If your organization is like most, the added pressures of employee vacation schedules can compound stretched-to-the-limit holiday work requirements. With some employees out of the office on vacation, some trying to cover the work of those who are on leave, and others trying to get caught up when they return, there’s a direct impact...
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I recently bumped into “Terry,” the president of a company I worked with four years ago.  During my engagement with them, we’d done strategic planning, leadership succession planning, and lots of management team and systems development (i.e., process and procedures development and management training). Because it’d been awhile since I’d worked with them, I...
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The vision and mission are two separate and distinct components of your most important leadership tool: the strategic plan. And unlike many others who work in strategic planning, I am here to tell you that this Dragon Lady of Accountability™ is a stickler when it comes to her clients first understanding the purpose of...
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Leaders, do you know why it is important that your employees know how YOU fit into the overall strategic plan? Too often, we leaders fail to clarify for our employees how OUR actions tie into and align with the overall strategic plan. To employees, our actions tend to have, what I call, ‘The Moth...
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