3 Leadership Qualities that Improve Emotional Intelligence
What do all successful leaders have in common? According to psychologist Daniel Goleman, it’s emotional intelligence. By developing a deep understanding of those around you, knowing why they react the way they do, and gauging your own emotional responses, you are better able to rally your people together to work towards a common goal. However,Continue reading
Achieving Maximum Efficiency with Operational Assessments
Whether there’s an obvious problem that needs to be solved or the overall health of an organization needs to be gauged, operational assessments are a great way to identify gaps. Often times, it’s manufacturing organizations that use these assessments, but the reality is all organizations can benefit from the exercise. After all, every organization is lookingContinue reading
Employee Development: Job Skills and Performance Levels
Partnering with SDI, our clients have the unique ability to leverage our talent development software, Expectancy Learning, to monitor if (and how well) their employees practice skills related to their job roles. More importantly, the detailed analytics and planning tools provided by Expectancy guide employee development conversations and create a solid action plan. My previousContinue reading
Why Operational Assessments are Essential to Organizations Today
Organizations everywhere are striving to continuously improve and become more efficient, but how do they know where to start? Conducting an operational assessment is a great way to get a snapshot of how your organization is performing today. Without that clear picture, how could you know where to find opportunities to increase efficiency in theContinue reading
Tips for Addressing a Performance Dip
You’ve spent months preparing for the change. You’ve successfully executed all of your change management strategies including training, consistent communication, and timely coaching and feedback. However, a month after implementation you’ve started to notice a little decline in performance. One of two things are happening: the employees can’t do the work, or they won’t do the work. Whichever the caseContinue reading
Meaningful Change Requires Leading Without Knowing
Implementing meaningful change that drives substantial results for an organization, is a true test of any leader. And successful leaders have gotten where they are today by knowing what success will look like and proving how to get there. However, leading change that transforms a culture of an organization requires leading people to a differentContinue reading
Effective Change Management Strategies Are Not One Size Fits All
Effectively managing any major change initiative is not an easy task. It first takes developing a deep understanding of the people involved in the change and executing a need-based change plan to ensure adoption and success. As discussed in our last blog, the results from a change initiative are ultimately brought forth through your employees’Continue reading
It’s Time to Change the Way We Manage Change
We’ve all heard the phrase “Change is the only constant”, and in this day and age, it couldn’t be more true. Organizations everywhere are battling to reorganize, implement new software systems, and start improvement projects. Unfortunately, just over 70% of all changes attempted by organizations fail. Often times, it’s the way the change is handledContinue reading
Identify the GAP: The Key to Problem Solving
Like most parts of life, work comes with expectations. Those expectations are typically high, but more important than the expectations are the actual results. Like in life, the success of our businesses count on everyone meeting their respective expectations. Unfortunately, most of the time that doesn’t happen. It’s typically not from a lack of effort,Continue reading