The High Cost of Turnover

Turnover issues can affect your company's profitability, customer loyalty, sales, productivity, and employee morale. Below are examples of turnover costs from some reliable sources:

Are Your Business Process Management Solutions Using an Elephant Gun to Kill a Fly?

The old expression do not use an elephant gun to kill a fly is also appropriate for today's business challenges. Are your elephant gun solutions putting more than one hole into your business?

Managing Change - Trust, Integrity and Change

One key ingredient to managing change that most leaders forget is their own trust and integrity. Don't let this be you. During times of organizational change communication is key - truthful, accurate and timely communication. Anything less creates a vacuum filled with rumor. Read on...

Managing Change - Leading for a Change

Lead your organization for a change. During times of rapid organizational change leadership is a must. And leading with the whole person is vitally important but few people understand what it means. Dont let that be you. Lead for a change and read on to see how!

Leading Change - Empowering People for a Change

What is a key to change leadership? It's not always what you think. Read on if you're a change leader and find out how to empower your people to drive change and how to get them to want to do it. This is a message from the trenches of organizational change and every change leader should read it today!

Change Lessons From Slaughterhouse Five

Some changes happen because of some incident or accident. Someone got fired because of an unforeseen reorganization. How do you handle such a change? Do you pursue a revenge or will you search for a new way for your life?

The Care and Feeding of Generation Y

While the generations often seem at odds, employers who intertwine the strengths of each generation create workplaces that are valuable for both the organization and the employees. The organization that encourages older workers to mentor and coach new workers will be the organization that continues to enjoy success when the Baby Boomer exodus begins a scant five years from now.

Managing Change - Understanding Why People Change

Do you know why people change? It might surprise you. Read on and find out the two reasons people change and why that's important to know when managing change.

Employee Disengagement - The Lights Are On But Nobody's Home

The world of business is changing dramatically. Employees are no longer closely connected to their employers. The cost to the business of employee disengagement is significant. Employers can change this relationship by looking to the 21st century family as a model.

Business Fashion Makeover - Better Design for Better Business

Ask a fashion creator what design is and the likely answer involves fabric and flow. A gardener may define design in terms of plant material and placement. Ask business owners and business executives to define design and the answers may stagger the mind. In other words, business design to one executive may be very different from another. Design in business often focuses on brick and mortar structures with halls and walls and office compartments. This discussion moves from the traditional concept of design as the physical plant in which business operates and moves toward contemporary leadership where knowledge professionals are uninhibited by physical structure. Business, seeking a road map to the future, will discover the map is harder to unfold than those paper route maps are to refold. Yet, achieving a better business design achieves a better business environment. It is all in the makeover...

Innovation, Learning and Motivation

Developing Leaders- the key driving force behind business success is people. Tap into the potential of your most important asset

The Collaborative Humanistic Workplace

For the first time in modern history, the workforce will encompass four separate generations working side by side. The Silent Generation (born 1933-1945), Baby Boomers (born 1946-1964), Generation Xers (born 1965-1976), and Generation Yers (born 1977-1998).

Managing Change - Meetings R Us

Are you sick of boring meetings? Do you get nothing done because you are sitting in a room with ten others as bored as you are? Then read about Meetings R Us and what you can do to break free!