Guest Blogger: Celie White, SPHR, has worked for numerous organizations in the health care and financial sector as a human resources professional for over 20 years. Her experience includes implementing in-house training teams, designing training programs and workshops, and working as an HR professional with the hiring of multiple generations of staff: According to [...]
Mackin Seen As An International Authority on Teaming Deborah Mackin and her best-selling book, The Team Building Tool Kit, Second Edition (AMACOM 2007) has been published in the Polish language through the publisher Rebis. Mackin, seen by many in the industry as an authority on teams, has coached and provided insight to workplace teams across [...]
A 3-minute video highlighting an event that we helped to conceptualize, design and facilitate. This one day event kicked-off a strategic initiative focused on quality and continuous improvement with excitement and commitment. Looking to jump start your quality initiative? Not sure where to start? Download our FREE Quality Problem-Solving Tool Kit as a road [...]
Mackin Chosen As An ASQ Influential Voice: A social media initiative from ASQ entitled Influential Voices will feature Deborah Mackin, founder and Principal Performance Strategy Consultant at New Directions Consulting, as an ongoing quality thought leader for the series. Influential Voices, a global network of bloggers, is a way to increase awareness of quality around [...]
Deborah Mackin, founder and principal Performance Strategy Consultant at New Directions Consulting, was a featured author in the premier issue of BUILD Magazine from the creators of Inc. Magazine. The article entitled, “Six More Reasons for Team Dysfunction,” works off Patrick Lencioni’s famous The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by highlighting six other areas of [...]
Hope you all have a very healthy holiday season, a Merry Christmas, and a happy New Year!
New Directions Consulting recently partnered with the Albany-Colonie Regional Chamber of Commerce’s Entrepreneur Boot Camp for a fourth class season this fall. The Entrepreneur Boot Camp is a 12 week course for budding entrepreneurs looking to gain critical skills necessary for starting a business in the capital region. The Entrepreneur Boot Camp is presented in conjunction [...]
Deborah Mackin discusses how to determine the level of authority one has to make decisions within an organization. She uses the metaphor of the Decision Making Tree to help frame the question. Be sure to check out our Decision Making Workshop
Michael Harrington and Deborah Mackin of New Directions Consulting talk about some of the common principles in their Process Efficiency workshop, the Belief: Behavior Connection and Goal Setting.
Guestblogger: Robert Gilbert was a plant manager at Rohm and Haas Bayport, Inc. in the early days of “participative management” or what we would now call team-oriented management. Gilbert worked at Rohm and Haas for over 34 years and 10 years as their plant manager. Gilbert now enjoys retirement and discussing the need for American [...]