Soundview to Host Interactive Webinar with Jim Kerr

PHILADELPHIA - March 31, 2014 - PRLog -- As we enter this new commercial age, executives must respond by re-imagining their organizations' structures, enhancing product and service offerings, and leveraging emerging technological capabilities. At this Soundview Live webinar, A Guide for Setting Direction & Managing Change, Jim Kerr provides a primer for how to set direction and manage change within the 21st century enterprise. Kerr has organized his guide into easily accessible checklists, each demystifying a key aspect of today's leadership challenge and outlining the steps necessary to revitalize today's businesses. Learn more at http://www.summary.com/track/_/A-Guide-for-Setting-Direction-and-Managing-Change.

James M. Kerr is a management consultant and organizational behaviorist. He specializes in strategic planning, corporate transformation and project & program development. For over 20 years, Jim has forged a different type of consulting practice – one that does its engagements “with” its clients, instead of “to” them.

Whether helping larger organizations, like The Home Depot re-imagine its store operations, or advising smaller firms, like specialty insurer Jewelers Mutual open up new markets, Jim has a reputation of making a difference.

A graduate of Bentley University located in Waltham, Massachusetts, Jim earned an M.S. degree in Management Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute -- where he continues to teach graduate-level Strategic Planning courses in its Lally School of Management.

Attendees will learn:

•          The 10 key steps that can be used to institute an overarching, enterprise-wide transformation program.

•          The characteristics of a poor leader and how to overcome them.

•          The implications of the three simple words “Do Your Job.”

•          The importance of a flatter organizational design coupled with a team-based operating model.

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