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Plus Delta Receives 2009 Small Business Award for Business Consulting!

December 7th, 2009 by Jeremy Lurey

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Plus Delta was just selected for the 2009 Best of Business Award in the Business consulting category by the Small Business Commerce Association (SBCA). The SBCA program recognizes the top 5% of small businesses throughout the country, and this year’s program consisted of 5 million nominees in 2500 cities all across the US. Plus Delta is thrilled to receive this award – even more so than the Inc 5000 award which was based purely on revenue growth over a 3-year period – because it’s a true testament of all our satisfied clients who provided the positive consumer feedback required for us to win the award. For that very reason, we’d like to take this opportunity to thank all of our clients who allow us to improve performance and implement positive changes in their organizations. Without you, we would not be here, let alone receive such accolades as this!

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11 Steps to Selecting an Executive or Life Coach

November 16th, 2009 by Samantha Lurey
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As we mentioned in a previous blog post, there are several signs that the recession is starting to lift .  Although this is fantastic news, it may leave you wondering your role in this new economy.  Are you going to stay at your current job?  Do you have the skills that employers will find valuable?  Do you want to use the better economy to start something new?  Or if you are in an executive position – do you have the skills to lead your organization in the new marketplace?  Maybe now is the time to think about hiring an executive or life coach.  This individual can help give your skills a tune-up and ensure you are ready for what’s next.  So how do you go about selecting such a person?  How do you know they will be a good fit?  Here are some steps to get you started! Read the rest of this entry »

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Does Light Boost Workplace Productivity? Green Offices Increase Business Success

November 13th, 2009 by Cris Hagen

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We’ve all heard of the “Hawthorne Effect”, right? Studies done between 1924-1932 at the Hawthorne Works (a Western Electric facility located outside of Chicago) attempted to study the effects of lowering or raising the levels of light in the building on employee productivity. As students of OD, we learned that workers responded with higher productivity levels NOT because of higher or lower levels of light, but primarily because they were being shown some interest by management. In fact, other changes such as maintaining clean work stations, clearing floors of obstacles, and even relocating workstations resulted in increased productivity for short periods of time.

A quick Google search on the impact of environment on productivity brought up several studies on the impact of such things as temperature, visual comfort and view, and office layouts. Once such article cited two cases of note: Read the rest of this entry »

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Top 10 Reasons Why the Recession Is Really Over!

November 11th, 2009 by Jeremy Lurey

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When the recession set in late last year, I said to myself, “Oh, we’ll be fine. We have several major client engagements under way, and our clients aren’t pulling the plug on us yet.” Then in January, we signed a contract for another significant organizational change management effort, so I asked myself, “What’s everyone else doing wrong? We’re fine!” That’s when our largest clients reduced our level of support and in some cases didn’t even renew our contracts demonstrating to me exactly what this recession was all about. And that’s when I realized just why this was being called the worst global economic crisis since the invention of the telephone almost 140 years ago.

So what does this mean as we quickly approach year-end? NOTHING! It just means I spent a lot of time (and still do) listening to CNBC business updates and that we learned to run our business more efficiently this year getting more done with less. Those can always be beneficial exercises though. What would hurt us would be continuing to believe that we are stuck in a recession and can’t do anything about it. Well guess what… THE RECESSION IS OVER!

After conducting some informal market research the past few months, we developed the following Top 10 List of reasons why the recession is really over: Read the rest of this entry »

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