Planning a team building exercise can be a daunting task. There are too many activities to choose from, and most produce eye rolls rather than excitement from the team members. But when properly planned and executed, this is an...

A Successful Fiscal Year Starts with Strategic Planning
If your fiscal year ends in June, you are probably beginning to prepare for 2017-18. First up is scheduling a date for your organization’s strategic planning session. Scheduling can be challenging and time-consuming, especially if you have a large...

How to Assess the Signs and Succeed in Issue Resolution
As you plan your next meeting, you are most likely focused on how the meeting will come to an efficient, useful consensus. To succeed, you need to have a strong understanding of how to avoid or address one possible...

A Professionally Facilitated Focus Group will Help You Win
How does your company conduct market research? Do you avoid valuable resources like focus groups because of a lack of clarity about their benefit, time constraints, or failed attempts in the past? Those challenges may be due to having...