Practical Solutions to Minimize Costs of Critical Knowledge Loss

Worried about retirement of aging experts? Key leaders? Will mid-career turnover put essential capabilities at risk?

David DeLong
Speaker, Author, Consultant
David DeLong, Speaker, Author, Consultant

Keynote Speaker

Worried about losing critical know-how when employees leave?

Excite your company or association meeting with practical solutions to identify & retain knowledge crucial to performance improvement.

Need a customized keynote speech that engages leaders & gives them a framework for immediate action?

Workshops

Is knowledge loss threatening your company’s performance?

Improving knowledge transfer and limiting the loss of essential capabilities is key to your organization’s future performance.

Learn to use the latest tools and techniques to address skills gaps and improve knowledge retention.

Coaching & Consulting

Struggling to implement solutions for a changing, aging workforce?

Work with us to design and execute initiatives that improve knowledge transfer and retention.

Keep key know-how from walking out the door! Schedule a call now.

Knowledge Retention Strategies That Work!

Leaders today have to minimize the performance impacts of losing critical knowledge due to retiring experts or unwanted mid-career turnover. Not having enough specialized capabilities and know-how is a major barrier to sustaining and growing your business. But every lost knowledge problem occurs in a unique industry and geographic context that suggests a range of solutions.

Our broad experience with clients in sectors such as manufacturing, healthcare, supply chain and aerospace gives us insights into many options. The solutions we promote are practical, customized and cost-effective. They respect the unique challenges posed by your strategic objectives, the distinctive characteristics of the expertise and changing technologies.

Managing Change to Minimize Critical Knowledge Loss

Interventions to cut the costs of lost knowledge often require serious organizational change. And leaders need to manage these change dynamics effectively to make investments pay off.

We provide processes and tactics for managing change to get results faster, keeping initiatives on track through executive coaching, diagnostic interviews and facilitated meetings. We can help you:

  • Clarify the sponsor’s roles & responsibilities
  • Create & sustain urgency needed to address risks of critical knowledge loss
  • Clarify your desired outcomes
  • Communicate effectively about new initiatives
  • Remove barriers to change
  • Deal with resistance
  • Implement sustainable changes that boost performance

Skillful Mentoring: Making Experience Pay Off

Do your veteran experts lack the mentoring skills needed to train the next generation? Your less experienced workers need to master fast-changing, complex jobs, but many veteran employees are missing the motivation and ability to transfer their unique know-how.

We close this capability gap with highly-customized training programs that increase your team’s commitment and capacity to pass on their knowledge needed to sustain and improve performance.

Transferring Leadership Knowledge

The leadership pipeline in organizations today is dangerously thin! You need practical solutions to:

  • Implement realistic succession plans in small and mid-sized organizations
  • Transfer essential know-how, know who & know what to successors
  • Develop young leaders much faster than in the past
  • Identify new leadership skills needed for the future
  • Create practical leadership development programs

We provide CEOs, line executives and association directors innovative, cost-effective ways to develop tomorrow’s leaders in today’s economy.

How Can We Help You?

Entertaining keynote speaker delivers practical, customized programs.

David is a highly sought after speaker who engages and educates audiences about innovative solutions for problems caused by the loss or shortage of essential skills.

Every program is highly-customized to meet the specific needs of your audience and industry. Executives and professionals participating in David’s presentations come away energized with a new sense of urgency, specific tools to tackle the threats they face, and knowledge of clear action steps.

Keynote Speaker David DeLong

Interactive workshops accelerate learning and produce realistic action plans

We deliver uniquely customized onsite workshops or webinars on specific topics, such as managing change, mentoring, diagnosing and prioritizing skills gap risks, leadership development, and strategic selling. Every session is designed to address the specific needs and challenges facing participants in your organization. We do extensive pre-interviewing with participants and leaders and often develop custom case studies that address central problems facing the organization.

David DeLong Workshops

Collaborating to apply tools, develop processes and implement change

Leaders sometimes know exactly where skill shortages are hurting performance. But in complex organizations, like advanced manufacturing plants, hospitals, and energy suppliers, it’s hard to pinpoint and prioritize which capabilities demand the most resources.

Diagnostic interviews with all levels of management, facilitated feedback and workshops using risk assessment tools, and evaluation of different solution offerings can all be part of consulting projects designed to get real traction improving knowledge transfer and developing tomorrow’s workforce.

David DeLong Consultant

Learn faster in one-on-one sessions that help you create high value solutions to specific problems.

Our deep knowledge of workforce and leadership development issues and answers, combined with skillful counseling practices, make Dave an ideal coach for many leaders grappling with unique talent and knowledge management problems.

Sometimes coaching is a logical follow up program for workshops or an effective part of a consulting engagement. Interactions can be over coffee, via Skype, phone or email. Whatever best supports performance improvement and the outcomes you want.

David DeLong Coaching

Passionately Pursuing Solutions for a Changing Workforce

About David

David DeLong, Speaker, Consultant, Coach on Workplace Issues

Author, speaker and consultant Dr. David DeLong helps organizations find and implement practical solutions for critical skill shortages and faster knowledge transfer. President of the research-driven consulting firm Smart Workforce Strategies, he is also a research fellow at the MIT AgeLab and has been an adjunct professor at Babson College where he taught “Leading & Managing Change” & “Designing & Managing E-Business Organizations.”

Author of 3 Books

High Impact Talent Management by David DeLong

The Executive Guide to High-Impact Management

Powerful Tools for Leveraging a Changing Workforce

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Lost Knowledge: Confronting the Threat of an Aging Workforce by David DeLong

Lost Knowledge

Confronting the Threat of an Aging Workforce

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Graduate to a Great Job by David DeLong

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