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08/11
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My Blog Posts have Moved to www.frymonkeys.com
Posted By: alankay7777 on August 7, 2011

My solution focus blog posts have moved to Fry the Monkeys book website www.frymonkeys.com/blog

06/11
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4 ways stakeholder consultation planning changed the conversation in a town: #2
Posted By: alankay7777 on June 18, 2011

The citizens, business people and council members of Port Hope gathered to talk about what works in Port Hope, what needs to be different, and to make progress on a few immediate actions. Facilitated using the Solution Focus approach by Alan Kay of www.alankay.ca

06/11
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How stakeholder consultation planning changes the conversation in a town:
Posted By: alankay7777 on June 12, 2011

What do you do when your town thinks it’s suffering, the key stakeholders can’t agree on what to do, and they see others as the reason for the problems? In an effort to revitalize the downtown area a key stakeholder group in Port Hope, an attractive town of 16,000 people on Lake Ontario asked for help with their brand position. Facing uncertainty, including waste cleanup issues, and a perceived inability for collaboration among the town’s leaders, the economic outlook for [...]

06/11
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Improve your job interviewer and interviewee skills
Posted By: alankay7777 on June 6, 2011

  It’s well past time that we re-framed the job interview process. Instead of the interviewer being worried about the possible problems the candidate may be masking, interviews should be about exploring and revealing the opportunity / value going both ways. Similarly, instead of the interviewee being fuzzy about the job specifications and outcomes, the process should be about aligning understanding of what the job / opportunity is actually about. John Briggs & Gale Miller of the Solutions Behavioural Health [...]

06/11
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7 Ways to Coach Smart People
Posted By: alankay7777 on June 1, 2011

Rajesh Setty recently blogged about How Good Bosses Can Help Smart People Become Smarter. I've suggested how his 7 ideas could be used in a coaching context. Yes, you can coach smart people if you ask better questions.

05/11
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Why Bring Customers to the Table to Co-create Strategy
Posted By: alankay7777 on May 24, 2011

Why battle to improve the customer experience through strategy alone when your people will have ignored most of what’s required at the implementation stage? Organizations must continually align themselves with customers in order remain relevant. The organization can know its customers through daily interactions, social media, research and so on, and strategy plays a key role in helping align the organization with customers. But every customer is unique and every supplier/customer interaction is also unique. This means the organization’s staff [...]

05/11
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How to leverage planning in an ever-changing tactical world
Posted By: alankay7777 on May 12, 2011

Have you noticed how your colleagues are scrambling in most meetings? Do you wish everyone could sing from the same song sheet? Do you long for the good old days when things didn’t seem as out of control? What’s going on? Unless you live in a walled garden, the digital revolution – the web and social media – has radically reframed our customer’s behaviour, our competitors’ behaviours and our organization’s operational behaviours, it’s not just a marketing issue. Hence, the [...]


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