Author Archives: nhadmin

This is the time of year when we witness new growth all around us. We are shedding the heavy winter clothing and looking at that summer gear. It is also that time of year when we experience the greatest impatience in waiting for summer to finally arrive. My theme this month is getting prepared for… Continue Reading »

I was recently having a discussion on responding to Request for Proposals and the most common theme in the discussion was how people behaved before submitting a response. In the case we were discussing, was everything from having no contact at all with the company requesting the RFP to people doing research and contacting the… Continue Reading »

We get more sunshine every day! Today is Groundhog Day and it reminds me of a saying I heard on the weekend- “If you aim for nothing, you will hit it with amazing accuracy”. Is the day and age of uncertainly of global economies, I often wonder how many companies or organizations are actually planning… Continue Reading »

This is the time of year when we all make resolutions that we promise to keep. I once heard that the definition of a resolution is a commitment that you promise to make for a day and for most of us, that is as good as it gets. So maybe this year we use the… Continue Reading »

Thanks to Edward Stanford from Urban Systems, I am writing this month on succession planning. This is probably one of the last things that most boards, organizations and companies think of when doing strategic planning or long term business planning. But it is a reality that many employees are retiring at a rapid rate and… Continue Reading »

Many organizations and companies face the on going dilemma of having board members who are not familiar with their roles and responsibilities. I often get the impression that some people feel that sitting on a board is a warm and fuzzy thing to do with no consequences to their actions. This could not be further… Continue Reading »

I heard a piece on the radio this morning on employee retention and a recent survey of employees and employers as to how they viewed the best incentives for retention of employees. The top method is working hours flexibility followed by such things as working environment and even paid vacations. It occurred to me that… Continue Reading »

As we watch the news, we can see that the world is changing quickly and this can affect business or non-profit organizations. The latest events around the temporary foreign worker situation have the possibility to affect not only businesses but also the communities that these folks work and now live in. This raises the whole… Continue Reading »

I had the wonderful experience yesterday of having my computer decide to tell me who is in charge and it wasn’t me! Thanks to the wonderful folks at Apple, the problem eventually disappeared but it did cause me some major concern how I was going to access my files so that I could complete some… Continue Reading »

I was listening to an interview the other day on the difficult topic of employee performance assessment. Some of the common thinking on this annual event are: They are often harder on the person performing the assessment. There is no one standard assessment process or format. The ones perceiving this process to be very negative… Continue Reading »