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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?

  • How to Create a Learning Organization

    How to Create a Learning Organization

    We’ve all heard about how data and information is critical to address customer preferences shifting, our technology changing, and the marketplace becomes more and more competitive. One way to do so is by creating a Learning Organization. There are three “building blocks” to a learning organization that leverages information to create competitive advantage: The key element… Read more

  • What Does It Really Cost to NOT Develop Employees?

    What Does It Really Cost to NOT Develop Employees?

    Developing your employees is good business, but sometimes when things get tight, it can feel like a nice to have rather than a need. Employee development is an investment that pays a healthy ROI though.  Let’s consider a case.  You have a small company of 100 employees. Say 12 of those employees left last year… Read more

  • Why Do We Lose Employees?

    Why Do We Lose Employees?

    41% That’s the % of employees who left a job because they saw no opportunity for career advancement in 2022 according to McKinsey. It beats out the number who left because of inadequate compensation (36%) and bad bosses (34%). This resonates because I know I’ve left positions because I saw no opportunity for career advancement.… Read more

  • Take it Apart to Save it

    Take it Apart to Save it

    What do employees and their offices have in common?  Sustainability in construction is taking many forms, including the de-construction of buildings (like offices) rather than demolition. The “selective removal of materials” from buildings slated for destruction is becoming a requirement in many jurisdictions to divert material from the landfill. https://sustainableconsumption.usdn.org/initiatives-list/encouraging-and-mandating-building-deconstruction Learning this resonated with me… Read more

  • Skills-Based Hiring Increases Diversity

    Skills-Based Hiring Increases Diversity

    Evidence for the value of Skills-based hiring Have you ever had the experience as a job seeker of looking at a posting that you think you would be interested in and being intimidated by the qualifications required? Or looked at a posting as an experienced employee thinking you have all the requirements only to realize… Read more

  • Career Progression Problem?

    Career Progression Problem?

    I was introduced to a new term recently: chrono-normativity. You might wondering,“chrono-normativity? What is that?” just as I did. What it really means is that we expect certain things to happen at certain times in our lives.  The term is from 2010 where Elizabeth Freeman defines it as “the use of time to organize human… Read more

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