Musings of an organization consultant
Posted in Leadership, Performance, Uncategorized on Jan 3rd, 2012
Would you prefer to be on a team that makes you feel inspired to give all you got, or a team where you will be treated the same whether you give your best or your worst performance? Most of us think we prefer the former, but as it turns out, the latter is also important [...]
Posted in Personnel Policy, Uncategorized on Jul 12th, 2010
You might want to read an interesting blog post today involving another “Twittercide” This time having to do with the firing of a well known reporter at CNN. Read the post here Warren and Hays If you have not yet adopted a social media use policy for your workplace, you may want to begin with [...]
Posted in Government, Uncategorized on Jun 10th, 2010
The Institute for Corporate Productivity has recently published study findings which include an interactive graph that reveal the current benchmark for full time staff dedicated to human resources based on size of the organization and whether the organization is measured as a “high” performing organization or a “low” performing organization. Overall, the data reveals that [...]
Posted in Employee Engagement, Labor Management Partnerships, Uncategorized on Jan 28th, 2010
It is not unusual to hear managers say that employee engagement is important to their organization culture, and in the next breath offer a caveat – except for the bargaining unit. The sour tone of labor negotiations has either made management and labor want nothing to do with each other, or, the history of the [...]
Posted in Competencies, Employee Engagement, Uncategorized on Dec 19th, 2009
When dogs bite and bees sting, we bring to mind our favorite things, but when things get stuck, or stale, what we need are a few good questions to evoke the spirit of engagement. Over the years of working with people, I have found a few questions to be nearly fool proof. While the goal [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 24th, 2009
Apparently, the legislature is not in the mood to object to making public employee salaries even more transparent. A client recently asked me whether I knew the status of S.B. 107, [here] titled the “Governmental Salary Act” which requires Commonwealth and local agency public employers to post annual salaries of all employees on the internet. [...]
Posted in Government, Uncategorized on Aug 12th, 2009
Home again, after a successful CCAP (County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania) conference at Seven Springs Pennsylvania, with some great memories and new contacts. Everyone has a different experience and perspective, but here are some of the highlights for me: Monday morning, I sat between Lancaster Commissioner Dennis Stuckey and Timi Kirchner of Stevens & Lee, [...]
Posted in Performance, Uncategorized on Aug 7th, 2009
Strategies – What’s the Big Deal? Strategies convey the way we get things done in organizations. Everybody has them, but the question is: can we explain them? Are they transparent, intentional, and based on shared understanding? Whether we refer to ourselves, our team, or our organization, without attention to strategy, default patterns hold sway and [...]
Posted in Leadership, Uncategorized on Jul 11th, 2009
What does a WWII movie made in 1957 have to do with leadership challenges today? Grab the DVD and a few friends, and discover (or more probably re-discover) the amazing lessons of this paradoxical drama, based on historical events, that shine through time and cross many boundaries of conventional thought. If you haven’t seen the [...]
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