Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 18, 2020

My agile transformation clients struggle with this big question: How do we effectively reward managers? How do you incent the managers? What makes sense for management compensation? Cindy, a director in a 500-person IT organization struggles with this—for herself and for the managers she leads and serves.

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Management Guidelines Agile Productivity 99

LSA Global

JULY 28, 2022

Leadership Development Matters McKinsey and the Corporate Executive Board surveyed more than 500 executives to learn their top human capital priorities. Leadership development ranked among the top three and almost half of all business leaders listed developing effective leaders as their top concern. Where’s the disconnect?

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 13, 2021

You might be an enterprise architect, a middle or senior manager, a C-level executive. When I work with leaders, I hear reasons like this: I was the original architect or product manager or developer, so I know the most about the system (or product). See Leadership Tip #9: See & Stop Micromanagement—Learn to Trust Instead.

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Brimstone Consulting

JANUARY 14, 2022

When designing a hybrid workplace, communication guidelines are critical to creating an effective and thriving workplace. Those organizations still in the design phase have the opportunity to avoid the mistake of not creating communication guidelines. We worked with the organization to establish clear communication guidelines.

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LSA Global

MARCH 4, 2023

Consistency of Your Corporate Culture We know from assessing organizational cultures that the way people think, behave, and work can either help or hurt your business and people strategies. In terms of business and people performance, the importance of workplace culture cannot be underestimated.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Is Your Culture at Risk? Will Remote Work Destroy Your Culture? As a result, the work culture as we knew it has changed. The results of a recent Gallup poll point out some of the cultural consequences to employees only working remotely. The Importance of Culture to Business Success. Clearly, culture matters.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 19, 2023

Companies Fail to Make Good Decisions Though our organizational culture assessment found that healthy and decisive decision making is one of the strongest indicators of an aligned organization , many companies fail to make good decisions. But there are guidelines that can help.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 6, 2021

A manager said to me, “I'm responsible for this department of people.” ” He said, “I'm responsible for managing the people. When we ask managers to take responsibility for other people, we increase the possibility that they micromanage. But managers rarely can help with these practices.

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Management Agile Guidelines Productivity 73

Johanna Rothman

JULY 11, 2023

She feels that those meetings might cause her managers to feel unsafe, as if she doesn't trust them. Two talented senior managers. As always, when we're talking about management choices or consulting answers, the answer is, “It depends.” ” We discussed guidelines for when she might consider skip-level meetings.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Do You Have the Courage to Manage Poor Performance? To be a good new manager, you must have the courage to manage poor performance. Do Not Keep Underperformers or Cultural Misfits. It is critical for new managers to not delay or prolong their leadership responsibility to make sound people decisions.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The Huge Disconnect between Active and Passive Corporate Values We define corporate values as the company-wide guidelines for desired workplace behaviors. The Connecting Link Think of your workplace culture as how employees think, behave, and get work done when no one is looking. Culture is the alignment of both intention and reality.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 2, 2018

The two companies may have seen value in capitalizing on each other’s strengths, but they failed to investigate their cultural compatibility beforehand. When tight and loose cultures merge, there is a good chance that they will clash. Tight company cultures value consistency and routine. Loose cultures are much more fluid.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Take this example: A manager does not expect employees to return her emails during off-hours or while they’re on vacation, but she never explicitly says this. This feeds the expectation to check email while he’s away, and the belief is reinforced by the fact that the manager seems to be working at all hours herself.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 1, 2018

This is despite women comprising 80% of the healthcare workforce and evidence that having women in upper management and on corporate boards is associated with improved financial performance and enhanced accountability. These numbers point to a clear need for better representation of female physicians in leadership. Quantification.

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Leadership Healthcare Education Research 35

Melissa Agnes

MAY 23, 2016

Your crisis management governance model serves as one of the foundational elements of your entire crisis management program. When working with clients to develop a scalable crisis management program, their governance structure is one of the first things I focus on developing.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 15, 2022

The Acme Corp senior leadership team is thrilled that they can bring people back to the office. Especially now that senior leadership wanted people to meet in person—during just those two days each week. Right now, the senior leadership all live in New York. Right now, the senior leadership all live in New York.

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Asamby Consulting

MARCH 3, 2022

Human Resources & HR Person Human resource (HR) is a function or department of a company or organization that handles the relationship between employees and leadership. Nowadays, the HR function is often referred to as People & Culture, with an extended set of tasks compared to the traditional role of HR.

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LSA Global

MAY 10, 2022

To succeed, CPOs must be strategists, influencers, team builders, and culture creators who put people first while getting business results. Our organizational alignment research found that culture accounts for 40% of the difference between high and low performance. improve leadership skills to execute key strategic imperatives?

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LSA Global

JULY 2, 2019

If active employee participation does not fit your workplace culture , you must make sure that the strategy is completely understood on all levels of the company. Beyond staying within ethical guidelines, values can help balance the interests of the business vis-à-vis the interests of employees, customers, and other stakeholders.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 31, 2023

Becoming a competent and sought-after project manager is impossible without constant professional development. So, we’d like to give you guidance in this flow of resources – we’ve selected 11 project management books that any successful project manager should discover. Enjoy the reading!

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Management Handbook Case Study Case Studies 11

Brimstone Consulting

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Throughout this transition period, there is also time to be planful by becoming familiar with the organization’s remote work guidelines and policies and learning the systems in place to support remote work. It also means setting up policies, guidelines, and procedures and communicating these across the organization. Future of Work.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 25, 2022

As managers, when we offer a job or a promotion, those emotions tend to be happy. See Practice Congruence to Create an Effective Culture for the full definition of congruence, with blaming, super reasonable, and placating stances.). The first time I had to manage a layoff, I had to lay off five people (across my department).

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Efficiency Management Guidelines Exercises 89

Ben de Haldevang

JUNE 7, 2023

It very clearly makes the point that there is no silver bullet but equally sets the record straight for the ill-informed people who maintain that “every integration or transformation is different so why plan ahead or follow any form of framework or guidelines”. A cracking read, well done!!”

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Melissa Agnes

APRIL 16, 2018

When a conversation starts, following your guidelines is the key. Gaining internal buy-in from the right people to implement a crisis ready culture can sometimes feel like an uphill battle. Leadership’s role in becoming crisis ready. But the starting point seems to be so difficult to reach! This struggle is real.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

“My team has a time management problem,” leaders often tell me. “Time management” becomes a catchall solution to this problem, and they want to hire me to offer tips and techniques on things like prioritizing and using their calendars better. All of these require extended periods of sustained focus.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

” As managers, we have probably all heard this phrase before—whether from a team member whom we’ve asked for something or, worse, from someone we work with who says this to a customer. Because whether it’s coming from one person or many, it is probably an issue with your organization’s culture.

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Guidelines Culture Methodologies Construction 28

Consulting and Organizational Management

JANUARY 7, 2011

The following links are to free, online resources with guidelines to address the considerations and in the right order. To learn more about consulting processes, see the topic Consultants in the Free Management Library.). Risk Management. How to Manage Resistance in Consulting — Part 1 of 3: What is Resistance?

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Harvard Business

JUNE 18, 2018

Despite the proliferation of evidence-based guidelines to improve clinicians’ practice patterns, clinicians often don’t respond to them. When it comes to changing clinician behavior, leaders have to think more broadly about the local organizational culture clinicians work in. A Stronger Focus on Culture.

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Healthcare Culture Guidelines Financial 28

Harvard Business

JANUARY 12, 2018

After the successful transition, the leadership team decided to take the pulse of the organization, and discovered low levels of engagement and displeasure with senior leaders. Don’t they understand how far we’ve come under my leadership?” He wondered, “How could they say these things about me?

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Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2018

A Journal of Brand Management paper shows that four in 10 employees struggle to describe their organization’s brand or how they think customers feel their organization is different from competitors. .” This kind of engagement is missing at most organizations. H for hear their story. O for own the experience.

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Harvard Business

JULY 28, 2016

companies, the guidelines contain helpful (although not entirely novel or innovative) recommendations such as compensating outside directors with stock, giving non-executive directors unfettered access to management, and discouraging the practice of earnings guidance. Intended to strengthen corporate governance at U.S.

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Government Guidelines Meeting Construction 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Measurement will allow each organization to ascertain where exactly it needs to improve, test hypotheses and solutions that fit its culture and needs, and track progress. It asks, for example, how well senior management communicates its zero-tolerance stance and who should oversee investigations of harassment allegations. Leadership.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

OCTOBER 15, 2011

Basic Guidelines to Quickly Gain Credibility, Get Projects – and Be Paid. Describe general guidelines, but not procedures. If you’ve followed the above guidelines, then a proposal (or Statement of Work) should be easy. Project managers call it “project creep.” There is no ongoing entitlement. Make it simple. Read more.].

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Consulting and Organizational Management

MARCH 6, 2013

It helps internals to appreciate and apply the many guidelines for consultants, as well. With recent emphasis on the importance of using a highly facilitative and collaborative leadership style when guiding change, leaders are beginning to operate more like internal consultants for change then ever before. Career Management.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Data science for humans: the consumers of the output are decision makers like executives, product managers, designers, or clinicians. Decision scientist: Decision makers (executives, business leaders, product managers), data engineers, software engineers responsible for the applications generating data. They are modeling scientists.

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Data Engineering Software Metrics 45

Harvard Business

APRIL 24, 2017

Studies show that individuals with political skills tend to do better in gaining more personal power as well as managing stress and job demands, than their politically naive counterparts. They also have a greater impact on organizational outcomes. But conversely, the sharp edges of hard power can wreck a plan. The High Ground.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

APRIL 13, 2010

Here are some guidelines for what roles to use and when. There are certain types of general knowledge that would likely be the same, especially: a) General frameworks from which to develop and/or operate systems, for example, performance management systems, financial systems or marketing systems. Career Management. Leadership.

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