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Quality Digest – Ten Steps to Better Executing Your Strategic Plans
Most everyone has read the maxim, “Plan your work and work your plan.” This is simple and effective advice—when it’s followed. Unfortunately, it can also be overwhelming when it comes to ensuring that everyone in the organization knows what the strategic plan is and how they can directly support it. Executives assume that creating strategic…
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Quality Digest – The Building Blocks of Organizational Psychology, Part 2
In my last article, I presented the psychological steps of change and how to overcome the natural human resistance to it. In this installment, I’ll present an example of how to transfer those concepts into plans, the plans into actions, and the actions into continuous behaviors. This process might be considered as a look…
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Quality Digest – The Building Blocks of Organizational Psychology, Part 1
As a consultant and trainer specializing in the field of organizational psychology, I’ve come to realize that certain psychological conditions that affect individuals also apply to companies as a whole. That makes sense because, after all, a company is nothing but a collection of people. In this series of articles, I’ll demonstrate how some of…
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Bob Dylan & Frank Sinatra on the subtleties of Conversational Communication
Bob Dylan and Frank Sinatra on Conversational Communication I was sitting in the doctor’s office the other day and read an article about Bob Dylan. In his recent album he sings songs from the 20’s through the 40’s and refers to Frank Sinatra. Dylan shared what made Sinatra so great is that “he sang…
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Leadership Requires Strength & Insight
August 2013 Business Success, Corporate Therapy, Leadership Development/ Executive Coaching, Work Place Articles Clarify the Results and Expectations of the Job Most employees deeply want and need an insightful and strong leader. In every intake interview session I have conducted, the data is clear. People deeply desire a leader who communicates with them, involves them,…
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Implementing a Strategic Plan Puts Companies on Path Toward Victory
August 2013 Business Management Consulting, Business Strategy and Implementation, Business Success, Improvement, Project Implementation: How to Create Ownership Whether it’s called a strategic plan for larger organizations or a plan of attack for smaller mom-and-pop businesses, the foundational elements are the same. Having a clear plan on where your business is going and how to…
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Non-Profit’s: How to do More with Less
August 2013 Business Success, Culture Diversity, Improvement, Work Place Articles “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” – Margaret Mead Each year my partners and I decide on a few nonprofit organizations (NPOs) to work with. We are drawn…
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Strategic Planning: How to Chart your Course for Success
August 2013 Charting Your Course For Success Business Strategy and Implementation, Business Success, Improvement, Leadership Development/ Executive Coaching, Mergers: How to Manage Organizational Change, Project Implementation: How to Create Ownership Overview In order for any business to end the year successfully, it must have begun the year properly by establishing achievable goals at the micro…
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Technology is no Substitute for Effective Communication
August 2013 Give Us a Technology Pill to Cure All Our Ills Communication Issues, Leadership Development/ Executive Coaching, Project Implementation: How to Create Ownership, Work Place Articles Overview Technology is no substitute for effective communication, trust and leadership development: Super software will not always cure your organizational ills! Digital systems will not always trim the fat…