All economic signals are that the business recovery has started! Information technology budgets, that were dramatically slashed, are again being fully funded to aid businesses in automation. We provide food for thought about Enterprise Architecture, Optimism and Multi-tasking this month. 

For 18 years, Software Consortium has been a leader in the Baltimore-Washington area, known for sharing practical and emerging strategies about technology and business, through our seminars, successful delivery of client projects, and now, with InSIGHT delivered to your desktop.

 

 

HR managers often point to Campbell Soup (CPB) as the most compelling example of how a focus on optimism can generate higher sales and profits. When Douglas R. Conant took over as CEO in 2001, management's engagement scores were the lowest of any big company Gallup had surveyed. Its stock was in the pits. Takeover rumors were rampant. And a leading securities analyst of the food industry likened the company to a "buggy whip" maker.

Conant developed a strategy for winning in the workplace. He gave every employee the equivalent of a user's manual that explained how he himself operated. He replaced nearly all of the company's top 350 leaders and set about transforming Campbell into a more employee-centric company. Conant created Campbell University, upgraded the recognition program that showers gifts and other awards on high performers, and penned up to 10 handwritten thank-you notes to employees a day.

 

And, according to Gallup, Campbell's engagement scores are among the highest of any company it measures, and its earnings growth has handily beaten that of its peers. Business Week cites other stories that point to optimism as a competitive advantage.

 
In Software Consortium's latest seminar, we will teach leaders and managers to generate "resonant energy" that has the ability to engage employees, even on a departmental level. See article below for more details. 

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As Charles Darwin said "It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change."

As human beings, our flight or fight response to external threats serves us quite well when our survival is threatened. However, in today's world, it is believed our instinctive response to threats can result in decreased abilities to think new thoughts as our bodies automatically prepare to defend ourselves.

Managers and leaders need their best thinking and fully engaged teams to make their departments effective today and in the future. Join us for this interactive half day seminar and come away with new energy to inspire yourself and your team.

 

Seminar description and registration. 

 

This CATS II award is a ringing endorsement of our collective teams' steady performance throughout the region. 

 

Software Consortium extends thanks to members of our State teams across multiple State agencies, and supporters behind the teams, for their contributions in helping us achieve this success!