26th June 2009
Strategy Acceleration is creating personal and organizational velocity toward the fulfillment of goals. Strategy acceleration works across the organization with all of the resources needed and available to create individual buy-in to corporate strategies....
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26th June 2009
Each human being is wired a little differently. We are made up of preferences, levels of comfort, skills, strengths, weaknesses, ways of listening and hearing, ways of speaking, and our own ways of doing things. When people discover and learn to leverage...
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26th June 2009
Strategy Acceleration is creating personal and organizational velocity toward the fulfillment of goals. It is an approach to executing high-level organizational strategies which keep the organization sustainable in current market conditions and position i...
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27th March 2009
The recent Women's Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) Conference was very informative for me on a number of levels. While attending the conference, I spoke with several supplier diversity representatives from a number of organizations. These con...
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27th March 2009
Becoming a naturally effective leader does not depend upon your ability to emulate the behaviors and attitudes of the "great leaders" you read about in books. Becoming a naturally effective leader simply requires you to stop trying to be someone else or ...
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27th March 2009
The need for rapid organizational change is a fact of life in today's business environment. While there may be a few companies whose leaders are committed to a belief that it is good for everyone to "shake things up" from time to time, most organizationa...
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27th March 2009
The value of personal strategic planning, simply put is the difference between living the life you want and living the life that happens to you. Venturing into a deeply forested area without a map or knowledge of the region, at least for most people, is ...
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27th March 2009
If your household is like most of the nation, some member of your family spends two evenings a week glued to the television to find out if the new slate of celebrities can learn Latin and Ballroom dancing. Among the many things the stars learn to do is a...
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27th March 2009
Calculating the ROI of Executive Coaching is a subjective undertaking, no matter what formula you choose to employ for your evaluation model. The reason the calculation is often subjective is that it is difficult to put a dollar value on something like r...
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27th March 2009
At this time of year, many companies look to the future and put together a Strategic Plan and/or a Business Plan for the coming year(s). For many, this has become a matter of looking at the last plan and changing the numbers to match new goals. If this...
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27th March 2009
Day after day I talk with clients and with business leaders. I often ask, "What is the most challenging issue your organization is facing?" The top answer to my question is "workforce management." My second question is, "What is the most difficult part...
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27th March 2009
Internal or external events which require quick responses by an organization's leadership can compromise the ability of a company to achieve strategic goals and retain competitiveness in their primary markets. Making speedy decisions in response to chang...
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27th March 2009
As we all know, there are great performance plans, there are less than great performance plans, and there is everything in between. Most of us have probably seen examples of many types of performance management plans and many approaches to implementing th...
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10th November 2008
In corporate America today, we are aware that there are costs involved in hiring a new employee. We incur these costs because we are convinced that the cost of hiring a new employee in a critical position will be recovered in greater efficiencies and grea...
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08th September 2008
Copyright (c) 2008 Gayla Hodges
How do you keep your eyes on the prize - meaning finishing strong all of the goals you've set for 2008 - while also planning and setting goals for 2009? You are faced with two very critical tasks which can easily become ...
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Gayla Hodges is the President and Principal Consultant of Change Agents, Inc., a company that uses their powerful Natural Effectiveness™ Coaching and Teaming process to help corporate team leaders achieve personal, team and corporate goals. She has extensive experience in instituting corporate transformational change. She coaches executives and managers on leading corporate change, facilitating the development and implementation of organizational effectiveness strategies and leadership skills. Change Agents, Inc. is certified by the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council as a woman-owned business. She is Vice-Chair of WBENC-Arizona. Gayla is the author of Success Through Natural Effectiveness: Personal Strategic Planning Workbook. For more information, visit www.changeagentsinc.com or call 623-362-3876.
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