by Ken Giffin | Sep 24, 2025 | leadership, strategic planning
While you might think end-of-year planning is still a couple of months away, now is actually the time to get started. That’s because creating a meaningful and measurable strategic plan requires more than just leadership’s input. By starting the process now, you’ll be...
by Ken Giffin | May 20, 2025 | corporate behavior, employee empowerment, leadership, operational efficiency
Does this complaint from an employee sound familiar to you? I log into email and instant messaging first thing in the morning, and I’m already behind in reading 20 new messages. After scanning the emergencies and issuing some temporary replies, I start the first of...
by Ken Giffin | Apr 22, 2025 | agile, leadership, operational efficiency, productivity
Agile is a proven framework in the world of development. The agile process helps development teams provide rapid responses and feedback to their projects, and it opens up opportunities to assess the project’s direction in the middle of the development cycle....
by Ken Giffin | Mar 18, 2025 | corporate behavior, leadership, office politics
When talking with people about conflict in the workplace, there is always a look of discomfort on their faces. I haven’t met anyone yet who is excited by the thought of an office argument or meeting disagreement. However, the reality is that conflict is everywhere...
by Ken Giffin | Nov 12, 2024 | employee engagement, leadership, meeting management
We recently were part of a client meeting with a proposed new team structure approach – including “discussion” on how the team felt about the change. The change wasn’t drastic – but the change was something that would have an impact on a variety of team members and...
by Ken Giffin | Aug 26, 2024 | corporate behavior, employee engagement, leadership, meeting management
According to 2023 statistics, there were over 55 million meetings each week in the United States alone, and 71% of those meetings were designated as unproductive. That unproductivity causes an estimated $37 billion in costs each year! 55 million meetings each week 71%...
