Consulting Matters

DECEMBER 16, 2022

You have to meet them at their point of departure and use your power skills that I'll be sharing in this episode to influence them in a better way. It provides mission and purpose, brand, vision, goals, desired customer experience, products, and service offerings. It is knowing whose buy-in you'll need and how to get that buy-in.

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Makarios Consulting

AUGUST 30, 2022

At the end of the year, the final numbers make for a very unpleasant investor meeting. The Entrepreneurial Operating System® (EOS®) recommends that leaders take regular Clarity Breaks. A Clarity Break is when you set aside time to step outside the office – away from the pressures and problems, the emails and meetings – to think.

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Agile Leadership Meeting Construction 74

LSA Global

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The leaders in the Facilitative Leadership Workshop faced the following challenges: High expectations to take, promote, and encourage a cross-functional and program focus vs. the predominant product and function focus that most of their internal customers follow and are rewarded for.

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Leadership Company Talent Agile 36

Harvard Business

JUNE 15, 2016

If you want your team to be effective, you need meeting ground rules — and you need agreement about how to use them. ” Procedural ground rules are useful but don’t help your team create productive behavior beyond, say, everyone being on time and having their smartphones on vibrate. ” You and Your Team Series.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

You find out about an important meeting — one whose outcome affects you and your team — after it happens. When you’re overlooked for a meeting it feels bad personally and professionally. Is the focus of the meeting related to work your team does, but will really be a deeper dive on the primary work of another group?

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Makarios Consulting

AUGUST 30, 2022

At the end of the year, the final numbers make for a very unpleasant investor meeting. The Entrepreneurial Operating System® (EOS®) recommends that leaders take regular Clarity Breaks. A Clarity Break is when you set aside time to step outside the office – away from the pressures and problems, the emails and meetings – to think.

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Agile Leadership Meeting Construction 52

Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 14, 2022

The truth is, there are many reasons employees become less likely to provide constructive feedback as you move up in an organization. Developing good habits for getting constructive feedback improves your ability to grow your career and business. Or how could we improve our one-to-one meetings? Developing Good Feedback Habits.

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Construction Leadership Journal Study 52

Rick Conlow

MARCH 25, 2020

I facilitated a meeting in my office with fifteen senior human resource executives. The typical scenario plays out this way: The manager sets up a meeting with HR and asks for help to fire an employee. Handling conflict constructively is an emotional intelligence skill. The Difficulty of Giving negative feedback .

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MAY 8, 2023

Businesses need leaders able to take action amid economic uncertainty and operate effectively in a digital workplace with a diverse workforce. Studies reveal that a servant leadership style improves employee productivity and creativity. People are looking to business leaders to help remove barriers that impact meeting their own needs.

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Leadership Journal Pharmaceuticals Study 68

Tom Spencer

AUGUST 15, 2013

Your employer operates with the express aim of benefiting members of the community and reinvests all profits to further its social aims. Imagine waking up in a world where you feel positive and motivated about going to work, knowing that your work provides value to customers in a way that is sustainable and responsible.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

They create the psychological team safety required for trust, constructive debate, and accountability. To deliver, they need to be able to manage their own time and stress in a way that they can stay organized and meet team deadlines – especially as companies continue to ask their managers to do more with less.

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Rick Conlow

MARCH 25, 2020

I facilitated a meeting in my office with fifteen senior human resource executives. The typical scenario plays out this way: The manager sets up a meeting with HR and asks for help to fire an employee. Handling conflict constructively is an emotional intelligence skill. The Difficulty of Giving negative feedback .

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Training Training Emotional Intelligence Leadership 52

Effective Managers

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Although working conditions might change – for example, video conference meetings and phone calls might be necessary – it’s essential not to let business standards drop as a result. Ensuring that your team understands how to operate within their new working conditions is a key part of creating a culture of accountability.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

The complex calculations of the field known as Operations Research were enabled by mainframe computing. BPM reflected the interactions of different stakeholders, from product creation through supply chain to final assembly. How it effects product design and customer experience. How organizations are changing.

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Harvard Business

JULY 3, 2018

With the EU’s passage of the Circular Economy Package in April, many European companies are now facing mandates to reuse the products they create for as long as possible. We are academics and practitioners focused on product recovery economics and life cycle asset management. HBR Staff/Caspar Benson/Getty Images.

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Rick Conlow

JUNE 3, 2021

Team failures, which sit at about 60% , demoralize employees, reduce productivity, cost companies billions of dollars, and inhibit innovation. With the same product, policies, and people). If employees could operate as a well – oiled machine without training and coaching, you would not be in the mess you are in.

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Rick Conlow

JUNE 3, 2021

Team failures, which sit at about 60% , demoralize employees, reduce productivity, cost companies billions of dollars, and inhibit innovation. With the same product, policies, and people). If employees could operate as a well – oiled machine without training and coaching, you would not be in the mess you are in.

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Turnaround Training Training eBook 52

Harvard Business

MARCH 1, 2018

In November, United States’ crude oil production exceeded 10 million barrels per day for the first time since 1970, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). oil supply may be enough on its own to meet all of this year’s growth in global oil demand. hbr staff/bettmann/Getty Images. The soaring U.S.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 27, 2016

“We need to get rid of the static production lines where only one car and one configuration can be built,” he says, adding that the automotive industry in Germany can already support over one million configurations of a car model — as opposed to U.S., Adaptive Robots Update Construction Projects in Real Time.

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Harvard Business

JULY 30, 2018

To be constructive, we also asked about the things that foster innovation.) The culture at large companies is typically built on a foundation of operational excellence and predictable growth. But creating new places where people can gather to work on projects — subcultures within the larger culture — can be constructive.

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Company Survey Apparel Culture 45

Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 28, 2022

From being vulnerable to saying what others don't want to hear to endless Zoom meetings. Emotional intelligence helps you build better relationships, reduce workplace stress, create productive conflict and improve employee retention. The next time you find yourself in a meeting, and you don't know why you are there.

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Leadership Emotional Intelligence Agile Culture 52

Harvard Business

JUNE 3, 2016

It includes changes in how an organization interacts with its customers, citizens, or patients; in operational processes; in business models; in supply chain relationships; and in how employees use information to generate insight. Operations in a Connected World. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 13, 2017

He expressed frustration that the people who would most benefit from constructive change returned only blank stares when he asked them questions such as “What would make your job easier?” If these conflicting positions emerge during a meeting, all forward progress will cease. Executing proven conflict resolution protocols.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2017

While a laudable effort in principle, measuring a company’s tendency to make myopic operating and investing decisions is fiendishly complex. But the other indicators probably pick up legitimate differences in how companies in the sample operate, as opposed to whether they are myopic. Corporate culture.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

JUNE 28, 2010

Development is hard pressed to interface with operations. Yet it is extremely important that this interface be workable because developments are not relevant until they find their way into operations. An operation is charted to preserve the status quo, the current thinking and methods. Operations are based in control.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 18, 2018

We found widespread agreement that having great products and services and being a “good corporate citizen” are table stakes in a world of empowered citizens and consumers. Melissa Waters, CMO of Lyft, says “Any customer these days is asking for transparency on what a company stands for and why they operate.

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Harvard Business

JULY 20, 2016

Our technologies are far from pristine constructions. Think Rube Goldberg contraption meets MacGyver, but without the playfulness. Kluges often have been adapted and constructed over a period of time, with band-aids upon band-aids, serving their function. Juan Díaz-Faes for HBR. Frankly, they’re a mess.

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Construction System Software Chemicals 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 13, 2016

According to a study , executives consider less than one-fifth of the meetings they have with salespeople to be valuable. During their evaluations, they’ll typically ask themselves two questions: Is your product or service better than alternatives, and, equally important, can their people work with you and your organization?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 16, 2017

From 2007 to 2012 the Army health care system grew rapidly — with little central coordination — to meet the surging care needs from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. But as of 2012, Army providers were only assessed on their ability to meet clinical-workload standards (for example, psychologists were required to provide 0.75

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Harvard Business

APRIL 25, 2017

Inspired employees are themselves far more productive and, in turn, inspire those around them to strive for greater heights. Even with a clear idea of your company’s winning behavioral signature, leaders need to develop new ways of operating. You have to behave differently if you want your employees to do so.

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Harvard Business

MAY 1, 2018

They set meeting agendas haphazardly, frequently only days beforehand (if at all). Its leadership team was scheduled to meet bi-weekly, but averaged every six weeks. And those meetings typically lasted about 45 minutes before the leader had to step out for an urgent call or crisis. Here’s my advice for how to fix them.

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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. The group started by meeting every Monday for an hour or two, but found the pace of decision making too slow.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 24, 2016

Every day, we sit in meetings in which someone presents a problem or opportunity. We design products, experiences, and even business models. Just as you construct an investment portfolio differently for different investment objectives, you want construct your thinking portfolio.

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Construction Agile Examples Efficiency 36

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

Dispute, litigation and investigations services for construction industry. They did much of the work piecing together Mr. Madoff’s money trail and just recently flew over to Puerto Rico for the Puerto Rico Government, who hired FTI to improve operations of utilities and highway units (2014). Construction. Litigation technology.

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Interviews Culture Consulting Case Interview 100

Harvard Business

JULY 17, 2018

The most basic form of communication is constructing a compelling story. For example, the original Google car found it hard to compute the context within which it was operating. He wrote a short document titled Good Product Manager/Bad Product Manager and used it to train his team on his basic expectations.

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Harvard Business

JULY 24, 2018

” These subsidies build on years of Chinese state support for foundational industries like banks, oil, utilities, telecom, and construction. The subsidies will also put pressure on global supply chains, including production of high tech goods needed for national security. In recent years, U.S. Five years of U.S.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 23, 2017

They may be flesh and blood to the senior team and the assistants in the C-suite, but to people in outer orbits, from operational departments to business units, they are imaginary constructs. He instructed employees to take hammers in hand — not to fix the flaws but to destroy the imperfect products.

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