, IT and HR.
Kathy Kalafatides
Kathy is an Associate Principal with SECOR Group focused on strategy and transformation. Kathy has worked with clients across multiple sectors in assessing and focusing organizational capabilities to achieve change mandates. Kathy has assisted clients in successfully aligning and mobilizing their organizations to achieve success in transforming their business. Kathy brings a collaborative approach in working with clients, demonstrated through her work in facilitating strategic sessions with Board of Directors, Senior Management, and Project Teams.
Kathy has been a lead facilitator for over 30 strategic alignment sessions for multiple clients, focused on change imperatives. Speaker at multiple events, including Strategic Forum (Paris), Capgemini Strategy and Transformation University (La Fontaines, France), Organizational Effectiveness Training, Canadian Retail Banking Presentation (Toronto), Canadian Wealth Management Presentation (Toronto).
Prior to SECOR, Kathy was the Strategy and Transformation Consulting Leader at Capgemini Consulting, formerly Ernst & Young Consulting.
Saba Hasanie
Saba is a Senior Consultant with SECOR Group and has expertise in communications and facilitation, change management and organizational development, design and strategy. Saba has worked with clients across multiple industries including mining, energy, telecom, retail and professional services.
Saba has extensive experience in human resource planning, leadership and communications. Saba brings deep experience working closely with many organizations and has lead studies on organizational mobilization.
Prior to joining SECOR, Saba worked in a leadership role within Human Resources at a telecommunications company. She has several years of technical human resources expertise and has worked throughout many divisions within HR from selection and staffing to performance management to training and development.