Strategy1 Insights
Strategy1's team of expert consultants shares their insights and knowledge on developing and fostering the strategic alignment of people, plans and processes.
#1 New Year’s Resolution (for Every Year)
The end of each year is a time to reflect and take stock of successes and failures and ask what would you do differently. One way to accomplish this is to examine every aspect of our business as if you are the one being served In fact, maybe it could become your #1 New Year’s resolution that you repeat every year.
Strategic Work Alignment
Strategic Work Alignment is a framework that facilitates the design of work to make it possible to fulfill the performance needs of both the organization and its employees. It moves beyond the “what” of work to the crucial “how” work is accomplished.
Do You Have a Culture of Success?
The customer-focused company puts people first in every aspect of company operation. They build a culture of engaged, happy, and fulfilled employees that deliver superior customer service and propel the organization to new heights. In contrast an operations-focused company develops a culture based on systems, procedures, and control.
Project Success Top 5
Do you ever wonder why some projects are more successful than others? Are some project managers just smarter than others? There are common threads among successful projects and if you build these into your project management system, you're more likely to have a string of winners.
WorkStyle Patterns® (WSP™) Inventories
WSP™ Inventories determine WorkStyles. The WSP™ Individual Inventory identifies how a person prefers to work (WANT), and what he or she is actually doing (IS).
Create a Tactical Project Scorecard for Project Success
Your tactical project scorecard is one of your keys to success in managing any project of any complexity. It provides a fact-based set of metrics that everyone on the team has agreed to represent the critical success factors.
The Process of Strategic Work Alignment
It all starts with the customer’s demand for work but what Strategic Work Alignment changes is how businesses respond to that demand. It helps release human potential in both individuals and working teams. Instead of thinking work is rigidly fixed we now know work is malleable. Work can be broken down into its component parts, and then reassembled in ways that better fit how individuals perform that work.
Treating People Like People
If we treat people as people there is no betrayal of the human spirit. This simple forward focus on relationships can release the immense human potential in your organization.
Team Up in Strategic Alliances
When you are looking to grow your business, expand your market or add new products and services, you have three basic options: internal expansion, acquisition or merger, or forming alliances.
Betrayed? "People Are Our Greatest Asset"
How many times have you heard “people are our greatest asset”? Perhaps it was said in a speech by an important leader in your company. Consider the word ‘asset’ again. Does it recognize the humanity in each person? Or does it suggest people as a tool, in a conceptual way that can be put to work?