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Keep Your people by aligning your Strategy

Where People and Strategy meet

STRATEGY + COMPETENCY + DEVELOPMENT

When you have the right fit between your strategy and your people, your story is compelling to your customer and energizes your team and amplifies your growth.

Development

How do you keep your employees growing? How does that drive your objectives?

Does everyone in your organization know why they are there? How their work contributes?

How might you create career pathways for your employees to keep them productive and engaged?

AI Enablement

Do your employees know how to make the most of emerging tools like AI? Are they confident using these tools? Are you?

Are you concerned that you might be missing opportunities by not using AI in your business?

How might you boost productivity by introducing AI into your business and empowering your employees?

Storytelling

What story are you telling about the work you do? Are you engaging clients and customers or boring them?

What do you current employees think of the story you tell? What about future employees?

How might you better tell the story of the amazing work you do?

  • When Experience Isn’t Enough

    When Experience Isn’t Enough

    a.k.a. School is School and Work is Work We talk in learning and development a lot about lifelong learning. How learning and working should go hand in hand as people progress through their careers.  But we are still designing for learning and work to be separate.  Case in point. I took a course to learn Read more

  • Data Can’t Talk aka Why Story Matters 

    Data Can’t Talk aka Why Story Matters 

    Data is just that – data. It can tell stories, but those stories can be understood in wildly different ways even when supported by the same data. Which is why story matters. It matters to your business, your career, and your life. I’ll walk through an example I have used in a critical thinking class Read more

  • Lean In… But not Like That

    Lean In… But not Like That

    I’m going to be a bit more personal in this post. But also a bit business.  In this time of reflection as we move beyond the solstice toward a new season / new year / rebirth of the gods (!) / call it what you will, I’ve been reflecting on the importance of people in Read more

  • Asset (People) Management 

    Asset (People) Management 

    “Our people are our greatest asset”  So what would it look like if we treated people like assets? I’m not an asset manager, but what I understand of the practice, it focuses on optimizing value contained within an asset. Developing when necessary, improving, managing and then disposing of when the value is not longer there.  Read more

  • The Myth of Healthy Turnover

    The Myth of Healthy Turnover

    So no, it’s not actually a myth. But it is definitely sometimes a mask and an excuse.  Almost every time there is news about employee turnover, there is someone who laments the costs of turnover which is then countered by someone saying “but… healthy turnover is a good thing!” As if just the numbers told Read more

  • Taking Career Climbing into the 21st Century 

    Taking Career Climbing into the 21st Century 

    We talk about climbing the career ladder. But what it we thought of our careers more like a climbing wall?  Ladders are fixed in one direction. The climbing wall lets the climber choose their own paths, and it’s not always straight up in one direction.  The Productivity Project in Learning City Calgary is rethinking what Read more

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