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‘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…
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 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…
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…
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.…
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…
Are You Worthy of Being a Leader?
Are you into power? Does holding authority over others give you a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction? Before you answer these two questions take a moment to reflect. Be honest with yourself. I’ve been a student of…
Demoralized Workforce – What can a manager do?
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 or better position elsewhere in government, should they start buffing up their LinkedIn…
Are You a Post-Heroic Leader?
You don’t have to be very old to have witnessed major change in the world in just the past few years. Look at what’s happening with the Arab Spring, initiated by one young on December 18, 2010, in Tunisia, subsequently spreading to…
Strategic Planning and Risk Management
In the first blog of this series Strategic Planning as an Organizational Learning Model, I suggested that a strategic plan should represent the best of the collective learning of the organization. My second post dealt with Strategic…
Strategic Planning as an Organizational Learning Model
Strategy, and more to the point, the execution of strategy, is often a tremendously complex undertaking. The standard list of “problems” identified with strategic planning include: about 40% of strategic plans fail or are not…
UPDATED: Managing Change eBook
In December of 2011, we announced our new eBook on Managing Change, and we began that post with this quote from Stephen R. Covey: "Profound and lasting cultural change in an organization cannot happen unless individuals...themselves…
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…
Why I Call Myself a Graphic Facilitator
What’s that?, you may wonder. Essentially, I’m an organization development artist. I draw for organizations! I draw what they say and what they don’t say, to help them solve their problems. Some of my colleagues call themselves Visual…
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