Planning for a Corporate Retreat
VIDEO TRANSCRIPT Planning for a Corporate Retreat Going on a retreat?! Great! It's a great way to get your team together working on your trust and leadership and communication; so, don't wait until the retreat to get started. What we ask our clients to do is start working about a month in advance. In fact, [...] CREATING A MISSION STATEMENT
VIDEO TRANSCRIPT | CREATING A MISSION STATEMENT Mission statements have been misused for ages. They are often written by management consultants with total disregard for the intended audience. We believe your organization's mission statement should be written for your employees. Not your customers; not your shareholders; but for the people who have been tasked to [...] DEFINING ORGANIZATIONAL VISION
VIDEO TRANSCRIPT | ORGANIZATIONAL VISION Vision. Many people do not understand the difference between a Vision and Mission statement. Here is some clarification. Your Vision can be defined as a place in the horizon in which your organization is hoping to achieve, while the Mission of the organization is what you do and why you [...] DEVELOPING CORE VALUES
VIDEO TRANSCRIPT | DEVELOPING CORE VALUES Core values are the beliefs you have that you live for and will fight for, no matter what. These are what we as an organization believe in and will fight for even if. Your core values are the ties that bind the organization together. Just think about it for a [...] Inspirational Presence | Book Review
Inspirational Presence: The Art of Transformational Leadership (2009), written by Jeff Evans, is a fantastic read. Evans, who holds his Ph.D. in Educational Human Resources Development from Texas A&M, works in the business world. He has dabbled in academia as well, but his life’s work is in leadership development as well as an executive coach. […]
Improve Yourself: Take an Afternoon to Golf
The game of golf is all about patience, staying focused, and being confident. It’s hard to do this when you’re a micromanager, a perfectionist, or have low self-esteem. Leave all of those traits at the edge of the green, hop into a golf cart, and lets go play golf! There are five main points to […]
Organizational Mission: Should it Come Later?
Organizational Mission Your organizational mission is often said to be a statement of purpose or mission statement. We work with companies to create their corporate culture, rather than that culture be developed for them. We have defined corporate culture as the synergy created between your mission, vision, and values. So, of course, we should develop our […]
Why Vision Matters
One of the basic premises we live by is that in terms of corporate culture, Vision trumps Mission. A company’s mission is what they do, and why they do it. The mission is a cornerstone of any organization. We define vision as a place on the horizon. It’s a point that we can see, and […]
