Often, people get lost in the weeds of operations and tactics, eating up far too much valuable meeting time while the real strategic issues and decisions go looking for a home. Here are some ways to help you avoid this trap and stay focused on what matters most.
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It’s More than Profit – The Circuit of Capital
The Circuit of Capital model can help anyone understand what is going on in the company and how business acumen drives real impact.
Is it Time to Review Your Organization’s Design?
Organizational design is not just structure, it consists of multiple elements that need to be designed and aligned properly to implement strategy and achieve the desired results.
Blindsided: The Employee Conversations You Should Be Having (But Probably Aren’t)
When managers don’t know what an employee aspires to be or how they feel about future employment opportunities, they create a blind spot for their organizations to see potential risk of unplanned employee turnover.
3 Barriers to Building Relationships at Work
You must approach work partnerships deliberately and purposefully. Use the three-legged stool analogy to help build work relationships.
3 Ways to Improve Your Group Problem-Solving Sessions
Here are three tips to help make your next group problem-solving session more valuable.
Ruthless Prioritization in Project Environments
In resource-constrained project environments where everything is a priority, nothing can truly be a priority. A key responsibility of senior leadership is to provide ruthless prioritization and leave no doubt as to the organization’s top projects.
How to Develop Your Organization’s Future Leaders
Developing individuals for a future leadership role is a challenge for both human resource departments and business units, so why go at it alone? At CPED, we have experience working with organizations to design leadership development programs of all shapes and sizes.
Process Modeling – Why You Need It In Your Toolkit
While declarative requirement statements may capture the “information the solution will manage,” they don’t capture the behavior. Process modeling can help close those gaps.
A Framework for Strategic Growth: Deliberations and Decisions
Productive tools to facilitate brainstorming, debate, and analysis sessions are valuable for a group attempting to categorize and prioritize potential growth opportunities they have identified in the early stages of a strategic planning process.