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4 Ways to Improve Your Leadership Communication Effectiveness

Organizational Talent Consulting

Appreciative Inquiry is a positive, strength-based approach to change management that can bring new life to change initiatives. Too often, change processes begin with what is wrong. Dream – collaborating on the best of what can be. Design – establishing creative strategies to move from what is to what can be. Denning, S.

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How Volvo Reinvented Itself Through Hiring

Harvard Business

Many legacy companies would like to transform themselves into agile, talent-first organizations. But when some CEOs in this position look at the people they employ, they discover a problem: a swath of their existing team doesn’t have the necessary skills or metabolism for change to meet the new challenges.

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Towers Watson Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Towers Watson Consulting specializes in HR consulting of all kinds, and risk management consulting in particular, while also counting actuarial and investment consulting practices under its umbrella. In 2010, these two storied companies joined forces to become Towers Watson. Corporate Risk Management and Risk Financing.

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Research Shows That Smaller M&A Deals Work Out Better

Harvard Business

This is one of the findings from a recently completed study based on publicly available information on the world’s 2,393 largest corporations for the time period 2010–2014. While nearly doubling its labor productivity, PCC managed to reduce its overhead ratio by three percentage points.

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The Mindset That Wins Consulting Work With Fortune 500 Companies with Mindy Millward: Podcast #24

Consulting Success

I said, “Do you mean the proposal I wrote in 2010?” For most of those large firms, an add-on is, “Can we get a change management person in here and on the team too? We’ve done a lot of integrated talent management build outs for organization with their HR organization, competency models. This was 2014.