Develop the Stars
Alan Weiss
JANUARY 6, 2021
The mistake most organizations make with their investments is in desperately trying to develop all performers to perform at the top levels.
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Do You Have the Right Talent to Execute Your Business Strategy?
LSA Global
MAY 13, 2024
Do You Have the Right Talent to Execute Your Business Strategy? Because your strategy must go through your talent to be successfully executed, it is no surprise that organizations must have the requisite capabilities and confidence to move strategies forward. Strategies that are misaligned with talent are asking for trouble.
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The Importance of Investing in Employee Development During Tough Economic Times
Clarity Consultants
JUNE 30, 2023
Employing a team of strong workers can help you get through these unknown times, which is why investing in employee development is crucial. Learning new skills and competencies is the bread and butter of a learning and development program. Providing learning and development opportunities does just that.
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David and Goliath: How Boutique Firms Triumph
Tom Spencer
MAY 31, 2024
This trend towards specialization and personal service is reshaping the landscape, offering clients a unique blend of niche expertise, agility, competitive pricing, and strong relationships that big-name consultancies struggle to match. As a result, these firms can quickly adapt to changes in the market and client needs.
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Move quickly and react to opportunities: Agile strategy and the path to recovery
Brimstone Consulting
JUNE 29, 2020
important;}”] A conversation on agile strategy and opportunity with Andy Frawley and Bob Weiler. The current environment requires agility and agility, Bob Weiler reminds us, starts with market realities. It is going to be more current than what you would get from a third party or an external resource.
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Developing next-generation leaders
Brimstone Consulting
JULY 1, 2021
How a health services organization developed next-generation leaders, increased employee engagement scores, and increased employee enablement. A leading health services organization identified leadership development as one of its biggest challenges. The critical work was not outsourced to human resources or to another firm.
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Organizational Development for Small Business: What You Need to Know
Asamby Consulting
MARCH 17, 2023
Entrepreneurs have to wear many hats, and they often have limited resources at their disposal. One of the most critical challenges facing small business owners is organizational development. In this blog post, we will explore what organizational development is and how small business owners can leverage it to achieve long-term success.
How to Solve 3 Modern Cross-Cultural Leadership Challenges
Organizational Talent Consulting
JUNE 5, 2023
A competitive talent landscape, technological advances, and global population shifts are rapidly increasing cultural diversity in the workplace. link] Cross-Cultural Strategy #1: Culturally Agile Leadership Leaders increasingly face cross-cultural differences working with diverse customers and employees.
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Move quickly and react to opportunities: Agile strategy and the path to recovery
Brimstone Consulting
JUNE 29, 2020
A conversation on agile strategy and opportunity with Andy Frawley and Bob Weiler. The current environment requires agility and agility, Bob Weiler reminds us, starts with market realities. It is going to be more current than what you would get from a third party or an external resource. Market Realities. Critical Issues.
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Startup Businesses with Professional Consulting Services
Business Consulting Agency
APRIL 9, 2024
Strategic Business Planning Professional consulting services assist entrepreneurs and investors in developing strategic business plans that lay the foundation for startup success. Market Validation and Product Development Consulting services play a crucial role in validating market demand and refining product/service offerings for startups.
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New Business Help Through Consulting Services
Business Consulting Agency
JANUARY 16, 2024
Marketing Strategy Assistance: Consultants develop tailored marketing strategies, encompassing digital, traditional, and innovative approaches. Benefits: Streamlined operations, improved productivity, and resource optimization. Benefits: A positive workplace culture, attracting and retaining top talent.
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Driving Growth and Success: How Medium-Sized Companies Succeed
Business Consulting Agency
SEPTEMBER 22, 2023
Strategic Planning Business consultants assist medium-sized companies in developing and refining their strategic plans. Strategic planning ensures that the business remains agile and responsive to changing market conditions. They help companies optimize their financial resources and ensure a healthy bottom line.
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Top 5 Manufacturing Trends for 2024: What’s New?
Epicflow
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
Leveraging Cutting-Edge Technologies Under current conditions of economic turbulence, workforce shortage, and supply chain disruptions, manufacturing organizations should work towards increasing the efficiency of their operations, achieving business agility and resilience. AI-driven applications). AdvancedTech. Industry 4.0.
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Are You Assessing Executive Capabilities to Close Key Gaps?
LSA Global
FEBRUARY 12, 2024
Creating an aligned and high performance culture that sets the stage for peak performance is about a lot more than just designing a corporate strategy and deploying the resources to deliver on it. To assess potential, you must use assess specific personality traits, motivation , and learning agility.
4 Keys to Keeping Talent Up to Date
LSA Global
JULY 11, 2019
For those charged with keeping their organization’s talent up to date, the current situation is daunting. Trying to maintain a talent base that is ready and able to take on rapidly changing challenges is a monumental task – and yet more important than ever to the success of your company. 4 Keys to Keeping Talent Up to Date.
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How to Create a Talent-Centric Culture
LSA Global
JULY 6, 2018
Putting Talent Front and Center. If you know how to create a talent-centric culture, does a talent-centric culture create higher performance? Is knowing how to create a talent-centric culture the answer? The Definition of a Talent-Centric Culture. Talent Management Research. Talent Management Research.
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7 Critical Success Factors for Project Based Firms to Consider in 2024
Progressus
NOVEMBER 10, 2023
According to PWC , talent, technology and data will set winning professional services firms apart from the competition. Human experts (talent) – and the knowledge and skills they bring to the table – are responsible for generating business value and differentiating their firm from the competition.
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Automotive Industry 2022: Overcoming Project Challenges
Epicflow
JANUARY 21, 2022
Its current development is primarily driven by 4 major trends: connectivity, autonomous vehicles, shared mobility, and electrification. As the automotive industry continues its development affected by recent unprecedented disruption, the number of projects its companies take on this year will be increasing. Talent deficiency .
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How to Make Sure Agile Teams Can Work Together
Harvard Business
MAY 15, 2018
Increasing volatility, uncertainty, growing complexity, and ambiguous information (VUCA) has created a business environment in which agile collaboration is more critical than ever. Intuitively, we know that the collaborative intensity of work has skyrocketed, and that collaborations are central to agility. This story is not unique.
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LSA Global Delivers Leading Leaders Workshop for Technology Group
LSA Global
DECEMBER 22, 2022
Redwood Shores, CA – LSA Global, the leading business consulting, coaching, and training firm that helps fast growth life science, technology, and service companies by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with strategy, today announced results for a customized Leading Leaders Workshop. Learn more about getting aligned.
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LSA Global Delivers Action Learning Program for Healthcare Leaders
LSA Global
MARCH 15, 2022
Redwood Shores, CA – LSA Global, the leading business consulting, coaching, and training firm that helps fast growth life science, technology, and service companies by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with strategy, today announced results for a highly customized 6-month Action Learning Program for Healthcare Leaders.
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Consulting as a Contractor: The Rise of Self-Employment
Tom Spencer
DECEMBER 16, 2022
Over the years, many leading organizations have struggled to retain top talent. Since companies compete to attract and retain top talent, these shifts in how the workplace is organised are likely to persist. They also need to manage their own training, resource development, and financing. wages) into a variable cost (i.e.
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How to Make Agile Work for the C-Suite
Harvard Business
JULY 19, 2017
Many companies are attempting a radical — and often rapid — shift from hierarchical structures to more agile environments, in order to operate at the speed required by today’s competitive marketplace. At Bain & Company, we do not believe that companies should try to use agile methods everywhere. This takes time.
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Start Slow, Finish Fast: Rightsizing Your Organization the Right Way
Kates Kesler
JULY 6, 2020
Reductions in staffing levels can destroy or erode organization capabilities or “muscle” that are at the heart of their competitive advantage and may have taken years to develop. Consider these five factors: Customers Strategy and Organization Capabilities Operating Model Organization Shape Talent. Customers. Strategy and Capabilities.
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LSA Global Delivers Facilitative Leadership Workshop for Biotech Company
LSA Global
FEBRUARY 6, 2023
The current product development playbook is outdated, too detailed, and is not aligned with the new strategy. Influence and Negotiation Demonstrates organizational savvy , seeks win-win situations and negotiates what is best for the business, gains support and mobilizes resources, and challenges management proactively and appropriately.
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A 5-Part Process for Using Technology to Improve Your Talent Management
Harvard Business
JULY 24, 2018
At the law firm Allen & Overy, the idea of replacing traditional, annual performance appraisals with a technology-enabled continuous feedback system did not come from human resources. Fast-iteration methodologies are a prerequisite, because talent tech has to be tailored to specific business needs and company context and culture.
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LSA Global Delivers People Team Prioritization Session to Combat Massive Change
LSA Global
MAY 25, 2022
This technology and consumer packaged goods company client wanted to create senior HR Team alignment in the areas of attracting, developing, engaging, and retaining the top talent to required enable the company’s growth targets. Allocating resources to increase confidence and motivation that the next 90-days make sense.
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The Central versus Decentral Dilemma: How the HR Practitioner can Facilitate a “Center-Led” Solution
Kates Kesler
APRIL 7, 2022
Agility” is the management word of the decade for sure. But to move with agility in a complex organization requires leaders to be confident that important decisions are being made at the right level and location across the enterprise. The center orchestrates, coordinates, provides resources, and facilitates alignment and connection.
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How HR Can Become Agile (and Why It Needs To)
Harvard Business
JUNE 19, 2017
If software has eaten the world, then agile has eaten the software world. And there is no shortage of information and advice on how agile should be implemented in your tech organization. For example, a Google search for “agile software development” returns over 14 million results. Related Video.
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Designing an Effective Cloud Center of Excellence
Kates Kesler
DECEMBER 21, 2021
1 CoEs are often created to address a lack of cloud skills and capabilities, through development of new approaches and tools, pooling of key resources, and prioritization of resource allocation across different cloud projects. The CoE is then expected to drive common practices and ways of working across the organization.
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The Big Disconnect in Your Talent Strategy and How to Fix It
Harvard Business
DECEMBER 23, 2016
Talent can move into and out of an organization, through a growing array of options such as freelance platforms , crowdsourcing efforts, and temporary, contract, or part-time work. As the talent ecosystem evolves to offer more options, talent systems have not kept pace.
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Why Leadership Succession Planning Often Fails
LSA Global
JUNE 9, 2023
Unfortunately, Leadership Succession Planning Often Fails to Meet Expectations While most leaders know that they should develop a leadership pipeline, leadership succession planning often fails to make a measurable impact. Getting succession planning right takes a lot of dedicated time, effort, resources.
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How to Stop Micro-Managing Your Team
Organizational Talent Consulting
MARCH 13, 2023
Partnering for performance is one way to develop self-reliant achievers and avoid micro-managing your team. link] Key #1: High-Quality Relationships Partnering with followers begins with developing high-quality relationships. European Journal of Training and Development, 41(3), 241-260. Zigarmi, D., & & Roberts, T.
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What I Learned from Transforming the U.S. Military’s Approach to Talent
Harvard Business
MAY 23, 2017
When contending for talent in a competitive world, no organization — let alone the largest in the world, with the largest stakes — can afford to lose employees like 2nd Lieutenant Riley. Attracting Talent. Taking 50% of the population off the table meant losing too much potential talent.
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Bring in Outside Experts to Mentor Your Team
Harvard Business
JANUARY 11, 2017
We call this subset of freelancers who do strategic work in companies or nonprofit organizations agile talent. By providing temporary support, they make it possible for organizations to resource their critical activities more cost efficiently. Many of the benefits of agile talent have been widely reported.
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The Case for Investing More in People
Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 4, 2017
Productivity in most developed economies has been anemic. Beyond wages, other forms of investment in human capital include education and training, improved healthcare, and other, less obvious investments, such as the time and space to explore new ideas and professional development opportunities.
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Management Consulted
NOVEMBER 27, 2016
Agilent Technologies, separating from Hewlett Packard, turned to Deloitte to help facilitate the transaction and Deloitte in turn asked Steve Pratt to act as project lead. At the same time, a close friend of Pratt’s, Raj Joshi, was working hard, trying to develop new offshoring strategies that would keep Deloitte ahead of the field.
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The Business Benefits of a Hybrid Cloud Platform - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM DXC TECHNOLOGY
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 3, 2017
Advances in platform technology are helping organizations make strides toward long-standing goals of agility, simplicity, and cost savings. The transformation of platforms from complex and expensive stacks of hardware into flexible computing resources represents a major step toward enabling business agility.
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Is Executive Coaching Really Worth it?
Organizational Talent Consulting
AUGUST 1, 2022
Like most leadership development opportunities, you will get the most significant return when you do the work. Working in human resources for over 25 years, I realize that if you ask five people about executive coaching, you will likely get five different answers. link] What executive coaching is not? I also have clients.
Leading Situationally Increases Employee Engagement
LSA Global
FEBRUARY 26, 2022
But often, people leaders don’t have the skills to be the agile, adaptive leaders they need to be and struggle building meaningful connections with their people to drive consistent results. That means leaders should provide all the resources needed to empower and trust the worker to achieve the desired results.
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4 Strategic Growth Obstacles to Overcome as You Scale
LSA Global
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
A few common ways to ignite growth include additional funding, mergers and acquisitions, business model innovations, restructurings , reallocations and optimizations, digital transformations, diversification, market expansions, and new product development. High growth requires high levels of focus, alignment, and talent.
How the Most Successful Teams Bridge the Strategy-Execution Gap
Harvard Business
NOVEMBER 23, 2017
That time is spent establishing financial and operational metrics, aligning goals with overarching strategy, allocating resources, and reviewing key metrics. High-performing teams spend 14% more time checking their progress against strategic goals by reviewing key metrics and shifting resources accordingly.
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Harvard Business
AUGUST 3, 2017
This might include online or recorded refresher sessions; mentors; online resources for questions, feedback, and new ideas; or a certification process. Create a leadership and development portal. Then ask them to create a personal development plan. Any good adoption plan should focus on continual learning.
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Employee Burnout Is a Problem with the Company, Not the Person
Harvard Business
APRIL 6, 2017
Employee burnout is a common phenomenon, but it is one that companies tend to treat as a talent management or personal issue rather than a broader organizational challenge. The true cost to business can be far greater, thanks to low productivity across organizations, high turnover, and the loss of the most capable talent.
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