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As Chief Imagination Officer of Creative Sage™, I live a passionate personal mission to cause the spontaneous combustion of creativity, innovation, and compassionate intelligence everywhere!

At Creative Sage™, we help corporations, nonprofit organizations, professional associations, project teams, entrepreneurs, consultants, authors, artists, performers and others to create outstanding marketing strategies, communications, solutions, services and products. We design dynamic, cutting-edge innovation programs that are tailored to our clients' individual needs for maximum return on investment in innovation management.

We coach and mentor executives, and we also coach accomplished, creative professionals and their organizations to revolutionize the concept of "retirement" and create powerful new lives, projects and initiatives, including Social Entrepreneur projects and partnerships between corporations, nonprofits and philanthropists. We use highly creative and effective methods to help people in mid-life or at any age to navigate transitions in business or in life. We'll coach your inner innovator out of hiding...we help you innovate to be great!

Cathryn Hrudicka & Associates was our original company name, where we've focused on marketing communications, public relations, fundraising, performing arts presentation, and management consulting in the entertainment industry and nonprofit arts. Known for our innovative approaches and story angles, and our strategic capabilities, we have also served a variety of business and technology clients, including working in various capacities on multimedia and marketing projects for Fortune 500s, major universities, healthcare companies, environmental/sustainability, and trade associations. We've also added social media and Internet marketing and PR to our mix of services. We bring your message to the world, and the world to you. Let's start a conversation!

~Cathryn Hrudicka, Chief Imagination Officer, Creative Sage™/ Cathryn Hrudicka & Associates

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I'm honored to be a contributing author to the 2011 best-selling business book, A Guide to Open Innovation & Crowd Sourcing: Advice from Leading Experts, along with some of my innovation colleagues from #Innochat (Twitter Innovation chat and web site); edited by Paul Sloane, with a foreword by Henry Chesbrough. You can order it here: http://amzn.to/OI_CS
I co-wrote the chapter, "Building the Culture for Open Innovation and Crowd Sourcing," with Gwen Ishmael and Boris Pluskowski — more information about all of the co-authors and the contents of this book at: http://bit.ly/OI_CS_Google

Sep 20

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Disengaged employees are expensive. They cost your organization time and money either in workplace nonproductivity, turnover costs, training, and lost opportunities. They also suck the vital life force out of your organization and can ruin the dynamics of a once functioning and flourishing team. Happy employees or those that are engaged and active do the exact opposite. They are responsible for moving an organization forward and can be the reason a product launch or organizational change succeeds.

The infographic you see below [at the linked post] provides some interesting visual insights into how your disengaged workforce can impact your organization and cost you profit margin as well as your best employees. Tower’s Watson also released their 2012 Global Workforce Study. After surveying over 30,000 global workers, a certain number of trends emerged that organizations and human resource leaders must pay mind to in adapting and evolving to be a successful workplace over the next 10 years.

[Excerpt, click on the link to read the rest of this post, view the infographic, and to see a link to the 2012 Global Workforce Study.]

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From: Blogging4Jobs — Disengaged Employees Cost US Employers $350 Billion Per Year

By Jessica Miller-Merrell

At Creative Sage™, we offer great solutions for boosting employee engagement! We often coach and mentor clients to more effectively facilitate the processes of organizational change management, navigate transitions, and improve collaboration abilities. We guide and mentor work teams, executives and managers to successfully implement transition processes and help employees to become more resilient in adjusting to rapid changes in the workplace. We work with on-site and virtual teams.

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you would like to discuss your situation and how we can help your organization move forward to a more innovative and profitable future! You can also call us at 1-510-845-5510 in San Francisco / the Silicon Valley. We look forward to talking with you to explore how we could work together to help your organization solve your employee engagement and retention problems.