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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…
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…
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,…
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…
The 9 Ingredients of Effective Teams
For years the workplace focused on the individual. This has been evolving, and in today’s workplace you can no longer sit alone in your office plugging away on your desktop – you need to be mobile and connected. Leaders now…
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…
Enterprise Risk Management, Planning, and Decision-Making (Pt 2)
In the first post on ERM, we discussed what Enterprise Risk Management means and some approaches that you can take to identify risks. However, the article ended with a big, “And I’m supposed to do what with this information?” So, let’s…
Enterprise Risk Management, Planning, and Decision-Making
The Oxford Dictionary defines risk as “a situation involving exposure to danger” or “the possibility that something unpleasant will happen”. We prefer to use a neutral definition of the term “risk”: Risk is the combination of the…
Program Evaluation: 9 Things to Avoid and What to Do if You Can’t
The best and most appropriate thing to do when asked to conduct an evaluation with insufficient time, budget and/or resources is to simply walk away. However, this is not always possible – especially for in-house evaluation…
Building a Performance Culture in the Public Service
The theme of the forthcoming PPX Annual Symposium - From a Compliance Mindset to a Performance Culture – gets to the heart of the challenge posed by results-based management. One of the keynote questions is “… what level of cultural…
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.…
Lessons in Innovation from PS Engage 2011
Along with over a hundred other delegates, presenters and sponsors, I had the pleasure of participating in the PS Engage 2011 Learning & Networking Event last Tuesday. The Canadian Aviation and Space Museum was a wonderful and inspiring…
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…
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…
Which is your favourite book on STRATEGY?
Here are my favourite books on strategy: The Art of War – Sun Tsu James Clavell This book offers an overarching vision of strategy and implementation that is still highly appropriate in the chaotic times we face. The…
Benchmarking Evaluation in the Canadian Federal Government
Some time ago, in anticipation of the new Government of Canada (GOC) Policy on Evaluation, we conducted an evaluation benchmarking study of several federal government departments and agencies on behalf of one of our clients. By…
What is Program Evaluation and Does it Really Matter?
A great deal is written about the self-identity of ‘evaluation’ as a discipline and/or a profession. Viewpoints abound concerning the role and expectations of evaluators, ranging in scope from mere collector and presenter of factual…
2 Rules to Organize Yourself: Personal Kanban
Update 1 June 2011: I have been exposed to Kanban and other Lean tools for a few years, which led to my exposure to Personal Kanban via the Lean community. However, I was of the belief that this was a generic term and practice. …
7 Key Factors for Making Change Happen
Change Management. As a topic of interest, leading groups of people through periods of significant change and uncertainty became a central point of concern within the business community and press in the mid-to-late 90's. Since then…
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