By Anne Moretti | Executive & Organizational Development Consultant, Executive Exchange Facilitator Most executive teams are leaving growth potential on the table. Mobilizing the executive team to its highest level of performance is an organization’s strongest leverage point for continued success. The effectiveness of your top team impacts every level
By Mike Cardus | Organizational Development Consultant, Executive Exchange Facilitator “In most organizations, mistakes tend to be concealed even from those who make them. The likelihood of such concealment increases with rank or status. Therefore, the higher the rank, the greater the claim to omniscience. This implies that learning is
By Mike Cardus | Organizational Development Consultant, Executive Exchange Facilitator Confusion causes a search for easy; when easy is not the answer. While management consultants and Human Resources promote theories of engagement, agility, resilience, and cultural fit like a cure-all for what ‘ails us. We feel a loss of something and
By Mike Cardus | Organizational Development Consultant, Executive Exchange Facilitator In most recent Executive-Exchange meetings, a consistent topic is chaos and how to lead best and make decisions during COVID-19. As each of the executives share their perspectives, challenges, successes, and how the organization is adjusting to make things work
By Mike Cardus | Organizational Development Consultant, Executive Exchange Facilitator Currently, with the Covid-19 pandemic, polarized news sources, access to social media, and non-stop information, the presence of experts is ubiquitous. You may feel that the experts’ feedback is contradictory and confusing; however, this does not mean the expertise is
By Mike Cardus | Organizational Development Consultant, Executive Exchange Facilitator This global pandemic and mandatory work at home has created chaos and a shift in all workplaces. Some of us have worked remotely and managed virtual teams for years, and some of us have not. That is one of the
By Mike Cardus | Organizational Development Consultant, Executive Exchange Facilitator With creativity and change, there are two types of problems: Normal Problems = These are growth and adaptation challenges that are normal to most change. You and the team can figure these issues out or work through them with little
By Mike Cardus | Organizational Development Consultant, Executive Exchange Facilitator If you are a manager or work in Human Resources, the talent shortage is no surprise. Sitting with the Executive Exchange groups that I facilitate, there’s a continuing discussion around the lack of talented people and how to keep them
By Mike Cardus | Organizational Development Consultant, Executive Exchange Facilitator When you Google the phrase, “work skills needed for the future,” you will see that soft skills and the ability to adapt quickly to challenges are on most lists. In an article about the top talent trends of 2019, the
Workforce and talent development are a priority for the Buffalo Niagara Partnership. As Dottie Gallagher, our President & CEO said when we released our 2018-2019 Annual Report to Members: “There is no denying that workforce development is truly job number one.” To that end, the Partnership offers two programs devoted