"How to Get Your Execs and Your Culture Team Speaking the Same Language"

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This session shows you how to use your personal communication skills to turn your executives into enthusiastic backers of your culture plan. You’ll learn the proven frameworks and precise language that earns executive support, confidence, and funding for the culture programs you really want to do. A big focus will be on seeding enthusiasm and belief in the culture team throughout the organization.  

 

The session is equally valuable for a Chief People Officer, Employee Experience Manager, HR generalist or anyone truly willing to be a voice for culture inside the organization.

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Through this session, you'll:​​​​​

1. Understand what culture signals are and how to better predict what makes a culture initiative weak or strong

2. Explore a one-page, 12-month visual calendar that you can use for culture planning, and as a foundation for communication

3. “Get the language down” so you and your team can have strategic conversations about culture with executives at any level, and leave them feeling more confident and aligned with the culture team’s plan

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Speaker Bio:

Pete Savage is the CEO of CultureShape, a company that helps CEOs, Chief People Officers, and HR leaders organize and execute high-impact, tangible culture programs. Pete, a 25-year veteran of the marketing industry, brings an agency approach to culture. So that people and culture leaders can finally enjoy the same level of strategic planning support and professional client service that marketing professionals have enjoyed for the past hundred years. As a sough-after consultant to CEOs and CMOs, Pete has conceived and delivered successful marketing strategies and campaigns for companies like 3M, HP, Motorola, as well as scores of medium-sized companies throughout North America. Today he helps people and culture leaders plan and execute culture campaigns with the same level of quality and sophistication that the best marketers use today.

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When teaching or educating clients, Pete's approach is to articulate and promote the business fundamentals that underpin any people and culture strategy, in order to establish a strong platform for communication, stakeholder buy-in, and program scale. He delivers these teachable concepts and frameworks for thinking and executing through his company, CultureShape and through his newly released book, The Culture Wheel Playbook.