Assessing Your People

Part one of our two part blog series, Starting the New Year off with Assessments of your Business and your People, focused on specific tools to assess the state of your your business.  Part two is focused on tools to assess your people.

2016 will present new and unique challenges to businesses and leaders like never before.  Based on our research, dialogues with clients, and observations conducting business acumen training programs, here are five critical capabilities organizations will need to survive.  How do you assess the people within your organization relative to these capabilities? 

Welcome back from break and welcome to 2016!  As readers of this blog know, our purpose is to provide additional insights, skills, and tools to past-participants, clients, and potential clients in the areas of business acumen, business leadership, and strategic business selling.

The end of a business year is always an interesting and stressful time for those in a business leadership role. They are trying to simultaneously manage the numbers, shareholder expectations, and close the year strong... with an eye on a fast start for the following year. During the last few weeks of December, we typically see;

Everyone who travels for business, or pleasure, fears that moment your baggage doesn’t show up.  When all of the other passengers have left and you are standing there staring at the empty baggage carousel.  In business, it’s the same feeling as preparing for a big meeting or presentation and something goes wrong, the competitor shifted strategy, or the customer changed direction and you are standing there looking at the empty carousel.