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Owning the Whole Before Your Piece – Part 2

Owning the whole creates a significant difference between organizations successfully executing on strategies and those struggling to realize the intended results.

Owning the Whole Before Your Piece – Part 1

Leaders are so focused on their piece of the puzzle, they miss the big picture. Harness talent into integrated and simplified priorities for their organization.

Plan a People Strategy like a Product Strategy

If leaders think like marketers and treat employees the same way they would customers, the implementation of a new strategy would go much different.

Designing Results

Design is more than just a fancy logo. Great design has the ability to deliver objectives and results in a way that drives change in any organization.

Do Your Employees Love You?

We all know we can't buy love, but that doesn't stop companies from trying to buy employee engagement, loyalty, or company pride. Learn four ways to naturally gain employee loyalty.

Lifecycle of a Change

Strategic change is a process that takes time and it must be planned out to deliver those first steps of success and ensure sustainment.

The Art of Engagement – Inspiring People, Creating Change, and Making a Difference

There are four key concepts that contribute to building employment engagement and improving productivity.

The Fine Line Between Direction and Engagement – Part 1

Whether your company’s vision is posted on a wall or embedded in your operations comes down to a question of balance. Here’s the question you need to answer!

M&A Make or Break – Part 2 – Creating a Culture of Competence

Creating a culture just to have a culture after a merger and acquisition will not help you achieve success. These five questions will help create a culture of competence that is focused around aligning organizational focus, capability, systems, and processes.

Roots of Engagement Issue Two – People Want to Feel a Sense of Belonging

If you’ve ever been passed over when teams choose up sides, you know what if feels like not to belong. Read how that plays out in business.

Managers matter the most when it comes to engagement!

When allocating training dollars, don’t overlook your managers’ and supervisors’ needs. If they aren’t excellent people-leaders, what are the consequences for your employees? Here’s why you need to focus one step up from the frontline.

Roots of Engagement Issue One – Being Part of Something Bigger Than Yourself

The perennial advice to college grads is “find yourself.” Root CEO Jim Haudan (and others) suggest the real point is to “lose yourself.” It’s a real Root of Engagement.

Missing a Critical Element of Employment Engagement?

Good strategies need good stories. Here’s why stories are important for getting people excited about executing strategy.

Five Fundamental Truths of Corporate Strategy Execution

Strategy is really about a focused effort at all levels of the business on how to win in the marketplace. The ability to rally thousands of employees around a common strategic direction becomes a point of competitive differentiation.

Great Managers: Are They The Missing Link?

Over the past year or so I have heard many clients talk about their increased focus on the service profit chain. While I have heard it described a variety of ways most companies are paying close attention to 3 key links.

Good Morning, Management Family!

Getting an employee engaged and excited about his work is a lot like being a construction worker on Extreme Makeover Home Edition. Both will want to make sure they did everything in their power to achieve the best result for the 'client'.

Marketing the “friendly skies”

But thinking more like a marketer and creating authentic awareness, excitement, and education about your strategy can have a profound impact on how well you execute throughout your organization.

Different Learners, Different Learning Styles

Writing a summary of a paragraph you just read is cakewalk, right? To some, yes, to others it's a big no!

Organizational training and Fruit Loops®

Millions of people eat Fruit Loops every morning, and it isn't mandatory. What does that say about your training program?

Let’s go to the movies…

One of the fastest ways to provide a common understanding is through a story or a visual. The beauty of film is that it marries both approaches in less time.