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Earn Your Seat in the C - Suite with Darden’s Chief People & Diversity Officer Sarah King

Consulting Matters

Sarah and I met in 2012 when she hired me to consult with her and the senior team at Wyndham Vacation Ownership on a massive org transformation project she was leading. Sarah is a visionary who can see a better future for the organization she serves, AND she is a warrior who can make this type of change happen.

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How Diligent Biz Dev Led to a Six-Figure Consulting Project

Successful Independent Consulting

The short answer: business development. The long answer: diligent business development that built a relationship over time. I've written about this before, that business development = relationship development , but let’s walk through the steps I took to foster this half-million-dollar contract. (If

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Leadership Pressure is a Privilege

Organizational Talent Consulting

Theodore Roosevelt Reason #1: Pressure Accelerates Change One reason to embrace pressure is that pressure accelerates change, and leadership is about change. In the book Leading Change, renowned change management thought leader John Kotter identified that overcoming complacency to change requires a sense of urgency.

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Mergers & Acquisitions: The Importance of Creating a Shared Culture

Organizational Talent Consulting

An organization’s culture reflects the various lessons it has learned through its history and incorporates the many behaviors and processes that have developed over time. Even companies with strong organizational cultures may develop into dysfunctional organizational cultures after a merger without actions to harmonize the two cultures.

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Working from Home

Tom Spencer

I am a Change Management Consultant working with leaders around the world on change initiatives, and in this blog, I focus on the positive impact the situation could have on workplace behaviour. Seeing these results, management at CTRIP offered all their employees the option to WFH, which boosted the firm’s productivity by 22%.

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Gaining Clarity in What You Care About Most Deeply in Your OD Work

Consulting and Organizational Management

Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and Organizational Development. Gaining Clarity in What You Care About Most Deeply in Your OD Work By Carter McNamara on December 2, 2012. The profession has become filled with niche players……executive coaching, team building, process improvement, change management, etc.

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How to be a Seriously Effective Leader in a Crisis

Organizational Talent Consulting

Academy of management perspectives , 20 (2), 58-69. Service amid crisis: the role of supervisor humor and discretionary organizational support. The Journal of Services Marketing. & Viswesvaran, C. analysis of positive humor in the workplace. Journal of Managerial Psychology. Romero, E. & Cruthirds, K.

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