Press releases from The Ken Blanchard Companies

Why Great Leaders Must be Willing to GROW

The Ken Blanchard Companies | 04 Apr 2012

Will you be a leader who is always ready to face the next challenge? Or will you be a leader who tries to apply yesterday’s solutions to today’s problems? These are just two of the questions posed by top-selling author team Ken Blanchard and Mark Miller who are back with their third book, Great Leaders GROW: Becoming a Leader for Life.

UK Businesses “Put the Customer Last” say Consumers

The Ken Blanchard Companies | 26 Jan 2012

In a nationwide review of surveys undertaken by retail organisations, statisticians, consumer organisations and ombudsmen, The Ken Blanchard Companies has found a mass of evidence suggesting that in the UK, the customer comes anything but first.

How Many of Your People Have Quit and Stayed?

The Ken Blanchard Companies | 16 Jan 2012

The cost of workers who ‘quit and stay’, employees who are unmotivated, uninspired, and who pretty much give up on their jobs, but who still hang around to receive their pay cheques runs into billions.

999 Fire Project Failure? Another Example of Why 70% of Change Efforts Crash and Burn

The Ken Blanchard Companies | 20 Sep 2011

The failure of a Government project to set up nine regional fire control centres at a cost of £439m to the taxpayer could have been predicted, says The Ken Blanchard Companies. The 'Firecontrol' project, which should have replaced 46 regional control centres was scrapped last year, having achieved none of its original objectives. Now MPs are saying it was 'flawed from the outset.'

What is Doing Nothing Costing Your Business?

The Ken Blanchard Companies | 08 Sep 2011

'It will be too expensive.' 'Far too disruptive!' 'We don't have the time.' These are probably the top three excuses training professionals come up against when trying to make the case for learning and development programmes. But the answer to all of them is 'well how much time and money will you waste, and how much disruption will you experience by doing nothing?'

Global Leadership Company Expands in DACH Region

The Ken Blanchard Companies | 02 Aug 2011

The Ken Blanchard Companies is extending its range of leadership, team building, organisational change and customer service training it offers in the German language. The move follows Blanchard’s success delivering its world-renowned programmes in the DACH region to leading companies such as Akzo Nobel, Vattenfall, Bayer Healthcare, Deutsche Bank, Gillette, HILTI, Nokia Siemens Networks, Microsoft, and Ricoh.

World Renowned Leadership Programme Comes to Scotland

The Ken Blanchard Companies | 07 Jun 2011

The world renowned leadership development model, Situational Leadership® II (SLII®) will be taught in Glasgow for the first time later this year. The two-day course was developed by The Ken Blanchard Companies in 1985 and is used by thousands of leading organisations worldwide, including BT, American Express, Coca-Cola, Diageo, Nokia, and Pfizer.

Training Survives Recession: Most Business Will Continue to Invest in L&D, says Blanchard Survey

The Ken Blanchard Companies | 03 May 2011

78% of organisations polled by The Ken Blanchard Companies in their latest annual Corporate Issues Survey say they will be spending the same or more on L&D initiatives in the next financial year.