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Delta’s Top 10 Posts for 2011

For the past year we’ve been publishing 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 program evaluation and innovation.…

Posted December 24, 2011 by Alcide DeGagné 0 Comments

Come to PS Engage 2011 and Think

We have burned a lot of cycles on this blog writing and writing and writing about… Some of the many hurdles facing the Canadian Public Service The Great Recession has left global markets in turmoil, and, even though we Canadians…

Posted November 17, 2011 by Geoff Schaadt 0 Comments

Strategic & Operating Reviews Part 5: Waiting for Your Numbers

This post is the fifth in our series on Strategic & Operational Reviews (SOR). Part 1 — Strategic & Operating Reviews: We Can’t Agree to Disagree — dealt with the issue that changes are coming to the Public Service, whether or not…

Posted October 8, 2011 by Alcide DeGagné 0 Comments

The Alternative to ‘Death by a thousand cuts’

Earlier this week, the Ottawa Citizen published a Susan Riley piece entitled “Death by a thousand cuts”.  In it she expressed her concern that “no good will come” from the current round of federal budget cuts.  While I don’t subscribed…

Posted September 29, 2011 by Alcide DeGagné 4 Comments

PSES 2011 - Make your voice heard! (updated)

Update: the 2011 PSES has been extended to October 7th! Public Service employees have only 3 8 days left to complete the 2011 Public Service Employee Survey (PSES). Twenty-eight of the seventy substantive questions address the…

Posted September 28, 2011 by Greg Tricklebank 0 Comments

$90k-a-day for Consulting? Depends What You Are Buying.

Tories hire $90,000-a-day consultant to cut spending The above headline appeared in the Globe & Mail on September 20, 2011. Understandably, the reaction by members of parliament and the public has been swift and vocal. Clearly, many…

Posted September 24, 2011 by Alcide DeGagné 0 Comments

Strategic & Operating Reviews Part 4: A Framework for Success

This post is the fourth in our series on Strategic & Operational Reviews (SOR). Part 1 — Strategic & Operational Reviews: We Can’t Agree to Disagree — dealt with the issue that changes are coming to the Public Service, whether or…

Posted September 17, 2011 by Ian Jackson 2 Comments

Strategic & Operating Reviews Part 3: Change and Failure

This is the third post in our series on Strategic & Operational Reviews (SOR).  Part 1 — Strategic & Operational Reviews: We Can’t Agree to Disagree — dealt with the issue that changes are coming to the Public Service, whether or not the…

Posted September 10, 2011 by Alcide DeGagné 2 Comments

Strategic & Operating Reviews Part 2: Alignment and Failure

In my previous post — Strategic & Operational Reviews: We Can’t Agree to Disagree — I discussed the fact that SOR will bring changes to the Public Service, whether managers want it to happen or not.  It’s coming.  The success or failure…

Posted September 8, 2011 by Alcide DeGagné 3 Comments

Strategic & Operating Reviews: We Can’t Agree to Disagree

Once again, the Canadian Federal Public Service is undergoing strategic and operational reviews (SOR) — and implementing the changes that flow from SOR will represent a tremendous challenge. They’re Crazy From my personal experience,…

Posted September 3, 2011 by Alcide DeGagné 2 Comments

The Essence of Evaluation

The LPGA Commissioner, Michael Whan, just announced the plan to inaugurate a fifth major tournament on the LPGA tour, sparking a discussion on the Morning Drive television program about fairness … Annika Sorenstam, for example, had…

Posted July 26, 2011 by Greg Tricklebank 0 Comments

Disability, Mental Health, and the Canadian Public Service

Today the Ottawa Citizen featured a front-page article, “PS disability claims soaring”. Its timely release dovetails nicely with our discussion in Overcoming the Stigma of Mental Illness in the Workplace, and also the issues discussed…

Posted June 29, 2011 by Debra Sunohara 4 Comments

Leadership vs Management: Are You Numb from the Debate? (Part 2)

How can you think and hit at the same time?       - Yogi Berra   Part One of this two-part series assumed a more provocative stance on the leadership definition debate, leaving it to you, the reader, to initiate a process of…

Posted April 30, 2011 by Jim Taggart 9 Comments

Leadership vs Management: Are You Numb from the Debate? (Part 1)

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.    - Yogi Berra I’ve been a student of leadership for some 20 years and am fascinated by viewing it through different lenses: business leadership,…

Posted April 27, 2011 by Jim Taggart 0 Comments

Are You Prepared for the Future? How to Deal Effectively with Global Turbulence and Uncertainty

We live in a period of what British management thinker Charles Handy has called Discontinuous Change - that change arrives in erratic, unpredictable bursts. Handy is regarded as one of the top thinkers of all time, ranking beside…

Posted March 2, 2011 by Jim Taggart 2 Comments

Book Review: Switch - How to Change Things When Change Is Hard

The authors of one of the most popular business books of the last decade, Made to Stick, make their return with Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard.  Chip Heath, a Professor of Organizational Behaviour at Stanford…

Posted November 11, 2010 by Alcide DeGagné 3 Comments

Delta Partners at the 3rd Annual Canada Army Run

Sunday, September 19 - You couldn`t have asked for a more beautiful late summer morning to join more than 14,000 other Canadians and military personnel in honouring and supporting our troops.   For the second consecutive year Delta…

Posted September 22, 2010 by Debra Sunohara 0 Comments

Reflections on the 62nd IPAC National Conference

I had the pleasure of attending the 62nd Institute of Public Administration of Canada (IPAC) National Conference in Ottawa this week and thought that this would be a good opportunity to share what I thought were the highlights. The…

Posted August 28, 2010 by Debra Sunohara 1 Comments

The times they are a-changin’

In 1989 Delta Partners was incorporated. Some interesting things about 1989: Apple pulled out of the AppleLink project, so it was renamed and America Online was born (but it couldn’t be accessed by a non-Apple computer until 1991)…

Posted July 10, 2010 by Alcide DeGagné 0 Comments

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