Three Tactics to Ensure Your Strategy and Culture Are Aligned Company culture was first identified back in the 1950s by Dr. Elliot Jaques, in his book entitled The Changing Culture of a Factory. In it, Dr. Jacques shares results from a longitudinal study he conducted at a ball-bearing plant in England and the impact various [...]
How to Create a Happier Workplace Through Effective Work Management Setting the Scene Let me preface this blog post with the statement that I don’t know anything about large-scale construction projects and am not in any way trying to be contentious. However, it is an example of an industry that we can all identify with. [...]
Incorporating Gartner's 2023 Workplace Trends into Your Strategy The workplace has been upended in the last few years. With immediate impacts from COVID-19 finally beginning to recede into the background, experts are watching closely to see which trends take center stage over the coming year. All work environments - whether virtual or in-person, large or [...]
Three Tips for Building Your Corporate Give Back Strategy More than 50 years ago, economist Milton Friedman made a compelling case in the New York Times that the only social responsibility a company had was to increase its profits. In Friedman’s eyes, the business was responsible to its shareholders. Shareholders could determine what they did [...]
Need a Boost in Productivity? Break Down Your Silos  Digital transformation remains alive and well across most companies, as adaption and agility have become the norm in order to stay competitive. To successfully function at the pace required today, a company has to do more than rely on technology or processes. Creating the right [...]
Struggling through the Great Resignation? Prioritizing Diversity Can Help Two years into the pandemic and we’re only beginning to wrap our minds around the impact it has had on the workforce. Global lockdowns and a new, more virtual world spurred ‘The Great Resignation,’ with individuals from all walks of life evaluating their priorities and preferences [...]
Three Steps to Start Your ESG Journey Today On the heels of this year’s Cop26, it is clear that businesses around the world are committed to reducing their environmental impact and improving sustainability practices. Analysts from McKinsey & Company rightly noted that while nearly everyone is aligned on achieving NetZero, the path to getting there [...]
Three Key Business Initiatives to Implement Now The start of a new year always feels fresh with opportunity, especially following a particularly tumultuous year, as we experienced in 2020. While we may not yet be finished enduring the impact of the global pandemic, there is no better time than now to be planning and preparing [...]
Is Organizational Commitment The New Gold Standard? The age of digital disruption has changed much more than just the way companies incorporate technology or deliver goods and services to customers. It’s also changed the way we think about the places we work and our relationship to our colleagues and the brands we represent. Practically gone [...]
Don't neglect the importance of employee empowerment in strategic planning - here are three tips you should heed.
