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CFIA Report: XL Foods Recall Preventable with Proper Culture
In September 2012, XL Foods – the second largest meat processing plant in Canada, representing one-third of the beef processing capacity in the country – was shut down in what would become the largest meat recall in Canadian history. I…
‘Creating a Culture of Food Safety’ – Delta Partners in Food Safety Magazine
I’m very proud to have contributed the feature article for the recently released June/July 2013 issue of Food Safety Magazine, ‘Creating a Culture of Food Safety’. But I don't work in the food sector... I understand that many of you…
Get Unstuck by Being a Smart Leader Leading Smart Teams
The leadership print space is full of books, with a never-ending supply hitting the bookshelves, not to forget digital readers. So it’s always a pleasure to find a gem in the rough, considering that much of the recent literature is…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
PS Engage 2012: Re-inventing Work in the Public Sector
On Tuesday, November 27, Delta Partners again sponsored the PS Engage Conference at the Canadian Aviation and Space Museum here in Ottawa. The first PS Engage event was held in November 2011, and did a beautiful job of laying the…
Lessons in Change from the National Film Board
Delta Partners was a key sponsor last week at Public Sector Transformation 2012: Navigating the Perfect Storm, presented by the Conference Board of Canada. The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) gave a memorable presentation,…
Resilience - Help your team spring back.
We are living in a time of great uncertainty. Everything around us seems to be unsettled right now: our economic stability, our climate, our health care. Even the way we do our jobs, the tools we use, and the way we lead our…
Regulatory, Quality, and Food Safety – Lessons from Toronto
If you could guarantee a strong food safety culture and compliance in two steps – would you do it? Last week (October 23rd and 24th) I attended the 3rd Annual Food Regulatory & Quality Assurance Summit in Toronto. The two-day event was…
Food Safety Culture at the Heart of Canada’s Largest Meat Recall
Over the past month XL Foods Inc, Brooks plant in southern Alberta has been the focus of Canada's largest meat recall in history. Information about the current recall at XL is still preliminary, however, the information available…
To lead change, we must learn to teach (Part 5)
Rule your mind, or it will rule you. – Horace Six weeks ago we started talking about leading change and learning to teach. Yet here we are today – and there has been no discussion at all of change management, how to…
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