World Congress 2024 • Aug 20, 2024 • Session details

Creating healthy high performing organizations - the missing link

Eva-Maria Weidner

Functional skills can be taught, but toxic high-performers destroy team psychological safety. Discover how measuring cultural competencies like trust drives record revenue and single-digit churn.

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#1 about 4 min

Scaling a digital organization and navigating post-pandemic growth

The journey of rapidly expanding an airline's digital workforce while maintaining organizational health.

#2 about 4 min

Balancing compensation, growth, and culture for employee retention

How combining fair pay, personal development frameworks, and culture prevents opportunistic job-hopping and stagnation.

#3 about 9 min

Defining and evaluating cultural competencies in performance management

Integrating core behaviors like adaptability, proactivity, and communication into structured annual evaluations.

#4 about 3 min

Applying an individual performance and trust matrix for staffing

Prioritizing high trust and psychological safety over pure functional performance when evaluating technical employees.

#5 about 4 min

Managing high performers with low trust and cultural fit

Addressing the negative organizational impact of an employee who excels functionally but fails to collaborate.

#6 about 4 min

Measuring the business impact of a culture-first organizational approach

How emphasizing cultural metrics directly correlates with high employee morale, retention, and record revenue.

#7 about 4 min

Fostering flexibility, remote work, and personal wellbeing in tech

Overcoming toxic performance standards by integrating personal wellbeing, flexible limits, and healthy employee offboarding.

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Balancing high performance with a deep human focus

Jürgen Hartwig

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Engaging hyper-personalized talent in the modern operational workforce

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Distinguishing top talent and maintaining psychological wellbeing

Rudi Bauer

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5:38 min

Managing toxic behaviors from high-performing employees

Rudi Bauer

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Cultivating sustainable corporate cultures through ongoing self-reinvention

Rudi Bauer

Rudi Bauer +1 · Cappuccino with HR

3:37 min

Transitioning from corporate burnout to sustainable high performance

Rudi Bauer

Rudi Bauer +1 · Cappuccino with HR

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