How Will Your Working Culture Change?

Whatever your future working culture is going to be, it probably will not be the same as it was. Look at the way your people work together to get things done and see what you can learn from the way you have been organized. Consider three elements of your work (though you may have more, […]

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Is It Time to Move Beyond Your Culture?

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Go to any place in the world and people will tell you, “this is how we do things here.” Every place has its own culture, driven by such things as social expectations, family relationships, style of government, climate, economics, educational background, and more. Culture is a tricky thing, in that it may be hard to […]

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The Power of a Job Description

Most leaders underutilize job descriptions as performance management tool. That’s too bad; they are easy to use and could do you a lot of good. Why do people ignore them? For many, it’s because it’s hard to limit a role to a specific focus, because employees end up doing things beyond their role. Companies also […]

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Sustaining Growth

It’s hard enough to get the buy-in necessary to introduce a change. It’s even harder to keep it going until you see the benefits. The folks at McKinsey tell us that Research shows that 70 percent of complex, large-scale change programs don’t reach their stated goals. Common pitfalls include a lack of employee engagement, inadequate […]

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What’s In a Number?

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People often say “age is just a number,” but these days, some of those numbers are getting farther and farther apart. For years now we have had 4 generations active in the workforce. The World War II generation has largely retired, but you will still see some of the youngest ones working. The Baby Boomers […]

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