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"Awesome people radiate a inner energy that is contagious. They are team players who thrive on working with others to accomplish results and are willing to run through walls, if necessary to do so."
From "Building the Awesome Organization"
by Katherine Catlin and Jana Matthews
 f you build an awesome organization that attracts, retains and inspires people to create and innovate, your company will grow. If you don't your company will decline. It's that simple. The Kauffman Foundation Signature Series program, Attracting and Retaining Awesome People, provides entrepreneurs with the steps and leadership challenges they must incorporate and implement to keep their companies on the road to success.
Through interactive discussions, self-diagnostics and video clips of highly successful entrepreneurs, this Signature Series program explains how a company can become an awesome organization by developing an empowering and motivating environment that attracts awesome people and then retains them because it enables them to thrive and perform at their best.
Here's What You'll Learn from this Program:
In the Kauffman Signature Series, Attracting and Retaining Awesome People, you'll learn and discuss the qualities to look for in an awesome employee. These characteristics include self-motivation, good communication skills, understanding the company vision, honesty and integrity, willingness to learn and improve and much more.
You'll also learn how to turn your company into an awesome organization. You'll discuss the eight components that make up an awesome organization. Each one of these characteristics must be strengthened in order for your company to grow. If any one is weak, the company growth and performance will be at risk. To learn where your company stands right now, and the items you need to work on to become an awesome organization, take our Quick Quiz.
Our Panel Will Provide Expert Advice
Most presentations include videotaped segments featuring entrepreneurs who provide their expertise on many of the topics discussed in the Attracting and Retaining Awesome People program. These experts include:
Ewing Marion Kauffman
Founder of Marion Laboratories, later Marion Merrell Dow
[Bio]
Scott Cook
Co-Founder and Chairman of the Executive Committee of Intuit
[Bio]
Dick Schulze
Founder and Chairman of Best Buy
[Bio]
Barnett Helzberg, Jr.
[Bio]
Howard H. Stevenson
[Bio]
Tom Bailey
[Bio]
Video from the Attracting And Retaining Awesome People CD-ROM:
Clarity of Purpose
Steve Ransom, Ransom Environmental
Clarity of Direction
Daniel Grace, Executive-In-Residence, Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership, Inc., Kauffman Foundation
Clarity of Measurement
Daniel Grace, Executive-In-Residence, Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership, Inc., Kauffman Foundation
Every Associate Must Understand the Mission and Vision
Jeff Cook, Arco Construction
Where Are We Trying To Take The Business
Michael Slaughter, President, Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership, Inc., Kauffman Foundation
Learn more about the authors of the book Attracting and Retaining Awesome People:
Katherine Catlin (Hingham, MA)
Founder, The Catlin Group
[Bio]
Jana Matthews (Boulder, CO)
President and CEO of Boulder Quantum Ventures
[Bio]
It's Easy To Present This Program
The Kauffman Foundation makes it easy for organizations to present the Attracting and Retaining Awesome program. All the tools and training needed to present the program are provided free-of-charge. Organizations and facilitators receive presentation materials that will enable them to easily promote and present this educational event to their group members or to other entrepreneurs within their local business community.
Learn how your organization can put on a Signature Series presentation.
Learn how to become a facilitator and put on a presentation for your organization.
Find a Signature Series Program near you.
Download Program Materials
If you've already attended a Signature Series event, visit the Attendee page to download or view some of the materials from this event such as the PowerPoint presentation, Video Segments, etc.
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