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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…

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…

Getting to the root of the problem with the 5 Why’s

For want of a nail the shoe was lost.
 For want of a shoe the horse was lost.
 For want of a horse the rider was lost.
 For want of a rider the battle was lost.
 For want of a battle the kingdom was lost.
 And all for the want of a…

Service Improvement - What are the alternatives?

By and large, organizations focus on people, procedures, and tools to improve their business.  They carelessly ignore the fact that it is the processes used in an organization – and the way that these processes are aligned – that holds…

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…

Build a Culture for Continuous Change

So what is the culture of an organization, and where does it exist? Change is a good thing. For the purposes of this discussion, the culture of an organization exists in the conversations of its participants.  In other words, what…

A Place for Everything and Everything in Its Place — Wouldn’t It Be Nice?

Does it seem to take forever to find that document on your server? Do you spend hours in your storage room looking for things? If so, than you are probably wondering if there is a way to reduce time wasted searching and increase your…

When Dogma Gets in the Way of Innovation

How to make innovation every employee’s responsibility was the topic of discussion at a recent Surge Group Breakfast Dialogue. Often organizations can’t get on the road to innovation because their people are blocked by the thinking of…

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…

Wellness Works!

 You may be sceptical.  Does it work?  Can a workplace wellness program actually result in a return on investment?  Can you really change your employees’ behaviour and overall health and wellness? There are reasons to be sceptical. …

Wellness Defined

What do we mean by wellness?  Merriam-Webster’s Eleventh Edition defines wellness as “the quality or state of being in good health especially as an actively sought goal.” The National Wellness Institute defines wellness as “an active…

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. …

Innovating Innovation: Our Current Model is Broken

I believe that ‘innovation’ is the source of constant discussion because nobody knows what to do about the massive problems facing the world today.  Whether on the national stage or at the level of the organization, the message is the…

Project Management: Are you RACI?

In some of our previous posts we’ve been looking at a number of tools and skills managers should include in their tool kit including SWOT analysis, PESTLE analysis, the “Org Chart”, PICO,  delegating, business case development,…

Top 10 Ways to Make Me Ignore your Emails

During the 1990’s Internet technologies arrived in the workplace seemingly overnight.  And, just as quickly, email replaced the telephone, the fax, and the business letter as our first choice for communication between professionals.  It…

Bringing the Factory to the Office: Applying Deming - Part 1

The work of Dr. W. Edwards Deming is well known as it applies to quality in manufacturing, though when asked, people will give different interpretations of his work - usually as it applies to them. My view is that Deming understood…

4 Steps to Successful Multitasking

Nowadays we all suffer from the same condition; my time is too short and my to-do list is too long. Most of us resort to multitasking – usually as a necessity to meet work expectations. We have to multitask, don’t we? The real…

Pro-crastination

Is procrastination something to be avoided or even "cured"? Nowadays, everyone expects everything to be right away - or better - last week. We juggle endless to-do lists, meetings, commitments, e-mails, and nurturing our social media …

How to meet client expectations: Product-based Project Planning

What steps can we take every time we have a business interaction to give ourselves the best odds of success?  Identify and clarify your client’s expectations. We don’t have to think too deeply about the deliverables – what is it that…

How to Get Things Right? Checklists.

It all started when I promised my kids that I would take them on their first "real" camping trip - tent, Coleman stove and all (not the cushy motor-home experience they were accustomed to). My son actually thought that we could just pick…