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    How Good Are Your Best Practices?

    Date: November 19, 2020, 8:00am – 10:00am
    Organizer:
    South Puget Sound SHRM
    Location:
    Online: You will receive a link to the event in your confirmation email upon registration.
    Price:
    COVID-19 Impact Registration - Free; Pay-as-you-Will Registration - $10
    Event Type:
    2020 Breakfast Meetings
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    Please welcome

    Aaron Schmookler & Adam Utley

    with

    The Yes Works

    Presenting:

    How Good Are Your Best Practices?

    Summary: 

    Some best practices aren’t very good. The worst of them cover up or prevent acute problems while simultaneously degrading culture and human dignity.

    Can you prevent pests from eating your crops by spraying them with DDT? Yes. Turns out though, that the cure is worse than the initial problem.

    If you’ve had aspects of your practice that hurt your soul or that you can only implement while holding your nose (or if you’ve become desensitized to it over years because, “that’s just how it’s done,” you and your team have a breath of fresh air coming!

    Come with your video and microphones on, this will be a highly interactive, fun, and engaging presentation!

      Learning Objectives:

      Participants will be able to:

      • Learn a rubric to use to identify policies and structures in their companies that could be degrading culture, performance, and human dignity.
      • Identify specific practices in their organizations that are common HR “best practices” that are or soon likely will be outdated and inhumane
      • Take away replacements that don’t appreciably increase risk to the organization and that don’t come with the costs of toxicity

      1.5 Credit approval pending through SHRM & HRCI

                           

      About the Speakers:

                           

                            Aaron Schmookler                                         Adam Utley

      Aaron Schmookler works with business leaders who believe that their people are their greatest asset to supercharge their teams. He supports them to build structures, habits, and mindsets that support an enduring collaboration culture so their companies profit and attract top talent, and so their people find fulfillment and reasons to stay. 

      While his career appears anything but linear -- ranging from outdoor leadership to corporate contributor to theatre director and founder to teacher of theater and business communication -- one thread ties everything together. For over 20 years, Aaron has been striving to help people find their own intrinsic motivation and genius, their capacity to collaborate, and the fulfillment that comes from harnessing the creative impulse in us all to meet our purpose.

      In 2014 Aaron and business partner, Adam Utley, co-founded The Yes Works and developed the Adeptability Model of collaboration and leadership training and the Adeptable Culture Audit.

      Aaron and The Yes Works serve clients across the country and across industries including Microsoft, MOD Pizza, DiscoverOrg, Burkhart Dental Supply, SOG Knives, 9th Gear, and Textainer to make work good for people and people good for work.

      And now, Aaron also leads a CEO’s peer group through Excell Puget Sound, challenging leaders to grow to meet the persistent and emerging challenges of leading a company.

      “Every team has genius at work.  Only the best encourage and inspire the genius to emerge.”

      Adam Utley has been working for 6 years to help teams build habits that lead to higher accountability, more fulfillment, and work cultures that inspire people.

      He does this by training people to practice a language he loves… The language of improvisation. What he’s found in working with leaders at every level of the businesses he serves is that this language resonates with people of all personality types, and that it helps to connect people with their teammates and paves the way for greater results with less effort.

      Adam and his business partner, Aaron Schmookler, co-founded The Yes Works in 2014 and developed the Adeptability Model of collaboration and leadership training and the Adeptable Culture Audit that supports a collaborative culture of accountability.

      The Yes Works serve clients across the country and across industries including Microsoft, MOD Pizza, DiscoverOrg, Burkhart Dental Supply, SOG Knives, 9th Gear, and Textainer to make work good for people and people good for work.

      He is Wenatchee, WA raised and Pacific Lutheran University educated. He’s go 15 years under his belt making his passion his life’s work, and plans to amplify the genius of others through this work for many more fulfilling years to come.

      “It’s never about the thing, it’s always about the relationship.”

      **There is limited seating; Late Registrations/Walk-ins may be limited based on number of preregistered.