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Plus Delta’s CEO Leads “Succession Planning: Strategies for Leveraging a Multigenerational Workforce” Webinar for Association Leaders

Posted on by Jeremy Lurey

Your organization likely employs multiple generations of employees, from Baby Boomers to Millennials. With such diversity, how can you find and coach your next generation of leaders? Which of their widely varying skills and motivations should be developed to have the biggest bottom-line impact on your organization’s future?

Plus Delta’s CEO Leads “Succession Planning: Strategies for Leveraging a Multigenerational Workforce” Webinar for Association Leaders

Plus Delta’s CEO Leads “Succession Planning: Strategies for Leveraging a Multigenerational Workforce” Webinar for Association LeadersPlus, there’s your Board! How can you get buy-in from them for a new and dynamic approach to succession planning? Here’s how to find the best answers.

  • Date:               Thursday, March 5th
  • Time:               2:00 – 3:30pm ET
  • Registration:  Register now for Succession Planning: Strategies for Leveraging a Multigenerational Workforce

In this webinar, two succession planning experts join an outgoing Boomer CEO and his successor to help you implement a proven approach for succession planning so your organization can adapt to these rapidly shifting trends in the workplace. In addition to learning the crucial elements of a “NextGen” succession plan, you’ll hear the real-life lessons learned directly from the senior executives of a global trade association that just completed a highly-valued and very successful leadership transition themselves. Read more ›

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Plus Delta’s CEO Shares Leading Practices for Running a Successful Consulting Practice during “Making It on Your Own” Workshop in Atlanta

Posted on by Jeremy Lurey

Need help getting your consulting practice off the ground? Are you already “in flight” and looking to take your boutique consulting firm to the next level? If so, Plus Delta’s CEO & Chief Architect Dr. Jeremy Lurey is presenting a workshop that you don’t want to miss on Tuesday, February 10th in Atlanta!

Organization Change Alliance

Far too often, skilled practitioners leave their internal corporate positions to launch their external consulting practices without completely considering the challenges that await them. This interactive program will help solopreneurs review the steps required to successfully launch their firms and develop the critical skills they need to make it on their own once their firms are established. The program is based on Plus Delta’s critical lessons learned from being in business for more than 12 years now – and even being named one of the best management consulting firms in 2014 by Wealth & Finance International.

 

  • When: Tuesday, February 10, 2015 from 5:30 – 8:00pm ET
  • Where: Wells Fargo Advisors Buckhead, Atlanta, GA

Click here to access the OCA website and register for this exciting program. And if you can’t make it to Atlanta for this event, give us a call at +1.310.589.4600 or email us to discuss how else you can learn these leading business practices from Dr. Lurey. Read more ›

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Plus Delta’s CEO Joins ODinLA “Many Faces of Coaching” Panel Presentation on Thur. Nov 6th

Posted on by Jeremy Lurey

Whether we are coaches, HROD practitioners, internal or external consultants, coaching is an important aspect of the work we do. ODinLA, the premier networking community for Organization Development in the Greater Los Angeles area, is hosting a learning and networking event called “The Many Faces of Coaching: Where Organization and Coaching Intersect” next week to discuss this critical business topic. Plus Delta’s CEO Joins ODinLA “Many Faces of Coaching” Panel Presentation on Thur Nov 6th Come join Plus Delta’s CEO Dr. Jeremy Lurey and a panel of other talented executive coaches specializing in several different niche areas of business coaching at this exciting professional event. Dr. Lurey will share some lessons learned from his direct experiences with group coaching over the past few years. In addition to highlighting some of the greatest benefits with group coaching, he will also explain why group coaching may now be a better investment than more traditional one-on-one executive coaching models! Read more ›

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Why Your Family Doesn’t Belong in Your Boardroom!

Posted on by Jeremy Lurey

I’m a big fan of “Take Your Child to Work Day”. I’m even an advocate for creating family-friendly cultures at work and treating everyone – especially line staff – like family. What I’m not a fan of is bringing family drama and unproductive relationships into the office. And probably the worst place of all for this dysfunction is the executive boardroom!

Family businesses by their very nature are complex organizations. On the plus side, they can transcend your everyday workplace by offering rich environments where family members can be more than just family. Family members can literally come together and build something – namely the company – that provides opportunities for not only financial gain but also community contribution. The challenge though is that family businesses also create the possibility for greater stress and anxiety that some family members are not equipped to handle when their familial relationships are not as positive.

1Why Your Family Doesn't Belong in Your Boardroom!

I don’t care if it’s married partners, brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, cousins, or any mix in between. Families share history together, and this history can at times manifest itself in very hurtful and damaging ways at work. The goal of an organization is to “do something”. That “something” may be producing a product or delivering a service. It may be selling direct to the public, or maybe it’s creating a marketplace for business-to-business exchanges. Whatever it is, that’s no place for family mayhem to ensue. Read more ›

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Plus Delta Recognized as Best Management Consulting Firm for Driving Greater Value for Clients

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Wealth & Finance International’s 2014 Wealth & Money Management Awards commend those working within the investment and financial services community from asset managers, wealth managers, private bankers and financial planners to brokers, banks, family offices, financial advisory firms and consultants. The awards pay homage to leading professionals for going above and beyond in assisting their clients with managing their wealth, planning for the future of their business or their family, and for providing sound advice in all areas.

Plus Delta Recognized as Best Management Consulting Firm for Driving Greater Value for Clients

Plus Delta is honored to be recognized as a 2014 Wealth & Money Management Award Winner in the category of “Best Management Consulting Firm”. We have been very intentional in establishing and further developing our coaching and consulting services in the area of Succession Planning over the past few years. According to Plus Delta’s CEO Dr. Jeremy Lurey, “Succession planning has never been more important than in today’s multi-generation workforce! With our extensive executive coaching programs for high-potential next-generation leaders and targeted transition support efforts for retiring Baby Boomer leaders, Plus Delta has enabled numerous family and privately-held businesses successfully pass the baton from one generation to the next, creating much greater value for their businesses for generations to come.”  Read more ›

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Why Group Coaching May Be Better than One-on-One!

Posted on by Jeremy Lurey

Over the past couple of years, I’ve been fortunate enough to participate in a few different group coaching efforts. A Chief Executive peer support group with @Vistage. An Action Learning Group for the Bay Area OD Network. (Read The Power of Action Learning for more about this extraordinary multi-year group experience in particular.) And now, a variety of others coaching mid-level leadership of our organizational clients. Through all of these experiences, I’ve come to believe that group coaching may in fact be better than more traditional one-on-one executive coaching!

Why Group Coaching May Be Better than One-on-One!

This approach of peer support combined with fundamental group facilitation practices has become a very effective way to coach individual leaders. The traditional one-on-one model regularly puts the role of “expert” on to the executive coach. While external executive coaches may offer great insights and be able to get their clients to think out of the box and try new leadership approaches, there is much that an external coach cannot and never will be able to do.

External coaches do not live day in and day out within their clients’ organizations. By design, we simply come and go just as your personal trainer might help you work out at the gym but does not follow you around all day to make sure you don’t eat that bag of chips or grab an extra cookie! In addition, executive coaches are not peers to the leaders being coached. Again, we live outside of the organization and therefore have very different rather than like perspectives. In essence, coaches can serve as “guides” for anyone taking the leadership journey. We are not, however, the only signposts to observe along the way. Read more ›

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104,000 Children of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Need Our Help!

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There is so much we can learn from children and their passion for life. This summer, Plus Delta celebrates children by supporting Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA). CHLA has been named the best children’s hospital on the West Coast and one of the top five in the nation for clinical excellence. With more than 104,000 children receiving pediatric health care at CHLA every year in a setting designed just for their needs, the hospital clearly needs – and deserves – our support.

104,000 Children of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Need Our Help!

In September, Plus Delta’s CEO & Chief Architect Dr. Jeremy Lurey is participating in the annual Malibu Triathlon again. This year, we are committed to raising $2,500 for the children of CHLA. Please help us reach this goal. Plus Delta will even match your generous triathlon contribution again, so every dollar you contribute really counts for so much more!

104,000 Children of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Need Our Help!

Thank you in advance for your support. Your contribution is greatly appreciated. For more information about CHLA, please visit their website at www.chla.org. Or if you’d like to learn more about the Malibu Triathlon, please visit https://www.nauticamalibutri.com/. Whatever you do, please to visit Jeremy’s fundraising page and donate whatever you can.

Click here to support Children’s Hospital Los Angeles

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CliffsNotes Guide To Managing the Ones Who Used To Be Your Peers

Posted on by Jeremy Lurey

I still remember the first time I was promoted into a senior leadership position and all of a sudden had a couple of my best friends reporting to me. Weird, awkward, difficult, and challenging are all words that immediately come to mind to describe that situation. Not fun, not desirable, not collaborative, and definitely not a few other words I wish I could have used instead!

CliffsNotes Guide To Managing the Ones Who Used To Be Your Peers

Much of my executive coaching these days is with Next Generation leaders who either were recently promoted or are currently being considered for promotions. One of the greatest challenges these NextGen leaders face seems to be managing the people who used to be their peers, and in many cases used to be people they considered to be close friends. Worse than that actually is trying to manage the people who didn’t get those promotions because they may have some added resistance thinking they would have been great fits for the jobs. Read more ›

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Plus Delta’s CEO Discusses What a Performance Review Is – and What It Isn’t! – at 2014 @CAHRConference

Posted on by Jeremy Lurey

How often have you heard a business leader grimace or otherwise complain when HR announces it’s time to complete annual performance reviews? People often think of performance management as that thing they have to do for HR at the end of the year so that people can qualify for their bonuses or other pay increases. While that may be part of the process, performance management is not just a once-a-year HR task. It’s an always, ongoing activity! Managing performance is the only reliable way to assure your people are working on the right things, give them the feedback – both positive and constructive – they need to succeed, and ultimately get continuously better results. When done well, an effective performance management process produces continuous performance improvements throughout the year, rather than isolated feedback that might create unsustainable behavioral change at best once in a while.

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During this workshop, Dr. Lurey will review everyone’s critical roles – Managers, Employees, and HR Professionals – as part of the performance management process. Participants will also gain clarity about what an annual performance review is and what it isn’t – specifically learning several Do’s and Don’ts in the review process – as well as discuss several leading practices to enhance any existing performance management process.

  • What: Best Practices for Designing Your Always, Ongoing Performance Management Process (aka What a Performance Review Is – and What It Isn’t!)
  • When: Tuesday, August 26th from 11:15am – 12:30pm
  • Where: Anaheim Convention Center 

Click here to access the California HR Conference home page and register for this exciting program. And if you can’t make it to Anaheim, give us a call at +1.310.589.4600 or email us to discuss how else you can learn these leading business practices. Read more ›

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Flipping the Switch is NOT the Same as Using the System!

Posted on by Jeremy Lurey

Have you ever been sitting at a traffic signal waiting for the light to turn green – while in a hurry of course! – and the person in front of you is still texting away when the light finally does change? Getting someone to actually do something is very different than simply giving that person the tools he or she needs to perform that action. That’s why flipping the switch and activating a new computer system is not at all the same as having your employees actually use that new system!

 Flipping the Switch is NOT the Same as Using the System!

 

In our world of implementing positive changes in organizations, we consider it the critical difference between “go live” and “adoption”. You might be implementing new business processes or maybe it’s standardizing your operating procedures rather than installing a new computer system. Regardless of the nature of the changes you are implementing, having people accept those changes takes much more than simply declaring they are now in effect. It’s very much like having that light turn green and not having the first driver move his/her car. It has nothing to do with whether or not the light works. Instead, it has everything to do with whether or not the driver chooses to move! Read more ›

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