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Strategic Planning Lessons Learned for Not for Profits
Filed Under : Strategic Management & Planning by Michael Schiel
Jun.20,2012In many Not for Profit, Association and Member-driven organizations, in spite of the enormous effort and best intentions, the strategic plan ends up as a forgotten document on the bookshelf. In our experience at WMC, there are a few critical fact
ors which spell success or failure in strategic planning: Read More…
Burning Questions Remain From Public Sector Cuts
Filed Under : Public Sector by Michael Schiel Jun.19,2012Some days it feels like every level of the public sector is cutting, cutting, cutting. At some point we have to stop and take stock of what we are doing to the very public sector organizations we are trying to protect. Read More…
Unintended Consequences: Public Sector Cuts
Filed Under : Strategic Management & Planning by Michael Schiel Jun.14,2012What’s a Board to do?
Last night, the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) passed a balanced budget – it had no
t choice, as it would be in defiance of the Education Act, which would have dire consequences for the beleaguered Board. Read More…
Change Management Case Study: The Waterfront Campus Project
Filed Under : Change Management by Michael Schiel May.18,2012Guest Article written by Dr. Kathy Cowan Sahadath and Lorie Shekter-Wolfson
Positioning for the Future
In the summer of 2012, George Brown College (GBC) will undertake a two-pronged, groundb
reaking change: it will relocate about 230 full-time academic faculty and staff and 3500 full-time students to a 320,000 square-foot facility – the George Brown College Waterfront Health Sciences Campus in the East Bayfront area of Toronto – and it will incorporate Inter-professional Education (IPE) into its Health Sciences programs. Read More…
Why Are Some Conversations or Decision Making Processes Great While Others Miss The Mark?
Filed Under : Organizational Development by Michael Schiel May.17,2012By Georgina Veldhorst
What contributes to a great creative conversation? To decision making that feels like it is going to work? Conversely, what contributes to conversations that feel forced, like a lot was left unsaid? To decisions that fee
l like they are going to be sabotaged? Read More…
Effective Talent Management: Comprehensive Survey and Report
Filed Under : Organizational Development by Michael Schiel By: George Toner and Graham Herbert
This is the 3rd and final installment of a comprehensive survey and report by WMC that highlights the risks of small to medium sized organizations in the recruitment, assessment and retention of staf
f. (For the first two installments, see Effective Talent Management and Best Practices in Talent Management) We promised in the last installment to share with you the recommendations coming out of that report. Read More…
