
Preparing and Planning Your Leadership for 2025
As business leaders, I am sure that many, if not all of you, are currently in the process of reviewing your 2024 business plan and...

Conducting a Human Resources Compliance Audit
Managing and governing human resources (HR) personnel files—regardless of the number of employees—is a big effort and responsibility. And the amount of information that must...

Managing and Leading Remote Employees
One of the most significant opportunities and challenges facing today’s managers is the ability to manage and lead employees who are working remotely. Although this...

Increasing Your EI
It was the mid-1990s when I first heard the term Emotional Intelligence (also known today as EI or EQ) as a means of helping managers...

Developing Performance and Purpose in Your Organizational Culture
For many years, I have professed a strong desire to convince my clients that a performance-based culture is truly the most critical component for sustained...

The Most Significant Time Waster in Business
Do you know what may be responsible for one of the biggest time wasters in most companies? Could it be unnecessary interruptions or meetings? How...

Measuring Your HR Effectiveness Through KPIs
One of the cornerstones of our consulting philosophies at Violand Management Associates is to ensure that all our clients recognize and acknowledge that “numbers tell...