effective teaming

Keeping Your Eyes on the Prize

Gayla Hodges — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:14:39 -0400

By Gayla Hodges

Insights on Successfully Leading Corporate Initiatives

Gayla Hodges — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:30:47 -0400

Leaders who work for large corporations at the production level or in satellite or plant locations are often challenged with implementing corporate initiatives at their particular level. They are further challenged to implement them within the context of the local culture and of their own strategic goals. There are several reasons for this. One reason is that corporate strategies seem to be just that -- they apply across the whole company -- and might not seem to apply to the area they are leading, especially if it is a production area.

Leadership as a Talent Retention Tool

Gayla Hodges — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:28:10 -0400

The way you treat people is one of the most important factors in your company’s ability to keep the talent you want and need to make your business successful. You as a manager, as a leader, may be one of the most important talent retention tools your company has. And remember the key to retention success: People don’t leave corporations, they leave bosses.

Responses sought on Workforce Management Survey

Gayla Hodges — Fri, 23 May 2008 11:15:12 -0400

Glendale, AZ – May 23, 2008 – Just in time to release the findings before strategic planning season, Change Agents, Inc. has announced a new online survey for businesses of all sizes.

A Different Approach to Workforce Management

Gayla Hodges — Tue, 20 May 2008 15:16:02 -0400

Day after day I talk with clients and with business leaders. I often ask, “What is the most challenging issue your organization is facing?” The top answer to my question is “workforce management.” My second question is, “What is the most difficult part of workforce management?” The top answer to this question is “workforce planning.”

Essestials for Successfully Implementing Your Strategic Plan - Steps 2 and 3

Gayla Hodges — Mon, 12 May 2008 16:12:18 -0400

The second step in implementing your strategic plan is to get people involved as you communicate. Get workgroups and/or individuals involved so they actually do something with the strategic plan. In many organizations getting people involved in doing something with the plan means there is a performance plan. Creating the individual or team performance plan is a matter of asking, “Given that these are the goals of the organization, how does my job fit into these goals? How do I make a difference? How do I help

Using Natural Effectiveness™ to Sustain Strategic Momentum

Gayla Hodges — Sun, 04 May 2008 14:42:16 -0400

Essentials for Successfully Implementing Your Strategic Plan – Step One

Gayla Hodges — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:25:13 -0400

Developing a strategic plan is a critical effort both for corporations and for individuals or families. Developing the plan, however, will not achieve the goals outlined in the plan without certain essential actions and activities by the people who created it. Far too often, strategic plans are written and then put away and ignored. This approach is almost never successful in achieving goals.

Sustaining Strategic Momentum

Gayla Hodges — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:17:01 -0400

Sustaining strategic momentum is a leadership function. In our last two-part article, Essentials for Successfully Implementing Your Strategic Plan, we mentioned what leaders do.

“Leaders have a vision. They build a small group of people who share that vision. They have the ability to articulate that vision and to build buy-in from others. Then they implement the vision and the small group of people they have gathered can move mountains and make many, many things happen in an organization.”

Natural Effectiveness(TM) For Success

Gayla Hodges — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:09:14 -0400

Articles and comments by Gayla Hodges, MA, PCC, SPHR, CDMP, President and Principal Consultant, Change Agents, Inc. and the Associates and Coaches of Change Agents, Inc.

Topics of primary focus will be executive leadership, leading change, change management, creating corporate vision and strategic objectives, effective teaming, and general business management and talent management.