‘STRATEGY’ in the overall sense determines where a company is going. It determines what direction all company efforts need to point. It clarifies what the business is and should be. And requires visionary and directional thinking as compared to ‘OPERATIONAL’ which is short-term and task specific thinking.

Every company has a strategy, whether good or bad. Bad strategy is to do what has always been done without consideration for the future.

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Time spent on Staff Planning and Employee Development payoffs with bottom line profits.  It lowers recruiting and hiring expenses, frees management time, creates advancement opportunities, leads to improved employee moral, all resulting in improved productivity, reduced operating expenses and an over all increase in net income.

But too often managers and HR departments are mired in the muck of daily operations to commit precious time to staff planning and development.  So when a hiring need arises, there READ MORE