Kiki Orski
President and CEO, Peak Performance Consulting
Kiki Orski, author of the newly released book “Smash the Silos: A surprisingly easy way to enhance collaboration, boost productivity and improve organizational results” is an experienced Performance Improvement Consultant with over 20 years of coaching and training leaders to achieve exceptional results. Kiki coaches leaders on how to work more effectively and transform business practices with their leadership teams, employees and clients to improve productivity, engagement and ultimately profits. Her company, Peak Performance Consulting is dedicated to helping organizations achieve exceptional performance at every level, starting at the top!
Kiki maximizes the powerful influence that combining the people and performance sides of business can have on organizational outcomes and results. Her primary goal is to ensure the work and learning that is done is truly sustainable.
Session Description:
Every Talent and Development Professional has been put into the situation where they are charged with implementing a change or fixing a process in the organization. Perhaps it is a leadership improvement process or an employee engagement initiative that is cannibalizing all your time. But what happens when new information comes in last minute or another department comes forward with conflicting advice or worse yet you find out they have already been working on this project for months! Or when we find ourselves muttering the infamous “why didn’t anyone think of telling me” phrase over and over again throughout the day! It is similar situations to these that are a constant source of stress, chaos and confusion for you and your department. Each and every time, you are put in a tough situation when leaders and/or departments are reluctant to share skills, knowledge and information with you. It is even worse when they refuse to see how this behavior is a big concern for you and the organization as a whole.
If these scenarios are all too familiar to you, perhaps it is time to do a deeper dive into why a leader or department like this is able to survive in your organization.
Often, it is not the leader or department's fault but rather the presence and acceptance of silos and silo thinking that are negatively impacting your efforts to make positive changes in your organization. Silos and silo thinking create barriers to effective communication and collaboration throughout your organization causing a ripple of negativity. If left unchecked, these silos will taint your culture and result in behaviors that cause inconsistency, inefficiency and isolation and stop any attempts at innovation in their path. Organizational silos wreak havoc in your organization and can make your life as a T&D Professional miserable.
Let’s finally take the steps to name, claim, and smash these silos before they cause you more stress, damage your organizational culture and negatively impact all your business results.
Learning Objectives
Organizational silos may be making your life as a Talent and Development Professional more difficult than it needs to be! During this high-energy and interactive presentation, T&D professionals will:
1) Learn what silos are, why they still exist and how they impact every area of your work.
2) Dive into the four buckets of organizational health that drive success and how inadvertently, if we are not vigilant, can negatively impact all of your training and change initiatives
3) Leave with immediately actionable ideas to begin naming, claiming and clearing the silos in your organization so you can support organizational leaders with best practices.
This program aligns with domain one of the ATD Capability Model: Collaboration and Leadership. It also aligns with domain two of the ATD Capability Model: Career and Leadership Development and Coaching. It also aligns with domain three of the ATD Capability Model: Organizational Development and Culture and Performance Improvement
