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Strategic Sense Welcomes Summer!
Greetings!
Welcome to the first week of summer, a time when vacations and customer's orders seem to slow down slightly and you get a chance to take a breath.
It's a fantastic opportunity to take a good look at your career and evaluate the career itself or your leadership role within your organization.
Everything about life is about growing and emproving, what better way than to seek some coaching or training and 'kick it up a notch!' Sitting still in your career is no way to get anywhere, taking action toward your career goals or even taking the time to define them makes a huge difference in your work-life.
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The Fit
A colleague of mine and I were talking about great "fit" when it comes to organizations. One of the strongest and most compelling frustrations we hear from employees is just how the organization does not "get it" when it comes to their employees! This indicates a disconnect between the Senior Executive and employees and is caused by various factors.
1. Aquisition of a company with an intrinsically different culture.
2. Company strategies do not align with company action.
3. Evaluations have a bottom-line focus and do not include employee satisfaction.
4. The company is not adept at conveying employee value.
While these are only a few of the ways that give employees the message they are not a fit, they can be very serious. Years of study and reams of books have been written about company culture and the answer always points back to the leadership.
What appears to be missing is a focus on items the employee needs to evaluate.
If you don't believe your company cares about you, then it's time to do the work in finding out where your next career step will take you.
Sometimes that means a shift in your current role within the same company and sometimes that can mean preparing yourself for a shift in companies. Either way, a shift needs to happen. Be aware, no job is a vacation, they come with challenging responsibilites and tasks. The secret is finding the right fit in an organization that charges and challenges you, one that gives you a feeling of value and worth to the organization.
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Program Offers
What an exciting time at Strategic Sense! You now have access to our newest programs. These are programs making a difference in the lives of leaders and their employees using strength-based leadership and common sense strategies all customized to fit your specific leadership experience.
The beauty of the two programs exists in the design to fit both the new leader and the existing leader. Develop your leadership skills over the summer with programs only offered previously to corporate customers.
14 Weeks of Managers Making the Mark - new leaders
and
In The Lead Seat - existing leaders
If you're looking to launch your leadership skills and want to work one-on-one to gain the most out of both yourself and the people with whom you lead, then give us a call and find out more about the two programs.
Don't forget about the Career Directions program. Four weeks of defining your goals, setting your actions and building the career you dream about! You strategize for your company, why not strategize for yourself, your career and to choose the direction best suited to your strengths, your goals and your life! For information email us or call us at the number in the right column of this newsletter. |
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About Strategic Sense Inc.
Strategic Sense shares Leadership, Customer Service, Plans of Action, Communication and Facilitation knowledge with companies who value their employees.Our customers care about strengths based leadership practices, customer service strategies that feed their bottom-line, plans of action for managers to define and reach their goals; and internal communication plans for keeping all employees on the same mission. |
News
Patti spoke at
"Wise Women"
as a celebrity speaker at an AskNancy.ca event in Calgary this spring.Ask us about our new Customer Service Score Card.
Strategic Sense is now working with Independant Restaurant Owners
in both leadership and customer service.If you are looking for a dynamic speaker for your event, give us a call to ask about Patti's schedule.There is still room in our summer
Career Directions
program, give us a call to find out more. |
Patti's Quote
"Great leaders understand and know it's the employee experience, not the leader experience that truly matters"
~Patti Dragland
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