The Scanlon Leadership Network and Scanlon Foundation, in partnership with Southwest Michigan First, have come together with Winning Workplaces to bring you an experience like none other, one that will teach you to leverage other’s experiences into winning practices.

You will hear and see the very real results of having an outstanding corporate culture in the keynote and a series of relevant panel discussions, and learn from real world examples.

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Featuring Keynote Speaker
Gaye van den Hombergh, President, Winning Workplaces

Winning Workplaces is a not-for-profit organization founded by one of the families who owned auto parts manufacturer Fel-Pro, Inc., which was nationally recognized for its innovative people practices and outstanding financial performance. Fel-Pro was on Fortune’s 1998 “100 Best Companies to Work for in America” list.The founding family firmly believes that Fel-Pro’s longstanding commitment to positive people practices contributed significantly to its consistent success in outperforming industry financial benchmarks and in winning its major customers’ highest service awards.

Keynote Gaye van den Hombergh, President of Winning Workplaces, will lay out the strategy and techniques for creating and maintaining an excellent organizational culture, based on data compiled and published in the Wall Street Journal’s “Top Small Places to Work”. This is a perfect opportunity for you to learn from the best.

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Agenda

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Conference Site and Lodging

Radisson Plaza Hotel and Suites Kalamazoo MI — www.radissonkz.com
100 West Michigan Avenue Kalamazoo, MI 49007 (Corner of Michigan Ave. and Rose St.) Phone 269.343.3333

Radisson Plaza Hotel and Suites has earned 12 AAA Four-Diamond Awards establishing it as one of the premiere hotels and conference centers in the Midwest. Containing 4 exceptional dining options and 5 specialty retail shops, this urban resort is ideally located in the heart of Kalamazoo’s thriving arts, entertainment and dining district.

Reservations Deadline: April 25 Room Block Price: $120 + tax

All participants are responsible for making and paying for their own lodging. Rooms are available on a first come first served basis. After April 25 all rooms will be released to the general public. When calling in reservations, be sure to indicate that you are with the Scanlon Leadership Network group. You may also register online by visiting www.radissonkz.com and clicking on the “Make a Reservation” link. You MUST enter the Promotional Code “SCAN” to receive the special rate and credit our block.

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Thank you to our sponsors and supporting organizations

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Panel Sessions

Controlling Costs Through Engagement

HUMANeX

Do you ever wonder how—or if—you will achieve your potential in your workplace? At the core of this question and
powerful lifelong pursuit is:

• A commitment to the discovery and development of your individual talents, combined with:
• An organizational culture guided by a core value to impact others in a positive and sustainable way, one that is driven by a focus on relationships, growth, high standards, and continuous learning. President and CEO Brad Black will guide you through the process of achieving these goals.

The Studio
Corporate wellness programs have been found to cut costs and increase productivity. Find out why healthier employees save a company money and how to find a wellness program that will make the greatest impact. Presented by Stacie Kryszak of The Studio: A Personal Health Path. The Studio provides corporate wellness consulting, personal training, and wellness seminars. We believe in empowering people with knowledge to help them create better health in their lives.

Front Line Leadership at Kalamazoo Community College
The Mtec Center in Kalamazoo, affiliated with KVCC, serves area businesses by developing and providing skills training that target specific needs and industries. Bill Willging worked with several area companies to develop a Frontline Leadership program that brings participants from different companies together, along with their managers, to learn and share about leading from the frontline. Bill has lead many groups through this program and will share his thoughts on the importance of developing leadership skills at all levels of the company.

Consumer’s Credit Union Leadership Program
Consumers Credit Union finds it difficult to bring Managers in from the outside. Understanding their unique culture is a key to becoming a successful leader, so CCU believes that selecting and developing new managers from within their ranks creates stronger leadership. Kris Lewis, Office Development Manager at CCU will share specifics about their internal leadership development program.

Thomson-Shore, Inc. Work Team Leader Program
As both a Scanlon company and a company that embraces Lean theories and tools Thomson-Shore needed to provide their employee owners with information, tools and skills that would empower them to make improvements and decisions within their own work areas. To move decision making to the front lines, closest to where the value is created for our customers, the Work Team Leader Program was developed. See how this innovative practice helps Thomson-Shore thrive.

Chances are good most of you are involved in Facebook, Twitter, or some other social media service on a personal level. But how do these powerful communication tools translate to the business environment? It’s becoming increasingly clear that companies are going to need to get on the social media bus or risk being left behind. Natasha Tong, Founder of Mindful Innovation, will show you how to get the most out of this new technology using real-world success stories as examples.

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Luncheon Group Activity: Compelling Issues in Workplace Culture

To get conversations flowing and ideas generated, you will be able to participate in a focused small group exercise during lunch. The end result will be that each of you will leave the discussion with a ‘statement of intent’, i.e. a goal you will work towards achieving. These will be collected and combined into a master document, which will be shared with the entire group.

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REGISTRATION DEADLINE — APRIL 30

Form can be sent to Scanlon Leadership Network
2875 Northwind Drive, Suite 121
East Lansing, MI 48823 Fax: 517.332.9381
Email: majel@scanlonleader.org
Registration can also be emailed without the form

Click here to download the Culture and Leadership Summit PDF and registration form >

The Scanlon Leadership Network is a member-led nonprofit corporation. Therefore, we are able to quickly and economically provide the tools you need to become world-class. By drawing upon the expertise of our network, you will avoid the expense of developing programs and the cost of mistakes and false starts. Our approved consultants are the best in their field. Together we can save you thousands of dollars in consulting and training fees. When you join the Scanlon Leadership Network you become part of a tradition of excellence that has given Scanlon organizations a distinct advantage for more than half a century.

When your organization becomes a member of the Scanlon Leadership Network, you�ll be joining forces with many of the most progressive, successful companies — each of which is dedicated to the Scanlon Principles. Our members are frequently listed among the best companies to work for in North America. A recent book on the 36 best business leaders featured four with Scanlon experience. The opportunity to network with this kind of talent is priceless. While the sharing of ideas and experiences with world-class companies is at the heart of the Scanlon Leadership Network, you’ll also be able to take advantage of many other benefits designed to help you become a leader in your industry.

Networking: We learn from each other and from other world-class organizations. We provide numerous structured networking opportunities where members freely share their leading edge practices with each other.

Best Practices: Each year we collect, evaluate, and distribute a book featuring the best ideas of our members. Included in the book are names and contact information of members willing to help you learn more about their practices and help you adapt them to your organization. We recognize great ideas at an awards banquet each year.

Satisfaction Surveys: A customized employee satisfaction survey is included with your membership. This survey allows you to assess your employees’ satisfaction and benchmark with other members.

Training Materials: As a member, you’ll receive free materials to help you apply Scanlon Principles. Among them are: Team Building, Listening Skills, Lean Manufacturing, Costing Suggestions, Business Literacy and Leadership Programs.

Conference: Our Conference is one of the oldest continuing gatherings of business people in North America. You’ll hear world-class speakers and share thoughts and ideas with other members. As an organizational development tool, the conference provides an opportunity for employees at all levels of a company to learn together and to transfer that learning back to the workplace.

Newsletters: You’ll receive a regularly published newsletter featuring information and ideas on how to make Scanlon Principles work even better for you.

Web Site & Resource Library: As a member, you’ll receive a password to our award-winning web site. Twenty-four hours a day, you’ll be able to download training materials, plan examples, research reports and best practices. Our office contains extensive files, books, training materials and videos related to the Scanlon Principles.

Public Relations: We coordinate speaking engagements for members. We also serve as a clearinghouse for news media interested in gainsharing, employee involvement and open-book management. Articles on members have appeared in many of America’s most respected newspapers and journals.

Certified Consultants: We have taken the risk out of finding good consulting help. We work with a small group of the best independent consultants. All have successfully installed Scanlon Plans or are proven in their field.

“I see the Scanlon Principles as allowing us to unleash the tremendous energy within the company through participation… to direct the beam toward the desired target through Principles of identity, to constantly keep the powerful beam in tune through equity, and to continually strengthen the beam through competence.”

Dwane Baumgardner, Chairman of the Board and CEO, Donnelly Corporation

Scanlon is Based on Four Fundamental Principles and Processes

The First Principle is Identity

The Principle of Identity is based on three assumptions:

1. Change is a universal given and is our only hope.
2. A person’s performance/behavior is a consequence of how they have been treated.
3. Every person and organization is in the process of becoming better or worse.

Scanlon leaders create Identity through a process of education. Their curriculum includes the organization’s mandate, customers, competitive challenges, etc.

Practices that support Identity: Wide sharing of information including financial data “open-book management”, accessible leadership, open forums, visits to customers, suppliers, and investors.

Questions about Identity:

• Is there a need to change?
• What is the right job for me to be doing?
• How do I know when I am doing the job right?

Participation is defined as the opportunity, which only management can give, and the responsibility, which only employees can accept, to influence decisions in their areas of competence.

Practices that support Participation: employee involvement, participative management, teams, flat organizations, suggestion systems.

Questions about Participation:

• Do I encourage others to make decisions?
• Do I take the responsibility for my decisions?

Equity is defined as a genuine commitment to account for the needs of all constituents including customers, investors, and employees.

The process of Equity is accountability. Scanlon leaders regularly report the organization’s performance relative to customers, investors, and employees needs.

Practices that support Equity: gainsharing, goalsharing, profit-sharing, balanced scorecards,tracking and reporting of performance results.

Questions about Equity:

• Are the Equity needs of all constituents in balance?
• How do we know what organizational performances, practices, relationships, will fulfill the Equity needs of all constituents?
• How do we use Equity to hold ourselves and our organization accountable?

Competence is defined as the ability to respond to the constant demand for improvement and change. It requires a commitment to be in a state of becoming something that you never were before.

Practices that support Competence: training, development, job enlargement, Learning Organizations.

Questions about Competence:

• Am I willing to help others become more competent?
• Am I willing to commit to make myself better every day?

A company is rightly judged by its products and services, but it must also face scrutiny as to its humanity. − D .J. DePree

We are a new foundation (formed in 2003) but we are heirs to a tradition of innovation that goes back to the 1940’s. We are part of the group of organizations that quietly led the way in labor-management cooperation, open-book management, employee involvement, gainsharing, goalsharing, profit sharing, lean, and servant leadership.

The 20th Century has been a hothouse of management fads…In the meantime one truly big idea has bubbled along since the 1940’s, never receiving the accolades we regularly bestow on more modest insights. And it’s surprising considering this one has all the elements of a blockbuster. Its watchwords read like an abstract of 50 years’ worth of business hot buttons: Employee Participation, management-labor cooperation, collaborative problem-solving, teamwork, trust, gainsharing, open-book management and servant leadership. But you probably won’t recognize one of the best-kept secrets in the management world: The Scanlon Plan.”

Training Magazine
December 1999

Consistent with our mission, we publish books and articles related to Scanlon and sponsor Scanlon related research. We are a nonprofit 501 c (3) supporting foundation that supports and carries out the charitable work of our parent association, the Scanlon Leadership Network.

We consult and provide training in the following areas:

Organizational Excellence and creating “Best Places to Work.”
Five companies in the top 25 “best places to work” have had Scanlon plans. Scanlon companies continue to be leaders in their industries, “best places to work”, and “most admired.” We have a proven track record in corporate culture change.

Group Reward Systems
We pioneered gainsharing, goalsharing, and profit sharing systems. We have more experience than any other group. We can show you how to do gainplanning and gainmaking, as well as gainsharing.

Involvement and Cooperation
Scanlon created some of the very first joint Labor-Management systems. We believe in cooperation. We also are leaders in Employee Involvement having created some of the first team based systems. Scanlon has over sixty years experience developing high involvement cultures.

Financial Literacy and Open-Book Management
Scanlon has developed extensive support for helping individuals understand the financial systems that keep score in business.

Lean and Continuous Improvement
Scanlon developed one of the most successful suggestion or continuous improvement systems. Today, Scanlon companies are also highly accomplished in lean and six-sigma. We can teach you the tools, and we can help you create a lean culture of continuous improvement.

Leadership Development & Servant Leadership
Servant Leadership is part of everything we do. We have assessment, mentoring and development programs to help servant leaders succeed.

Employee Satisfaction and Engagement Surveys
We provide a wide variety of on-line and paper assessments. We can customize, administer, and report results at a fraction of the cost of other organizations.