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Your Consulting Niche vs Jack-of-All-Trades Myth

Successful Independent Consulting

I know a highly talented professional with over 20 years of experience with several Fortune 500 companies. Here are some excerpts from their résumés and profiles: PROFESSIONAL SUMMARIES Organizational change expert with 16 years of experience in large-scale technology implementations for the Fortune 500. Let’s look at some examples.

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We May Not Have a Clear Path, But We Each Have One

Harmonious Workplaces

I really handled every aspect of the human resources spectrum, including job analysis, selection, training and development, talent management, rewards and benefits structures, compliance, and termination. It meant something to me when our employees, Tony and Mike, said that I was their best boss. That’s a lot of bending!

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3 Tactics for Accelerating Company Performance Despite an Economic Downturn

Organizational Talent Consulting

Implementation typically involves experimentation, analyzing the existing strategies, and creative experiential learning exercises. Ongoing project assessment of changes taken with defined early indicators. Change management should be presented in a way that leads to different ways of thinking and acting.

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The Secret to Leading Organizational Change Is Empathy

Harvard Business

One employee had expressed concern that the changes would cause talented employees to leave, which would lead to a greater burden on remaining employees. But feedback from employees afterward showed that the CEO was able to build credibility and trust by addressing the fear of talent loss head-on.

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The Future of Management (Part 1/3)

Tom Spencer

In this management style, there are two scenarios at play. You are more powerful than some people and have the authority to control their actions directly by issuing orders or indirectly by exercising political power. Work is done by individuals with different specialties who have talents or strengths in the field.

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Lots of Men Are Gender-Equality Allies in Private. Why Not in Public?

Harvard Business

.” In today’s workplace, these are men at every level of power and leadership acting to call out insults and affronts, eliminate pay and promotion disparities, and advocate for policies that retain a diverse talent pool. They truly believe the system is both unfair and capable of change.

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How to Develop Leaders Who Can Drive Strategic Change - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM KORN FERRY

Harvard Business

Preparing for the Future of Talent Acquisition. Lack of leader engagement throughout the organization is jeopardizing strategic change initiatives, the survey found. Part of that exercise is to include a greater variety of voices and perspectives in the leadership pipeline.