Change Your Organization’s Culture in 12 Months

Dec 27, 2023 | Leadership Development

Change your organization’s culture in 12 months. That statement sounds crazy right? It sounds impossible, but it’s not. It simply takes your unrelenting focus and commitment as a leader to model and communicate what you want and need your team to do as well. It won’t be easy to change your organization’s culture in 12 months. It simply takes your unrelenting focus and commitment as a leader to model and communicate what you want and need your team to do as well. As the leader, you have...

Are You Developing Problem Reporters or Problem Solvers?

Sep 19, 2023 | Leadership Development

“I know this is terrible to say, but I don’t want Larry on my executive team. He sucks the energy out of the room. Brad, the previous director who managed Larry, was great, but Larry exhausted him! I know Larry wants to become a director and I really can’t fault his performance. It’s just him. He’ll kill the energy and culture we’ve developed as an executive team this past year and I won’t jeopardize that.” That may sound a bit dramatic, but it’s a very real issue one of my clients is dealing...

Culture Eats Strategy for…an Appetizer

Jan 24, 2023 | Strategic Planning

We’ve all heard Peter Drucker's saying, “Culture eats strategy for lunch [or breakfast].” I am, of course, not going to disagree with that statement. However, given the work world today, it’s not enough. Culture doesn’t just eat strategy for breakfast or lunch. Culture eats strategy as an appetizer. Then it eats strategy for breakfast, lunch, dinner, dessert, a snack, etc. A poor company culture will eat up and spit out your organization if its cultural framework, strategic priorities, and...

Create Values That Support Your Culture

Oct 25, 2022 | Strategic Planning

If you’re like most organizations today, you’re struggling to attract, train, develop, promote, and retain great team members. Heck, you’re struggling to find and retain team members - regardless of how great they may be! You’re also dealing with a myriad of supply chain and pricing issues, social and political divisiveness, altered expectations of ‘the workplace’, and much more. All of these pressures make ‘just doing what you do’ a true challenge. So how do you attract, train, develop,...

Starting a Strategic Initiative? Clarify Your Culture First

Jun 21, 2022 | Strategic Planning

Now that you’ve finally hired the additional project team members needed, and you’ve checked, checked, and triple-checked your strategic initiative’s plan and deliverables, it’s time to start your project, right? Wrong. Before you start any strategic initiative, clarify with your team the role the project plays in supporting your organization’s mission, and how each team member fits in. The more clearly every team member (veteran and new) understands how the project and their work –...