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How to Solve 3 Modern Cross-Cultural Leadership Challenges

Organizational Talent Consulting

Census data confirms cultural diversity is growing faster than predicted, especially among Gen Z. A competitive talent landscape, technological advances, and global population shifts are rapidly increasing cultural diversity in the workplace. Cross-cultural differences require leaders with cultural agility.

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Nurturing Psychological Safety in the Workplace Through an Age-Diverse Lens

Harmonious Workplaces

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. Gerpott et al. 2022) highlight a significant change in attitudes toward mental health.

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Transforming Information Technology at a Large State Agency

Brimstone Consulting

The CIO sought to build a self-sustaining cultural dynamic that would enable the organization to become a preferred provider of IT services to its agency partners, one of the top IT employers in the state, and a recognized expert in the field. The solutions were tailored to incorporate Agile principles, methods, and tools.

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What Management Consulting Looks Like Post Covid-19

Tom Spencer

Anyone who joined consulting during the period of 2020-2022 can attest to how virtual the industry has become. Due to long hours many consultants have suffered from burnout, and some firm cultures have turned toxic as managers have been pressed to do whatever it takes to retain existing clients and acquire new ones.

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Microsoft Teams makes the heart grow fonder

The Source

In late 2020, one year on from its first outbreak in Wuhan, clients were less positive than before about what it’s like to work with consulting firms: Just 65% spoke positively about a range of attributes that we ask about. So, it was somewhat surprising to see a major reversal in our most recent survey.

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Little’s Law for Any Kind of Product Development: How to Learn How Long Your Work Will Take

Johanna Rothman

Team 1 started this project on Jan 1, 2020. Manage your environment or culture. See Create Your Successful Agile Project for more details.) Joanie received this data: Notice that the teams all have different start dates, durations, and predicted end dates. Let's walk through the data for Team 1. What I say to my clients.).

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Is Executive Coaching Really Worth it?

Organizational Talent Consulting

Culture is acutely critical during notable change, such as M&A, and executive leaders increasingly work with and lead multicultural teams. Coaching helps leaders shift assumptions and perceptions and adopt positive cross-cultural motivation, vision, and cultural agility. Harvard Business Review, 80(6), 86-153.