| Work Happens Anywhere...Anytime | |
Fifteen to twenty years ago work took place in an office in an office building or at a location.
In those years, I was one of the few people that I knew who worked in airports, hotels, and other non-conventional places. The traditional work place has changed...
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| Engaging People - That's What It's All About! | |
Attraction and retention is about creating ties to people so that they stay in your organization.
How do companies that do well at attracting and retaining people do it? Is there a secret sauce that helps create "stickiness?"
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Rest, Renew, Relax
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 Greetings!
On vacation in Manzanillo, Mexico sitting by the pool watching an orange breasted bunting drink, cool himself off, and just enjoy the water, I thought how great it was to be in the moment relaxing, enjoying, just being. How often do we give ourselves permission to do just that?
Rest and relaxation are important for us to stay sharp, on top of our game, and focused. When we don't take time to rest and recover, we stress our bodies and minds so that they don't function in an optimal manner
How many of us feel that we can't take off a month, a week, or even a day because we will be missed at work...
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| How is Strategic Planning Like Making New Year's Resolutions? | |
Another New Year's Day has come and gone. We've written our resolutions and now that it is more than half way through January, how many resolutions have been kept?
If you're like most, the number is small. We've already moved on, vowing to do better, next time, next year.
This is a lot like the strategic planning that many organizations undertake. They take time to review and evaluate their previous year's strategy, create new plans for the next year, add timelines and responsibilities, then...do very little, vowing to do better next time, next year.
Why does this happen? Is it due to a lack of desire to act on plans; an inability to move forward; identifying activities that are overwhelmingly difficult, complex, or too many; or a lack of competence that prevents us from taking action on our New Year's resolutions or organization's strategic plan?
Strategic plans and New Year's resolutions are meant to create change. Like any change, we need to be ready, willing, and able..
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| Organizational Growth Challenges | A hot topic for some of my clients is the challenge of significant growth that has taken place in their organizations the past few years.
In the first case, the organization has tripled in size and in the other, the organization has increased five-fold. The ways of managing and leading the organization, appropriate and sufficient in the past, no longer are.
What we know, is that organizations, like people and products, have a lifecycle. Organizations go through predictable phases of development that can be anticipated and planned for. There are three phases culminating either in transformation or decline.
In Phase 1, the organization is entrepreneurial and... |
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Planning is a recurring theme this quarter. The New Year is a wonderful time for us to review and evaluate the past year and plan for the one that is upcoming. Plans are a means for us to set goals and then to hold ourselves, and others, accountable for achieving them. Without planning for an extended vacation, I would never have taken one, because I never would have had the time. Other things would have come up and it wouldn't have happened. Similarly in organizations, anticipating challenges, opportunities and threats, and making plans to address them proactively is a sound strategyfor moving forward. There is a saying "if you fail to plan, you plan to fail." Or as Alice in Wonderland said, "if you don't know where you are going, any path will get you there."
At Transcend we are committed to help our individual and corporate clients grow to be more successful. That includes providing assistance in the creation of strategies and plans to leverage strengths and overcome limitations. If you'd like to have a discussion about how we may serve you, please contact us at wilma@transcendmgt.com or 403.547.7900.
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