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4 Emerging Leadership Styles and Why You Should Care

Organizational Talent Consulting

Taking action amid economic uncertainty and operating in a digital workplace with an increasingly diverse workforce necessitates leaders to adapt their leadership styles. Here is what you need to know about the similarities and differences in motivations and characteristics behind four emerging 21st-century leadership styles.

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5 Ways Playing Small is Sabotaging Your Consulting Success

Consulting Matters

These feelings are particularly acute for both new and seasoned consulting and coaching business owners which in comparison to other business owners, growing to the next level is personal because your business is based on you. Your ideas. Your expertise. Let me share with you 5 other ways you might be playing small.

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Launching a Consulting Career in the Developing World

Tom Spencer

Launching a management consulting career is a daunting task due to the competitive nature of the profession. There is also a large pool of applicants for managing consulting jobs in the developing world and few firms that are actually hiring. Engage in Initiatives that Showcase Your Leadership Abilities. Source: Consultancy.org.

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LSA Global Adds New Director and Senior Director Assessment Center

LSA Global

Receive Assessment Results Certified professional assessors and smart technology score participants’ behaviors against research-backed and client aligned leadership competencies required for success in your unique workplace culture. Individual and group comparisons are available.

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Can Consulting Make a Positive Social Impact?

Tom Spencer

Similarly, in traditional management consulting roles, employees often utilize the latest tools to solve their clients’ problems, often without considering the impacts beyond the client themselves. PMs also work directly with the industry and community partners, requiring slightly more of a time commitment in comparison to the innovators.

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Look, Doc, Before You Cut, How About A Ten Percent Discount?

Alan Weiss

I’ve never understood consultants who are flummoxed by a prospect saying, “Others can do this cheaper than you.” What’s really going on, of course, is that the consultants allow themselves to become commodities by insufficiently differentiating their value, consequently price comparisons are inevitable.

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Why Your Employees Aren't Committed to Your Company Strategy

Organizational Talent Consulting

Unfortunately, many organizations keep strategic plans a secret and don't involve leaders outside the executive leadership team. 5 Key strategic thinking leadership competencies A leader's ability to question and make connections between ideas and evaluate options improves strategic thinking.