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Back to the Basics in Leadership and Life with former EVP of Operations for the Walt Disney World Resort Lee Cockerell

Consulting Matters

Want a common sense, down-to-earth approach for developing leaders, growing organizations, and creating a profitable consulting or coaching business? Today I'm talking with Lee Cockerell, the former Executive Vice President of Operations for Walt Disney resort and currently a consultant, author, and speaker. Lee Cockerell [link].

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Say Goodbye to Strategic Planning? What’s Next?

Organizational Talent Consulting

Develop scenarios: This step can be sped up by selecting already developed scenarios. Leaders facing environmental conditions like today without scenario planning will likely either stop strategic planning and only operate in the short term or take too much risk and gamble on one specific future. References: Chermack, T.

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How Tony’s Chocolonely Created a Purpose-Driven (and Profitable) Supply Chain

Harvard Business

In this article, the authors look at the experience of Tony’s Chocolonely, a Dutch chocolate brand founded in 2005, which set itself a mission to sell 100% slavery-free chocolate. In the cocoa industry, for example, the average farmer cultivates between three and five hectares to earn less than two dollars a day.

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Why Your Employees Aren't Committed to Your Company Strategy

Organizational Talent Consulting

Great leaders dream of a better future – from business sustainability to growing future leaders, increasing speed to market, or operating with greater purpose. This is alarming, given evidence a direct positive correlation exists between employee commitment to strategy and employee involvement in strategy development. Development.

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We May Not Have a Clear Path, But We Each Have One

Harmonious Workplaces

Rita High School, where I learned to develop group and individualized training toward specific goals — namely, competing in band competitions or performing in concerts. I also handled recruitment, payroll, inventory management, and other store operations. I gained my first consulting client, a small mental health counseling service.

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What does a Business Consultant do?

ConsultX

A business consultant is an individual who works closely with business owners and managers to improve operations and efficiency. The ConsultX ™ Method Since 2005, we have been developing our own structure of Business Consulting that differs in small, but critical ways from regular Consulting and Business Consulting.

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Leadership: Transforming the Inner You

Organizational Talent Consulting

As a leader, whether it's how you manage the organizations operating budget, establish the agenda for a one-to-one coaching session, or make decisions about the annual strategic plan. Still, the technologies operating system or leader's inner game virtues, character, and values deserve equal attention and focus. Martin Luther King, Jr.