Message to CEO's

What choices do you have? What opportunities are there?

As CEO, you are the person most directly vested with the responsibility of moving your organisation forwards. In the current climate of relentless change, great technological developments, enormous security issues, increased globalisation, raging competition, and intense shareholder pressure, this is no easy challenge.

Many CEOs have sought to address this challenge by drastically cutting costs wherever possible. To a large extent this has been necessary, just to stay in the game. However, many CEOs have gone too far with cost-cutting, and the short-term gains can all too easily lead to considerable long-term pains.

Consider the impact of excessive cost-cutting on the most precious of resources - the staff in your organisation. Statistics clearly demonstrate that in recent years intense work pressures have dramatically impacted on worker stress levels, motivation, productivity, compensation claims, etc. Staff cannot continue to do more with less, as they are often expected to do. They cannot work both harder and smarter. They are not just cogs in a big corporate wheel.

So, what choices do you have as CEO, given the relentless pressures facing you and the organisation? What opportunities are there for you? You may not be aware of the following vital statistics:

	Literally billions of dollars are wasted by Australian organisations annually through poor recruitment and selection practices
	Various studies have shown that most change programs don't lead to the sought outcomes, often because the people factors are neglected or ignored
	Most projects don't achieve the key deliverables within time and within budget
	Between 80% and 90% of training is not effective - i.e. it does not lead to sustained performance improvement. Considerable research has demonstrated this.
	Most organisations sadly lack in effective performance management systems and processes, which are so vital to ensuring high employee performance and motivation.

Consider briefly and honestly how your organisation rates in each of the above five key areas. Then consider roughly how much your organisation could save by getting these five areas right. For so many organisations, it would translate into many millions of dollars annually - dollars which are now hidden, and not revealed in your organisation's bottom line figures.

How can we help? We can work with you as business partners to provide the right training in all of the above areas and work closely with you to ensure that other systems and processes in the organisation support the training.

We also encourage you to read the Hot Topics on this website, which provide more detail on the above key areas.

Call us on 0438 792 300, and we can come out and talk to you. We will happily work with you to complete a (free) needs analysis questionnaire, which will help you identify the areas of greatest need in your organisation.

Alternatively, send us an email at training@advancedhr.com.au. We have numerous clients willing to testify to our professionalism and skills in helping them to move forwards. We would be delighted to help you in the same way.