How to Create and Sustain Optimal Performance Throughout Your Organization

There is a process with twenty steps that, if followed in your organization, will result in consistent optimal performance throughout your workforce. If you implement this process step by step, you’ll soon find that you are beating your sales, productivity and profitability goals and are exercising greater leverage of your organization’s human capital and skill sets toward steady enterprise growth.

Change Management Issues in Non-Profit Committees

Have you ever been on a nonprofit committee and half way through a very important project someone dismisses them selves from the committee because they have other prior business engagements or they have other time constraints, which do not fit with the committee.

Change Management in Government Purchasing

Change Management in Government Purchasing sure causes chaos indeed. In fact we have a whole company under investigation who will be paying 100s of million dollars in fines because it hired a government purchasing agent from the United States Air Force to come work for them and she took the job while she was still working on other military contracts and procurement solicitations which involved the very large Aerospace Company she went to work for.

Resilience: The Key to a Successful Today and Tomorrow

Success in business and in life comes to those who can sustain energy, creativity and passion in the midst of continual change, stress and competition. Information overload leaves us struggling to sustain that passion and drive and achieve the work/life balance that is essential to our growth and well-being. We are being bombarded with information every day and are working in different environments that require more accountability and have higher expectations than 10 years ago.

Organizational Change: Mission Impossible?

Many factors such as globalization, technological advances, deregulation, privatization, mergers or acquisitions coupled with a movement of labor-intensive projects to less expensive locations and changing customer demands are forcing organizations to constantly review their purpose, vision and future strategy.

Growing from Entrepreneur to Manager

Small business start-up rates are at record levels; so are failure rates. There is a definite pattern to failure rates. Initial growth of small business often plateaus because of a lack of corresponding growth in basic management skills. Entrepreneurs must shift their thinking from tactical and operational to strategic and supervisory. Entrepreneurs must become professional managers or suffer poor business performance, even failure. Growth in sales and employees must be accompanied by corresponding growth in management skills. Systems, procedures, tools and training already exist that can be quickly adapted to small businesses at low cost.

Change Management: What's Your Approach to Organizational Transformation?

Are there different types of organizational transformation? There are essentially four distinct types of organizational change. Recognizing and preparing for them in advance will help you manage change and directly affect your bottom line.

Who Designed That?

Ask the people in your company in sales, service, and support to tell you what really bothers them the most about the way new products are launched at your company. You may be wasting huge amounts of money in poor sales performance, larger than expected service and support costs, and out of control operations or information technology infrastructure. Get sales, service, operations, and support involved up front in the product planning process and get your business back on track.

What's the Big ID?

In the industry for your products and services, there may be many existing elements like symbols, colors, or other visual images that are very familiar to the people who buy and use the appropriate products and services. Your mission is to find those elements, adopt them within your identity, and become an integral part of the community you to intend to serve.

Who Showed Up At Your Customer Today?

If you have a business-to-business company, your customers may not actually touch or experience your product daily. Your customers’ experiences are being driven by many interactions which either were the result of a problem with your service, or some other transactional or service item like billing or procedural changes. How would they describe their experience with your company? A pure focus on operational excellence can cause you to miss the importance of the role of the human interaction between your employees and your customers.

Time for Change Management; Franchisees Too Quick to Blame Franchisors for Their Own Failures

In reviewing the complaints of franchisees over the last 20-years we see some similarities to the over all society as a whole. Franchisees are often too quick to Blame their Franchisors for their Own Failures, insufficient capital and poor use of business acumen.

Managing Change: Unintended Consequences

Leading a change programme is a risky business, for the leader and the lead. The law of unintended consequences applies in full as change involves people. People see the the starting and finishing points and the intention of change from their point of view and act accordingly.

Making Change Happen: In Search of the Silver Bullet

Too many organisations search for a “silver bullet” to fix their human resource problems. They search for a singular, narrow approach to improve performance when a broad holistic approach is required. The result of focusing on a narrow approach to improve performance is unintended consequences delivering reduced performance instead.