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The 30-60-90 Day Implementation Plan for Producing Breakthrough Results & Achieving Peak Performance

Posted on by Jeremy Lurey

I often hear business leaders I coach working on their strategic plans. Where do we want to be in 5 years from now? What are our strategic intentions for the year ahead? Well, I would offer that the best of strategic planning typically only delivers some good ideas. And only a small fraction of those good ideas are ever successfully implemented, so I would further offer that strategic plans may be the wrong plans to be focusing on!

If you want to achieve peak performance and produce breakthrough results in your organization, you must look much shorter-term. In addition to having a clear vision for the future, you must also have a clear sense of how you are actually going to implement your “micro goals” and very next steps for achieving that longer-term vision.  Read more ›

Posted in Breakthrough, Breakthrough Performance, Breakthrough Results, Implementation Planning, Innovation, Peak Performance, Priority Management, Strategic Planning

Plus Delta’s CEO to Co-Host HR.com Presentation on Implementing Cost-Saving Benefit Strategies While Increasing Employees Perceived Value

Posted on by Jeremy Lurey

 

Many of today’s employees are accustomed to employer-provided rich benefit packages with high employer contributions. They are also more benefit savvy as more vendor benefit communication is being directed at the individual versus the employer. In a time where the average employee has come to expect growing benefits packages and high employer contributions, how do organizations that can no longer afford to maintain this trend make changes without causing discontent among the employee population?

There is no lack of discussion surrounding what more HR executives must do to please both the executive team and the employee population. The Human Resources department realizes that it must get used to the trend of doing more with fewer resources, but how can it continue to do this efficiently and cost effectively? To whom can you turn for proper guidance and to help you accomplish these tasks?

For answers to these questions and more, please join Jeremy Lurey, CEO of Plus Delta Consulting, and Nadine Dwan, Employee Benefits Advisor/Broker at Beneflex Insurance Services, for this virtual presentation on “Implementing Cost Saving Benefit Strategies While Increasing Employees Perceived Value of Benefits” on May 9th from 12-1pm ET. Don’t miss your chance to learn valuable strategies to drastically increase employee satisfaction and commitment in your organization!

Posted in Benefits, Employee Benefits, Employee Morale, Employee Satisfaction, HR, HR.com, Human Resources, Insurance, Job Satisfaction, More with Less, Value

Hiring and Firing: Why Do We Hire So Fast, and Fire So Slow?

Posted on by Jeremy Lurey

I often wonder why so many leaders hire so fast and fire so slow. It always seems that we do the due diligence required to select qualified candidates for our most important positions. And then when things don’t seem to work out, many of us bury our heads in the sand in denial as if nothing is wrong.

Being a self-confident person, I regularly try to enroll other people in my ideas by assembling teams around me who are capable of implementing those very ideas. In this job market, it isn’t even that hard to find people who want to implement my ideas. That can be a recipe for disaster though if we simply hire people who seem eager to follow our paths. And then when they aren’t even capable of doing that, I for one have a hard time letting people go because I want to believe in their dedication and commitment to our shared vision (as I see it!) and because I don’t want to face the reality that they likely were bad hires in the first place. Read more ›

Posted in Firing, Hiring, Human Resources, Leadership, Management, Recruitment, Selection

Turning 40 and Just Hitting My Stride

Posted on by Jeremy Lurey

Last Wednesday was my 40th birthday. I was not specifically waiting for the day to come to begin my life. Let’s face it, I’ve already lived a very full and blessed life, complete with tremendous revelations, numerous accomplishments, and several personal tragedies and struggles in between. With that said, I am relating to the day as if I am just hitting my stride, having only finished the 1st leg of my own personal relay race.

For years, I’ve heard of people fearing their 40th birthdays as if it meant they were now old or “over the hill”. For the past year or so, I’ve shrugged that off for the most part saying that I’ve always lived well beyond my years anyway. As the day drew closer, I then kept declaring how I was going to “figure out my life” and determine “what I’m going to do when I grow up” by the time I turned 40 – as if I would really have all the answers by then.  Now that the day has passed, I’m really glad it has because it feels like I now have permission to do exactly that!

Read more ›

Posted in 40, Birthdays, Declaration, Learning, Life, Malcolm Gladwell, Personal Development, transformation, Uncategorized

Designing the Organization of the Future…TODAY!

Posted on by Jeremy Lurey

An effective organization design can make or break your ability to achieve your business strategy. This is particularly true in today’s ever-changing environment. As a result, Plus Delta has seen a growing need for our clients to redesign their organizations to better align them with their marketplaces.

 As we look at the landscape of our clients, we see several trends emerging. Larger organizations focused on market demand and market opportunity are designing their strategies to give them better market share and increased growth post-recession. At the same time, many mid-sized companies are trying to build new business functions that they know are now needed to respond to emerging opportunities, but they often don’t know how to implement them on their own. Read more ›

Posted in Business Strategy, Customer Requirements, Future, Innovation, Organization Design, Organization Structure, organizational change, organizational culture, transformation, Work Processes

It’s the Network!

Posted on by Jeremy Lurey

I believe it was Ellen De Generes who first started talking about having “my people” in her American Express commercials a few years ago. More recently, it’s been Verizon Wireless who has been preaching the power of their network. Whichever way you look at it, it seems more and more critical these days to be connected and make sure someone has got your back!

For years, the term “networking” meant to me that I had to go to big professional events and try to make new friends with a bunch of strangers. If I did that well, then I might be more successful in my independent consulting practice because my new BFF would help position me for new, exciting projects. Being more of an introvert myself, I never really enjoyed that kind of networking, so I never really took those steps to cultivate a strong network. At least that’s what I thought until recently because my network seems stronger than ever right now, and it clearly keeps me going whenever the going gets tough. Read more ›

Posted in Coaching, Ellen DeGeneres, HR, Network, Networking, Referrals, Relationship Management, Relationships, Vistage International

Never Say Never…You Really Can Get It All Done!

Posted on by Jeremy Lurey

Someone once told me that we all will go to our graves not having got it all done. I used to agree wholeheartedly. Now I call bullshit!

Yes, I live a pretty busy life. And yes, I live much of that life questioning how I can possibly get everything done that I want to get done. I’ve even spent many a day – many a year actually! – living the words of Lt. Col. Willie Sharp declaring, “No time!” in the movie Armageddon as the astronauts frantically try to blow up and get off of the asteroid (feel free to read one of my recent blog postsfor more on that). These days I’m continuing to recognize that there is an abundance of time in my life to get done what really needs to get done. Read more ›

Posted in Game of life, Life, Play, Priorities, Priority Management, Stress, Stress Management, Time, Time Managment

Productivity Management: Always Prioritizing from Strategy to Tactics

Posted on by Jeremy Lurey

Many, if not all, of us get wrapped up in our day-to-day activities from time to time. “There’s so much to do. I’ll never get it all done!” is a story I tell myself much of the time. Amazingly, I get tons done throughout my busy days. It just isn’t always the stuff that I “need” to get done as it is not always aligned with my true goals and intended outcomes.

A few years ago, I took a productivity management course called Mission Control (see MissionControl.com for more info). This program touted itself as the next generation in time management and provided a powerful framework for maintaining control in one’s life by committing thoughts and ideas and common To Do’s to more formal existence systems (e.g., calendars, note pads, etc.) such that they didn’t get lost without being fulfilled. While I still use many of the Mission Control techniques today, I’ve come to realize that without defining my priorities it really isn’t possible to be productive.  Read more ›

Posted in Intentions, Mission Control, Priorities, Priority Management, productivity, productivity management, Strategy, Tactics, Time Managment

Leadership Lessons from Our New Canine Companion, Nigel

Posted on by Jeremy Lurey

Plus Delta’s staff has a long-standing history of inviting our four-legged canine friends to work with us. In fact, that’s one of the many reasons why Our Blog was honored as one of the top consulting blogs by OnlineBusinessSchool.org. Well, Plus Delta’s Founder and CEO recently adopted a new dog into the firm, and we’ve been fortunate enough to have him entertain – and teach – us in the office for the past few weeks. 

As best we can tell, Nigel is a 7-year-old part Pit Bull, part Labrador mix. And even though he weighs in at close to 70 pounds, he is a lap dog through and through (so he thinks!). He’s actually one of the sweetest, most docile dogs we’ve ever met and a pleasure to be around, which is a good thing since after spending the last year and a half living in a “no kill” animal shelter in Santa Barbara he loves nothing more than just hanging around with us. Read more ›

Posted in Accountability, blogs, Canine, Dog, Labrador, Leadership, Learning, Lessons, Pit Bull

Plus Delta’s CEO Leads Nation’s Diversity & Inclusion Leaders in Mapping their Change Journeys

Posted on by Jeremy Lurey

Later this month in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Plus Delta’s Founder and CEO Dr. Jeremy Lurey will join an esteemed faculty at the Multicultural Forum on Workplace Diversity. Hosted by the University of St. Thomas Opus College of Business, the Multicultural Forum on Workplace Diversity is the largest diversity and inclusion (D&I) conference in the United States, and it provides a compelling learning experience fostering business and thought leadership in workplace diversity and inclusion. 

This year, Dr. Lurey joins a team of experienced change management professionals at one of the pre-conference events to strengthen senior D&I leaders’ individual capabilities for leading complex organizational change initiatives. Dr. Lurey will focus on the essentials of change management and share Plus Delta’s proven Positive ChangeSM approach for managing organizational change efforts with the conference participants. Read more ›

Posted in Change management, Diversity, Inclusion, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Multicultural Forum, Opus College of Business, organizational change, University of St. Thomas, Workplace Diversity

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