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Tapping Your Innovation Potential

“Doing more with less” has once again become the mantra for executive leaders – and now is the time to capitalize on the opportunity to harness your innovation potential. Budgets have been allocated. Meetings are frantic, issues get…

Posted May 12, 2012 by Alcide DeGagné 0 Comments

Are You a Lousy Manager?

The HBR Daily Stat recently pointed to a post by Jim Clifton, Chairman and CEO at Gallup – What Makes Workplaces Miserable. The basis of the discussion was about the congressional hearings in the U.S. that were investigating the…

Posted April 28, 2012 by Debra Sunohara 4 Comments

Do you praise your employees enough?

Most of us can recall the familiar sound of our mothers’ warnings: “If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all!” This is great in theory, but as managers and leaders we have to recognize the importance of…

Posted March 27, 2012 by Debra Sunohara 4 Comments

Strategic & Operating Reviews: The Ultimate Leadership Challenge (Part 2)

What Needs to be Done? “Treat regular workers as if they were volunteers.”       Drucker on Leadership Overview While research shows that engaging employees can directly improve performance, experience has shown that it is…

Posted December 10, 2011 by Alcide DeGagné 0 Comments

Strategic & Operating Reviews: The Ultimate Leadership Challenge (Part 1)

In an interview report in a recent issue of the Canadian Government Executive magazine, Wayne Wouters, the top public servant in the Canadian federal government, answered a number of questions explaining his take on leadership in the…

Posted December 7, 2011 by Alcide DeGagné 0 Comments

Change Ready or Change Fatigue

Your organization has—though painful at first—completed a large-scale change initiative. And now you are starting your next change project, right on the heels of the first one. Taken together, it just might be too much change for…

Posted November 7, 2011 by Debra Sunohara 4 Comments

Everyone Hates Change: 12 Steps to Help Overcome the Fear and Doubt

Everyone knows—and in theory agrees—that change is necessary.  It must and will occur. Implementing change is hard. And making it stick is even harder whether you are following Kotter’s Eight Steps to Changeor David Ulrich’s Seven Key…

Posted November 2, 2011 by Debra Sunohara 3 Comments

Leading Change—Modelling Behaviours Is Crucial for Success

“Leadership to step through the door”       - Jody Loughrey   I received a really powerful comment to my recent blog on Strategic and Operating Reviews—Change and Failure. While agreeing with my comment for leaders to get their…

Posted October 15, 2011 by Alcide DeGagné 0 Comments

Understanding Corporate Myths and Symbols: 7 Questions to Ask Yourself

I’ve talked about corporate climate and culture in past posts, Do You Know the Difference Between Corporate Culture and Climate? and The Smell of the Place. Today I want to look at two major obstacles to changing corporate culture:…

Posted October 1, 2011 by Jim Taggart 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

Sewage Pumps and Leadership

If you don’t read Jim Taggart’s Changing Winds leadership blog, you really should add it to your list – he does a great job!  Yesterday I read his latest entry Work Hard, Play Hard: Leadership Lessons to Redefine Your Thinking about…

Posted August 31, 2011 by Geoff Schaadt 4 Comments

Budget Cuts: Cut Your Headcount or Improve Your Processes

“It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.”      – Edwards Deming Budget cuts. Lay-offs. Resource restrictions. Fiscal restraint. We hear it again and again. As a manager, how are you going to meet these…

Posted August 27, 2011 by Stephen Davies 5 Comments

Leadership According to Attila the Hun

Since its publication in 1985, Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun by Wes Roberts, Ph.D., has had a cult following in management circles. Leadership Secrets first gained notoriety in the late 1980's when it was mentioned in a passage…

Posted August 24, 2011 by Guest Contributor 8 Comments

Is Your Leadership Failing Your Team?

We have been having a lot of conversations with businesses, teams and their leaders, about engagement, disengagement and the link between team culture and a company’s or team’s ability to be innovative…or just productive.  Top of mind is…

Posted August 20, 2011 by Delaney Tosh 0 Comments

Are Your Paws Sticky? Leadership Lessons from a Lab

We thought nothing of it. Paint the deck since it was starting to peel. Except something weird happened along the way. Max, our five-year-old American Yellow Lab, loves to lie on the deck, watching as people (and dogs) pass by down…

Posted August 13, 2011 by Jim Taggart 0 Comments

The Benefits of Having a Mentor

Coaching and mentorship are two popular concepts that are used interchangeably quite often.  And while there are similarities, they are not the same thing.  Management and executive coaching seems to be quite in demand these days and…

Posted July 16, 2011 by Raphael Amato 1 Comments

Demand Stress and Depression in the Workplace

Delta Partners is pleased to present our newest white paper, Leadership and Engagement: Demand Stress and Depression. In this paper our president, Alcide DeGagné, discusses the impact of changing corporate culture and the effect…

Posted July 13, 2011 by Alcide DeGagné 2 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

Overcoming the Stigma of Mental Illness in the Workplace

Mental illness affects people of all walks of life. Twenty percent of Canadians will experience it personally in their lifetime, which means that chances are everyone will know someone who has - or has dealt with - a mental illness. Even…

Posted June 24, 2011 by Alcide DeGagné 0 Comments

Talkin’ Pictures

Do you talk in pictures? Most people would say not, usually we speak in words - but people listen in pictures.  They use the words you say to create a picture in their mind.  How they create those pictures is a story for another day…

Posted June 22, 2011 by Phil Hawkins 2 Comments

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