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Building Better Strategies: The Power of Balanced Research
Strategic planning is a powerful tool for leaders striving to prepare their teams and organizations for the future. However, the efficacy of a strategic plan hinges significantly on the quality of research that informs it. Research serves as the bedrock of strategic...
The Difference Between a Good Workplace and a Great Workplace
At MacPhie, we talk a lot with our clients about how to go from “good to great” - pulling on the right levers to level up organizational productivity and performance. Leaders love to focus on process improvements and big strategic questions, and these matter a great...
The Key to Improving Employee Retention? Empowering Middle Managers
Imagine a workplace where employees feel valued, engaged, and motivated to stay. A place where high turnover rates are a thing of the past, and the workforce is not only stable but thriving. The secret to this utopia isn't just in grand company policies or lavish...
Unlocking Success with the OKR Methodology
On our walk home from school the other day, my daughter and her friends took turns telling me about all of the things they could measure, a focus of their math lessons the last few weeks. It was quite an impressive list that ranged from counting the number of gummy...
Prioritizing Employees in Remote Workplaces: How You Can Help
Is work-from-home truly benefiting our employees? This question has been top of mind for many organizations after the rise of remote and hybrid work setups following the pandemic. While this transition has undoubtedly pushed teams forward and introduced greater...
Mental Health in the Workplace – How Can We Help?
“It is a weird time right now…” We hear this a lot lately - from rising prices of just about everything, to an over-capacity healthcare system, to the continued and lasting effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is a stressful time for all of us. In fact, according to...
Board Orientation Done Differently
If you’ve been on a Board, it’s likely that you’ve sat through a Board Orientation session, read a Board Orientation package or – worse, had no orientation at all. Most Board Orientations are nuts-and-bolts affairs, with a focus on the basics of the organization’s...
Managing ‘The People in Your Neighbourhood’ Around the Board Table
Like learning the Hungarian language or calming down an angry two-year-old, chairing or facilitating a Board meeting is hard. All groups have moods that are always changing, which directly impacts the level of productivity and accomplishment the group can achieve....
Ten Things Successful Leaders Do Well
Being a leader - of three people, a production shift, or a 10,000-person organization - is really hard. We work with leaders at all levels of organizations, and we have seen patterns and traits from the ones who are most successful. So, here are ten lessons from...
What Romance Novels Can Teach Us About Workplace Culture
During the pandemic, I rediscovered my teenage obsession with romance novels. I have a PhD in English literature, specializing in nineteenth-century love stories, but that was high-brow romance. What I was reading in 2020, on maternity leave with my second child...
What Pixar’s Monsters, Inc. Can Teach Us about Culture, Performance, and Innovation
Wait! If you’re looking at this meme and squinting your eyes and tilting your head to the left, or sliding your cursor towards the back button, let me explain. I recently came across Monsters, Inc. on Disney+, and revisiting this cherished childhood classic as an...
Navigating the Transition: How to Foster a Welcoming Work Culture
Change. What does this word mean to you? Is change a good or bad thing? There inevitably arrives a time in every individual’s career when they must confront change. For me, this happened recently. I graduated from university, returned home, and embarked on a fresh...