Leadership coach and consultant.
In most small businesses and nonprofit organizations resources are always tight. When the role and purpose of the HR department is reduced to making sure “people get paid” and doing the minimum “administrative paperwork” required by law, so many of the other important contributions from HR are missed. If you need your people to perform […]
The ability to hire, manage, and retain great employees is a requirement of any successful organization. Although every organization faces the challenge of finding and keeping great employees, small businesses and nonprofit organizations face a unique set of issues. Although the scale is smaller, the same personnel concerns that arise in large companies exist and […]
The reason that so many of us don’t want to – but know that we need to – conduct strategic planning with our teams and organizations is because too often the results leave us feeling frustrated about the investment of time compared with the value of the outcomes. Whether it takes the form of a […]
If employees are going to respond to the strategic priorities and change initiatives that matter, they have to know certain things. The cause of failure for so many change efforts and botched strategic plans is too often attributed to staff members who “just weren’t on board” or who “didn’t get it.” While this kind of […]
Strategic planning is one of the most widely recognized and practiced organizational activities, yet surprisingly it is one of the least scrutinized. One of the reasons that many leaders are simultaneously pulled toward the desire to create effective strategic plans for their organizations, yet repelled by the thought of potentially wasting time in the effort, […]