“Your employees are the most valuable resource for improving your organization’s effectiveness,” says Dr. Ken Amitin, founder and president of Organizational Services Corporation.

Helping employees maintain job satisfaction and high performance is a real concern for many organizations. Managers have fewer tools to motivate and reward employees. Traditional incentives of bonuses, promotions, and salary increases are limited, not available, or don’t work.

Other tools and methods must be used to help people stay focused, productive, and committed to quality—especially during times of organizational change and uncertainty.

Large segments of the workforce are poised to retire. Transferring their expertise and skills to others; and developing new leaders has always been a challenge for organizations.

Preparing people to develop others is one of the most effective and least expensive ways to transfer needed insights, competencies, and behaviors.

Work teams have become essential to accomplishing organizational goals, yet many people are not experienced or skilled in working this way.

Often, work teams are not as effective as they might be because they have difficulty getting started; agreeing on direction, staying on track; resolving disagreements, making decisions; and developing realistic plans that have broad based organizational support.