Organizational Talent Consulting

OCTOBER 2, 2023

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. Stakeholders are invited to prioritize the ideas submitted using pre-identified criteria such as culture alignment, cost, quality, and timeliness. Refinement.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 26, 2016

She also used them to scout for talent, keeping an eye out for young managers ready to move into more-senior positions and perhaps transfer to headquarters. Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Change management should be presented in a way that leads to different ways of thinking and acting. In the following video, Dr. Chermack provides an overview of the process using a small business case study. Improving your company's organizational change resilience is also connected to company culture. Chermack, T.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 26, 2019

Many consulting, corporate strategy, and corporate development roles require the interviewee to go through an M&A case study. Depending on the firm and specific role this case could be very strategic and operational like doing a market entry/growth-type case or very technical (i.e. Conclusion. Image: Pixabay.

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LSA Global

MARCH 22, 2022

Based upon interviews, focus groups, pilot program feedback, and data from our change management simulation , the highly customized Influence and Collaboration Workshop focused on increasing impact, expanding choices, and decreasing stress by helping people to: Speak their truth with relevance. 96% Job Relevance. 98% Satisfaction.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 31, 2018

To increase diversity at senior executive levels, more must be known about one group in particular: women of color in midlevel leadership, who successfully developed and progressed beyond individual contributor and first-line management. How did (or didn’t) managers play a role? They pursue management challenges.

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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. Folkman, Z.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2016

When you’re managing managers, your responsibilities are two-fold: you need to make sure they’re producing good work (as with any employee) and that they’re effectively supporting their teams. Here’s how you can fill in the gap and help your direct reports be great managers. What the Experts Say.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

You’ve done your research and know the ins and outs of the company’s public profile, but how can you assess cultural fit — and if you’d actually be happy working there? “If you identify talented, motivated people who have been there a long time, that is a very good signal.” What the Experts Say.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2016

You have an ambitious team member who’s asking to be promoted to manager. As a manager, you’re always on the lookout for the next generation of talent in your organization. “It requires different skills to manage than to be an individual contributor,” she says. What the Experts Say.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 30, 2017

Managing your star performers should be no sweat, right? How do you manage someone who is knocking it out of the park? Having a supremely talented employee on your team is a boss’s dream. Whether your star performer has just joined your team or has been working for you for a while, here are some tips on how to manage her.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Also, being exclusive can reinforce a toxic culture that values certain groups or organizational levels within a company over others. Three research studies from Zenger Folkman suggested perceptions of a leader's strategic thinking proficiency can hold back your career. Collaborative open strategic planning: A method and case study.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 16, 2018

When promoted to his new role, he inherited a group of district sales managers responsible for selling to hospital systems in their respective geographies. Catherine, a senior marketing director leading a cross-functional product development team at the same company, provides a contrasting case study. Talent developers.

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BCG

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

As these cases powerfully illustrate, managing a leadership transition for the world’s largest enterprise—the US federal government—remains perilously ineffective. Fourth, design a sound strategy for managing change and forming the right culture. The good news is that this is no longer inevitable.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Why, then, haven’t more organizations taken concrete actions to focus their cultures on the creation of meaning? First, any business case hinges on the ability to translate meaning, as an abstraction, into dollars. Additional organizational value comes in the form of retained talent.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Innovative companies have innovative cultures. Think of Google, or of how GE has sustained an innovation culture that goes back to its founding father, Thomas Edison. As mysterious as it can sound, creating a culture of innovation isn’t rocket science. The world had changed, and Zipcar needed to change along with it.

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freshminds

MARCH 26, 2017

Communication is not only about staying in touch regularly with your colleagues on projects, whether managing them or in a junior role. A recent study by McKinsey showed that young employees are keen for both transparency and immediacy in their communication with managers. Google's communication and problem solving success.

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CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

I found your case study videos very useful, as is the one-page framework handout, to prepare me for the interviews. Indeed, many laterals seem to quit within the first year, as the culture and way of working is so different from other companies. These people do have very strong raw analytical talent.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 2, 2015

I recently had the good fortune to communicate with Anne Burley, Director or Regional Talent Acquisition for Asia Pacific at A.T. Kearney is a leading global management consulting firm with offices in more than 40 countries. Kearney Consulting from other management consulting firms? Kearney has 61 offices in 40 countries.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 29, 2017

For example, deluded leaders may come across as charismatic and talented, but their overconfidence puts their followers at risk in the long run. Create a Culture Where Difficult Conversations Aren’t So Hard. Although leadership talent is normally distributed, 80% of people think they are better-than-average leaders.

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Harvard Business

MAY 31, 2016

The clause reads as follows: “[e]mployees are expected to maintain a positive work environment by communicating in a manner that is conducive to effective working relationships with internal and external customers, clients, co-workers, and management.” National Labor Relations Board agreed with them, ruling in favor of the union.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 12, 2017

” Left unchecked, biases can also shape a company or industry’s culture and norms, says Iris Bohnet, director of the Women and Public Policy Program at the Harvard Kennedy School and author of What Works: Gender Equality by Design. “Managers have to learn to de-bias their practices and procedures.”

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

An important part of your job as a manager is making sure everyone on your team has the right amount of work. Delegating work to your team may sound like a straightforward task of management, but, in fact, it’s complicated. “As a manager, you’re thinking about: What matters to our customers and shareholders? .”

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 15, 2017

One of the most stressful things about being self-employed is managing your cash flow. “Ask about the corporate culture,” she says. This information helps you better manage your monthly cash flow. This is especially difficult when clients don’t pay you on time. “It is a critical aspect of your reputation.”

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 10, 2017

The challenge is how to manage the feelings and frustrations of the existing dominant in-group. ” Allow the emotion out in carefully managed settings, with dialogue between in-groups and out-groups. Mandating unconscious-bias training sessions to all managers, as Google has done, isn’t enough. Sell the “why.”

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Harvard Business

MAY 20, 2016

An office environment reflects and reinforces a business’s core values, through the placement of different teams and functions and design elements that reflect culture, brand, and values. To illustrate how this all plays out on a larger scale in real companies, here are two mini case studies from businesses we’ve worked with.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 24, 2017

Managers who can’t seem to pick a course of action — or who constantly change their minds – can be maddening. If your manager isn’t willing to steer, is it OK for you to take the driver’s seat? ” It could be that he’s wary of your organization’s “blaming culture.”

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Harvard Business

JULY 15, 2016

A hungry, driven employee is every manager’s dream. But when you have a direct report whose ambition and desire are greater than his ability or experience, managing expectations isn’t easy. As a manager, your goal is to keep your team engaged, productive, motivated, and happy. What the Experts Say. Be transparent.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 28, 2017

Through a study of AI that included a survey of 3,073 executives and 160 case studies across 14 sectors and 10 countries, and through a separate digital research program , we have identified 10 key insights CEOs need to know to embark on a successful AI journey. The biggest challenges are people and processes.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 3, 2018

“There are so many factors to consider, says Jennifer Petriglieri, an assistant professor at INSEAD and the author of “ Talent Management and the Two Career Couple.” ” And if you’re relocating overseas, you’ll gain an “understanding of a different culture.” Overthink the decision.

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Harvard Business

JULY 29, 2016

Begin by saying something like, “We are seriously considering Mary to be a project manager here. For instance, “Nancy doesn’t have a lot of experience managing people”—how do you think she’ll do as a supervisor? Case Study #1: Solicit feedback from team members to focus your questions.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Research by Alexander Czopp, the director of the Center for Cross-Cultural Research at Western Washington University, and his colleagues show that there is a “discrepancy between what people predict they would do and what they actually do.” Case Study #1: Focus on your reaction. Case Study #2: Don’t accuse.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 12, 2024

Check out our selection of events for project/resource managers, business leaders, and industry professionals, which will provide you with valuable insights into recent trends and challenges, networking opportunities, and contribute to your professional development.

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Harvard Business

JULY 21, 2017

Fostering corporate cultures which make half your employees feel somewhere between unengaged and unsafe is becoming risky and unsustainable. Most companies now have more gender-balanced talent pools, especially at the early-to-mid-career levels, and are looking for ways to make sure progress continues at the mid-to-upper levels.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Many are investing heavily in hiring talent with data skills and building out data proficiency across the organization. You can also encourage team leads and managers to be more deliberate about highlighting successful outcomes from using data. Insight Center. Scaling Your Team’s Data Skills. Sponsored by Splunk.

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Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

We recently completed a study for the CEO of a very well known, global sports-apparel brand company. He wanted to challenge his team, as part of the strategic talent review process, to think about whether or not the company’s organizational architecture was suited to its growth plan to double in size. Learning from Big Companies.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Participants are taken out of their day-to-day workplaces to be inspired by expert faculty, work on case studies, receive personal feedback, and take away the latest leadership thinking (and badges for their résumés). How talent management is changing. Insight Center. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders.

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