A Client Case Study – Part 3 of 3 – Creating the Strategic Plan for L&D. Read Part 1 and Part 2 of the case study. The Plan for Learning and Coaching of Managers. We used the data from the 360 assessments, information gathered from interviews with the managers assessed, data provided early on by [.]. The post Exploring Emotional Intelligence: Helping Managers Succeed – Part 3 appeared first on Gina Abudi. MORE
Right now, if your business or role involves repetitive tasks it is likely that you have already or will be impacted by robotics and automation. It is irrefutable that we need to expand our perspective to seeing that robots, AI and automation are infiltrating all industries and everyday life. Let’s look at robotics/automation first and […]. The post 4 Industries Leveraging Robotics & Automation For Future of Work appeared first on NextMapping. MORE
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Greetings! We are still in Wisconsin … still a few miles from the Mississippi … still at my in-laws … and still working on the interior RV furbishings and modifications. I hope you found my last video about 10x-ing (not 2 or 3x-ing) your goals to be useful. MORE
You have an enormous advantage in life when you have the capacity to tolerate the truth. Anyone can tolerate the truth when it’s positive and favorable. It’s much more difficult when the truth isn’t what you want to hear. Just because you wish something wasn’t true doesn’t make it any less valid. For example, it’s difficult to tolerate the truth that your skills just aren’t good enough (yet) to tackle a particular project. MORE
Keep focused on your best people. Management consulting can be likened to a ‘fashion business’, in the sense that new ideas fall in and out of vogue all the time. At the height of the Celtic Tiger, labour retention was definitely ‘in’. MORE
Welcome to the next installment of the Leadership Vision Podcast where we share our expertise in the discovery, practice, and implementation of StrengthsFinder. The post A Conversation about how your Strengths help you stay Curious (podcast) appeared first on Leadership Vision. Practical Curiosity Push Conversation MORE
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Consultants Consultant: New client? You’re facing learning-credibility tension. You need to juggle the need to know more about the context with the all-important need to look credible. MORE
You’re probably familiar with class rank. Among all the kids in this high school, compared to everyone else’s GPA, where do you stand? And you’ve heard about sports rank, #1 in the world at tennis or golf or chess. But somehow, we don’t bother with community rank. Of all the contributions that have been made to this community, all the selfless acts, events organized, people connected–where do you stand? Maybe we don’t have to measure it. MORE
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How do you keep people motivated enough to perform well and work for long hours in a high-pressure environment? MORE
The technology industry is booming: in 2008, Microsoft was the only tech firm ranked in the world’s top 10 public companies by market capitalisation. In 2018, tech firms take seven of the top ten spots (Financial Times Global 500). MORE
Consultants Consultant: [link] leah weiss Kelly sits down with Stanford University professor Leah Weiss whose [link] leah weiss Kelly sits down with Stanford University professor Leah Weiss whose new book How We Work looks at ways in which we can re-humanize the workplace. MORE
Being self-employed isn’t easy. Not only do you have to develop, market, and deliver professional services at a very high level, you also need to accomplish all of this in relative isolation. MORE
Data and digitization are creating a growing array of value-creation choices in industries as diverse as pharmaceuticals, mining, and energy. Digital Insights MORE
A rapid and far-reaching transformation of the US$450 billion pharmacy benefits manager (PBM) market, which touches virtually every healthcare consumer, is unfolding in front of our eyes. Two major factors are spurring this change: a spate of far-reaching deals between insurers, retail drugstore chains, and PBMs; and regulatory uncertainty. MORE
In the digital age, companies in the energy and materials industries must balance the classic advantages of outsourcing a segment of the value chain with the new realities of shutting down their strategic options if a supplier becomes too powerful. Metals & Mining Insights MORE
Whether you’re an executive, a VP, a director, or whatever your level is within an organization, in most cases, it’s not about you. Everything that you do is about the company. MORE
Deanna Mulligan, president and CEO of Guardian Life Insurance, reflects on how she approaches strategy planning in an industry with strong headwinds. Strategy & Corporate Finance Insights MORE
A little after they opened at 9 am on the Friday before the July 4 weekend I went to get a haircut. I wasn’t the only one and was told it would be about 20 minutes. So, I walked across the street, got a cup of coffee, checked emails, etc. I came back 17 minutes later and instead of two stylists there was only one. After a few minutes another customer told me the other stylist didn’t feel good and was across the street getting food. (My MORE
Picture yourself presenting your final results from a project to your client. The meeting is swimming along smoothly and you’re basking in the warm glow of another happy client. Then, your client asks, “Buddyboy, could you slice the data one more way so we can see impact by geographic area?” MORE
On this episode of the podcast, I’m having a Strengths conversation with my colleague and our Director of Business Development, Logan Joyce. More specifically, we’re having what we call a "push" conversation. These are dialogues between two people where you intentionally push Strengths to the center. MORE
Jacques Nathan, president of Sanofi Japan, discusses what’s ahead for his changing sector. Insights on Pharmaceuticals & Medical Products MORE
pbombaert/Getty Images. Are you successful at coaching your employees? In our years studying and working with companies on this topic, we’ve observed that when many executives say “yes,” they’re incorrectly answering the question. MORE
Ringing is resonant. A small force causes sympathetic vibrations, and magic happens. Wringing requires significant effort and can even destroy the object it is applied to. When you ring a bell for your clients, you’ve delivered with care and empathy. But when you seek to wring every dollar out of a transaction, you’ve probably engaged for the last time MORE
These are the decisions that are forced on us, the ones that feel unfair, the ones where there are no seemingly good outcomes. How to proceed? Acknowledge that it sucks. That you’d rather not be in this situation. That it’s not what you hoped for. You can return to this step as often as you like, but don’t permit it to have anything to do with the other steps in the process. Consider the sunk costs. MORE
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Presence is a valuable tool that can help self-employed professionals build better relationships and manage stress and anxiety. Here’s what you need to know about mindful awareness and how to practice it in your daily life MORE
Daniel Hurst Photography/Getty Images. MORE
Carlo Allegri/Getty Images. Working from home can be a coveted perk, allowing you to opt out of rush-hour traffic and eliminate the tedious banalities of office life. MORE
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Caspar Benson/Getty Images. Most leaders assume that they need to foster teamwork among the people whom directly and indirectly report to them. Teaming is now seen as the workplace equivalent of motherhood and apple pie — invariably good. MORE
Complex product-development projects are plagued by schedule slips and cost overruns. The up-front application of advanced and predictive analytics helps companies build plans they can stick to. High Tech Insights MORE
Michael was recently featured on Peak Performers Podcast, which you can listen to here: How to Market Your Expertise with Michael Zipursky As a consultant, there’s a lot that you can bring to the table. MORE
Does your opinion matter? Yes, indeed, your opinion does and should matter. Companies in our Best of the Best Benchmark from our Employee Opinion Surveys rate almost 20 points higher than organizations in our Overall Benchmark regarding their ideas and opinions counting at work. MORE
If you make a product that costs $5 to produce and package, how much should you charge for it? I don’t know. But there’s a simple bit of arithmetic you can do to understand sensitivity in pricing. Should you charge $7 or $9? Well, if you charge $7, you make $2 a unit. If you charge $9, you make $4 a unit, or twice as much. Which means, all other things being equal, you’ll need to sell twice as many at $7 as you’ll need to sell at $9. MORE
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AUGUST 16, 2018
Michael was recently featured on Peak Performers Podcast, which you can listen to here: How to Market Your Expertise with Michael Zipursky As a consultant, there’s a lot that you can bring to the table.
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Picture yourself presenting your final results from a project to your client. The meeting is swimming along smoothly and you’re basking in the warm glow of another happy client. Then, your client asks, “Buddyboy, could you slice the data one more way so we can see impact by geographic area?”
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AUGUST 11, 2018
How do you keep people motivated enough to perform well and work for long hours in a high-pressure environment?
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AUGUST 13, 2018
Being self-employed isn’t easy. Not only do you have to develop, market, and deliver professional services at a very high level, you also need to accomplish all of this in relative isolation.
Consultants' Consultant
AUGUST 17, 2018
Consultants Consultant: New client? You’re facing learning-credibility tension. You need to juggle the need to know more about the context with the all-important need to look credible.
Confessions of a Consultant
AUGUST 12, 2018
Keep focused on your best people. Management consulting can be likened to a ‘fashion business’, in the sense that new ideas fall in and out of vogue all the time. At the height of the Celtic Tiger, labour retention was definitely ‘in’.
Consultants' Consultant
AUGUST 17, 2018
Consultants Consultant: [link] leah weiss Kelly sits down with Stanford University professor Leah Weiss whose [link] leah weiss Kelly sits down with Stanford University professor Leah Weiss whose new book How We Work looks at ways in which we can re-humanize the workplace.
CaseInterview.com
AUGUST 17, 2018
You have an enormous advantage in life when you have the capacity to tolerate the truth. Anyone can tolerate the truth when it’s positive and favorable. It’s much more difficult when the truth isn’t what you want to hear. Just because you wish something wasn’t true doesn’t make it any less valid. For example, it’s difficult to tolerate the truth that your skills just aren’t good enough (yet) to tackle a particular project.
McKinsey
AUGUST 16, 2018
Data and digitization are creating a growing array of value-creation choices in industries as diverse as pharmaceuticals, mining, and energy. Digital Insights
Harvard Business
AUGUST 16, 2018
Daniel Hurst Photography/Getty Images.
Martinka Consulting
AUGUST 15, 2018
A little after they opened at 9 am on the Friday before the July 4 weekend I went to get a haircut. I wasn’t the only one and was told it would be about 20 minutes. So, I walked across the street, got a cup of coffee, checked emails, etc. I came back 17 minutes later and instead of two stylists there was only one. After a few minutes another customer told me the other stylist didn’t feel good and was across the street getting food. (My
Henry DeVries
AUGUST 15, 2018
Ironically, it wasn’t until Frank King came close to ending his life that he realized the purpose of his life. Today he is a speaker and trainer on suicide prevention as a workplace health and safety issue
MBO Partners
AUGUST 13, 2018
Presence is a valuable tool that can help self-employed professionals build better relationships and manage stress and anxiety. Here’s what you need to know about mindful awareness and how to practice it in your daily life
McKinsey
AUGUST 15, 2018
Deanna Mulligan, president and CEO of Guardian Life Insurance, reflects on how she approaches strategy planning in an industry with strong headwinds. Strategy & Corporate Finance Insights
Harvard Business
AUGUST 16, 2018
Caspar Benson/Getty Images. Most leaders assume that they need to foster teamwork among the people whom directly and indirectly report to them. Teaming is now seen as the workplace equivalent of motherhood and apple pie — invariably good.
Seth Godin Blog
AUGUST 11, 2018
These are the decisions that are forced on us, the ones that feel unfair, the ones where there are no seemingly good outcomes. How to proceed? Acknowledge that it sucks. That you’d rather not be in this situation. That it’s not what you hoped for. You can return to this step as often as you like, but don’t permit it to have anything to do with the other steps in the process. Consider the sunk costs.
Gina Abudi
AUGUST 15, 2018
A Client Case Study – Part 3 of 3 – Creating the Strategic Plan for L&D. Read Part 1 and Part 2 of the case study. The Plan for Learning and Coaching of Managers. We used the data from the 360 assessments, information gathered from interviews with the managers assessed, data provided early on by [.]. The post Exploring Emotional Intelligence: Helping Managers Succeed – Part 3 appeared first on Gina Abudi.
Cheryl Cran
AUGUST 17, 2018
Right now, if your business or role involves repetitive tasks it is likely that you have already or will be impacted by robotics and automation. It is irrefutable that we need to expand our perspective to seeing that robots, AI and automation are infiltrating all industries and everyday life. Let’s look at robotics/automation first and […]. The post 4 Industries Leveraging Robotics & Automation For Future of Work appeared first on NextMapping.
McKinsey
AUGUST 17, 2018
Complex product-development projects are plagued by schedule slips and cost overruns. The up-front application of advanced and predictive analytics helps companies build plans they can stick to. High Tech Insights
Harvard Business
AUGUST 15, 2018
Carlo Allegri/Getty Images. Working from home can be a coveted perk, allowing you to opt out of rush-hour traffic and eliminate the tedious banalities of office life.
Seth Godin Blog
AUGUST 14, 2018
If you make a product that costs $5 to produce and package, how much should you charge for it? I don’t know. But there’s a simple bit of arithmetic you can do to understand sensitivity in pricing. Should you charge $7 or $9? Well, if you charge $7, you make $2 a unit. If you charge $9, you make $4 a unit, or twice as much. Which means, all other things being equal, you’ll need to sell twice as many at $7 as you’ll need to sell at $9.
Leadership Vision Consulting
AUGUST 13, 2018
On this episode of the podcast, I’m having a Strengths conversation with my colleague and our Director of Business Development, Logan Joyce. More specifically, we’re having what we call a "push" conversation. These are dialogues between two people where you intentionally push Strengths to the center.
Strategy+Business
AUGUST 12, 2018
A rapid and far-reaching transformation of the US$450 billion pharmacy benefits manager (PBM) market, which touches virtually every healthcare consumer, is unfolding in front of our eyes. Two major factors are spurring this change: a spate of far-reaching deals between insurers, retail drugstore chains, and PBMs; and regulatory uncertainty.
McKinsey
AUGUST 11, 2018
In the digital age, companies in the energy and materials industries must balance the classic advantages of outsourcing a segment of the value chain with the new realities of shutting down their strategic options if a supplier becomes too powerful. Metals & Mining Insights
Harvard Business
AUGUST 15, 2018
Eric Raptosh/Getty Images. Common wisdom in management science and practice has it that to build support for a change project, visionary leadership is needed to outline what is wrong with the current situation.
Seth Godin Blog
AUGUST 15, 2018
You’re probably familiar with class rank. Among all the kids in this high school, compared to everyone else’s GPA, where do you stand? And you’ve heard about sports rank, #1 in the world at tennis or golf or chess. But somehow, we don’t bother with community rank. Of all the contributions that have been made to this community, all the selfless acts, events organized, people connected–where do you stand? Maybe we don’t have to measure it.
Peter Stark
AUGUST 11, 2018
Does your opinion matter? Yes, indeed, your opinion does and should matter. Companies in our Best of the Best Benchmark from our Employee Opinion Surveys rate almost 20 points higher than organizations in our Overall Benchmark regarding their ideas and opinions counting at work.
MBO Partners
AUGUST 14, 2018
Managing your own business is both rewarding and challenging. Here are four times to consider partnering with other consultants to ease your workload
McKinsey
AUGUST 14, 2018
Winning in the martech revolution requires tech, of course, but leaders often forget that it needs a couple of key additions too. Marketing & Sales Insights
Harvard Business
AUGUST 14, 2018
pbombaert/Getty Images. Are you successful at coaching your employees? In our years studying and working with companies on this topic, we’ve observed that when many executives say “yes,” they’re incorrectly answering the question.
Seth Godin Blog
AUGUST 17, 2018
Ringing is resonant. A small force causes sympathetic vibrations, and magic happens. Wringing requires significant effort and can even destroy the object it is applied to. When you ring a bell for your clients, you’ve delivered with care and empathy. But when you seek to wring every dollar out of a transaction, you’ve probably engaged for the last time
Leadership Vision Consulting
AUGUST 13, 2018
Welcome to the next installment of the Leadership Vision Podcast where we share our expertise in the discovery, practice, and implementation of StrengthsFinder. The post A Conversation about how your Strengths help you stay Curious (podcast) appeared first on Leadership Vision. Practical Curiosity Push Conversation
MBO Partners
AUGUST 12, 2018
News and notes for independent professionals and their clients. This is the August 13, 2018 edition
McKinsey
AUGUST 11, 2018
Jacques Nathan, president of Sanofi Japan, discusses what’s ahead for his changing sector. Insights on Pharmaceuticals & Medical Products
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