While it's been some time since posting to this blog, I've still been working. Now that I have a little more time on my hands, it's time to restart the blog process and even work to back fill the last 8 months or so since I last entered a note ... although I have been writing consulting and training steadily, and my clients still get a one-page update between sessions (in a two column, pdf file version). I just never got around to repurposing the thoughts and posting them here.
So beginning this month, April 2009, I promise to post new monthly messages, and even work on backfilling the blog with some of the articles and newsletters I wrote before.
Besides that, I have come to see the wisdom in a simple three word mantra:
The sentiment may seem harsh, but is indeed becoming a reality for today’s leaders. During turbulent times, leaders are faced with tumultuous budget and productivity concerns. Your HR and admin staff are feeling battered from reduction in workforce discussions. What’s often left to chance, as leaders are stretched focusing on the fires of the day, is addressing those employees left to produce positive results and perform for your organization. All too often it’s our most valuable resource, our remaining employees, that are not addressed.
One uninformed executive recently shared, “Heck they’re happy just to have their jobs! I don’t need to do anything special for them.” Really?! Have I missed the reports of first quarter spikes in productivity, performance, and profitability in businesses across our nation? It’s natural when employees find themselves in seemingly intolerable situations and feeling overwhelmed by tension, anxiety, and a sense of powerlessness to retreat, shutdown, and go into a self-preservation mode. We create the exact opposite culture than we need to weather the economic storm and emerge victorious. By not addressing employee morale, we engender a survival and victim mentality.
Over the past several months, we’ve been contacted by several leading organizations and had the opportunity to partner with them as they’ve realized now is a critical and pivotal time to capitalize on their most important resource, their people. Although each solution has been tailored to the individual needs of client organizations, some of the strategies we’ve employed include:
- Culture Reconstruction: Building a Culture Where People Thrive
- Positioning for the Future: Leading in Uncertain Times With Shifting Expectations
- Diversity: Differences seem to be magnified during times of Crisis. Tailored to the unique needs of your organization, we explore cultural, race, gender, and generational issues that can rob an organization of productivity.
- Denial – Not a River in Egypt: Reality discussions, facing facts, resolving roadblock issues, developing strategies, action commitments, and holding self and others accountable is no longer a luxury in today’s tough business climate.
- Stimulus Success: Strategic Mapping for Stimulus Dollar Expenditures & Execution
- Change or Die: Principles to Live By.
- 2020 Habits and Skill Development: It’s not too early to identify and begin to develop in earnest the attitudes and skill sets that will be prerequisites to success in the next decade. Your choice, be proactive and develop core competencies now, or step into the reactive, victim role forever being frustrated and playing catch-up.
- Character and Ethics: More than ever this is the desire and desperate demand of your customers (constituents), co-workers, and the community your function within.
- New Ways of Thinking for a Change: What type of thinking is most manifested in your organization? Is it what will maintain your position and move you to the next level of excellence? Are you firing on all cylinders when it comes to thinking – big picture thinking, creative thinking, realistic thinking, possibility thinking, and shared thinking?
Maybe you're looking for a topic that's not listed, that's not a problem. Since 1991 we've been designing programs, events, and solutions around our customers concerns and needs ... we can do something special for you too!
From acting as a short-term organization morale officer, to offering action-oriented development sessions for employees, to one-on-one coaching, to offering follow-up support tools our organization is available to ensure your organization is maximizing your most valuable asset in employee productivity or just providing blog essays for you to pass along, we’d be happy to meet with you personally or talk via phone or e-mail to discuss a tailored solution for the challenges you’re facing in today’s challenging climate.
Regards,
Mel Jurado
(813) 985-4161
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