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Corporate Culture, The Balanced Scorecard, and The Grand Jury
Culture eats strategy for breakfast. It's a well-established cliché, and not without merit. But as long as you follow the rules, culture can't get you in any real trouble. Right? Let's consider a new line... Culture eats…
Easter Eggs Are Not for Employees
As we wrap up another Easter weekend, I’ve been thinking – again – about the idea of Easter eggs and how they relate to our work environments. But this time it’s not from the perspective of the boiled eggs and treats, but from the…
The Case for Transitioning from Traditional to Developmental Evaluation
I recently attended the Canadian Evaluation Society’s annual learning event entitled Innovation in Evaluation. As both an evaluation researcher and a change management consultant, I was particularly captivated by notion of ‘Developmental…
Business Processes: Doing Things Right or Doing the Right Thing
OK, so your organization has done a review of your processes – your processes are now well documented and you’ve identified the measures (data that can be tracked), built systems to track that data, and then implemented control…
Food Safety and the Leadership Vacuum – Dallas 2013
Last week I had the pleasure of participating in the 3rd annual Food Manufacturing and Safety Forum in Dallas, Texas. Delta Partners was there to discuss our consulting capacity in organizational development and change management, as…
Food Safety and the Globalization Challenge
Globalization has been radically transforming markets and entire industries for long enough now that it’s no longer an interesting conversation. However, the food and beverage industry moved more slowly than other manufacturers to…
A new way to bully the bullies – Mental Health in the Workplace
Mental health has been at the forefront of many conversations this week as Bell Canada has reported on the results of the ‘Bell Let’s Talk’ campaign. The campaign has a goal – like many of these corporate initiatives – to raise money…
How Teams Make Good Decisions
Teams and collaboration have never been more important in the workplace; more and more Gen Y’s and Gen Z’s are joining the workforce and expect group work and sharing ofideas/information to be the norm. The world is mobile and…
Stoos Connect 2013 – Recap
Those of you who follow our blog are aware that Delta Partners’ board room served as a one of roughly 100 remote satellite sites for Stoos Connect last Friday (25 January 2013 - also ‘World Stoos Day’). For those who are unfamiliar…
How to make your employees care about quality
You can’t. There are certainly still those managers who think they can tell their people what to do, what to think and what to care about – then ‘Prest-o, Change-o!’ – some magic happens, and everyone on the production floor is…
Employee Engagement and the Government of Canada (Part 2)
In the case of the public sector, government debt and deficits create a compelling argument to cut costs. In both cases, what employees want and expect from their employment relationship, and what employers can afford to deliver, are…
Employee Engagement and the Government of Canada (Part 1)
Thousands of public service employees are still waiting to find out their fate; will their jobs be affected by budget cuts, will they find another position elsewhere in government, should they start buffing up their LinkedIn profile, or…
The Stoos Network: Creating a tipping point in organizational management
I have long been a fan of Steve Denning. For those who are not familiar with his work, he is a bit of a maverick in the world of business management. A former director of Knowledge Management at the World Bank, and now prolific writer,…
The Business Case for Strategic Planning in Municipal and Regional Governments
If only we had done this two years ago, we would have been working closer together as an organization. This statement reflected the frustration that members of both the (elected) County Council and the (hired) County Staff and…
Happy Holidays 2012
As we close up the office here on Canotek Road and battle the snow to finish those last-second errands, we just wanted to take a moment of your time to thank you – for everything. Cherish the season and the opportunity to spend time…
Transforming the Public Service: Personal Adaptation to Change
I recently attended the conference Transforming the Public Service 2012: Weathering the Perfect Storm, presented by the Conference Board of Canada. My main take-away was that public service transformation is subsidiary to the global…
Delta’s Top 10 Posts in 2012
Another year has sped by, and we’ve continued to publish posts fairly consistently (we aim for twice weekly on Tuesdays and Fridays) on the Delta Blog on a range of topics - from change management and leadership to food safety and…
Books You Should Read 2012: 5 New, 5 Not So New, 5 In the Works
Some of our colleagues here at Delta Partners have recommended books that they have read and loved in 2012, that they have recently reread and still love, and that they can’t wait to read once they become available. And so, as many of…
10 Suggestions for ‘Boomer’ Executives
The clash of values between the different generations in today’s multi-generational workplace creates some significant leadership challenges – but they are not impossible. Managers and executives from the Baby Boom generation face some…
Personal skills for surviving organizational change
Transformation projects fail all the time – it’s common knowledge. The data can be difficult to nail down, but it is consistently reported somewhere between 1/3 and 2/3 of all business transformation projects do not achieve their goals.…
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