Kim Seeling Smith - Futurists & Future Trends - Future of Work expert and Talent Attraction and ReĀ ...

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9 Keys to keep your best people from walking out the door: Based on over 5,000 exit interviews!

This practical, ‘choose your own adventure’ program is perfect for anyone who manages a team that yearns for a simple, practical way to increase employee engagement, wellbeing, and profitability.

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Best In Class? Thanks, I'll Pass!

Are your customers and employees raving fans? Do they actively spread the word about your organization? If not it might be because your company's purpose is not connecting to your target audiences on a visceral level.

Unfortunately, most organization’s purpose/ vision/mission statements are boring, uninspiring, predictable and generic and won’t help you attract customers or employees.

Think a purpose statement is fluffy or airy fairy? Think again. Learn why today’s customers and employees are saying, and what truly great companies do to inspire customers and employees to beat down their door to work with and for them.

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Not Your Father's Leadership Style

The research is clear. Your success as an organization is directly tied to the quality of your leaders. Yet many are still promoted based on technical skills instead of their ability to lead a team. Even more spend their time on the wrong activities because they don’t truly understand the role and/or prioritise the wrong things, then beat their heads against the wall because their people are uninspired, unproductive and eventually leave.

Learn why the pandemic accelerated the shift in leadership styles and what’s required by today’s workforce. The leadership required by today’s workforce is certainly Not your father’s leadership style.

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Performance Transformance

Does your team underperform? Are they less productive than you expect them to be? This may be because (almost) everything we’ve been taught about holding people accountable and increasing performance and productivity is wrong for today’s workforce. Carrots and sticks simply don’t work. They actually never have but we thought they did because we had more people than jobs.

Those days are gone. Update your thinking about accountability and learn how to create a culture of high performance and mutual goal achievement where your employees happily overachieve and fulfill their own goals. Transform your performance management through Performance Transformance.

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Retention Connection

Employee retention is more critical than ever given the global skills shortage and changes to our market and workplaces through AI and technology. Yet it’s more difficult to retain the right people because after years of pandemic induced reflection our workforce has become very clear about what they want, what they
don’t - and they are willing to vote with their feet.

Managers are twisting themselves into knots trying to figure out how to keep both from walking out the door. Luckily, employee retention can be very simple by connecting with your team frequently enough, about the right things and in the right way. is based on reverse engineering over 5,000 exit interviews.

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Stop Treating Recruitment Like You're Filling A Takeaway Order

Korn Ferry predicts that we will have 85 million more jobs than people to fill them by 2030. In order to ensure that we have enough of the right people to hit our goals, solve even our toughest challenges and seize the myriad of opportunities presented by our new world, we must Stop treating recruitment like you’re filling a takeaway order.

To win the War for Talent we must play the long game, stand out from our talent competitors and find innovative ways to expand our talent pools.

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Valugation

Do your leaders have difficulty making decisions? Does your organization have trouble navigating complex business decisions? Do your managers put up with inappropriate behaviours in their teams? Do you have trouble attracting the right customers and/or employees? If you answered yes to one or more of these questions it’s time for a values refresh. Learn from the examples of leading edge companies who navigate their company to greatness by creating an authentic set of values and bringing them to life within their organization. Navigation by values = VALUGATION

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Workplace 2035: Thrive in the age of AI and the Polycrisis

Part bespoke AI demo, part in-depth exploration of future trends, this keynote is ideal to wow the audience, challenge their thinking - and leave them with a heavy dose of optimism and practical strategies to thrive in this transformative era. 

Did you know that 45% of global CEOs believe their companies won't survive the next decade without significant changes? This is a wake-up call from PwC's latest CEO survey. 

With AI accelerating at breakneck speed, the convergence of multiple crises (the 'Polycrisis'), and an unprecedented talent shortage, the coming decade is set to be both extraordinarily challenging and exhilarating. 

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Kim Seeling Smith

Future of Work expert and Talent Attraction and Retention

Kim Seeling Smith is a Business Futurist who helps organizations thrive through the rapidly changing world of AI and the Polycrisis (where multiple crises intersect and affect each other).  

Kim has literally held a seat at the table with Sir Richard Branson for her innovative work around the Future of Work. She was named a Top 101 Global Influencer on Employee Engagement, wrote THE how-to guide on 1:1 employee 1:1s: Mind Reading for Managers, and co-wrote a Career Development Guide with mega author Brian Tracy. 

You will frequently see Kim on The Today Show, in Forbes, Fast Company, SmartCompany, CEO Magazine, CNBC Online, the Australian Financial Review, the Sydney Morning Herald and many other print and radio media outlets. 

Originally trained as a CPA with KPMG, Kim is a rare individual who seamlessly straddles the worlds of commerce and people, blending her commercial acumen with cutting-edge Future of Work practices.

Enquire about Kim Seeling Smith to speak at your next event