Change is an inevitable aspect of life, but it’s not always easy to embrace. Nevertheless, growth requires change, and both personal and business growth necessitate learning and doing something different. The critical factor determining the success or failure of change initiatives is leadership quality. According to a Harvard Business Review article, employees are losing patience … Continue reading Change Management = Change in Management
Roadmap to Organizational Growth: Knowing the Optimal Time to Shift Your Allocation of Time, Energy, and Resources
Our guest blog writer for this month is the author of Catch!, The Rudolph Factor, and Be a Frontline H.E.R.O.— Cyndi Laurin, Ph.D. With over 25 years of expertise in leadership, organizational culture, and performance improvement, she expounds on the paradoxical nature of growth and structure, making it relatable to every business owner. The journey … Continue reading Roadmap to Organizational Growth: Knowing the Optimal Time to Shift Your Allocation of Time, Energy, and Resources
Reframing the Language of Leadership
Words mean things. Too often, we get trapped in the latest buzzwords, and before long, we use them without thinking about their meanings. It's time we reform the language of leadership.
Decoding Leadership: How Cognitive Maturity Shapes Leaders
The path to higher levels of consciousness is a choice and to master leadership is to do it with conscious development and hard work.
Decoding Behavioral Tools: Predictive Index vs. DiSC Model
In order to get the best performance from your people and build a world-class organization, you’ll need to understand how psychology meets workplace dynamics. This is where understanding your teams’ behaviors can actually help you predict high performance. That’s why KMP proudly partnered with MindWire to provide a solution that helps you put the right … Continue reading Decoding Behavioral Tools: Predictive Index vs. DiSC Model
Employee Engagement Challenges in the Era of AI: Solutions for CEO and Senior Leaders
Successful AI implementation involves a delicate balance between technological advancements and human-centric approaches, ensuring that employees remain at the heart of organizational success.
Aerospace Has a Retention Problem and Younger Talent is Going to Save Us
Gen Z-ers, millennials have been called lazy and entitled. Could their loyalty be key to innovation and resurgence of Aerospace and Defense industry?
From Start to Finish Line: Harnessing Business Victory by Galloping Towards Success
Business is like a horse race. There is no one-size-fits-all solution. However, there are a couple of basic rules to follow that serve us very well.
Building a Robust Financial Governance to Support Your Product Development System
Successful software and product development requires robust process and financial governance to support the system. Do you have one in place?
Recessions are Good for Good Businesses, and Good Businesses are Prepared
A recession is coming — now or in the future — it is the cyclical nature of economics. For some leaders, panic sets in, but maybe it shouldn’t.
An Introduction to Bulletproofing Your Organization: Building Resiliency for Success
What leadership commitment do you hold to your organization that keeps you there?
How Documentation Will Make or Break Your Business
Here at KMP Consultants, we understand the need for predictable and scalable growth. It is what every company strives to achieve, but did you know that documentation is a key part of reaching this goal? The ability to turn on and off the flow of leads, sales, and client fulfillment will help your company control … Continue reading How Documentation Will Make or Break Your Business
The One Number That Drives Your Business
Baseball is one of the most statistic-laden sports. Every position and player has dozens of “KPIs” or “OKRs” that define how well they, as individuals, play. Yet what defines winning or losing is not RBIs or batting averages, but ONE NUMBER — the number of runs on the scoreboard. What one number tells you … Continue reading The One Number That Drives Your Business
What Exactly is Servant Leadership?
A note from Karen: Scott Knutson is a valued partner of our team at KMP Consultants. His Servant Leadership program offers key insights and solution for companies working to build a stronger, more employee centric culture. As we’ve been discussing over the last few months, the post-COVID environment has put leaders in the position to … Continue reading What Exactly is Servant Leadership?
The Rise of the Post-Covid Leader: Soft is the New Tough
We have long understood that a poor manager is the most significant factor in an employee’s decision to resign. Yet, a study conducted by Careerbuilder reports that 58 percent of managers said they didn’t receive any management training. How can that be? The top factor of an employee’s job satisfaction level is the quality of their relationship … Continue reading The Rise of the Post-Covid Leader: Soft is the New Tough
From Workforce Revolution™ to Organizational Alliance : Re-engage a Dis-illusioned Workforce by Shifting Focus
From our previous articles, you took action and burned the ships as you pursue a culture of purposeful recognition withing your workforce of the individual and valuing the individual. Now it’s time to pull everyone together to move forward toward a common goal. Focus on the External With a “Burn the Ships” commitment lived … Continue reading From Workforce Revolution™ to Organizational Alliance : Re-engage a Dis-illusioned Workforce by Shifting Focus
From Workforce Revolution™ to Organizational Alliance: Re-engage a Dis-illusioned Workforce by Recognizing the Individual
What makes up the culture in your organization? People. If you’re going to align and re-engage your workforce, you must recognize and speak to the individual, not just the masses. In our last blog, we discussed that we must be willing to "burn the ships" in order to create alignment within our organization. … Continue reading From Workforce Revolution™ to Organizational Alliance: Re-engage a Dis-illusioned Workforce by Recognizing the Individual
From Workforce Revolution™ to Organizational Alliance : Taking Action to Re-engage a Disillusioned Workforce
In our last post, we left you with the question of how you get everyone focused in one direction within your organization. How do you get your workforce to engage in their work, and creatively, and proactively solve the issues that move your company and everyone in it forward? As you work to help … Continue reading From Workforce Revolution™ to Organizational Alliance : Taking Action to Re-engage a Disillusioned Workforce
From Workforce Revolution™ to Organizational Alliance: Re-engaging a Disillusioned Workforce
The Workforce Revolution™ has begun. Awakened by the reveille of employee discontent, heralded by a chorus of resignations and a massive recruitment problem, companies found themselves ill-equipped to re-engage the troops. Leaders struggled to keep everyone in formation while the remaining loyal yet burned-out workforce struggled to carry the load of their AWOL colleagues. Initially, when the Workforce … Continue reading From Workforce Revolution™ to Organizational Alliance: Re-engaging a Disillusioned Workforce
Lasting Peace in the Workforce Revolution™ Part 3: What Now? Build Trust That Will Last
It’s easy to go through the motions and re-build trust with your employees with the hidden agenda of things going back to the way they were “pre-COVID”. If you haven’t yet, you need to rethink your position, or, as I mentioned in my last article, your employees will revolt. You need to rebuild trust, a trust … Continue reading Lasting Peace in the Workforce Revolution™ Part 3: What Now? Build Trust That Will Last
Lasting Peace in the Workforce Revolution™ Part 2: How to Build Trust for Alignment, Engagement, and Retention
Alignment starts with trust. Building trust is a key ingredient to the success of any relationship, and this doesn’t stop when you walk into work. As leaders, we need to stop viewing our relationships with our employees as “just business”. It’s personal. Your employees are making it personal, and you better too before it’s too … Continue reading Lasting Peace in the Workforce Revolution™ Part 2: How to Build Trust for Alignment, Engagement, and Retention
Lasting Peace in the Workforce Revolution™ Part 1: It’s Time to Build Trust for Alignment, Engagement, and Retention
The post-Covid workforce is at odds with leadership and it’s personal. It's obvious when you see the impact on retention. We as leaders let them down. In a time of great uncertainty and fear – in all aspects of their lives – our employees worked long hours under the most challenging conditions. Yet, communication was … Continue reading Lasting Peace in the Workforce Revolution™ Part 1: It’s Time to Build Trust for Alignment, Engagement, and Retention
Who’s the REAL Enemy in the Talent War?
As we continue our conversation about the talent war, we shift gears to discover who the real enemy really is.
When Talent Goes AWOL: Rally the Troops to Call a Ceasefire in the Talent War
It's time to rally the troops. This month we have been taking a deep look into the Talent War that is raging in Corporate America today. With more people quitting their jobs than ever before, the typical “fear tactics” that were once used to keep employees in their offices are no longer working. Initially, when … Continue reading When Talent Goes AWOL: Rally the Troops to Call a Ceasefire in the Talent War
When Talent Goes AWOL: It’s Time to Raise a New Flag
It’s become a popular belief that COVID is the catalyst of this talent war, or what is being called the Great Resignation. However, as we’ve discussed in our last two articles, “When Talent Goes AWOL: Calling a cease-fire to the Talent War” and “When Talent Goes AWOL: The next step in calling a Cease-Fire in … Continue reading When Talent Goes AWOL: It’s Time to Raise a New Flag
When Talent Goes AWOL: The Next Step in Calling a Cease-Fire in the Talent War
In our last article, we discussed the Talent War and its impact on organizations in today’s post-COVID climate. We discussed the reality of the Great Resignation and how it’s a much deeper issue than what most are assuming. As a result, the workforce is placing demands on employers and if they aren’t meant, they are … Continue reading When Talent Goes AWOL: The Next Step in Calling a Cease-Fire in the Talent War
When Talent Goes AWOL: Calling a Cease-fire to the Talent War
The battle against Covid has mutated into a revolutionary war between leadership and the workforce. Many view the workforce exodus as a Talent War or call it the Great Resignation, but they’re only looking at the symptom—people quitting their jobs. It’s a reaction to a much deeper problem. "The most important thing in communication … Continue reading When Talent Goes AWOL: Calling a Cease-fire to the Talent War
Are We Just Hiding Behind Hybrid?
Are we really just hiding behind hybrid? Many of our executive coaching clients admit to feeling rushed into making a choice or some sort of commitment about returning to a brick-and-mortar work setting soon. Their employers offer fixed choices about where to work: either fully remotely (if eligible) or some kind of hybrid blend of working … Continue reading Are We Just Hiding Behind Hybrid?