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From IOM Blog
Why Your Organization’s Strategic Plan Isn’t Working
The first thing I ask clients when asked to facilitate their Strategic Plan is “How is your current plan serving you?” The answers range from “well” to “not at all” to even “I don’t know.” After a little research into how it was designed and how they implemented it, I have discovered a few common […]
Burn It Down: Why the Proverbial Kids Table No Longer Has a Place in Your Organization
Do you have a kids table in your organization? The one you place young professionals, baby bankers, “those” entrepreneurs working out of coffee shops on pipe dreams and $6-dollar americanos? Burn it. Burn it down. In the U.S., roughly 73 million Millennials were born between 1980 and 1996 (Gallup, 2016). Fast forward to 2018, and […]
Waking Up the Sleepwalkers in Your Organization!
“There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.” – Ralph Ellison I define a sleepwalker as someone whose actions do not align to how they say they want to be perceived by others. Easily stated, they lack self-awareness! These individuals view themselves one way but everyone else in the organization has a […]
