Consulting Matters

AUGUST 26, 2021

Consultants are focused on enhancing leadership AND organizational capacity. On the other hand, coaches are focused on the leaders themselves and helping them improve their personal and leadership effectiveness. Exercise to increase stamina, burn off steam, and enhance well-being. Get enough rest.

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1 to 1

MAY 20, 2024

Journey mapping is a valuable ongoing exercise but it’s not enough. They deliver our product faster, cheaper, and more efficiently. This exercise uncovers strategic and investment opportunities leadership may be unwilling — or unable — to consider. Cost pressures. A point solution won’t do the trick.

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Comatch

MAY 3, 2023

However, AI could help consultants work more efficiently. Here are some scenarios where we envisage ChatGPT leading to better results and increasing efficiency in consulting. Organizations who leverage AI properly are likely to establish more personalized and efficient customer service, streamline operations, and reduce costs.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 20, 2023

As you work on building new leadership habits , it is not uncommon to feel stuck. link] Psychological Safety Myth Buster #3: Build Capacity Like physical endurance and strength can be enhanced with training, your capacity for changing your leadership habits can improve with development. Change is rarely as easy as we imagine.

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Brimstone Consulting

APRIL 4, 2023

We have designed and facilitated several leadership development cohorts for this organization, helped them create an inclusive and global Sustainability Plan and approach, and coached leaders across the US and Europe. Any exercise? Was he working efficiently or just working hard? Let’s start with some basics.

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Having a filter to deal with these decisions can increase our awareness of the decision making process, and allow us to make decisions more efficiently and effectively. Prior to any transition period in my career, I do an exercise where I write my future resume. We make numerous decisions every day that impact our lives.

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Markovitz Consulting

MAY 29, 2018

CEO Reed Hastings says that direct observation of critical management discussions “is an efficient way for the board to understand the company better” and develop trust in the leadership. First, board members attend monthly and quarterly senior management meetings as observers.

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Consulting Matters

AUGUST 26, 2021

Consultants are focused on enhancing leadership AND organizational capacity. On the other hand, coaches are focused on the leaders themselves and helping them improve their personal and leadership effectiveness. Exercise to increase stamina, burn off steam, and enhance well-being. Get enough rest.

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The Management Centre

APRIL 8, 2024

Every penny matters, because by being efficient and effective it means we can support more and more people. We set out to find an external partner who could bring in ideas that our managers could relate to, and who could complement our current in-house leadership offer. I’m really pleased that we found =mc Learning. =mc:

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 18, 2021

Exercise your value-based integrity. Build empathy with the people who do the work. Build a safe environment. Seek outcomes and optimize for the overarching goal. Encourage experiments and learning. Catch people succeeding. The podcast: Modern Management Made Easy with Johanna Rothman. See the Modern Management Made Easy books, too.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 25, 2022

We'd gone through the painful exercise in Part 1 of deciding what we were not going to do any longer. If you're not the team leader, consider how you might work with the team's facilitator to see if they can focus the team on working in flow efficiency for a common goal. I had a script from HR, as in Part 2. And I still felt terrible.

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Markovitz Consulting

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Here are three examples of how their maps have helped them see into their processes more clearly and make changes to become more efficient. When the VSM made the non-value-added wait time shockingly clear, the leadership team integrated video into the process to eliminate shipping.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 20, 2014

Legitimate or not, the rebranding exercise was effective and has meant that since 1966 the concept has been widely known in management and business circles as the Experience Curve with due credit going to Bruce and the Boston Consulting Group. As it turns out though, pursuing market share leadership will not always be beneficial.

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Melissa Agnes

MAY 23, 2016

I’ve seen consultants try to use fancy terms when helping an organization develop their governance model – things like “Crisis Leadership Team” or “Crisis Action Team” – but taking this approach, in my experience, is not very practical. 2- Each stakeholder group should have representation at the crisis management table.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 28, 2016

During the last five years of my corporate management career, I had a great deal of leadership development. Along with many other executives, I attended talks by noted management authors, I went to (often lengthy) team-building exercises, and I participated in discussions on different leadership styles. Less prosaic.

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Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2018

Then we administered a 10-minute mindfulness exercise and afterward asked them to continue brainstorming the creative task. Supplement in-house leadership development programs. Offer a condensed version of the corporate-based mindfulness program during routine leadership training sessions.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 3, 2023

To meet its long-term objectives, this fast growing Biotech client needed senior executives to better align overall strategies with individual and team priorities as measured by their ability to progress the R&D pipeline efficiently and consistently towards regulatory approvals and reimbursement for key therapies.

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Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2018

While warning that directors must be disciplined and exercise self-restraint about influencing decisions outside the boardroom, Netflix Founder and CEO Reed Hastings told us that providing deep access to management discussion “is an efficient way for the board to understand the company better.”

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Harvard Business

MARCH 27, 2017

Consider the experience of one of the world’s largest footwear manufacturers, whose leaders engaged in an exercise that others can use to revamp the way they make decisions. For the footwear manufacturer, the exercise turned out to be less straightforward than it initially appeared. It consists of these four steps: 1.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 31, 2023

In addition to the “technical side” of project management, the author shares his ideas regarding effective stakeholder management, trust-based leadership, and effective decision-making as well as gives a variety of tools and techniques that can add value to your daily project management activities.

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Harvard Business

MAY 2, 2016

Mindfulness meditation — the practice of cultivating deliberate focused attention on the present moment – has caught on as a way to bring focus, authenticity, and intention to the practice of leadership. For the sake of efficiency, we tend to make new decisions based upon old frames, memories, or associations.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Usually, that change is intended to improve performance – the effective and efficient achievement of goals. The highly collaborative and facilitative internal consultant or leader does not always exercise direct control and often is quite successful in guiding change. Leadership. Coaching and Action Learning. Crisis Management.

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Harvard Business

MAY 12, 2017

Few would argue with that, and even if they did, there is evidence to support the idea that resisting distraction and staying present have benefits: practicing mindfulness for 10 minutes a day , for example, can enhance leadership effectiveness by helping you become more able to regulate your emotions and make sense of past experiences.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

We also had open questions in our surveys to give people an opportunity to express their concerns related to leadership, operations, compensation, and staffing. Each of these teams went through the same team development program as my senior leadership team. The feedback could be tough at times.

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Melissa Agnes

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Often times, when I conduct this exercise as part of the development of a crisis preparedness program with my clients, I receive the following response: “I know that each member of my department has access to the stakeholders they’re responsible for. Let me explain. Step 2: Identify your communications channels.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 23, 2016

When working with managers and executives, I’m often surprised at how many assume the leadership of the meeting falls to the highest-ranking person in the room. Leading meetings lets them exercise these muscles in the normal course of work, which is often more efficient and powerful than sending them to a training program.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

It can be highly useful if you need to, for example, defend a budget request or a strategic plan to company leadership. Because it helps you articulate an efficient story using numeric values, CARVER can be used to clarify mission objectives — whether on the battlefield or in the boardroom. 3 – Moderate impact.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 5, 2018

That’s because when a new leader takes hold, changes aren’t just about efficiency or revenue; they are also about people’s feelings of vulnerability and uncertainty about what the changes will mean for them. As a consequence, quick wins may soon be undone, or they may beget new leadership problems.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

A new operating model also requires a governance structure and leadership model so leaders know how they will exercise operational control and inspire employees—and hold themselves accountable for doing both. As companies move to more agile operating models , they must learn to balance accountability with autonomy.

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Melissa Agnes

AUGUST 29, 2016

Just the act of undertaking this type of exercise with your entire crisis team will provide a level of competence and preparedness that will help mitigate the effects of stress if that crisis were to occur. For example, do you have an easy and efficient way to find the phone numbers of your most important stakeholders in a crisis?

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Harvard Business

APRIL 7, 2016

But the exercise wasn’t a complete failure. During my second year, when it became utterly apparent that the new products were not going to hit their targets, the Times shifted to growth-minded leadership. They measure efficiency, productivity, quality of the network, quality of inputs and outputs.

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Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2016

Though many organizations already use assessment for hiring , leadership development , team-building , and executive coaching , it has not been extended much to hiring and building better innovation teams. Both exercises will give you valuable clues as to how well the applicant can connect with others, both emotionally and intellectually.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2017

However, providing nutritious meals is not nearly enough; achieving sustainable health and lifestyle improvements requires educating patients about healthy eating habits, goal setting, exercise, mindfulness, and diabetes management.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Then use leadership coach Marshall Goldsmith’s “feed forward” process, which involves five steps: Describe your goal clearly. I have personally had MBAs and executives coach one another, which has been a very effective and cost-efficient way to improve giving and receiving feedback. What could you do or say better?

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2016

For years, Atrius Health had been focusing on standardizing processes, removing waste, and improving efficiency using improvement activities employing lean. For example, through a patient-journey-mapping exercise, the Care in Place team noticed that some of the senior patients being sent to the ER did not need to go.

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Harvard Business

MAY 2, 2016

The Bin Laden operation was a seminal moment in the campaign to decimate Al Qaeda’s leadership. We planned to send in a team at night, emplace the cameras among the branches, record images when Pacer got his exercise, and somehow retrieve the images — all without getting caught.

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Tsavo Neal

JANUARY 25, 2018

You’re sharing your thought-leadership (content marketing) with your exact audience (senior people and decision makers) in a publication that already has the social proof and brand to establish trust. –Cal Friesen, Thought Leadership Resources. That said, writing for a trade publication is not easy. Speaking Engagements.

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