Accelerating Leadership and Organizational Performance in Companies Focused on Growth

 Thriving in Difficult Times 
by Edith Onderick-Harvey
The economic headlines tell us everyday how difficult our economic times are. Belts continue to 
tighten. Companies are looking for ways to gain competitive advantage, survive and sometimes,
thrive. How do you justify development? How do you sell investing time and resources in
leadership practices? During tough economic times, it’s even more critical that your people bring
their ‘A’ game to work. Leaders need to keep people focused, motivated, and engaged. Talent
systems need to identify the key positions that will keep the company on track and who your key
performers are. Organizations need to be aligned so that people can be as productive, effective
and efficient as possible read more...

Building Sustainable Pipelines
by Edith Onderick-Harvey
As leaders, part of your mission is to create sustainability within your organizations. The talent of your 
future leaders is critical to your organization’s future success. The question is, how do you create a
sustainable pipeline of internal talent so you don’t always have to hire from the outside? read more.

The Leadership Multiplier Effect
by Edith Onderick-Harvey
A third of all CEO’s surveyed by The Conference Board say the most pressing issue
they have is attracting, developing and retaining the right talent. Two of the biggest
factors in engagement and retention are trust in senior leadership and the relationship
people have with their managers. With 75% of employees in a recent Gallup
Organization survey reporting that they are unengaged or actively disengaged at work,
leadership is not successfully addressing this issue.read more...

To Build a Strategy That Works, You Need Strategic Intelligence
by Michael Maccoby, Richard Margolies, and Edith Onderick-Harvey
Many people ask: what makes a successful leader today? From Henry Ford to Bill Gates
to other leaders we have studied, what has mattered for the sustained success of
innovative leaders is Strategic Intelligence. Why? read more..

Phased Dialogue Is Key to Leading Successful Change
by Edith Onderick-Harvey, Womens Business Boston, May 2002
The old adage says that “the only constant is change.” Today’s executives know this all 
too well. Continual changes in technology, competition and the economy create wave 
after wave of change within organizations. Evolving strategies, process redesign 
projects, and work force realignments are almost as common today as the steno pool 
of yesterday. read more… 

Career Advice – Office Eitquette at WomansDay.com
Every time you post something on Facebook or any another social media site, suggests Edith Onderick-Harvey, president of Factor In Talent, an Andover  read more…