Podcast: Sustaining Your ESOP
Praxis consultant and Principal Linshuang Lu sits down to talk best practices for sustaining your ESOP with Capital Trustees founder Bret Keisling. Click here for the full podcast.
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Employee communication is a common theme in successful ESOP companies. This webinar, presented by Alex Moss and hosted by the NCEO, highlights how the communication committee is essential to the long-term success of the organization. It covers the leadership's role...
Read MoreAdding Continuous Improvement to Your Ownership Culture
You've done a great job with your initial ESOP roll-out and you've created an amazing Employee Owner Committee. The next question on everyone's mind: How can we increase share value? This is where Continuous Improvement (CI) comes in.
Read MoreInvolve Employee Owners in Strategic Planning
“Culture eats strategy for breakfast” management professor Peter Drucker once said. This popular expression highlights that your culture—what your people believe, say, and do—can make or break your strategy.
Read MoreReasonable Leaps of Faith: Learning about Demonstrating Impact from the Nonprofit Sector
Forward thinking organizations want to be able to demonstrate their impact across multiple dimensions, including job fulfillment, employee engagement, improved trust and collaboration. Doing so with quantifiable metrics can be challenging for organization development (OD) practitioners because we work in...
Read More10 Questions: Driving Performance Through ESOPs
J. Michael Keeling, President and Chief Staff Officer of The ESOP Association, speaks with Alexander P. Moss, a principal at Praxis Consulting Group, Inc., about driving performance through ESOPs. Keeling: Based on your experience, what are the overall benefits of...
Read MoreDeveloping Leaders at All Levels: A Key for Ownership Culture
So many of the behaviors we associate with ownership -- modeling a positive attitude, collaborating, generating ideas for improvement, taking responsibility for the work of the team—reflect good leadership. In an employee-owned company, all levels can benefit from leadership development...
Read MoreGovernance Issues and Best Practices in Professional Services Firms
This paper provides a detailed description of governance issues, options, and best practices in privately-held professional service firms (PSFs). The information here is drawn from a variety of sources, including more than twenty years of organization development consulting with professional...
Read MoreSuccession Planning for Long Term Sustainability
Boards of directors often ask their CEO’s for a succession plan, and review it annually. And while the plan should include the name of any potential successors, it should go far beyond this bare minimum. A succession plan should spell...
Read MoreStrategies of Successful Leadership Teams
“We’re not just running—we’re galloping!” These were the words of a senior executive on a leadership team in healthcare. The healthcare environment is complicated and uncertain, to say the least. Leading in this arena is requiring intuitive and counter-intuitive practices....
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