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Multipliers project earns 2020 Brandon Hall Group Bronze Award

Advantage collaboration with Western & Southern Financial Group earns Excellence in Learning honor

We are blessed with great clients who entrust us with their most valuable business asset: their people."

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A project at Western & Southern Financial Group with Multipliers at its core has won a 2020 Brandon Hall Excellence in Learning Bronze Award for Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy.

"Multiplying Our Talent: A Strategy for Innovation and Cultural Transformation," a collaboration between Advantage Performance Group's Cincinnati team and Western & Southern, is among 2020 Brandon Hall award winners In a year that brought in a record number of applications.

Multipliers, a live or virtual business simulation, learning journey and coaching program based on the groundbreaking bestseller by Liz Wiseman, helps leaders become talent magnets who can draw out the the best work from others and help them realize their full potential. The program makes participants keenly aware of unintentional behaviors that diminish talent and workarounds that help talent grow and flourish.

Western & Southern is leveraging the Multipliers learning strategy to enhance the way we conduct business.”

“Western & Southern is leveraging the Multipliers learning strategy to enhance the way we conduct business,” said Linda Lake, senior vice president of human resources at Western & Southern. “It is aligning our business priorities with associates’ behaviors that drive measurable positive outcomes across our enterprise.”

“What really stands out about this implementation is the executive level commitment and long-term sustainment efforts,” said Advantage Partner Peg McLaughlin Ruppert.  “Creating a Multipliers culture is not easy. The training session is only the start. The real work is in shifting mindsets and adopting new skills and behaviors that make everyone smarter and more capable.”

“We are blessed with great clients who entrust us with their most valuable business asset: their people. I’d like to congratulate both our partners at Western & Southern Financial Group as well as our team at Advantage who have worked so hard over the last 18 months to achieve the results that this award recognizes ,” said Jonathan Hodge, president and C.E.O. at Advantage. “While great content and thought leadership from Liz Wiseman provides a strong foundation for success, the efforts of the teams to plan, align and engage leaders through this transformation is what really makes the difference.”

“It has been such a pleasure to work with the team at Western & Southern Financial Group that understands and is committed to embedding these practices into every area of their business, improving their culture, increasing employee engagement, one leader at a time.” Ruppert added.

What really stands out about this implementation is the executive level commitment and long-term sustainment efforts."

About the award...

Brandon Hall announced its 2020 award winners for Excellence in Human Capital Management on August 20 via Zoom.

“Organizations around the world highly value Brandon Hall Group Excellence Awards – so much so that we received a record number of applications in the middle of a global pandemic,” said Rachel Cooke, Brandon Hall Group COO, and leader of the HCM Excellence Awards Program. “The awards provide valuable recognition and validation of best practices in all areas of HCM at a time when they have never been more important to both employers and employees.”

Award entries were evaluated by a panel of veteran, independent senior industry experts, Brandon Hall Group analysts and executives based upon the following criteria: fit the need, design of the program, functionality, innovation and overall measurable benefits.

About Western & Southern Financial Group

Western & Southern Financial Group has a heritage of more than 132 years meeting the financial stability needs of its customers — individuals, families, businesses, foundations, and nonprofits — with a wide range of insurance, investment, and retirement solutions through an ever-growing distribution system.

About Advantage Performance Group

We help organizations worldwide develop great people with creative learning solutions from best-in-class thought leaders via our network of independent partners throughout the United States.

Related content: Multipliers Among Us

Access our webinar replay with special guest presenters Liz Wiseman and collaborator Shawn Vanderhoven (originally held July 30).

Get help with pressing leadership challenges  on how and when you can be more of a multiplier during a crisis (or when it might not be best under some circumstances). The 45-minute webinar concludes with a 15-minute Q&A session.

Learn directly from the author of the groundbreaking bestseller Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter (now celebrating 10 years!) and get tips for multiplying during a crisis with 2 top thinkers who are enlightening leaders worldwide.

Learn more about Multipliers

Contact us to find out how to make Multipliers a part of your strategy for cultural transformation or to build leaders who help make everyone smarter.

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