Blanchard Perspectives and White Papers
The Ken Blanchard Companies synthesises observations and commentary about business trends, organisational performance issues, and leadership challenges in a dynamic and globalising workplace.
These articles often contain best practices for improving and maximising performance, as well as expert insights on how best to build successful workplace cultures, and evolve behavioural change within organisations.
Achieving Excellence, Virtually
Whether virtual teams are in the beginning stages, have recently taken on new members, or are in the process of troubleshooting team problems, leaders and managers can use the strategies described in this white paper to get teams off to the right start, address ongoing working relationships, and ensure that their teams achieve and maintain high performance. Register/Login for Access
Emerging Trends and Demographic Forces
This report explores emerging trends and demographic forces that will be impacting the workplace and workforce over the next decade. After sifting through hundreds of pages of data, trends, and predictions, we compiled ideas and analyses from expert sources including the Institute for the Future, the American Society for Training & Development, The Futurist, The Herman Group, and others. In addition, we interviewed Blanchard associates and Blanchard clients on past, current, and future workplace issues, the results of which were incorporated into this report. Register/Login for Access
Employee Passion: The New Rules of Engagement
The Ken Blanchard Companies looked at the factors that influence employee engagement, satisfaction, and morale to create a new framework for assessing Employee Passion in your organisation. Register/Login for Access
From Engagement to Work Passion
Since 2006, The Ken Blanchard Companies has been continually monitoring the global workplace to explore the relationships between leadership and organisational vitality. This 2008 study shares our latest insights. Register/Login for Access
How to Maximise Your Training Investment
Scott Blanchard and Richard Whiteley, best-selling author and principal with The Whiteley Group, conducted extensive research to identify the key criteria for helping organisations create a sustainable approach to training and close the learning-doing gap. Based on this research, The Ken Blanchard Companies has established a system for ensuring the transfer of learning from the classroom to the work environment. Register/Login for Access
Leadership Strategies for Making Organisational Change Stick
A study conducted by The Ken Blanchard Companies in 2008 paints a telling story about the challenges organisations are facing that demand effective change leadership. Register/Login for Access
Managing & Motivating Intrapreneurs
Intrapreneurs are passionate employees. But one thing about intrapreneurs that you must remember: their motivation for innovation is not necessarily increased tenure with the organisation, or even to get rich, but rather their desire to leave a mark, to make a difference. In fact, intrapreneurs need to find new challenges from time to time, and sometimes these challenges take them to new organisations that can better benefit from their particular skill set. Register/Login for Access
Managing Coaching for Results and ROI
This paper highlights the business issues that coaching addresses, the benefits of coaching, and the improvements in effectiveness and efficiency that can be realised through the Web-based Blanchard Coaching Management System. Register/Login for Access
The High Cost of Doing Nothing
In this white paper you will learn about the impact that leadership has on employee productivity, employee turnover, and customer satisfaction. By looking at the effect that leadership has in each of these three areas, executives can identify strategies to recognise and quantify the impact of average versus best-practice leadership in their organisations. Register/Login for Access
The Key to Customer Loyalty
Customer loyalty is a powerful driver of organisational success, and losing a customer is a costly endeavor. It can cost six to seven times more to gain a new customer than to retain an existing one. Register/Login for Access
The Leadership-Profit Chain
Learn why leadership skills are so critical to a company’s P&L. The key to organisational vitality is creating an environment that allows employees to win and be passionate about what they do. By taking care of employees, leaders establish an environment in which the employees take care of the customers at a level that causes the customer to want to return year after year. Register/Login for Access
The Retention Challenge
Most forward-thinking organisations today realise that having valued employees is what differentiates them from their competitors. In this increasingly commoditised and competitive world, good people make an organisation survive and thrive. Register/Login for Access