Key steps to strategic planning – part 2
Category: Strategy
To stay on the growth path in 2020, alignment on a vision, strategy, and key initiatives is essential. By having participation and alignment across your company in the planning process, you can be certain that each team knows it’s part in the success of the company.Last week we covered the first 3 stages of effective…
Tags: | Strategy Development
Key Steps to Strategic Planning – Part 1
Category: Blog | Strategy
To stay on the growth path in 2020, alignment on a vision, strategy, and key initiatives is essential. By having participation and alignment across your company in the planning process, you can be certain that each team knows it’s part in the success of the company. Here’s a high-level overview for a company with a…
Tags: | planning, Strategy Development
How to fully engage your team
Category: Blog | Team
Over the last year the importance of employee engagement and retention has continued to rise in businesses. Every company wants to attract and keep the best talent. The problem? Many employees in today’s job market quickly feel uninspired by their work, get bored after 2 years and start job hunting for something new. Not surprisingly…
Tags: | employee enagagement, leadership, management
How to improve team productivity through email
Category: Blog | Leadership | Team
Effective communication is a key leadership trait and in today’s world, a lot of that communication happens over email. One report said in 2019, an average of 126 emails are sent and received per person per day. That is a lot of email to process effectively. A recent Harvard Business Review article quoted a study…
Tags: | time management
How to handle workplace pressure
Category: Blog | Leadership
As the pace of change in our workplaces continue to increase, it’s inevitable that the pressures will continue to rise as well. Most people feel this happening all around them. According to a Korn Ferry survey, two thirds of professionals say their stress levels at work are higher than they were five years ago. The…
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Time management myths
Category: Blog | Leadership
I’ve been a coaching people on time management for over 10 years. What that means is that I have coached many individuals through the process of figuring out which time management strategies work for them, putting them into practice, and learning skills to get and stay on track. During that time period, I’ve talked to…
Tags: | time management
Is your company ready for change?
Category: Blog | Leadership | Strategy Implementation
Markets are commoditising and consolidating. There are new laws on their way. Brexit is getting nearer. Consumer trends are changing in the blink of an eye. Emerging global markets are being created daily. Successful leaders see these changes. In fact the best leaders not only have a viewpoint about how to respond to these changes,…
Tags: | Change, change management
How to build trust…
Category: Blog | Leadership
As a leader, you want the people in your company to trust you. Not surprisingly, as we often read that trust is a leading indicator of whether others evaluate them positively or negatively. But creating that trust or, perhaps more importantly, reestablishing it when you’ve lost it isn’t always that straightforward. Some research by Jack…
Tags: | leadership
Steps to effective listening
Category: Blog | Leadership
One of the things I have to do as a coach/leader is to be a great listener. Sometimes effective listening can be a challenge because, like most people, I can fall into the trap of thinking about my response and how I would like to help the individual with whom I am communicating. One of…
Tags: | Self Leadership
5 Reasons why your strategic plan won’t work
Category: Blog | Strategy | Strategy Implementation
Time again, businesses hold strategy days, plan retreats and spend money on strategic planning sessions that don’t produce any lasting results. The session may go well and produce a sensible and comprehensible plan for everyone to follow, but progress hardly takes form. The plan barely gets off the ground before it’s pulled back down to…
Tags: | strategy execution
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