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How to Develop the Leadership Skills You Need for 2025 and Beyond
It’s clear that the skills required to lead effectively are shifting. The rapidly evolving landscape, shaped by economic pressures, advances in artificial intelligence, hybrid work models, and more, calls for a different kind of leadership. Our first blog post in this two-part series, What Makes a Great Leader in 2025?, explored the traits that strong leaders…
What Makes a Great Leader in 2025?
In today’s world of artificial intelligence (AI), automation, and constant change, leadership is being redefined. The expectations placed on leaders, across industries and at every level of leadership, are higher than ever. This year, leaders are navigating complexity, uncertainty, and rapid transformation, all while supporting a workforce that has weathered economic downturns, a global pandemic,…
Adapting in Action: Upskilling as a Strategic Response to Change
In today’s rapidly evolving landscape, upskilling is not only a cornerstone of workforce development, but also a strategic approach for enhancing organizational effectiveness and driving workplace efficiency. Compared to traditional training methods designed to facilitate long-term employee growth through formal, structured programs and curriculum, upskilling reflects a shift toward addressing immediate skill gaps and shifting…
Return with Purpose: Supporting a Thoughtful Return to Office
Across industries—public and private alike—organizations are increasingly implementing return-to-office (RTO) policies that require employees, many of whom shifted to remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic, to return to the office full-time, five days a week. This shift has sparked a wide range of reactions. For employees, remote work has come to represent flexibility, autonomy, and…
AI Implementation: Three Keys to Success
Organizations today are faced with the need to do more with less. They are being asked to be more efficient with their time and more flexible in how they address challenges. In the face of these challenges, organizations are turning to technological tools like AI to evolve with the changing times. Along with identifying ways…
Mental Health Awareness Month: Leveraging Resilience to Drive Efficiency Through Organizational Change
This year’s Mental Health Awareness month provides an opportunity to reflect on how change impacts employee mental health. During periods of organizational change, employees often face increased stress, uncertainty, and burnout, which can undermine productivity, morale, and efficiency. One strategy for maintaining performance during times of change is fostering resilience within employees. By building resilience,…
Strategic PMO Solutions: Delivering Project Success for Maximum Impact
When you come across the term “project management,” what comes to mind? If we were to pose this question to a random selection of people, we’d probably get quite a range of answers back. That’s because, in theory and in practice, project management encompasses many strategies, styles, and concepts. On top of that, there are…
Back to Score Keeping…
In the first blog of this two-part series, we explored the concept of Balanced Scorecards, and why they are a valuable tool for measuring and managing performance. In this blog, we share a bit of our process for developing balanced scorecards. FMP’s team of measurement experts knows how to identify performance criteria that are relevant…
Are You Keeping Score?
FMP understands well that measurement is the key to identifying real-time and projected performance impacts for organizations. In the early 1990s, Harvard Business School professors, Robert Kaplan and David Norton, introduced us to the concept of Balanced Scorecards as a strategic tool for measuring and managing performance. Their intention was to expand upon what defines…
The Efficiency Edge: Implementing Business Process Improvement for Maximum Impact
In the first two blogs of our Efficiency Edge series, I highlighted the benefits that BPI can offer for work processes and organizational performance, and the key approaches for implementing it. In the third and final blog of the series, I explore best practices and considerations when implementing new or updated processes. Any organizational change…