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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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 18, 2020

My agile transformation clients struggle with this big question: How do we effectively reward managers? The more the organization wants or needs an agile transformation, the less the current reward structure works. How do you incent the managers? What makes sense for management compensation?

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Business Consulting Agency

APRIL 11, 2024

Whether navigating challenges, optimizing operations, or seizing growth opportunities, consulting services offer a myriad of benefits that contribute to client success. Operational Efficiency and Process Optimization Consultants help clients streamline operations, optimize processes, and improve efficiency across departments.

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Business Consulting Agency

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Impact : Financial instability, cash flow issues, and inability to sustain operations lead to business failure. Ineffective Leadership and Team Dynamics : Reason : Weak leadership, conflicts within the team, or a lack of alignment. Impact : Mitigating financial risks and ensuring better management of resources.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

96% Job Relevance 97% Satisfaction 92% Net Promoter Score These experienced leaders were charged with project management , program management, and portfolio management across previously siloed functions and departments that were used to doing their own thing and being successful within their own span of control.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Great leaders dream of a better future – from business sustainability to growing future leaders, increasing speed to market, or operating with greater purpose. Unfortunately, many organizations keep strategic plans a secret and don't involve leaders outside the executive leadership team.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 6, 2023

SME Strategy is a strategy consulting firm that specializes in helping organizations align their teams and operations around a shared vision, mission, values, goals, and action plans. This requires effective communication and collaboration across all levels of the organization, from your senior leadership team to front-line workers.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Strategic Leadership Competencies – Strategic vs. Operational Leadership. Strategic leaders need a different set of skills from those of operational leaders. Too many strategic initiatives fail for lack of commitment from senior management and their teams. The Bottom Line.

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Business Consulting Agency

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Strategic planning ensures that the business remains agile and responsive to changing market conditions. Financial Management Effective financial management is vital for sustainable growth. Operational Efficiency Streamlining operations is key to reducing costs and improving efficiency.

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Brimstone Consulting

JULY 1, 2021

A leading health services organization identified leadership development as one of its biggest challenges. The organization had grown quickly through acquisitions which placed leaders in positions larger and broader than their leadership training and experience equipped them for. Let's talk CONTACT BRIMSTONE.

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Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2018

Its hierarchical authority, specialized division of labor, and standard operating procedures enabled companies to grow far larger than they had ever been. The most common conversation I have these days with discouraged employees below senior management levels goes like this: “This company’s bureaucracy is killing me.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Many companies are attempting a radical — and often rapid — shift from hierarchical structures to more agile environments, in order to operate at the speed required by today’s competitive marketplace. At Bain & Company, we do not believe that companies should try to use agile methods everywhere.

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Makarios Consulting

AUGUST 30, 2022

That requires clarity into current situations, sound decision-making, and agile execution. … when a team member behaves in a toxic way but the manager does not want to admit the impact it is having on the department. Later, the manager is caught flat-footed by a “palace revolt” fueled by people’s pent-up anger and frustration.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

CSFs can literally be anything — whether it’s improving customer satisfaction, increasing revenue, reducing operating costs, or something specific to a particular project or deliverable – making them somewhat difficult to identify – let alone define in concrete terms. Are project operations, sales, customer service, etc.

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The city hired Accenture to modernize its civil service, which led Accenture to create an app to manage daily maintenance in the city by alerting relevant technicians. Agile software development is a set of principles and practices that aim to improve the effectiveness of software development.

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Kates Kesler

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

long term vs short term investments, M&A activity, enterprise vs operating unit accountability). Extracting the benefits of healthy tension requires a thoughtful approach for managing the convergence of dimensions in a matrix. These many voices create predictable tension that is often mistaken as something harmful.

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Harmonious Workplaces

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

While we should guard against generalizing behavior and ignoring individual differences, each generational cohort tends to represent distinctive worldviews, ideals, and conflict management styles, making the workplace the “central theater” for the manifestation of generational identity (Lyons et al, 2019). Maxwell Leadership.

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Kates Kesler

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Very large multi-national product companies need to find creative ways to enjoy the benefits of scale while remaining agile. Agility and scale rarely co-exist in the design of the organizational operating model. The team manages a shared agenda. The global/local tension. Harnessing complexity.

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Makarios Consulting

AUGUST 30, 2022

That requires clarity into current situations, sound decision-making, and agile execution. … when a team member behaves in a toxic way but the manager does not want to admit the impact it is having on the department. Later, the manager is caught flat-footed by a “palace revolt” fueled by people’s pent-up anger and frustration.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

We know from our change management simulation data that most leaders are challenged by unpredictable situations where the future is uncertain, and the stakes are high. But a lucky few react with a degree of strategic clarity and mental agility that allows them to adapt with relative ease. Do you regularly doublecheck and overprepare?

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Harvard Business

JUNE 19, 2017

If software has eaten the world, then agile has eaten the software world. And there is no shortage of information and advice on how agile should be implemented in your tech organization. For example, a Google search for “agile software development” returns over 14 million results. Related Video.

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LSA Global

MAY 2, 2024

By reducing variability in operations, they cultivate an environment conducive to delivering consistent outcomes, fostering customer satisfaction, and bolstering reputation. Rigidity in processes can hinder organizational agility , making it challenging to respond swiftly to evolving market dynamics or capitalize on emergent opportunities.

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Tom Spencer

JANUARY 27, 2023

For example, McKinsey explicitly looks for people with leadership ability, problem solving skills, and initiative. It is about ensuring that your audience – manager, project team and client – understands the message you are trying to convey. It is important to be open-minded and agile.

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Epicflow

JUNE 16, 2022

This category embraces employees, customers, and leadership and consists of the following components. . It’s also important to redefine employees’ roles and responsibilities and align them with transformation goals as well as engage integrators and technology-innovation managers in the transformation process. IT modernization .

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Many people draw distinctions between people who do management-kind of work and people who do “individual contributor” kind of work. And, our language shapes our culture.) (Okay, the people who have reasonable managers do. You might think managers work alone, as individual contributors. As part of a sales team.

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Harvard Business

JULY 24, 2018

And because organizational change tends to be driven by those who most acutely feel the pain, it’s often line managers who are the strongest champions for “talent tech”: innovations in how firms hire people, staff projects, evaluate performance, and develop talent. Insight Center. Adopting AI. Sponsored by SAS.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 21, 2021

S = “The number of M&A transactions within the wealth and asset management space doubled last year, driven specifically by players who want to grow their alternative investment capabilities. A = “We need to build a more robust M&A pipeline that evaluates potential targets and moves to the execution phase with more agility.

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LSA Global

APRIL 15, 2024

And sales leadership simulation assessment data tells us that too many sales leaders struggle with the ability to select strategic sales priorities that add significant value and create a competitive advantage. This leads to improved win rates, higher customer satisfaction, and better time management.

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LSA Global

APRIL 15, 2024

And sales leadership simulation assessment data tells us that too many sales leaders struggle with the ability to select strategic sales priorities that add significant value and create a competitive advantage. This leads to improved win rates, higher customer satisfaction, and better time management.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Why is one insurance company deep into an agile transformation while another is experimenting with it only at the edges of its business? For every company wrestling with evolutions in its strategy, success depends as much on matching the operating model to those evolutions as it does on the soundness of the strategy itself.

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

Leaders in the M&A environment are managing an organization that hasn’t existed before. In this environment, change agility needs to be part of the new organization’s and leaders’ DNA. Change-agile leaders demonstrate five integrated behaviors that, together, create a competitive advantage for the organization.

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Kates Kesler

JULY 2, 2015

Even P&G announced its intention to shed more than 50 percent of its brands “in order to simplify the way we organize and manage the company” (Byron 2014). The “global operating model” (GOM) is the means to manage this complexity, this tension, this need for both leverage and agility. Others struggle mightily.

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Kates Kesler

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

After working closely with over twenty large US and European-based global companies during the past ten years, we have concluded the problem is not in the fundamental design of these operating models. The top executive teams in successful global companies spend time together, sharing the enterprise leadership role.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

A core challenge of management is to ensure that the organization’s priorities, strategies, and metrics are consistently embraced and that any impediments are identified and addressed quickly. Beginning at 8:45 AM, care teams and managers in our hospitals and clinics gather in more than 1,500 Tier I huddles.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2017

At a high level, a competency center is a collection of domain experts who are given a goal to improve agility, foster innovation, establish best practices, provide training (and mentoring), and be a communications engine. Create a leadership and development portal. What reports do we need? What data is missing?),

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LSA Global

APRIL 4, 2022

Done right, mapping the current customer experience assesses your current organizational culture and allows for a comparison between the experiences people have and the underlying operational processes and systems that substantiate those experiences. This is where the leadership plays an absolutely fundamental role.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 27, 2017

That was closely followed by recognition that many corporate cultures had not developed the agility and flexibility to transform: 29 percent said the culture could not absorb all the changes coming from strategy implementation. The importance of active and visible leadership cannot be overstated. Beware of the “frozen middle.”

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