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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

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…

Posted October 22, 2011 by Phil Hawkins 0 Comments

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…

Posted September 21, 2011 by Debra Sunohara 1 Comments

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…

Posted August 10, 2011 by Bert Zethof 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

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. …

Posted June 18, 2011 by Diane Thompson 1 Comments

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…

Posted June 4, 2011 by Diane Thompson 0 Comments

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. …

Posted June 1, 2011 by Geoff Schaadt 5 Comments

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…

Posted May 21, 2011 by Greg Tricklebank 1 Comments

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,…

Posted March 19, 2011 by Debra Sunohara 3 Comments

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…

Posted March 12, 2011 by Alcide DeGagné 6 Comments

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…

Posted March 9, 2011 by Phil Hawkins 4 Comments

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…

Posted March 5, 2011 by Debra Sunohara 4 Comments

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 …

Posted January 20, 2011 by Debra Sunohara 8 Comments

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…

Posted December 15, 2010 by Debra Sunohara 4 Comments

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…

Posted October 2, 2010 by Debra Sunohara 0 Comments

Top 10 Ways to Waste Time in Meetings

Meetings are an essential part of doing business.  However, they take up too much of our time leaving most of us eager to actually "get some work done”. With that in mind, I thought I would offer my “recommendations” for running…

Posted July 17, 2010 by Debra Sunohara 2 Comments

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