Based on public demand, Meri Aaron Walker, President of SuccessMetrics, has begun to share her recent research by delivering a popular and highly practical workshop for business people - both people who are traditionally employed and the self-employed - based on critical trends in the developing "free agent" economy.

        90-Minute Lunch or Dinner Session to                    a 4-8 Hour Interactive Workshop

This session offers participants a fresh perspective on the turbulent 21st Century global information economy and encouragement for considering a straightforward approach to work and relationship. In a world where 4.5 out of 10 working people no longer have "real jobs" … and aren't likely to have another one again in their lives ... it's time for workers and employers alike to reexamine their fundamental assumptions about work.

"This talk really raised the bar for future presenters! You raised everyone's awareness of the future and got a lot of people thinking. I think people are not normally thinking about anything but getting a job with "a building." They're just not thinking beyond that. It's a huge cultural mind set change you're pointing to -- one which we are a part of, whether we like it or not. I'm really impressed with what you said and how well you did it."

-- Terri Bishop, Chair, Austin's Low Tech Happy Hour Club (800+ members) Co-Creator, Hire Austin!

Essential Information

With almost 30 years in the field as a free agent herself, Meri Aaron Walker has developed and built her reputation as a management and communication consultant based on her ability to spot and respond quickly to critical trends. She knows what it takes for independent knowledge workers to generate sustainable success for themselves. She's been doing it for herself for 25+ years!

Participants in this session can expect to learn:

• Trends you can't afford to ignore if you want to prosper in the developing free agent economy
  
• Critical data you need to make work and relationship decisions that leverage and grow your most valuable resources
  
• Ways to clarify and connect your compensation strategy to the realities of the 21st century

Cost: Negotiable, based on time and resources of the sponsoring organization. Free What?!! can be presented as a stimulating, interactive group workshop or a lunch or dinner conference at which participants have the opportunity to set concrete actions around three themes. For more details, contact Meri at (512) 491-0027.

Who Should Attend This Session?

• Asset managers whose focus has, so far, been restricted to financial and material asset management
  
• Micro business owners, solo professionals, freelancers, craftsmen, and aspiring big-time entrepreneurs seeking greater reward from their work and personal relationships
  
• Newly unemployed professionals who want to move themselves quickly into their next great job
  
• Coaches and performance improvement consultants who want to enrich their understanding of changing work and compensation contexts

• Recruiters who want to give themselves an edge in the talent acquisition and placement markets
  
• Human resource managers who want to improve the relevance of what they're offering to employees and to management
  
• Line managers who want to enlarge their perspectives and cope better with 21st century workplace realities

Benefits for Individuals

• Identify limitations of traditional concepts about work and workplace relationships in relation to 21st Century realities (including new technologies, new resource management models, a global workforce)
  
• Distinguish traditional career management strategies from whole-person "asset management" strategies
  
• Consider the value of human capital measurement systems (It IS possible for people to leverage their natural strengths and increase their value as they work, not just deplete their assets and their health.)
  
• Reduce self-doubt, guilt, and anguish by positively associating the "good fit" between an individual's natural strengths, the demands of potential work opportunities, and compensation realities.

Benefits For Sponsoring Organizations

• Deliver relevant information to your key stakeholders during tough economic times
  
• Retrain managers, workers, clients, members to cope with 21st Century workplace realities
  
• Explore a new approach to linking performance management with compensation that can save you money AND get others more of what they want.

Session Content

Say Hello to the New, New World!

• What does it mean to talk about "human capital" in the 21st Century?
  
• What is a "free agent" anyway?
  
• Critical trends affecting work now and in the decade ahead.
  
• How we're thinking about work isn't matching the realities anymore.
  
• The inescapable effects of human difference on the transfer of information -- in an economy based on information exchange.

Shifting into a New Kind of "Human Capital Management" Model

• Rethinking how we assess and manage our human resources
  
• Shifting our values: from control/authority/independence to ideas/information/relationship
  
• Assessing and growing our portfolios of human assets
  
• Distinguishing technical skills and education from natural strengths

Applying Proven Assessment Tools to Managing Fit and Performance

• Stop contracting or paying for loyalty. Start hiring for fit
  
• Use a dose of reality as your measuring stick. Think like a portfolio manager: Are your current deployment strategies growing or depleting your assets as you apply them to your objectives?
  
• Expect to negotiate everything. Equip yourself to continually assess, leverage and benefit from human difference.
  
• You can - and should - let all the inmates run the asylum together. Allow yourself, your co-workers and employers to test each other continually to keep improving the fit between you. There's no better way to increase profits AND job satisfaction at the same time!
  
• Keep your eye on the horizon. Reward yourself and others for growing assets. Create powerful disincentives for exploiting assets, yours or anyone else's. In this information economy, we're all in it together!
  

          90-Minute Lunch or Dinner Session to        a 4-8 Hour Interactive Workshop

Call us TODAY to set up a session that fits your needs.

(512) 491-0027