Hey CEO!  Are you and your company ready to exit the Recession and move quickly into opportunity mode in 2010?  Are your people tired, burned out, worried, or uncommitted to the cause?  How is morale across the company?  How do production, revenue and the bottom line look relative to plan?  Look, we've all been through this before - and the one thing we've learned is that unless your people are committed to stepping up, supporting one another, and engaging in our various missions to win our markets - we're dead in the water.  If there was ever a time to look closely at your management teams, employee talent and overall health of your organisation - that time is NOW!  With Q4 in full swing, any significant changes to people, programs and performance need to be in action sooner than later to have the desired effect in Q1.

Take a quick and dirty survey of your management team and listen to what they have to say.  Stop employees in the car park and ask them how they think things are going lately.  Think about where you want to take your company and your people in the next 3 years and do a gap analysis in your head.  If your intuition is telling you that troubling challenges lie ahead - then the time to address your concerns is now.

If you need a fast, economical and effective approach to undersatanding your organisational health, and then sort out a path forward to cost effectively address those areas with the highest ROI - call me and I'll get you started quickly.  The time is now.  Opportunity is coming.

Listen to the financial news channels too much and they'll start sounding like mental patients in need of heavy medication.  One minute it's all coming back, the next it's all doom and gloom - and after that a string of useless theories posited by Nobel Prize winning economists who have never seen anything like this before.   Your guess is as good as theirs.

So what to do?  Re-invent, Re-vision, Re-engage and Re-energize your company from the inside out!  Morale as at an all-time low.  People are tired, holding on to their jobs for fear of becoming unemployed, hating that they are doing 10x their prior role compared to last year.  Why not inject some powerful, positive energy back into the system and get people involved in turning things around on your own? 

Yes, create your own turnaround.  Look at your products, your marketing, your services and your people.  Pretend like you're starting from scratch and re-create that small company feeling where everyone's efforts, thoughts and passions matter - every day.  Call it a 'psychological make-over' and challenge your people to re-invent themselves and their company - offer rewards and recognition for the best and most implementable ideas. 

Whatever you do - just don't forget about the hard grafters working the line because your chance to get them recommited t the cause is NOW!