Do You Believe Your Managers Can Manage?

Sep 24, 2019 | Leadership Development

Do you believe your managers can really manage? Do you believe your managers have the skills to make their own department or team decisions? Do you believe your managers can outline their own department or team projects and budgets? Do you believe your managers can resolve their own team problems and make sound decisions concerning their teams and talent? If you really believed your managers could manage, you wouldn’t be involved in so many of their management-level decisions and actions....

What Is Your Leadership Doing to the Organization’s Culture?

May 21, 2019 | Leadership Development

How much of an impact is your leadership having on your organization’s culture? If you don’t already know, it’s time to stop and assess its impact. If you do already know, and the impact you’re having isn’t positive, what are you doing to correct it? If you already know the impact your leadership is having on your organization’s culture is not positive, what are you doing to correct it? Now don’t roll your eyes and think, “Oh here we go again. Here’s another consultant telling me we need to...

Are you serving each other with respect?

Sep 25, 2018 | Leadership Development

If I were to ask each of your managers to rate how well they and their teams are being served by other departments within your company, which of the eight options listed below would they choose? We receive excellent service from every colleague and/or department with which we interact. We receive excellent service from select colleagues and/or departments. We receive good service from every colleague and/or department with which we interact. We receive good service from select colleagues...

Can You Exit Your Business Profitably?

Aug 21, 2018 | Succession Planning

Besides the desire for control and independence, many of us start our own businesses to also determine our own financial futures. However, as we move closer to our retirement years, being able to retire in a financially comfortable manner may not be a reality if we haven’t created a business that will allow us to do so. Being able to retire in a financially comfortable manner may not be a reality if we haven’t created a business that will allow us to do so. There are six basic succession or...

Strategic Workforce Planning – Build Depth & Develop Talent

Feb 26, 2018 | Succession Planning

The Vice President of Human Resources called. “I need to create a Strategic Workforce Plan for our company, get our leadership team on-board, teach all managers how to do this, and then implement this thing. How do I create this so it makes sense and doesn’t alienate everyone in the process?” That’s a great question, because the key issue is not “How do I do this?” The key issue is, “How do I get the leadership team on-board with me to design, implement, and use this plan to ensure we have a...