Brimstone Consulting

JANUARY 14, 2022

In the absence of guidelines, the organization had evolved into an always-on culture with communication taking place 24/7 – and across multiple platforms. Yours may look different depending on your collaboration tools, goals, and culture. Finally, we worked with the organization to go back to the basics of meetings and emails.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 4, 2020

Let me show the impact management decision delays had on one team: The managers started their portfolio decision meeting. They adjourned the meeting to get forecasts from the teams. The teams spent about a day of forecasting work, but the managers didn't take the time to meet again for three weeks.

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Rick Conlow

MARCH 29, 2021

Managers often miss the greatest leadership principle of all-time. Let’s get to where the rubber meets the road. They give you clues to what’s going on in organizations, and the potential impact of The Greatest Leadership Principle of All-Time. This is true about what it takes to be a successful leader.

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LSA Global

JULY 19, 2021

Who Should Decide Do your managers feel overwhelmed by all the decisions they must make day-by-day? It is estimated that decision making can take up to 70% of a manager’s time. Managers need to gain better decision making capabilities. The Right Culture Not just any decision making culture will do.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 14, 2019

That's a cultural change to self-managing teams. That's why we need managers to understand how to create and cultivate an agile culture. Managers Create and Refine the Culture. Instead of local optimization, we need global optimization: How can we decrease the time of all the various feedback loops ?

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Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2017

Executives need to own up to their role in creating the workplace stress that leads to burnout—heavy workloads, job insecurity, and frustrating work routines that include too many meetings and far too little time for creative work. Many corporate cultures require collaboration far beyond what is needed to get the job done.

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LSA Global

APRIL 15, 2024

Only invest time and resources with clients that appreciate and need what you have to offer. This leads to improved win rates, higher customer satisfaction, and better time management. For most sales teams, 80% of revenue should come from approximately 20% of clients; do not waste valuable time on unqualified prospects.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 28, 2023

Studies show that socializing, despite feeling like a daunting task, can be effective in combating mental fatigue by energizing us.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2018

It’s not just one meeting scheduled over another. As a time management coach, I help working parents navigate these challenges on a daily basis. The first is to define how you want to prioritize your time when professional and personal commitments collide. Family culture. Time split.

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Asamby Consulting

MARCH 24, 2022

At the same time, as the CEO, you probably don’t want to spend all your time managing that day-to-day and building your backend systems. One could be responsible for documenting your processes, while the other is responsible for running great meetings.

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LSA Global

APRIL 15, 2023

Unless urgent action is required, take about thirty days to meet with your team and key stakeholders to listen to their views on what they hope will change, what they hope will stay the same, and what you need to know. The Bottom Line Transitioning to manager is rarely easy. Your end goal?

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

They assess the team’s culture and ensure that it is healthy enough, accountable enough, and aligned enough with key strategic initiatives to help, and not hinder, strategy execution. Being a Player-Coach New managers are held accountable for team results. Are your managers capable of leading and delivering in a way that makes sense?

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The Management Centre

APRIL 1, 2020

In turn, by adopting a culture of coaching, you are then free to step back and focus on more strategic activities. The GROW framework can be used in conversations, meetings and everyday leadership – it’s not necessarily something you need to set aside a specific time or location for. It can be used in a wide range of situations.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 16, 2018

Most employees are besieged by an overload of requests and distractions—texts, emails, unnecessary meetings and overly chatty office neighbors. Too many people do not have the skill to prioritize the urgent and important versus the non-urgent and not important in terms of implications that matter most to their key stakeholders.

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The Management Centre

APRIL 1, 2020

In turn, by adopting a culture of coaching, you are then free to step back and focus on more strategic activities. The GROW framework can be used in conversations, meetings and everyday leadership – it’s not necessarily something you need to set aside a specific time or location for. It can be used in a wide range of situations.

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Development Leadership Management Resources 69

Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2017

When we travel to a country that has a different culture than ours, many of us spend time learning ways to communicate and connect with the people there. Similarly, when you first become a manager, it’s helpful to spend time up front connecting and creating a common language with your team. Marion Barraud for HBR.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 12, 2018

Focus on the five disciplines of effective management as they suit your own unique organizational culture : Understanding a manager’s role in your organization. Communicating as a manager. The one thread that links all the management disciplines is communication. At times like these, trust your intuition.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Too many new managers have not been taught how to effectively lead people. Research on New Manager Effectiveness. With more than half of first-time managers reporting that they received no training when promoted, it is not surprising that up to 50% of new managers are deemed ineffective by their bosses.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

To Retain New Hires, Make Sure You Meet with Them in Their First Week. Why Great Employees Leave “Great Cultures” Melissa Daimler. Time management is a skill that many need help to learn, and as a manager, you may need to be the teacher. You and Your Team Series. How to Lose Your Best Employees.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 10, 2018

Fit Interviews are all about showing your compatibility with a firm’s working environment and culture. Recall what I have mentioned many times, management consulting firms are assessing candidates for their Leadership, Achievement, and Problem Solving skills. Find a real consultant and try to ask for a mock interview.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

For the first time in my young career, I was going to lots of meetings, and my job had become as much about convincing, cajoling, and coordinating as it was about designing. My manager told me about a team that was working on the Google Help Forum. We were product managers, designers, and leaders. Expectations.

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Kai Davis

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Convenience culture seduces us into imagining that we might find room for everything important by eliminating only life’s tedious tasks. But it’s a lie. You have to choose a few things, sacrifice everything else, and deal with the inevitable sense of loss that results. Missing out” is what makes our choices meaningful in the first place.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2018

Working parents sometimes struggle with the feeling that they are either letting down their family or not meeting their career goals. The other, Joseph, saw how Brittney’s skill in doing this not only made Brittney happier but also changed our whole company culture to be more supportive of working parents.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

A friend of mine was having a hard time balancing her career at a large financial firm with her family demands. She worked at one of those all-too-typical workplaces where employees are expected to log 60 hours or so a week — a perfect illustration of what I call a “ culture of overwork.”

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Ben de Haldevang

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

The Guardian recently published a long but interesting piece on the history of time management (from Taylor forward). In an argument many years ago with a good friend of mine, the debate boiled down to whether creative endeavour and success / value was at all related to time taken to create. You’ll find the link here.

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Harvard Business

MAY 1, 2017

Our approach is rooted in extreme programming and agile processes , and the foundation of our work environment is a pair programming culture. It signals that breakfast is over and the office-wide meeting is about to start. I’m not quite as motivated (in terms of my fitness) or organized (in terms of my time management).

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 14, 2016

”Utilization” essentially looks at the average amount of time between your first and last email or meeting of the day across several months of data and estimates total weekly working time for each employee. In the companies we analyzed, the average manager spent 30 minutes every 3 weeks with each of their employees.

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Rick Conlow

OCTOBER 19, 2023

10 Companies that Exemplify the Value of a Great Coach A handful of companies do an outstanding job of creating a positive culture through coaching. Here are ten notable examples: Google: Google is renowned for its robust coaching culture. These meetings involve 20-60 minutes. You take notes and track your discussions over time.

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Training Training Leadership Development 86

Harvard Business

AUGUST 4, 2017

Use a few minutes in a team meeting to share some of the research on the benefits of vacation. A 2015 HBR article by Ron Friedman is a treasure trove of facts about the benefits to reaction time, creativity, and engagement. Take advantage of that creativity by scheduling an extra-long meeting with the person a few days after vacation.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2016

In some ways, managing managers is similar to managing anyone else — you need to align their goals with yours, provide feedback, and help them advance their careers, says Sydney Finkelstein, professor at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business and author of Superbosses: How Exceptional Leaders Manage the Flow of Talent.

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Management How To Report Training 51

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Its story of a bibliomaniac who unearths an ancient poem, cracking opening the cultural door to the Renaissance, has inspired me with a creative way to write about a risk capital project that’s due later this week. Meeting up with other work-from-homers to “keep each other company” is like that.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 2, 2016

For some real-world perspective on becoming a first-time manager, I reached out to my friend Dr. Jim Mitchell, a computer scientist who made the leap into management from an engineering position, eventually retiring as Vice President at Oracle Laboratories. How to Get the Most Out of an Informational Interview. Rebecca Knight.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Benefits of Management Teams. Management teams help the organization in many ways: Management teams reduce overall decision time. Individual managers reduce their cycle time. Managers can remove organizational impediments that cross teams. Your management teams don’t need to be formal.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 26, 2016

It’s a common complaint among top executives: “I’m spending all my time managing trivial and tactical problems, and I don’t have time to get to the big-picture stuff.” Nearly all leaders (96%) claimed they lacked time for strategic thinking, again, because they were too busy putting out fires. .”

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 14, 2021

The organization wonders why no one can “meet” a deadline. The organization lives with many delays when the managers choose a shared services model. That's because the managers think resource efficiency works. You will have an easier time managing the project portfolio. In any culture or lifecycle.

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Harvard Business

JULY 29, 2016

But what you learn will help you get a sense for whether the candidate is “a cultural fit” for your organization. “Try to understand the type of culture that this candidate has worked in and her ability to learn and adapt to a new ones,” he says. “There are no right or wrong answers,” he says.

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Harvard Business

MAY 10, 2016

And yet in my work with clients, I often discover old ideas about time management that don’t take this new reality into account. Is it common at your company for email to be used for urgent and time-sensitive communications? Encourage “technology-free meetings” whenever possible. The office kitchen.

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