Content about Hank Moore

March 8, 2012
Small Business Dynamics
How can women and minority business owners be most successful? Use your diversity position as reason to conduct strategic planning...dealing honestly and forcefully with the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of your business. Thus, you will initiate more partnerships and carve a market niche.

By Hank Moore, Corporate Strategist

How can women and minority business owners be most successful?

See yourself as a plus to the business world, not as a liability. We are all minorities operating in the whole, as do professional specialties within the company’s big picture. Through diversity, each element blends and supports others, as does the corporate visioning process. Major public sector contracts require qualified minority subcontractors. Select partners, and show good faith efforts to procure and execute contracts.

February 8, 2012
Entrepreneur’s Notebook

Even in the smallest organization, it is crucial to encompass the elements that will grow the company and assure success. These include grooming emerging executives, the new international workplace, multicultural diversity, teambuilding, executive development, turning every member of the company into a profit center, corporate imaging, and fostering the vision.

By Hank Moore, Corporate Strategist

How organizations start out and what they become are decidedly different concepts. Mistakes, niche orientation, and lack of planning lead businesses to failure. Like trees, most organizations seemingly look the same...yet, they can shed leaves, wither, and die while nobody notices.

January 12, 2012
Nurturing the Learning Tree

The Learning Tree has seven major parts: five branches, a trunk (six) and the base (seven). Like organizations, most people address only three or four categories at any given time...some effectively and others not. Trees with thicker bases and deeper roots will sprout greener (be happy and productive), shed less often (fewer career mistakes), and live longer (create and sustain a Body of Work).

By Hank Moore, Corporate Strategist

Organizations are populated with individuals who possess a plethora of education, skills, and talents. Companies are composed of human beings, who bring their culturalization (or lack of it) to the job. Thus, they set the pace for the tree (company) in question.

Business professionals are the sum of their life experiences. People, like organizations, develop, grow, and thrive. If not, they are of little market value in a career.

December 8, 2011
Developing Community Support

Most companies realize the impact of community support, including various socio-economic and ethnic groups. Cause-related marketing, environmental sensitivity, and meaningful “giving back to the community” are essential for the coming years. Here are some recommendations for gaining and maintaining third-party endorsements.

By Hank Moore, Corporate Strategist

Everyone needs a friend to speak on their behalf. Especially when things get tough, it’s nice to have someone to count on.

Companies—like individuals—must bank support. Times to call for endorsements inevitably arise. The time to build bridges is today...not when crisis strikes.

In selling goods and services, third-party support may include past and present clients, suppliers, and industries affected by your customers.

November 8, 2011
Evaluating Training Providers

Everyone talks about the benefits of training, but it’s important to identify these benefits in your organization. Then, when you are ready to look at potential training providers, you will know exactly what you should expect to receive from them. Here are the seven biggest benefits of training, followed by tips for selecting and evaluating training providers.

By Hank Moore, Corporate Strategist

Everyone talks about the benefits of training, but it’s important to identify these benefits in your organization. Then, when you are ready to look at potential training providers, you will know exactly what you should expect to receive from them. Below are the seven biggest benefits of training, followed by tips for selecting and evaluating training providers.

7 Biggest Benefits of Training

October 11, 2011
Big Picture Professional Education Necessary for Company Success

There is a large disconnect between indoctrinating people to tools of the trade and the myriad elements they will need to assimilate for their own futures. Training vendors sell what they have to provide...not what the constituencies or workforces need. Emphasis must be placed upon properly diagnosing the organization as a whole and then prescribing treatments for the whole, as well as the parts.

By Hank Moore, Corporate Strategist

There is a difference between how one is basically educated and the ingredients needed to succeed in the long term. Many people never amass those ingredients because they stop learning or don’t see the need to go any further. Many people think they are “going further” but otherwise spin their wheels.

September 8, 2011
Training’s Importance to the Big Picture of Business

More often than not, “training” is a vehicle to tout one’s viewpoint, tinker with old problems, or blame someone else for the course of events. If training is viewed as band-aid surgery to fix problems, then it will fail. Managers who have this “fix those people” mindset are, in fact, the ones who need substantive training the most.

By Hank Moore, Corporate Strategist

Professional education is the most important ingredient in corporate development. Today’s workforce will need three times the amount of training it now gets...if the organization intends to stay in business, remain competitive, and tackle the future successfully.

I advise CEOs, board chairs, and the upper echelon of companies on business strategy. Often, I find myself defending and promoting training as an important ingredient to success.

August 17, 2011
7 Plateaus of Professionalism

The criteria for assessing professionalism certification of collaborators can be found in the seven plateaus of professionalism and also in the core values worksheet.

By Hank Moore, Corporate Strategist

1. Expertise

            Talents, Skills

            Education and Training

            Resume Credits

            Industries Served (variety and scope of service)

2. Core Values

July 12, 2011
How to Set Goals

Goal setting and strategic planning are key to an organization’s success. People do not take long car trips without a road map. It is hard to achieve success in 2011 if you don’t know where you were in 2010 and to set standards for the coming year.

By Hank Moore, Corporate Strategist

The start of each new year offers business the opportunity to re-evaluate the past year and set goals for the next. While intentions are noble, businesses usually fall into old ruts because they do not take the time to plan.

To avoid the high cost of doing nothing, I pose these strategic questions to ask companies:

June 13, 2011
Conducting Institutional Reviews

An Institutional Review is a look at activities that contribute to an organization’s success and well-being. This review is the basis for most elements that will appear in a strategic plan, including the organization’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, actions, challenges, teamwork, change management, commitment, future trends, and external forces.

By Hank Moore, Corporate Strategist

An Institutional Review is a look at activities that contribute to an organization’s success and well-being. This transcends a traditional audit and identifies factors that already contribute well to the organization, rather than simply looking for ways to cut, curtail, or penalize. It is more than just trimming the fat and criticizing incorrect activities in the organizational structure.

May 12, 2011
Teambuilding and Training With the Most Impact

Companies owe it to themselves to think and plan...before launching piecemeal training programs. After carefully articulating and understanding direction, then training needs (including teambuilding and empowerment) will stand a chance of being successful.

By Hank Moore, Corporate Strategist

If training is thought of as band-aid surgery to fix problems, then it will fail. Managers who have this “fix those people” mindset are, in fact, the ones who need training.           

Teambuilding must be part of the corporate vision first, not as a series of exercises delegated to trainers.

April 27, 2011
Recent Recessions: Effects and Lessons Learned

It’s easy to forget that we have had seven recessions since 1967. While this recession may seem “different” for various reasons, it is important to remember that recessions usually have “different” causes or related events new to our history. And there are great business and life lessons to be learned from each one.

By Hank Moore, Corporate Strategist

Perhaps because we had seen such a long period of prosperity, the current economic recession is causing inordinate panic. The media is helping this panic with headlines such as “Economy Shrinks at Fastest Pace in 26 Years,” “Over One-Third of Americans Believe Nation in a Depression,” and “Wall Street Tumbles to 1997 Levels on Bank, Recession Fears.”

April 13, 2011
Lessons Learned from the Business Crises

To benefit from change and to grow, each organization must understand where it’s been and where it might go. Research trends and spot opportunities. Put more focus upon running a successful organization. Get a qualified business mentor. Identify stakeholders and work with them. Predict and benefit from cycles in business. Broaden the scope of your services. Find creative ways to collaborate.

By Hank Moore, Corporate Strategist

From tough economic times, things can and will move forward again. Those who weather the current downturn and strategize their courses will be more successful in the next upturn.

Business must learn the lessons from the corporate scandals and the economic downturn. The ways in which business corrects itself will restore the economy and produce extraordinary business opportunities.