Tom Spencer

MARCH 3, 2023

In this blog post, I’ll provide an overview of what people advisory consulting is, what people advisory consultants do, and how to break into the industry. People advisory consulting is a field that involves helping organizations optimize their human resources and talent management practices. What is People Advisory?

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The Management Centre

OCTOBER 19, 2023

John Adair’s Action-Centred Leadership is a classic leadership model, first shared in 1973 [i]. It’s used widely in management development to help managers get to grips with the multiple responsibilities that they need. By being an expert, it follows that managers can and should help to develop others to be the same.

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LSA Global

MARCH 21, 2023

But what are the leadership behaviors that increase employee engagement? Top Leadership Behaviors that Increase Employee Engagement Leadership teams have an enormous impact on employee engagement. Is your corporate strategy clear enough to engage and retain top talent? Both lead to higher levels of performance.

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LSA Global

JUNE 9, 2023

Unfortunately, Leadership Succession Planning Often Fails to Meet Expectations While most leaders know that they should develop a leadership pipeline, leadership succession planning often fails to make a measurable impact. Are your leaders willing and able to support leadership succession planning? Why is that?

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Successful Independent Consulting

JUNE 17, 2021

You may need to do some admin (busy work) like file status reports or do verbal check-ins with the client relationship/engagement manager. Most global consulting firms use their own talent databases when they need to augment their own staff. For example, PwC Talent Exchange or Deloitte Open Talent.

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Consulting Matters

JULY 14, 2022

Why HR often IS your client and not the gatekeeper if you're in the organization development, leadership development, or change management consulting space. Next steps: Subscribe to the blog because I will keep bringing your interviews and episodes to help you connect with your ideal client. That is not true! So get ready!

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Kates Kesler

MARCH 7, 2021

Change management is not just a skill or a process. This post will dive deeper into building the change and project management capabilities that underpin transformation governance. . Integrated portfolio management. . Change management (CM) excellence. . Project management (PM) excellence.

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LSA Global

JULY 25, 2017

Better talent management matters. Recent research by Bersin found that organizations with highly effective talent management strategies achieve 26% more revenue per employee and have 41% low turnover. A critical aspect of better talent management is managing performance. Ongoing, meaningful feedback.

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Rick Conlow

JUNE 19, 2023

The number of companies adopting and managers leading remote work teams has increased significantly. According to Gitnux blog 56% of companies actively use remote workers. In addition, Gallup research shows 82% of managers are failing. Time Mismanagement: Remote work requires effective time management skills.

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LSA Global

MAY 10, 2022

The Role of Chief People Officers (CPOs) In essence, CPOs are responsible for attracting, developing, engaging, and retaining the top talent required for the business to meet its strategic objectives in a way that makes sense for the people AND the business. They need to be able to follow the steps to organize talent as a CPO.

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LSA Global

JUNE 5, 2017

If you are in charge of talent management at your organization, wouldn’t you welcome better, more effective ways of learning? Measure impact by correlating high and low skill adoption to your key performance metrics and providing individual coaching scorecards for participants and their manager. We call this 3×3 Relevance.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Talent Management. While there are many proven tips to develop top talent, it seems that talent management often becomes too complicated. Simply put, the purpose of talent management is to attract, develop, engage, and retain the top talent that leads to individual, team, and organizational success.

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LSA Global

APRIL 20, 2018

How Important is Talent Management to Business Success? So how important is talent management to business success? The Definition of Talent Management. In a nutshell, talent management is all about planning your human resources strategically to build business value and support organizational goals.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Pressures Faced by Sales Managers Are Unique to Their Role A sales leader’s average tenure is less than two years, which is far shorter than the tenure of most other managers. In fact, a recent survey by PayScale uncovered that 73% rated the role of sales account manager as “highly stressful.”Unlike Why is this?

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PM Alliance

JANUARY 7, 2022

The core functions of project management are the same as they’ve always been, but much has changed in the rest of the business world that influences how project teams plan, monitor, and execute projects. More teams are also making use of online learning options to build skills in areas outside the core project management competencies.

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LSA Global

JUNE 26, 2017

There is some controversy in the talent management arena about how to create and reward high performance and about the role that extrinsic motivators like money can play in creating a high performance culture. Like most talent management challenges, tying rewards to performance or performance reviews has both pros and cons.

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LSA Global

JULY 28, 2022

Leadership Development Matters McKinsey and the Corporate Executive Board surveyed more than 500 executives to learn their top human capital priorities. Leadership development ranked among the top three and almost half of all business leaders listed developing effective leaders as their top concern. Where’s the disconnect?

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Leadership Attributes for New Managers to Follow. Are you a new manager about to take on the challenge of leading others? If leadership is a new role for you, check through these twelve attributes of effective leadership required for people to follow you. How Do You Measure Up? What the Best Leaders Do.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 23, 2018

How to Become a Magnet for the Best Talent. Ever noticed that the organizations you admire for their culture and success seem to know how to become a magnet for the best talent? Some firms have cracked the code on aligning their strategy with their culture and their talent …this is their recipe for success.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

A Common but Risky Mistake Regarding HiPO Roles to Retain Most talent leaders rightfully focus on investing in and retaining key players in senior leadership positions. Only one quarter of HR leaders rate their talent management strategy focused on high potentials as being successful.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The ability to improve company direction and purpose is also at the heart of creating organizational alignment where the three pillars of an organization (strategy, culture, and talent) come together to create higher individual, team, and organizational performance. The good news is that alignment is worth it. to-1, and engage employees 16.8-to-1.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Because of this, properly assessing executive capabilities of the CEO and the entire leadership team is an important, yet underutilized, leverage point to directly improve organizational performance. Combined, these leadership skills collectively define an executive’s capacity to lead effectively – especially when the stakes are high.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Performance Management Defined Simply put, performance management is a process to help managers and employees to know where they stand. Done right, performance management can lead individuals, leaders, and teams to higher levels of performance results and better alignment of behaviors with desired cultural values and norms.

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Epicflow

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Being a successful project manager is not just about creating good plans and schedules and telling the team members what they should work on. What else should a project manager know to succeed in their duties and guide projects to their successful completion? The first one is the PMI Talent Triangle. See the coherent picture.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Is Your Talent Ready? Is your plan for talent ready for what your business will face tomorrow? Your plan for talent must support the future success of your organization. Your plan for talent must support the future success of your organization. The Definition of a Plan for Talent. What Does It Take?

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Cheryl Cran

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Vancouver, BC — ( ReleaseWire ) — 11/23/2015 — Cheryl Cran has once again been given the honor of making the annual list of the “Best 50 Leadership Blogs.” ” The list is annually prepared by Dr. John Warner, Executive Coach and Management Consultant. About Cheryl Cran.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

Going From Colleague to Boss Creates Common New Manager Challenges Not surprisingly, most new managers struggle to make the transition from the role of individual contributor to the role of people leader. 98% of new people managers feel they would benefit from new manager training. Sadly, many are inadequately prepared.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 27, 2013

The Consulting Blog’s new editor. in Management Consulting. We have chosen the talented Ashley Sherman to be an Editor of the Consulting Blog for 2013/14. An accomplished Business & Political Economy student at NYU Stern, Ashley brings passion, keen intellect, and a unique perspective to the Consulting Blog.

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Steve Shu Consulting

JUNE 15, 2011

Although I’ve developed a number of blog posts addressing the practice of management consulting, I have spent little time tying things together into a framework of secret weapons of the modern consultant. niche, large traditional), and has experience as both an operating manager and an advisor.

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LSA Global

MARCH 22, 2017

The research around talent management has uncovered some surprises. We had thought that the best performing companies had the most star talent. Do you know who has the greatest potential for high performance and leadership in your organization? Treat your top talent differently. They want variety.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 30, 2019

The Manager Employee Retention Myth about Managers’ Importance. We’ve all heard it – the claim that disengaged employees leave managers, not organizations. Our Best Places to Work research points to two other factors that have a greater influence on employees’ leaving than the influence of poor managers.

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LSA Global

JULY 24, 2020

First Impressions – New Managers Start. You make only one first impression as a new manager, and first impressions matter. If you are new to management and meeting your team for the first time, your challenge to manage well will be much easier if you start off with a strong, positive first impression. Be Self-Aware.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 23, 2021

There are several effective options to develop new managers. But, Manager Performance is Not Meeting Expectations According to McKinsey and the Corporate Executive Board, executives are not happy with the performance of their frontline managers and new managers are not being set up to succeed. Here are three to consider.

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LSA Global

APRIL 12, 2023

Can Your Approach to Talent Management Maximize Employee Potential? This requires leaders to effectively manage both day-to-day needs and to invest time, money, and effort into future workforce planning and strategy. This “reality” sets the foundation to maximize employee potential.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

“Change” Has Changed Over three-quarters of CEOs acknowledge that their organizations need reinvention to compete for customers and talent. In a business context, change now must involve all facets of the business, be well coordinated, happen fast, and effectively manage the human side of change.

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LSA Global

MAY 10, 2023

We know how challenging it can be when you’re besieged by urgent and important problems to set time aside to think and plan for future talent management success. The most basic leadership succession questions revolve around: Do you know with confidence where your up-and-coming talent is in the organization?

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LSA Global

AUGUST 20, 2020

Leaders review the survey results and come to their own conclusions about what the data mean and what next steps should be taken to better engage and retain their top talent. To make meaningful change, fast moving organizations need to get engagement data into the hands of those who can do something meaningful to engage their top talent.

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