Organizational Talent Consulting

JANUARY 8, 2024

As we begin this new year, I encourage you to spend some quiet time reflecting on this past year - the unforeseen challenges, the changes you made to your leadership habits, and what is most important. Why critical reflection matters Reflection is a powerful leadership tool. Biases are present in all leaders. Open-mindedness.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Ongoing project assessment of changes taken with defined early indicators. The most threatening competitor leadership teams face is themself." Change management should be presented in a way that leads to different ways of thinking and acting. Culture mediates the knowledge and information-sharing capability.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

The practice areas at Towers Watson reflect the operational nature of consulting projects at the firm: Communication and Change Management. Corporate Risk Management and Risk Financing. Employee Surveys. Doing a few things will put you on track for advancing high up the leadership ladder. Practice Areas.

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LSA Global

JULY 14, 2022

Are Employees or Leaders Afraid of Change? Most change management consulting experts assume that employees have a natural resistance to change. Data from our change management simulation backs up that claim. But are leaders afraid of change? How do company leaders feel about change ?

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Cheryl Cran

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

To get there though the future of work ‘culture’ requires a change leadership strategy. I was talking with a tech client who wants to hire me to work with their information management professionals on change leadership.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Data science is becoming a reality for change management, and although it may not have arrived yet, it is time for organizations to get ready. The companies best positioned to change in the next decade will be the ones that set themselves up well now, by collecting the right kind of data and investing in their analytics capacity.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Leadership is about recognizing and leveraging the gap between stimulus and response to make a choice rather than a knee-jerk reaction. The VIA Character Strengths Survey and the Clifton StrengthsFinder Assessment are two of the most scientifically backed and relatively low-cost strength-based quantitative evaluations. & Gray, J.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 28, 2017

Through a study of AI that included a survey of 3,073 executives and 160 case studies across 14 sectors and 10 countries, and through a separate digital research program , we have identified 10 key insights CEOs need to know to embark on a successful AI journey. Without support from leadership, your AI transformation might not succeed.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

The cardinal rule of employee engagement surveys: don’t ask for employee feedback unless you are determined to follow through with meaningful actions and answers. Curiosity vs. Action Driven Surveys. Surveys driven simply by curiosity only raise employee hopes that things will improve. Focus on Implementation First.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Actively Involve Stakeholders The old ways to manage change focused simply on better change communications from leadership to employees. But the communications were top down with executives directly announcing change rather than involving employees early on in the process. And the results speak for themselves.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

While team reorganizations sound like a relatively fast and concrete way to solve complex problems, a recent McKinsey survey found that over eighty percent fail to deliver the desired benefits on schedule. As with any change, there is typically a specific catalyst that drives the need to restructure a team. Misaligned leadership.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

APRIL 10, 2023

A recent global survey revealed that only 35% of respondents in the US agree that products and services using AI have more benefits than drawbacks. Plan a team meeting with company leadership to discuss: What is AI? The control of fire was the cultural turning point that led to life-altering innovation.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The Top Reasons to Make Org Structure Changes When business circumstances change, roles and responsibilities often need to shift accordingly and you will need to communicate org structure changes. Unfortunately, leaders report that up to 80% of org structure changes fail to produce the desired benefits.

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LSA Global

APRIL 4, 2022

The pandemic has forced companies to initiate profound changes to their customer experience and their employee experience to survive and thrive. Customer Experience Transformation Transforming your customer’s experience is far more comprehensive an effort than just musing about customer behavior or surveying a slice of your market.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 31, 2018

Developing a diverse leadership pipeline can benefit companies in all sectors. And yet black women’s advancement into leadership roles has remained stagnant , even as the number of them in professional and managerial roles has increased. How People Get Ahead. They confidently seize opportunities.

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Cheryl Cran

APRIL 5, 2017

A change agent is someone who regardless of his or her title is able to bridge between the foundations of past and present successes and inspire others to move towards a new and sometimes radically different future. What this means is that a change leadership approach with a goal of creating ‘change agents’ is the best approach.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Employees around the world are reporting that big organizational changes are affecting their jobs. From leadership transitions and restructurings, to mergers and acquisitions, to regulatory changes, there seems to be constant unrest in the workforce. But according to one survey of more than half a million U.S.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

We performed pulse surveys quarterly after every town hall meeting at Saint Anthony Hospital. The questions were developed by Press Ganey, the healthcare survey company, and were related to employee engagement. Each of these teams went through the same team development program as my senior leadership team.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 30, 2018

While we still meet resistance from employees who do not understand how diversity and inclusion are related to their job in a scientific organization, this resistance is becoming less common as we continue to engage in change management and make the case for inclusivity across UCAR.

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LSA Global

APRIL 10, 2019

Whether you conduct a survey, have one-on-one conversations with key individuals or set up meetings where ideas and questions are encouraged, find a way that works in your culture to listen well to your constituents. They are the ones who can ensure your change initiative is truly successful.

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

Part of the issue is how organizations view the human aspect of the closing date, which is usually treated as the end of the transaction, when it’s really just the start of change. Organizations, processes, and cultures will be integrated for weeks and months after the organizations come together, causing disruption and uncertainty.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 24, 2016

When it comes to organizational change, failure continues to be more common than success. The pattern is clear, and diligent leaders often devote countless resources to planning out the perfect change management initiative. ” This reflects an endemic lack of self-awareness in leadership, and the costs are significant.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2016

In a PWC survey of more than 2,000 global executives, managers, and employees, only 54% of respondents said their change initiatives succeeded — and the most frequently cited problem (by 65% of those surveyed) was change fatigue. That helps explain why failure is so common, but there’s more to it.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 22, 2016

In the end, a combination of unattainable objectives, an environment that lacked transparency, and a culture where failure was not perceived to be a viable option, led some VA administrators and clinic staff to manipulate data to make it appear as though the wait time goal was being achieved. Could the organization turn itself around?

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 30, 2018

Instead, they sought to reenergize and leverage their own people, but, Karvinen explained, “We also did not just want to handpick the usual senior managers we had always worked with before, because we knew that, in order to drive the transformation of the company, we needed new and fresh perspectives.”

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

A recent Navigant survey found that U.S. Cost reduction requires an honest and thorough reassessment of everything the health system does and ultimately, a change in the organization’s operating culture. They also do not represent sustainable, long-term change. PM Images/Getty Images.

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Cheryl Cran

OCTOBER 13, 2015

There are multiple factors impacting the future workplace today, changing demographics are shifting the entire company cultures around definition of ‘work’ Technology is available to help us work smarter and yet many organizations responded in a survey that only 30% are leveraging what technology can do for the company.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Most care-delivery organizations do not have a culture that can tolerate uncertainty for such a long period. The innovation team has to be protected from the “results now” culture prevalent in health care. prior focus groups, surveys, and Press Ganey data).

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