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A glimpse into the world of CPG: A Q&A with sales expert Brian Roelofs
Tell me a little bit about your career. What events have shaped where you are today? I entered the workforce during a time of high unemployment. The stability of the consumer packaged goods industry was highly sought after, as was the training and “pedigree” of...
Moving beyond motivation to inspiration
My eldest daughter is a senior in our local university’s architecture program. She is moved by clean lines, interesting materials and how buildings impact the way humans live. Her class recently took a trip to New York City and wandered the streets with eyes to the...
Attracting the right talent mix – and getting them to stay
If there’s one issue that organizations today can agree is universally troubling, it is this: that good talent is hard to find and even harder to keep. The war on talent is intensifying and in the US today, there are approximately one million more open jobs than...
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Anticipating And Managing Change
We’ve all been there. Just when we think things are working and the business is doing well, something seems to hit us out of nowhere. All of a sudden we’re faced with the need to fix or change some things in our business to get ourselves back on track. Never has that...
Executive Coaching & Leadership Support For Change
There is a lot at stake during times of stress and change. Leaders are challenged to positively represent the organization’s character and culture during tough times. Yet they are experiencing the turmoil personally and we sometimes forget that they also need some...
Empowering Employees & Teams For High Performance
Increasingly the issue of employee empowerment is coming up in our engagements. Our observation is that more people in organizations, at all levels, are feeling less like they control their own destiny in the workplace. Employees who feel empowered in their jobs make...
Transitioning From Competition To Cooperation
A few years ago, three corporate cultures merged into one when Pierre Foods, Advance Food Company and Advance Brands came together to form AdvancePierre. The company makes and distributes handheld convenience products including packaged sandwiches and fully cooked...
Partner Profile: Bob Landis
Bob Landis has joined ArchPoint Consulting. For more than 26 years, Landis has been helping teams of senior leaders to convert strategy into effective execution. Most recently, Landis was Vice President, People & Organization for the global chocolate portfolio at...
Traits Of Effective Teams
Great companies are almost always made great by a few small teams. Some people may say corporate strategy made the difference. Others may say it was corporate research. However, most people on the inside would say it was a team of committed individuals who believed...
How To Turn A Virtual Team Around
Kay, a 30-year-old digital director at a large media company, cut her teeth in the digital world. She uses her tech savvy ways and insights to earn her bread and butter. Working primarily from her living room, she works solely in virtual teams — and even with all her...
It Can Be Lonely At The Top: 5 Realities Of Being CEO
1. It can be lonely at the top. Even though the CEO sits at the top of a large organization, building and maintaining genuine relationships is difficult – even impossible for some. “There’s a lot of stuff you want to talk about and as CEO that’s just not...
Partner Profile: Jill Landry
In her role as ArchPoint Consulting’s director of client operations, Jill Landry works to provide the best organizational foundation for ArchPoint to provide the best service to customers, including data gathering, management and analysis and client/process...
Perseverance Pays Off: Taking Strategy To The Slopes.
Standing atop a mountain in Switzerland watching my youngest daughter gracefully make her way down the ski slope, I couldn’t help but smile and think of Nelson Mandela. You see, she didn’t take naturally to skiing. Our three other children got the hang of it quickly,...