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Managing Meetings: How to Drive Productivity and Success

Tom Spencer

Meetings can either be a powerful catalyst for collaboration and decision-making or a drain on time and productivity. Whether you are in consulting, strategy, operations, or product management, the ability to manage meetings effectively is a crucial skill that can significantly impact the success of your endeavors.

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How to improve your meetings

Halo Psych

6-minute read In the past few months, I’ve run several team development days for board-level teams in different sectors. And one of the things they have the most in common is a frustration with meetings. This includes those coming as guests to present at a board meeting, as well as some board members, themselves.

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Governance: Transforming Organizational Culture

Tom Spencer

In the realm of business, the term “ governance ” conjures images of stale bureaucracy, mundane meetings, and rigid roles. In the context of business, these decisions are forged through meetings involving key stakeholders where strategic, operational, and performance-related topics are discussed and debated.

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HR Guide to Company Culture: 5 Tangible Leverage Points

LSA Global

An HR Guide to Company Culture and Your Organizational DNA When it comes to people and organizational dynamics, the concept of company culture can seem nebulous and less vital when compared company strategies, systems, people, or finances. A company’s culture defines its identity and drives organizational behaviors.

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You Can’t Pizza Party Your Way to a Great Corporate Culture

Harmonious Workplaces

Carefully and appropriately choose your organizational development interventions. Subsequently, stacks of uneaten pizza remained on the break room table for hours — a stale reminder of a stale culture. The Misuse of Fun Perks Before we dive into the heart of improving culture, let’s clear something up.

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How to Solve 3 Modern Cross-Cultural Leadership Challenges

Organizational Talent Consulting

Census data confirms cultural diversity is growing faster than predicted, especially among Gen Z. A competitive talent landscape, technological advances, and global population shifts are rapidly increasing cultural diversity in the workplace. Cross-cultural differences require leaders with cultural agility.

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How a Collaborative Culture Can Attract Young Professionals

Tom Spencer

As a result of this generational shift in workplace culture, consulting firms are under pressure to adapt by improving work arrangements for employees. A change in the culture of the sector could help to enhance the work environment, encourage employee loyalty, and enable hiring managers to attract top talent.

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