Your Workforce’s Composition is About to Change

Jun 16, 2020 | Succession Planning

If you haven’t already had enough surprises and challenges this year, get ready for another leadership challenge: Your workforce’s composition will change more than you expect in the next 18-24 months. Your workforce’s composition will change more than you expect in the next 18-36 months. Why? Your team is tired. You’re tired. The past several months have been exhausting. The rapid shift to no or remote-work status, the endless Zoom meetings, the additional work required to communicate...

Marry Your Values to Your New Work Culture

May 26, 2020 | Leadership Development, Strategic Planning

As you continue to refine your organization’s current work culture, whether remote or in-person, don’t forget your organization’s values. Your organization’s values are your organization’s ‘House Rules.’ They define the behaviors that are expected, day in and day out, of everyone who takes a paycheck from your organization or who represents it. If someone doesn’t want to abide by your organization’s values, fine. They are simply choosing to work someplace else. Your organization’s values...

6 COVID-19 Induced Reasons Why You Should Scrap Your Current Strategic Plan

Apr 21, 2020 | Strategic Planning, WBS

When things start to settle a bit in your world as you adjust to the new reality caused by the global COVID-19 Pandemic, be prepared to dramatically revise your strategic plan. It’s no longer strategically viable. Whether your operations experience a positive or negative impact for two weeks or two years, the future work world you were envisioning when your plan was created no longer exists. The future work world you were envisioning when you created your strategic plan no longer exists Here...

Why Are We Still Doing This?

Feb 18, 2020 | Strategic Planning

During a recent quarterly strategic plan update session, the CFO had an epiphany. We had been discussing what they, as the senior staff, had done to communicate their new vision and mission to all staff. We had also discussed what they would be doing next to work with their teams to help them understand how each team’s efforts should support the new vision. As part of that discussion, I suggested the senior staff ask themselves and their teams this question: How will this (process, initiative,...

Are You Building A Solid Leadership Foundation?

Nov 26, 2019 | Leadership Development

One of the many pleasures of my work is that I have the opportunity to observe, work with, learn from, and laugh with some incredibly good leaders. I also am able to experience others, who, though well-meaning, create more work, confusion, and frustration than they realize. One of the fundamental differences in these two types of leaders is that those who I view as ‘good leaders’ intentionally reassess and develop their own leadership skills while they dedicate time and resources to developing...