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.”

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Strategy+Business

AUGUST 17, 2014

Veteran organizational development consultants Dick and Emily Axelrod explain how to hold meetings in which work actually gets done.'

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Consulting Matters

APRIL 22, 2021

Coaches Don Knagge and Rachelle Stone get to dive into the actual frameworks I used to lead organizations and executives through the executive development process. We also learn how to take a coaching gig and make it into a more extensive consulting engagement! Soak it all in because today's Ask Betsy is a fire hose of information!

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Consulting and Organizational Management

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and Organizational Development. Foundations of Consulting — Part 6: Good Reasons to Hire Consultants and Poor Reasons to Hire Consultants By Carter McNamara on February 6, 2013. Welcome to this six-part series on the foundations of consulting.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

A couple of weeks ago, a friend of mine and I were talking about a particular consulting project. I suggested one-on-one with his managers, ensuring time in staff meetings to hear from each manager, and using a technique for consensus when making decisions. Here’s an Example of a Disconnected Conversation. I kept agreeing.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

APRIL 14, 2013

Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and Organizational Development. Why I’m Cynical about the Consulting Profession By John Dupre on April 14, 2013. Years ago, I remember going out on sales calls with one of the partners in our consulting firm, Marv Weisbord. Library Blogs Home. This Blogs Home.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

MAY 5, 2013

Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and Organizational Development. How to Manage Resistance in Consulting — Part 1 of 3: What is Resistance? Welcome to this 3-part article on managing resistance in consulting projects. Part 3 will describe how to deal with your own resistance as a consultant.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

MARCH 6, 2013

Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and Organizational Development. Foundations of Consulting — Part 5: Internal and External Consultants By Carter McNamara on March 6, 2013. Welcome to this six-part series on the foundations of consulting. What Is an External Consultant?

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Consulting and Organizational Management

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and Organizational Development. Foundations of Consulting — Part 1: What Do Consultants Do? One of the greatest frustrations of consulting is the desire to change your client’s organization, but not having direct influence to accomplish that change.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and Organizational Development. Foundations of Consulting — Part 2: How Do Consultants Work? Part 1 of this series is What Do Consultants Do? Many consultants use a systematic, or planned, approach. Library Blogs Home. This Blogs Home.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and Organizational Development. Quick Tips for Consulting to Small Organizations By Carter McNamara on October 26, 2011. Carter McNamara, MBA, PhD – Authenticity Consulting, LLC – 800-971-2250. Foundations of Consulting — Part 1: What Do Consultants Do?

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Consulting and Organizational Management

DECEMBER 12, 2016

A common question that we get is “How can I get my clients to participate in the consulting project when they seem too busy to even attend our meetings?” ” This question is relevant whether you are an internal or external consultant. Use current evaluation activities as part of the project’s evaluation.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and Organizational Development. Foundations of Consulting — Part 4: Types of Consultants By Carter McNamara on November 15, 2010. Part 1 of this series is What Do Consultants Do?, That post also listed numerous roles that a consultant might play.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

DECEMBER 2, 2016

There are numerous sources of online information about how to market a consulting business, for example, use your browser to search at inc.com, marketingsuccess.com and entrepreneur.com. Without that passion, your marketing efforts will seem overblown or insincere – and the quality of your consulting will get poorer. #2

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Harmonious Workplaces

JANUARY 25, 2024

Additionally, I began a mentee relationship with Alan Landers, from whom I learned much about organizational development and change leadership through a certification course offered by The Drucker School of Management at Claremont Graduate University.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

JANUARY 12, 2017

This presents special challenges for consultants when working to help leaders of these organizations to solve problems and learn at the same time. However, this also presents opportunities for the consultants who understand the nature of small organizations and how to work with them. Small organizations often hire by word-of-mouth.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

FEBRUARY 3, 2013

Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and Organizational Development. Training Versus Consulting – a Story By John Dupre on February 3, 2013. Recently a student asked me what the primary differences in skills were required between a consultant and a trainer. I trust you to find a good consultant.”.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

JANUARY 21, 2011

Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and Organizational Development. Consulting books often suggest a sequence of steps or phases that a consulting project goes through. (Some books even mention these two terms as two different phases in the sequence.). Phase 1 of the consulting process.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

DECEMBER 10, 2011

Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and Organizational Development. Consultant — What’s Your Natural Approach to Gathering and Processing Information? Myers-Briggs is a registered trademark of Consulting Psychologists Press, Inc.), Translate This. Library Blogs Home. This Blogs Home.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and Organizational Development. Organizational Character and Leadership Development By Jim Smith on December 16, 2010. Here’s more information about leadership development and ethics. Foundations of Consulting — Part 1: What Do Consultants Do?

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Consulting and Organizational Management

OCTOBER 15, 2011

Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and Organizational Development. As a Consultant, Know When You’re Giving Away Too Much By Carter McNamara on October 15, 2011. New consultants far too often give away far too much. Philosophy – Give Free Consulting to Show Expertise, to Establish Credibility.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

APRIL 11, 2022

Fair and robust talent calibration meetings present a meaningful solution for identifying the right leadership. These meetings create an intentional space for leaders to discuss and align on the performance and potential of the talent in the leadership pipeline. Establish meeting ground rules before you get started.

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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). This group of Industrial-Organizational (I-O) Psychology practitioners took turns sharing how they found their way toward our aligned passions of how people think and behave in the workplace. That’s a lot of bending!

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Consulting and Organizational Management

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and Organizational Development. How Much Should the Client Be Involved in Consulting Projects? Peter Block, author of Flawless Consulting, asserts that, as a consultant, you should not be contributing more than 50% of the effort in a consulting project.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

MARCH 19, 2011

Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and Organizational Development. Challenging Our Own Mental Models Our Growth as Consultants (Part 3 of 3) By Jim Smith on March 19, 2011. Given the uncertainty and complexity in our organizations, dealing with ambiguity is a critical skill for consultants. Read more.].

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APRIL 13, 2010

Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and Organizational Development. When Consultants Should Facilitate, Coach or Train By Carter McNamara on April 13, 2010. There are strong feelings that consulting, facilitating, coaching and training are very different roles. Library Blogs Home. This Blogs Home.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

JUNE 17, 2010

Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and Organizational Development. How "Disconnected Conversations" Can Kill Consulting and Collaboration By Carter McNamara on June 17, 2010. A couple of weeks ago, a friend of mine and I were talking about a particular consulting project. Translate This.

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JUNE 10, 2010

Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and Organizational Development. 7 Options for "Success" in Consulting Projects By Carter McNamara on June 10, 2010. In a highly collaborative approach to consulting, you want your relationship with your client to be as open, honest and trusting as possible.

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Brimstone Consulting

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

moves about involuntarily, pulled away and bounced around by meetings, texts, emails, news feeds, and during the last year of pandemic, by the kids, the pets, the laundry, and the pot of soup on the stove, and maybe YouTube and Netflix. Jeremy is a Senior Partner at Brimstone Consulting Group. Our attention is always someplace.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

JANUARY 7, 2011

Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and Organizational Development. Links to Build a Consulting Practice By Carter McNamara on January 7, 2011. Our firm gets 4-5 calls/month from people wanting to know how to start or grow a consulting practice. Defining Success Between Consultants and Clients.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

AUGUST 16, 2010

Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and Organizational Development. Think about consultant organizations – we are humans employing methodologies that experience leads us to believe benefit organizations. Jim Smith has over 40 years of organization development experience in a wide range of organizations.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and Organizational Development. Consultant — What’s Your Natural Approach to Problem Solving? As a consultant, you work with clients to solve problems. Always consider that diversity in your consulting projects. Library Blogs Home. This Blogs Home.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

MAY 17, 2010

Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and Organizational Development. We have brought in outside consultants to provide recommendations and prescriptions about the problems that plague us. At the same time, a few reflective scholarly consulting practitioners were experimenting with ways to improve whole systems.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

JUNE 14, 2010

Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and Organizational Development. Working on Ourselves, as Consultants By Jim Smith on June 14, 2010. Why It’s Important to Work On Ourselves, as Consultants. This is why it is so important for consultants to “work on” ourselves. Library Blogs Home.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

APRIL 19, 2010

Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and Organizational Development. Foundations of Consulting — Part 3: Primary Working Goals and Assumptions of Consultants By Carter McNamara on April 19, 2010. Primary Working Goals of Consultants. How Do Consultants Work? Major Types of Consultants.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

JUNE 1, 2010

Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and Organizational Development. Carter McNamara, MBA, PhD – Authenticity Consulting, LLC – 800-971-2250. Read my weekly blogs: Boards, Consulting and OD, Nonprofits and Strategic Planning. How to Manage Resistance in Consulting — Part 1 of 3: What is Resistance?

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Consulting and Organizational Management

DECEMBER 2, 2012

Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and Organizational Development. They were interested in pursuing OD consulting, whether it be internal or external. Years ago I was interviewing for a job in a large consulting firm in NYC. It paid quite well and I liked the consultants who I had met.

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