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Increase Performance With Accountability Tools

When I was 30, I was extended an offer to serve as an Account Director at a small, start-up company. The CEO and Founder created a...

Simplifying Six Sigma

For many years in my previous career with GE, I worked in the Quality or Six Sigma function. I earned my Master Black Belt and Quality...

Why Your Business Absolutely Needs A Budget

Since I’ve joined the CSR team, I’ve assisted in creating budgets for lawyers, engineers, and even doctors, but the budget I’m proudest...

When Your 360 Evaluations Are No Longer Cutting It

Team members at CSR are big fans of author Patrick Lencioni. Last year I read about his Team Effectiveness Exercise at “The Hub.” ...

Why MBOs Are Oldies But Goodies

MBOs? Should I pull out my scrunchies and legwarmers, too? Okay, MBOs (Management By Objectives) may be a little old school, but they are...

What’s Really On This Path To Results?

Once a CSR client moves past the blood, sweat & tears of their strategic planning session, they are met with a choice: implement the...

5 Essential Steps For Recruiting

You’ve realized you need to hire someone else. Now what? Even if you needed a new hire “like yesterday,” it’s important to take a step...

What Are Assessments And Why Should You Use Them?

Over time, the critical importance of the human resource component in any business has become more and more clear to us at CSR. We...

You Can’t Operate On Yourself.

There is a movie that I saw a few years ago by the name of Master and Commander (it stars Russell Crowe and Paul Bettany). I was always...

Million Dollar Consulting Convention: Review And Reflection

I recently (and I’ll admit, with great reluctance initially) attended an Alan Weiss Million Dollar Consulting Convention. Why? One of my...