Andy's Blog
7 Holiday Gifts Your Employees Will Love!
Monday, December 19, 2011 - 15:20
If you think your holiday gifts for your employees are lacking this year... here are a few ideas to boost their spirit and loyalty any time of the year!
A Tribute to Steve Jobs
Friday, October 14, 2011 - 11:37
Steve Jobs, one of the most interesting, inspirational and revolutionary leaders of our time, has died.
Steve Job's 2005 speech at Stanford University has been called one of the best commencement speeches ever given.
In his speech he talked about a few key things in his life that made him the man he was.
Steve was given up for adoption by his biological mother who was at that time in graduate school.
His biological mother insisted that his adoptive parents were college graduates.
Read moreFamily Owned Businesses Have Unique Issues
Tuesday, August 30, 2011 - 14:05
A family owned business faces challenges that can impact not just the company’s performance but its very survival.
The lines between business and family life often get blurred.
Issues and conflicts that start within the family often creep into the workplace.
Disagreements about the business between family members usually find their way back into the family unit.
Emotions often run deep and have a major impact on the family and on the business.
Read moreGetting Clear in Business
Wednesday, July 20, 2011 - 13:56
Organizational Constellations is an extremely effective method of business consulting that can be applied to all areas and types of business, individual subjects, micro-companies, family companies, non-profit organizations, government agencies, churches, etc.
What's interesting in this methodology is that the Client maintains a clear image of the real situation and of the possible solution.
The solution is acquired in an intuitive and fluid way, which causes the solution to be totally integrated by the Client.
Organizational Constellations can be used for:
Read moreOrganizational Stuckness
Wednesday, May 18, 2011 - 15:26
Organizations are complex. Business is complex.
Why?
Because organizations and businesses are comprised of
people. And people have their own "stuckness" that shows up at work.
Organizational Constellations coaches with the entire system in mind.
Read moreA New Organizational Development Tool
Monday, May 9, 2011 - 19:08
Organizational Constellations is one of the most impressive new approaches for facilitating change within an organization.
Organizational change has to come from the top down, and the inside out. The best way to accomplish this is to work it out in a "constellation."
This approach is based on the upon the phenomenological work of Bert Hellinger with family systems.
Although Organizational Constellations is fairly well known in Europe it's just beginning to be introduced in North America.
Read moreWhen Husband and Wife Work Together
Friday, April 22, 2011 - 11:02
Some couples manage their lives with the continuous exposure to business, while others find that it's just too invasive and intrudes into family matters.
One of my clients worked with her husband for over 14 years. They had a company with up to 30 employees. When they sold the company, many people assumed it was because they got a divorce.
They didn't. But why WOULD people assume that?
There's a danger in husbands and wives working together.
All too often, business "discussions" continue at home and into the evenings, weekends and vacations.
Read moreGet Consistent Strategic Results with Organizational Constellations
Friday, March 11, 2011 - 12:47
The organizational constellation method is a spatial representation of a system.
The elements of the system can be people, functions, services, products or ideas.
During the process of the constellation, representatives for these elements can be people, floor markers or figures.
These representatives are placed in a spatial relationship to each other and the system is now portrayed symbolically, reflecting the organization's inner image of the given situation.
Is your business stuck?
Wednesday, January 5, 2011 - 18:07
Welcome to Stuck Business Consulting.
All organizations run systematically. People create the system. And let's face it, people are well, people.
Over time, all groups and organizations, from small family run businesses to global corporations, develop patterns of operating that affect the thoughts and actions of all it's members - creating a company culture.
These patterns of behavior can often reduce the ability of an organization to perform effectively, and consume enormous amounts of time and effort that could be used in more effective and productive ways.
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