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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?

  • The Clock is Ticking… No, It’s Not

    The Clock is Ticking… No, It’s Not

    As humans, we are generally very good at comparison, especially when we compare ourselves to others. Social media makes this worse because it shows us people well beyond our family, friends, and next door neighbours that we can compare ourselves to.  This can create anxiety and often that anxiety feels like falling behind, the proverbial… Read more

  • Measure what Matters

    Measure what Matters

    We hear this mantra a lot, mostly when talking of KPIs or OKRs, or other strategic objectives and the measures of progress against them.  I was thinking about this when the Prime Minister was facing criticism for not attending the majority of Question Periods in the House of Commons. (I promise, this won’t be particularly… Read more

  • That’s Not Me on the Stage!

    That’s Not Me on the Stage!

    I was reading a government report the other day – yes, I am that exciting, why do you ask?  This government report was talking about skills for jobs and reporting on input from parents, students and employers about the value of apprenticeship programs. One of the downsides mentioned is that apprenticeship programs don’t train on… Read more

  • On Being a Dilettante

    On Being a Dilettante

    For much of my life, I’ve beaten myself up for not having one clear career trajectory. I’ve always had so many different interests and indulged them. Even in undergrad instead of deciding what major I wanted, I completed both an English and Biology degree. Not just double major. Double degree (it only took one additional… Read more

  • What Makes a Good Story?

    What Makes a Good Story?

    Good stories capture us and enthrall us.  When we are caught up in a good story, whether someone is telling it to us, or we’re reading a good book, or we’re watching it on the screen, something interesting starts to happen.  Our brains start to sync.  Paul Zak used fMRI to demonstrate that stories can cause… Read more

  • Practicing What I Preach

    Practicing What I Preach

    I talk a lot about the need for continuous skill development, so when this article from The Conversation about new hobbies came into my awareness, I thought it was time to show my work.  I have been teaching art students how to write. Along the way, I see a lot of their art and have… Read more

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