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How to improve your meetings

Halo Psych

6-minute read In the past few months, I’ve run several team development days for board-level teams in different sectors. And one of the things they have the most in common is a frustration with meetings. This includes those coming as guests to present at a board meeting, as well as some board members, themselves.

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Want a Data-Driven Organization? Start with Your Talent Strategy

Organizational Talent Consulting

Talent Strategy Step #1: Identify the right analytical skill sets After establishing your data-analytics strategy that is tightly aligned with the mission and culture of the ogranization you need to determine the roles and the knowledge, skills and abilities of the talent most critical to meeting the needs. References: Abina, A., Cestnik, B.,

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Your New Hit Product Might Be Underpriced

Harvard Business

The odds are stacked against new products or services. We have diagnosed thousands of product failures over the last 30 years, and have found recurring patterns. Often new products are over-engineered with too many features, usually at too high a price. The problem with wildly successful products. How could they not have?

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Do Your Customers Actually Want a “Smart” Version of Your Product?

Harvard Business

Our products work with apps or without apps. In 2014, Gartner Research, creator of the Hype Cycle for the Internet of Things, predicted that a “typical family home” could hold up to 500 smart objects by 2022. What Customers Actually Did With Smart Products. I know because I’ve been there.

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How to Work Together When You Don’t Agree

Organizational Talent Consulting

The cost of unproductive conflict The distinction between productive and unproductive conflict lies in the importance of the issue and the amount of energy you put into it. Productive conflict is the open exchange of conflicting or differing ideas. Non-productive conflict is an exchange of conflicting or differing ideas.

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Is Shared Identity a Missing Link to Psychological Safety and Maximizing Potential?

Organizational Talent Consulting

Academic research suggests that the benefits of shared identity include: Productive conflict. In conversations, we tend to find communication more comfortable and productive with those we consider “us” versus “them.” It is more effective to begin developing a shared identity within your team versus the organization. Steffens, N.,

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Why On-Demand Talent Is the Future

Comatch

And yet, a report from the Harvard Business Review on rethinking the on-demand workforce states that “despite the extent to which companies are now turning to [digital talent] platforms, very few firms have developed a cohesive organization-wide approach to their use.” . Hiring On-Demand Talent: The Advantages.

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