Tom Spencer

JUNE 30, 2023

Management consulting is widely known as a highly intense industry. By creating artificial limits on ones availability, this forces both clients and coworkers to communicate more clearly and to operate more efficiently with the time available. Prioritizing Self-Care Prioritizing self-care is another strategy for attaining balance.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 18, 2019

Asset managers are institutions that ‘manage money’ on behalf of certain beneficiaries. Well, asset managers aim to understand client investment objectives and invest client funds in a variety of financial products and asset classes. Major traditional asset managers include: Blackrock. Affiliated Managers.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Cross-training employees on a variety of tasks can be a powerful tool for improving operations, as well as for attracting and retaining workers. Of course, that’s good for the business, but it also makes the job better for workers.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

Going From Colleague to Boss Creates Common New Manager Challenges Not surprisingly, most new managers struggle to make the transition from the role of individual contributor to the role of people leader. 98% of new people managers feel they would benefit from new manager training. Sadly, many are inadequately prepared.

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The Management Centre

MARCH 7, 2024

A big challenge experienced by participants on our leadership courses is that they continue to find themselves getting sucked into day to day operational tasks, rather than focussing on the more strategic elements of their work. This is the basis of John Whitmore’s GROW model, which we use with managers and leaders.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Many management consultants hardly complete two or three years in their jobs before they realize that there’s more to life than consulting. BizOps / Strategy & Operations at tech firms. Helping the organization to identify and manage strategic uncertainty. BizOps / Strategy & Operations at Tech firms. Conclusion.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Consultants will not only consider the specific problem that a client has but also look at the entire company, how it operates, and what is happening in the industry and broader business environment. While some considered shutting down, others found ways to adapt to drastic changes and continue their operations.

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Epicflow

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Read the article to learn how to effectively manage your project portfolio, how to leverage the power of AI for smooth workflow and timely and on-budget delivery of your multiple projects, and, of course, how to grow your business and deliver even more projects with Epicflow, and all this upon keeping your data safe.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

You need to manage your company culture to achieve peak performance. Company culture is that unique combination of the beliefs, attitudes, and values of your workforce that determine how the business operates and how employees think and behave as they achieve their work objectives. This is what you need to stay the course.

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Steve Shu Consulting

JANUARY 4, 2023

Let’s take just one of five behavioral angles I cover at Cornell in my applied behavioral economics courses, namely choice architecture. employers, advisors, platforms, systems providers, investment managers). Each of these changes have potential behavioral implications. 2009; Johnson and Goldstein, 2003; Johnson et al.,

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Markovitz Consulting

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

And that makes it nearly impossible for Bob to get the managers and supervisors to focus on continuous improvement because they’re constantly distracted by the latest problem. But of course, the more fires they douse, the more fires break out. Scripting the play” goes beyond leader standard work. Have you tried anything like this?

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Successful Independent Consulting

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Talk with other consultants, do a web search on typical management consulting rates in your city or state, and/or try converting your employee salary to an hourly rate. Of course, I would have loved to get paid at the higher end of the scale, but clients like to think they are getting a good deal. There are lots of ways to do this.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 11, 2019

I spoke with a project manager recently. I used to facilitate project teams as a project manager. Why a project manager? When I learned to manage programs, I managed programs like that, too. Then, we went “all-Scrum” so my managers called me a Scrum Master. Scrum Master or Agile Project Manager?

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Harmonious Workplaces

JANUARY 25, 2024

Strong manager-employee relationships through great leadership leads to positive outcomes After hearing so many people talking about the Apple TV show Ted Lasso and using it in the context of business leadership, I had to see what caused all the buzz. Workers with great managers tend to perform well and experience higher positive affect.

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Clarity Consultants

JANUARY 22, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing how many companies operate and handle various tasks. Functionally, AI is a tool that instructional design consultants can leverage, providing them with a wide array of tools and tech-supported techniques that improve course design and accelerate the development of new materials and courses.

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Markovitz Consulting

OCTOBER 29, 2019

They think it’s yet another short-term management fad. But when you look at many of the tools and concepts from the lean playbook, they’re really just good management that any leader would want to embrace. Culp, of course, was Danaher’s CEO for 14 years, and is steeped in lean thinking through the Danaher Business System.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 31, 2020

In China, a restaurant has opened in Guangdong Province that is fully automated, using robots to manage everything from taking orders to preparing and serving the food. Your level of performance at work will also depend on the context that you are operating in, which we might classify into 4 quadrants: Simple. Complicated.

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Epicflow

MARCH 30, 2023

The right approach to project and resource management can really help business organizations to become profitable and competitive even during tough times. For a great number of companies, the previous recession has become an impetus for reviewing their project management processes and making them maximum efficient. In fact, it is!

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Consulting Matters

JULY 14, 2022

I'm in the middle of what I'm calling my "Favorite Executive Series of all time" series, and so, of course, I had to include Sarah King in this series! Why HR often IS your client and not the gatekeeper if you're in the organization development, leadership development, or change management consulting space.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Change management is having its moment. But many of these indicate that change management is some occult subspecialty of management, something that’s distinct from “managing” itself. This is curious given that, when you think about it, all management is the management of change.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Many organizations today are wondering how to get into machine learning, and what it means for their existing analytics operation. Turning your current analytics operation into a machine-learning-savvy “model factory” requires some changes, of course.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 15, 2018

The supply chain is the heart of a company’s operations. To make the best decisions, managers need access to real-time data about their supply chain, but the limitations of legacy technologies can thwart the goal of end-to-end transparency. However, those days may soon be behind us. Insight Center. Competing in the Future.

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Melissa Agnes

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

If you’re in law enforcement or emergency management, I highly recommend the listen. However, when one of my friends attended the training course for SWAT candidates, I began codifying what it means to be a crisis decision-maker. Prioritization / Triage – ranking and managing various problems by severity and urgency.

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Markovitz Consulting

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Of course, this led to significant down time. Identifying the root causes of a problem that prevent something from operating as it should. Innovation that seeks to fundamentally change how something operates. Toyota added sensor technology, industrial washers, and larger combined systems to better manage the cutting chip waste.

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

As an aspiring management consultant who has also been working as a music producer for several years, composing, arranging, and producing songs for multiple artists, I get a lot of questions about this seemingly strange combination of interests. “If If you love music so much, why don’t you do it as a full-time job?” “If

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Steve Shu Consulting

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

It is a technique that I’ve seen a number of operating companies and management consulting firms use effectively. The Spring Cleaning technique consists of an executive- or management-level meeting to talk about the business in breadth, capture issues (no-holds barred), rank issues, strategize, and divide and conquer.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 11, 2022

In experiential learning, you learn skills such as communication, project management, and teamwork. These skills are very much aligned with the work you would be doing after graduation such as in management consulting or any industry position. Experiential learning is the idea that you can learn by doing.

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Comatch

JUNE 29, 2023

Today’s business environment operates on a global scale. For companies operating across borders, having staff with an understanding of working internationally is not just an added advantage, but a competitive necessity. In fact, over 65% of multinational companies operate international relocation programs, and guess what?

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Epicflow

JUNE 16, 2022

It’s also important to redefine employees’ roles and responsibilities and align them with transformation goals as well as engage integrators and technology-innovation managers in the transformation process. In turn, technology-innovation managers supervise the work on a company’s digital innovations. . Digitizing operations.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 18, 2023

Gaining work experience can allow you to position yourself as a low-risk hire who can hit the ground running from day one by operating independently and delivering value without extensive handholding and supervision. For instance, it could be helpful to take courses on Adobe or Google Analytics in LinkedIn Learning.

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BCG

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Many transformation initiatives focus on improving a company’s financial and operational performance from “good” (or moderate) to “great”—that is, the company is already doing well in some or most areas, yet management still sees a need to make improvements. In some cases, management may not recognize the scope of the problem.)

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 31, 2018

To increase diversity at senior executive levels, more must be known about one group in particular: women of color in midlevel leadership, who successfully developed and progressed beyond individual contributor and first-line management. How did (or didn’t) managers play a role? They pursue management challenges.

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Business Consulting Agency

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

These efforts must be managed and executed properly to yield results. At times, growing a business also will involve looking at operations, administration, and other key areas of a business. With each year that a business grows, generates more profit, manages more customers, it does better.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

96% Job Relevance 97% Satisfaction 92% Net Promoter Score These experienced leaders were charged with project management , program management, and portfolio management across previously siloed functions and departments that were used to doing their own thing and being successful within their own span of control.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 31, 2023

Machine learning algorithms can be applied to a wide range of problems, from analysing financial data, to predicting equipment failures, to optimising supply chain operations. Predictive analytics can also be used in risk management by helping organisations to anticipate potential risks before they occur.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 28, 2016

During the last five years of my corporate management career, I had a great deal of leadership development. Along with many other executives, I attended talks by noted management authors, I went to (often lengthy) team-building exercises, and I participated in discussions on different leadership styles. I avoided conflict.

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Harmonious Workplaces

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In 1997, Jim promoted me from CSR (customer service representative) to assistant manager of Blockbuster within a few months just prior to my graduation from college. I also handled recruitment, payroll, inventory management, and other store operations.

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