30Apr, 2025 A Culture of Continuous Improvement How Do You Instill a Culture of Continuous Improvement? When leaders tell me they have a culture of continuous improvement, I often ask them some simple questions: “What is your...
28Mar, 2025 How’s Your Teamwork? Is teamwork one of your organization's values? We see it in many of our clients’ organizations. But the real question is, is teamwork really valued and effective in your organization?...
24Feb, 2025 Practice Makes Perfect Practice Makes Perfect, Or Does It? Many of us heard that aphorism growing up. Many of us still hear it in our minds. But the great coach, Vince Lombardi said,...
28Jan, 2025 Customer Service Role Model Customer Service Role Models vs. Customer Service Fails A National Role Model We had the privilege of working with a national role model in customer service, Northeast Delta Dental (NEDD)....
2Jan, 2025 Do You Know Your ONE... Are you a list maker? I am. I have been for years. Early in my career, I “learned” that list making is an essential skill of effective managers. I just...
1Dec, 2024 The Organizational Health Index and... I came upon some interesting research conducted several years ago by McKinsey & Company. They developed a metric that measures the effectiveness of an organization’s performance across several critical areas. ...
29Oct, 2024 The Impact of Fear on... Do you have a culture of innovation in your organization? Do you need innovation to remain relevant to your customers and competitive in your marketplace? In a white paper published...
30Sep, 2024 Improving Employee Engagement Ever since we published our book, Leading the Malcolm Baldrige Way: How World-Class Leaders Align Their Organizations to Deliver Exceptional Results, we’ve continued to follow research on organizational culture and employee...
1Sep, 2024 Are You a Versatile Leader? In Baldrige Reimagined, two critical characteristics are required for organizations to be considered for the Award: resilience and long-term success. Given the sea change surrounding us, those seem to be...
24Jul, 2024 Harvesting the Fruits of Failure Harvesting the Fruits of Failure I had a Chemistry professor at Purdue who used to say, “No experiment is ever a failure. It can always serve as a bad example!” ...
