Cheryl Cran
She is an intuitive speaker who connects with audiences, understands their challenges and provides realistic, practical ideas to increase success in the workplace. As an in-demand speaker, best-selling author and sought after consultant, Cheryl draws on her years of unique corporate and entrepreneurial success to help leaders and their teams create outstanding results for modern workplaces.
Leading Change in a Fast-Paced, Technological and Multigenerational Workplace
Years of in-depth research, hours with focus groups, and analyzing audience response data are the foundation of Cran's business excellence strategies for organizations and their leaders. Her understanding of corporate culture produces tailored keynotes and training programs that promote strategic management and organizational change.
Cheryl Cran, integrates the realities of today's workplace all moving at a fast-pace, increasing technology and interacting with multiple generations.
In her book 101 Ways to Make Generations X, Y and Zoomers Happy at Work, Cran analyzes business trends to confirm that companies focusing on the uniqueness of their workforce will gain competitive advantages in the workplace. Her research was backed up by recent US Conference Board and Emirates Business 24/7 surveys revealing that businesses focusing on happier workplaces will be at the forefront of innovation and increased productivity in the next decade.
Leverage Technology and Lead Change in a Multigenerational Workplace
Technology is creating a new workplace dynamic where it is approached differently by each of the generations. The key is to maximize the technology to simplify work, to solve long standing issues and to increase profits.
Generation intelligence is a strengths-based approach that provides organizations with a business strategy to develop the best, most highly developed leaders who engage their workforce in becoming personally accountable for business success. Cran focuses on leading the generations and how to manage change and teaches empowerment skills that move leaders and their teams to engage fresh ideas, innovation and creative breakthroughs.
Change, Communication, Leadership, Sales Leadership, Generations in the Workplace
Knowledge Sharing is Key to Managing Change and Transitions
Change management and succession planning for the generations becomes more manageable when the corporate culture supports the attitude of generously sharing what each person knows. Cran shows Zoomer leaders (boomers who refuse to age) how to generously and enthusiastically share what they know to provide tools for Gen X and Y workforce success. Leaders who are open, willing to share and who thrive on helping other people succeed are the leaders that Gen X and Y employees seek.
Leadership, Change, Sales, Succession Planning, Generations in the Workplace
Recruiting and Retaining Gen X and Y With Success Is a Key Business Strategy for 2012 and Beyond.
Many industries are experiencing a major change with a good portion of the Zoomers (Baby Boomers who refuse to age). This is causing a major effort to recruiting and retaining Gen X and Y. Generation Y. Cheryl has worked with industries such as Agriculture and the Food Industry to help with strategies and ideas that align the generational attitudes. The workplace of the future will have to have very different leadership and rules in place in order to appeal to Gen Y's specificlly. Based on research and case studies Cheryl provides real world solutions for industries struggling with this issue.
The Future is About Results
What could be achieved when leaders focus on results rather than time on the job, or the confines of a job description? The best organizations will achieve business excellence by doing just that - focusing on the gifts and skills of their workforce to increase productivity. Cran provides empowerment skills and strategies for all generations to create an encouraged workforce, support innovation and increase the contributions of Gen X and Y employees for increased results.
Future of Work, Motivation, Leadership, Strategic Management, Generations in the Workplace
Cheryl Cran , CSP is an in-demand consultant and speaker on workforce issues, as well as the author of 101 Ways to Make Generations X, Y & Zoomers Happy at Work, The Control Freak Revolution, and 50 Ways to Lead & Love It.
Take Positive Control of the Future!
What if you had a crystal ball?
Cheryl Cran can help you see what the future holds, what the trends in the workplace are and what we need to do to take control of the future.
Based on Cheryl's best-selling leadership book, The Control Freak Revolution: Make Your Most Maddening Behaviors Work for Your Company and to Your Advantage, this keynote shows how being a positive control freak is necessary in tough times. It motivates and teaches audiences to channel their passion for quality and performance into specific positive leadership techniques that prepare everyone for challenging times and the future ahead.
By utilizing positive control, leaders can influence coworkers and achieve results that would make their competitors envious. This keynote is fun, vibrant, full of content and puts a unique spin on positive controlled leadership skills. Cheryl steers audiences through humorous examples of why negative control leads to failure, and how harnessing positive control of the future can lead to a fun, funky brand of leadership that inspires others to follow.
Lead Gen X, Y and the Zoomers in Turbulent Times
A recent USA Today article asked Zoomers (Modern Boomers) if their retirement plans have changed due to the economy and the response was 41% intend to retire later than planned. This clearly indicates that generational communication in the workplace will be an area of opportunity for the next few decades.
Deciphering generational labels can be confusing, so it's easy to see how clarity in the workplace can be a challenge when team members claim vastly different perspectives. Add to that the current turbulent work environment and you have an added challenge to navigate these times of massive change.
The future success of your organization is dependent on the people you have on board. A seasoned guide, Cheryl Cran, will show your team that, while differences of opinion are the rule, the gaps between their perspectives aren't as large as they think. Using her trademark humor, relatable examples and interactive elements, Cheryl motivates business audiences by providing real-world techniques that equip your group to face the challenges of inter-generational communication in the workplace.
This keynote is designed to educate your group on generational traits and to provide everyone in your organization with the means to unite members of different generations in achieving extraordinary results. In it, Cheryl reveals how to lead and work effectively with coworkers of multiple generations and differing personalities. NOTE: Cheryl will present for up to 3 hours for the base fee. Please inquire for half and full-day seminars.
Lead to Attract - Lead So They'll Stay - Leadership for the Future
What is the one thing that leaders must do to succeed? Boldly look to the future!
Being bold is recognizing opportunities to evolve your team, move them forward and helping every individual to full personal accountability for their success. This energetic, forward thinking and candid program is designed to inspire focused, assertive action by leaders of all types and styles to prepare us for the exciting future workplace.
The fun of the keynote comes from Cheryl's dynamic presentation, her pull-no-punches delivery and the infectious audience response. The content is filled with trends, case studies and practical tools for success, all guaranteed to provide value to your teams.
Whether or not you think you lead, it's a fact that we all must demonstrate personal leadership. This keynote looks at everyday leadership decisions through a humorous yet practical lens and then provides steps to create greater success at work and in life.
Employees who are stifled with bland leadership aren't likely to stick around for long. Cheryl's bold and forward thinking leadership style encourages audiences to act with passion, conviction and confidence attracting similar people of action. Lead to attract them - lead so they stay!
Say What You Mean- Mean What You Say- Communicate to Get Results
Welcome to the communication age. Thanks to the internet, social media and email, everyone is on information overload.
The new currency is people skills and communication is cash. Advanced communication can mean the difference between having award-winning individual departments and having a Fortune 100 company.
Communication is often touted as a necessity by executives and leaders......and left at that. The reason the topic of communication surfaces repetitively is that, even though it is universally acknowledged as important, people don't always communicate in the most effective ways.
Some of the communication challenges are a result of the following:
- Departments, expand, companies grow larger and the number of functioning teams increases
- Companies restructure and downsize and those left to deal with the changes struggle to regain footing within the new workplace
- Companies merge and get bought out, sowing confusion over who does what and who is responsible
- A "silo" mentality prevails and pretty soon interdepartmental communication is fraught with excessive email threads, misunderstood objectives and garbled strategy.
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