Tom Spencer

MARCH 9, 2019

One of those techniques involved practicing Self-observant Leadership (‘SOL’). This is probably the most powerful exercise that you can do to get things right. What is self-observant leadership? How to practice self-observant leadership? You can extract maximum results if you make this 15-minute exercise a habit.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 23, 2021

(See Leadership Tip #4: Admit When You Don’t Know.). In addition, the more the people around you can exercise their critical thinking skills. Meeting with senior leadership helped Don learn as part of a team. That's why asking for help is a sign of strength and leadership. Even if you might not feel that way at the time.

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Makarios Consulting

JUNE 1, 2023

Posner underline this truth in their classic work, The Leadership Challenge, when they define “Enable Others to Act” as the fourth of The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership®. People can’t learn to act independently unless they get to exercise some degree of choice.” Kouzes and Barry Z.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 3, 2023

Are you considering a career in people advisory consulting? 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. What Do People Advisory Consultants Do? What is People Advisory?

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Consulting Matters

AUGUST 26, 2021

Let's be real - you don't want to grow your OWN consulting or coaching business for the money. If your goal is to grow your consulting or coaching business to a place where it earns passive revenue so you can follow your real passions, I promise you are setting yourself up for years of spin and struggle. Why consulting or coaching?

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Successful Independent Consulting

JANUARY 20, 2017

My company represents self-employed professionals across the country, and over the last seven years I have interviewed, coached, or worked with more than 200 independent management consultants. Conversely, I represent several consultants who are always in demand. Exercise #1: Look at Your History. Let’s look at some examples.

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Leadership Vision Consulting

DECEMBER 26, 2022

On this episode of the podcast, Brian Schubring and I talk about what it takes to reach that next level of leadership fitness. We call it becoming Leadership Lean. In this episode, we explore and unpack what it takes to become Leadership Lean. The post The Four L Model of Leadership first appeared on Leadership Vision.

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Brimstone Consulting

DECEMBER 20, 2021

New Books on Leadership and Change. Earlier this year, we shared a list of 31 books on leadership and change. He defines the six unwritten rules they seem to follow for using their digital platforms, ecosystems, moneymaking models, team-based structures, and leadership with a laser-sharp focus on the individual’s customer experience.

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Makarios Consulting

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Leadership is a lot like a ropes course – you are confronted with challenge after challenge, each one testing your skills and giving you an opportunity for personal development and team growth. In this series, we are looking at elements of “The Leadership Ropes Course” that all leaders need to face – and master!

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Makarios Consulting

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Leadership is a lot like a ropes course – you are confronted with challenge after challenge, each one testing your skills and giving you an opportunity for personal development and team growth. In this series, we are looking at elements of “The Leadership Ropes Course” that all leaders need to face – and master!

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Organizational Talent Consulting

AUGUST 7, 2023

An Examination of the Importance of Leadership Behaviors and Attributes on Shaping Culture Executive Summary Organizational culture is a critical factor in financially successful companies. Leaders with dynamic transformational leadership attributes and behaviors are effective culture change agents.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

No requires that you exercise your leadership. That leadership has always led to better outcomes. This is a part of the series of leadership tips. The post Leadership Tip #3: Use No As a Complete Sentence appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. I hope you do, too.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

This exercise goes hand-in-hand with the concept of the golden circle of communication by starting with Why, How, and What. Job crafting your current role to gain consulting skills. Your title doesn’t have to be “consultant” in order to gain consulting skills. Leadership. Entrepreneurial mindset.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 13, 2022

See Dhaval Panchal's Sharing Values, a Team Building Exercise. ). This is part of the intermittent series of leadership tips. The post Leadership Tip #19: How “Team Building” Activities Help and Hurt People and Teams appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant.

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Nash Consulting

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

.” - Patrick Lencioni If you’ve engaged with us before today, you're familiar with one of our favorite soapboxes: Organizations can only be as healthy as their leadership team is healthy. Check out our Managing with Mind & Heart leadership development program.] We need to establish a clear and consistent leadership culture.

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Consulting Matters

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Are you a consultant or coach who knows it's crucial to build your brand but honestly has no clue what that means? Branding, to me, isn't some marketing exercise. This journey starts today with this foundational episode, where we'll explore what a brand is and why it's vital to your consulting and coaching business.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 29, 2021

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. In addition to the normal skill sessions, students in the management level also attend seminars to improve their leadership skills.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

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. Reports are customized to reflect client-specific competencies.

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Markovitz Consulting

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

But as I’ve written about before , the problem with 2 Second Lean is the high barrier to entry for leadership. It becomes a trivial exercise distracting people from solving real problems. If leaders aren’t completely, continuously, and passionately involved as improvers and cheerleaders, it just doesn’t work.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Redwood Shores, CA – LSA Global, the leading business consulting, coaching, and training firm that helps fast growth life science, technology, and service companies by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with strategy, today announced results for an action learning program entitled Leading Leaders for Senior Executives.

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Brimstone Consulting

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The interim president of a global packaging company’s beauty and personal care division faced mounting market pressures and obstacles, including an absence of operating mechanisms and a lack of trust among the leadership team. The senior leadership team then went through Brimstone’s Performance Leadership (PL) program.

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Harmonious Workplaces

JANUARY 11, 2024

Leaders striving for a better workplace may suffer consequences In a recent post on LinkedIn from the Business & Management Consultants open group, a contributor posted, “A manager who challenges the boss and stands up for their team, despite risking their own career, is a true leader.” Regrets to Leadership Risks? Not necessarily.

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Consulting Matters

APRIL 24, 2020

I am super excited to introduce you all to Charles Browne, the latest graduate from the Consultant’s Institute, who has got an amazing new business that he is launching, so welcome. So, I know that you didn’t just wake up one day and say hey I want to start a consulting business, you’ve been thinking about it for a while.

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Brimstone Consulting

MAY 6, 2022

Alignment of the leadership team is critical, but for transformation to be successful – and sustained – focus must be placed on aligning the organization. This need to engage and align the organization, not just the leadership team, is echoed in recent research by McKinsey & Company.

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Harmonious Workplaces

JANUARY 17, 2024

Leverage effective inquiry tactics to diagnose organizational needs As a Certified Management Consultant (CMC), I belong to the Institute of Management Consultants (IMC USA) and the IMC Chicagoland Chapter. Using good questioning tools and techniques can set one consultant apart from the pack.

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Harmonious Workplaces

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Leadership should exercise mindfulness and keen observation of the warning signs of information hoarding with individuals and groups. Creating a Culture of Openness: Leadership should actively encourage and model knowledge-sharing behaviors. The following examples of leadership styles have their uses and their weaknesses.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Why igniting the spark in others holds a key to achieving excellence The word empowerment has come in and out of favor with leadership. Recently, empowerment has started to gain renewed acceptance within executive leadership circles, and for good reasons. Giving up authority and responsibility can seem counterintuitive to leadership.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Last week we held an MC exclusive subscriber giveaway contest – entrants told us in 200 words or less how they became interested in consulting. The prize for best answer was a FREE Consulting Case Bank and The Consulting Bible 3rd edition – a HUGE giveaway – so we weren’t surprised when we heard from so many of you.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 15, 2020

When you first start your consulting and coaching business, you are likely to get a lot of referrals to potential clients. But when it comes to marketing as a consultant, you need to add one other thing: You need to establish your credibility. But referrals will only take you so far, especially if you want to scale up your business.

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Leadership Vision Consulting

JANUARY 14, 2019

On this episode of the podcast, Brian Schubring and I talk about what it takes to reach that next level of leadership fitness. We call it becoming Leadership Lean. In this episode, we explore and unpack what it takes to become Leadership Lean.

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Brimstone Consulting

AUGUST 3, 2021

Leadership, getting things done, achieving organizational clarity, and setting out a vision. I was a participant in a Michigan University Business School Leadership program 22 years ago. Fresh air, exercise, and spending time bringing things back to life – whether it’s an old piece of wood or an old car.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 7, 2020

Almost all the consultants and coaches that I mentor want to become an executive advisor. Executive leadership is all about the management of power and because of this foundational reality - the advisors that succeed has to be able to stand in their own. The website creation process isn't some "check the box" exercise.

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Consultants' Consultant

JUNE 13, 2018

Consultants Consultant: I’ve been delivering a one day Leadership Essentials program for the human enterprise for about a year now. We touch on compliments, and ask people to do a short exercise where they compliment each other (sincerely). They find it difficult […]. They find it difficult […].

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Redwood Shores, CA – LSA Global, the leading business consulting, coaching, and training firm that helps fast growth life science, technology, and service companies by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with strategy, today announced results for a leadership action learning program called Action Learning for Leading Leaders.

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Harmonious Workplaces

OCTOBER 24, 2023

This morning, I attended a Momentum session of the Society for Evidence-Based Organizational Consulting (SEBOC). L&D, goal-setting theory of motivation, and leadership training took shape during those five years with the band. I gained my first consulting client, a small mental health counseling service.

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Markovitz Consulting

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Most of his plant leadership team was recently promoted from front-line roles. Sure, the company could invest in leadership training. But classroom lectures, readings, and exercises are, at best, difficult to transplant to actual shop floor interactions, and at worst, a waste of time.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Implementation typically involves experimentation, analyzing the existing strategies, and creative experiential learning exercises. The most threatening competitor leadership teams face is themself." Without a good implementation strategy and effective implementation, scenario planning is nothing more than an intellectual exercise.

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