Workforce Planning is the single best way to not only drive your talent strategy but also to support your overall business strategy. Your workforce planning strategy should not exist unless it is aligned with and supporting your overall business strategy. Building a Workforce Plan, as I have shared before, takes time, effort and knowledge. A …
The ability to measure the success of your Workforce Plan depends on overcoming one of the 3-Challenges. That challenge is perception. Most businesses in America, even those that refer to their employees as their most valuable asset, see the workforce as a cost to be managed. Measuring the success of your workforce plan means changing …
I come from an M&A background. It was fun, exciting and challenging. I have participated from due diligence through Post Acquisition Integration in over 75 M&A transactions. I understand the emotions that are vested in it. I read recently that M&A activity had peaked, that it was declining. The new focus for CEO’s was not …
My continuing education about business, work, and the workplace recently shared an interesting piece of data with me. That data was only 20% of businesses that go on the market are sold. Further, of those business owners who sold their business, 72% did not know or did not think the sale of the business will …
It’s a conversation most business owners and their families don’t want to have. The conversation about what happens next with the business. Next as in when the current business owner is no longer working in the business. Next, as in how do we effectively manage that transition to ensure that the investment made in the …
