Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 28, 2022

Effective leadership is communication. A few things about effective leadership communication are proven based on several studies over the past two decades. With these recommendations, you can focus on the critical few proven leadership communication solutions that create business results. Why Leadership Communication Matters.

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Harmonious Workplaces

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Photo by Christina @ wocintechchat.com on Unsplash Leaders who embrace and leverage the strengths of each generation through intentional collaboration and reverse mentoring build a workplace culture that prioritizes psychological safety. Delving into the intricate dance of workplace dynamics, a meta-analysis study led by Burton et al.

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Harmonious Workplaces

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

When auditing a sales report, the CRM manager notices the report omits contact information for many company accounts. The sales manager states that he doesn’t trust the other salespeople to not “steal his contacts,” so he does not report contact information, communications, or other data pertaining to his deals. Why allow stinginess?

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 4, 2024

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.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JANUARY 2, 2023

You might be entirely on board and curious about how work and leadership will be different in the future. No leader sets out to become obsolete, and developing leadership habits is a competitive advantage. Why develop future-proof leadership skills? Well-equipped leadership makes a difference.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MAY 16, 2022

Many businesses are trying to build coaching skills, but leadership habits take time to change. Does being a leader and leadership coach have to be that hard? Leadership is a relationship. Too often companies make narrow investments into leadership development with little to no results to show. The truth is it doesn’t.

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Consulting Matters

JULY 7, 2022

Do you want to know what executives in world-class companies think about leadership and why they hire consultants and coaches? Jim offers powerful insight into what created his leadership philosophies and practices. If you're an org looking for leadership, culture, experience, and transformation, connect with Jim.

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Harmonious Workplaces

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Since I’ve shown a little grey in my beard, I can verify from my experience that some hiring managers do not look favorably on older workers, especially job seekers. After five or so interviews, the hiring manager stated that they wanted a “digital native.”

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Organizational Talent Consulting

OCTOBER 17, 2022

We see the world through a lens shaped and molded by culture and our experiences. Are you aware of your performance management blind spots? In a complex and fast-paced workplace, leaders need to be able to recognize and avoid the performance management pitfalls that come from common organizational dysfunctions and cognitive biases.

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LSA Global

JUNE 3, 2018

Top Employee Engagement Trends for 2018. These Top Employee Engagement Trends for 2018 are based on the employee engagement surveys from nearly 50 Best Places to Work contests, this comprehensive report is the one and only of its kind, examining employee engagement and culture trends at America’s top workplaces.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

If you read my scaling agile series , you can see that becoming an agile organization requires seeing your organization as a system with a culture. If you don’t also address the cultural problems of rewards, you won’t continue with your agile transformation. How can you see your system and your culture?

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 19, 2018

Are you looking to help support your team, management, or organization’s agile adoption? Agile Transformation: See Your System and Culture, Part 3. I also wrote some Pragmatic Managers: Build Your Agile Tribe. Do you feel as if you are part of the formal or informal team leading your agile transformation?

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Halo Psych

APRIL 17, 2024

Based on my experience, not just of the past few months, but of many years working across all sectors, leadership teams from different sectors have more in common than not. This matters in part because the CEO and the board or leadership team they head up are the most expensive people on the payroll.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Unfortunately, many organizations keep strategic plans a secret and don't involve leaders outside the executive leadership team. When leaders solicit ideas from others outside the traditionally involved management team, it improves the creativity of the ideas and reinforces that leaders value employees.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JANUARY 9, 2023

Here are the four leadership dimensions and practical ideas for creating a shared identity at work. Enhanced knowledge management. link] 4 Stages of psychological safety and the leadership challenge. The leadership challenge is to increase intellectual friction while decreasing social friction. Inclusion and belonging.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Studies show that 85% of executive leadership teams spend less than one hour a month discussing strategy, and up to 95% of employees are unaware of or do not understand their organization's strategy. In reality, some leaders don't know how to lead strategically, and some company cultures reward leaders for saving the day.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

There is no serious debate that well-designed organizations with clear organizational strategies influence desired behaviors, culture, and performance. The following short video from leadership guru Ken Blanchard provides some thoughts on the power of servant leadership in today's workplace. link] What is selfless love?

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Organizational Talent Consulting

APRIL 3, 2023

One of the greatest leadership challenges during organizational change is making the invisible visible. Too often, organizational change management is simply a series of communications where executives or project managers inform the business that change is coming. Leadership is committed to the change. Prosci Research.

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Halo Psych

MARCH 23, 2023

Here are 3 key things that you should focus on: Your leadership style In one study of medical emergency teams , the researchers found that a directive leadership style was more successful in enabling a team with less experienced team members to handle more complex situations. A focus on creating a psychologically safe culture.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MAY 22, 2023

The ultimate goal of executive coaching is a positive transformation in life and leadership for the client (e.g., Leadership Coaching helps you grow your confidence and competence regardless of whether you are an emerging leader, frontline leader, mid-level manager, executive, or business owner. The Leadership Quarterly.

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Brimstone Consulting

OCTOBER 21, 2020

With the shift to remote work, employee experience and culture are crucial to attracting and retaining talent. A 2018 survey asked recent hires to identify the factors most important when considering a job offer – 68% reported they were influenced by job location. Another 2018 survey found that 71.5% Employee Experience.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 29, 2022

In contrast, Team 2 started “this” project back in 2018, almost four years ago. These are delays due to management decision time.). Manage your environment or culture. Manage Your Environment. I much prefer to start with organizational WIP (Work in Progress), to manage the project portfolio.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 15, 2018

Part of what makes an agile transformation difficult is the cultural change required. ” This manager is not stupid. Agile approaches change the organizational system of work and the organization’s culture. Cultural change rarely occurs fast. Cultural change is a journey. I want it now. Do join us.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Several clients have been surprised to learn that I hated reading and writing at the beginning of my strategic leadership doctorate. Also, being exclusive can reinforce a toxic culture that values certain groups or organizational levels within a company over others. Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.”

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Organizational Talent Consulting

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Driving creativity within an organization's culture is increasingly vital for leaders. You get what you plan for when it comes to supply chain management. For too long, organizations have approached talent management with ad-hoc talent strategies. Creative thinking makes a big difference. References. BASF at a glance.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 14, 2022

Increased operational complexities associated with disruptive changes in the workplace make the importance of good leadership habits essential. Often the hierarchical design of senior leadership roles reduces the closeness of workplace relationships. When Leaders Overestimate Leadership Effectiveness. Ken Blanchard.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

APRIL 18, 2022

And a huge knowledge and skill shift that is looming will serve as a leadership validation test. Here are three future smart leadership qualities, two steps for rethinking the future of leadership, and one good leadership habit for keeping you moving in the best direction. Effective leaders are good learners.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

How to see your agile transformation as a system and culture problem. Recognize a cultural transformation is a journey. I wrote a Pragmatic Manager called Define Your Agile Success. Note that the teams might have different reasons than the managers might have for using agile approaches. You might have another reason.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

AUGUST 7, 2023

An Examination of the Importance of Leadership Behaviors and Attributes on Shaping Culture Executive Summary Organizational culture is a critical factor in financially successful companies. But culture change is often overwhelming and elusive. Section three focuses on proven approaches to architect organizational culture.

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Consultants' Consultant

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Now in 2018 the buzzword is psychological safety. The first time I strongly encountered psychological safety was reading Culture Code earlier this year. […]. In the 90’s the buzzword was empowerment. For a little while in the 2000s resilience was the word of the day.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 13, 2018

This post will focus on measurements you might see when the culture changes with an agile transformation. Recently, I wrote about a manager’s serial status meeting. The Director-team or the PMO make decisions and the senior managers remake the decisions. They “measure” the culture. Do join us.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JUNE 27, 2022

When companies look for a competitive advantage, there is often talk about making leadership development investments. But during these conversations, leadership development programs are typically questioned. The truth is that leadership is more than a position, and event-driven development often fails to create lasting change.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 24, 2018

We also explored several decades of research on that subject published in HBR; and we reflected on our own experience in the area of leadership development. Take the case of Dominic Barton, who served as the Global Managing Director of McKinsey & Company from 2009-2018. Focus on measurable results.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

We’re leading the workshop in the Boston area, June 7-8, 2018. You need to continue and to nurture the cultural changes necessary for a successful agile transformation. Cultural change is a key to your success. I’ve said many times in this blog and in my books that agile is a cultural change.

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Brimstone Consulting

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

By necessity, I became more curious about self-awareness, and ultimately, I became a student of the burgeoning concepts of leadership and coaching. I ran corporate leadership programs around the world and led development departments for large multi-national firms. Managing these vulnerabilities requires time and effort.

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Rick Conlow

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Unfortunately, research shows 82% of managers fail and are poor coaches. Effective coaching requires a distinct set of skills that managers often lack. Effective coaching requires a distinct set of skills that managers often lack. And people 25-34 have a tenure of 2.8 Why is this happening? Coaching requires time and effort.

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Peter Stark

JANUARY 6, 2019

The good news is 2018 was a year when most industries experienced growth. While even the strongest organizations seldom have 100% retention, you have something in your talent management toolbox to help significantly reduce or prevent wandering eyes: an Employee Engagement Survey. Which way will your employees run?

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