December 12, 2014 Bi-monthly Meeting

Culture That Rocks!

How to Amp Up or Revolutionize a Company’s Culture

This interactive and entertaining session will highlight best practices to create, maintain, enhance or even revolutionize a company’s culture in all areas of the business.

Jim Knight, Founder of Knight Speaker, will use the visceral backdrop of several well-known brands, including Hard Rock International, as a platform to discuss key strategies to transform any organization’s culture, regardless of the current state.  Key topics include:

• A clear-cut definition of Culture (finally!)
  
• Hiring “Rock Stars”
  
• Virtuous vs. Vicious Cycles
  
• The Emotional Bank Account
  
• Service Differentiation
  
• Increased Value Proposition
  
• Employee Engagement
  
• Leadership & Accountability
  
• Philanthropy
  

Jim will also share wisdom from his newly released book: Culture That Rocks!  This well-received book addresses major categories of an organization’s culture:  hiring the right talent, creating a differentiated service approach, understanding today’s workforce, enhancing internal collateral, utilizing technology, increasing enterprise wide communication, engaging in authentic philanthropic initiatives and highlighting the importance of leadership. 

Get ready for out-of-the-box thinking, stories, book quotes, industry statistics and case studies and an interactive handout with real takeaways …all told through the spirit of Rock ‘n’ Roll. If you’re a fan of unpredictability & thinking about things differently, come hear what all the noise is about.

Culture That Rocks is available on Amazon.com.  Bring your copy to the meeting, and Jim will sign it for you. We will also have a limited number of copies on hand for $20.00 in cash (no way to process credit cards) for those last minute holiday gifts. 

Speaker Bio

Jim Knight, an experienced HRD and OD professional and author of Culture That Rocks, facilitates a variety of interactive topics, including: organizational culture, world-class service, employee branding & engagement, performance management, philanthropy, leadership and facilitation training. Jim delivers keynote presentations to organizations worldwide. He also is an Owner/Partner in PeopleForward, a business solutions consortium providing organizational services and expertise to the restaurant, hotel and retail industries.

Jim was the head of the School of Hard Rocks, running point on all training & development functions for Hard Rock International. His role role at Hard Rock involved many facets of organizational development, including creating/managing all staff and management training materials & programs, facilitating its corporate university, overseeing management training locations, producing training DVD’s, directing company e-­Learning initiatives, facilitating leadership transitions and traveling to property locations to deliver on-­site classes & measure standards.  

During his 21 years with the Hard Rock brand, his team won many coveted awards and Jim was recognized by Training Magazine as representing one of the Top 125 training companies in the world out of all industries & businesses.  He has been featured in Forbes Magazine, Inc. Magazine, and Fox Small Business News.