Consulting Matters

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Meg's impressive journey to the top and her insights on leadership and personal development are truly enlightening. Growing up with a father involved in the space program and an education in marketing, Meg’s roots have significantly influenced her perspective on leadership.

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LSA Global

APRIL 16, 2021

Better Develop Managers Because managers are the hub of most organizations, you’d think that building management capabilities would be an essential pillar of an executive’s plan for business success. But the research says otherwise. Instead, focus on the critical few behavioral shifts that will make a difference.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 8, 2024

Do You Need More Effective Strategies to Maximize Employee Talent Development? Done right, strategies to maximize employee talent development should increase employee engagement, retention, and performance. Done right, strategies to maximize employee talent development should increase employee engagement, retention, and performance.

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Brimstone Consulting

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

How a private equity-backed artisanal food manufacturer stemmed losses, rebuilt the leadership team, and positioned the company for growth. Brimstone worked with the CEO, the senior leadership team, and the private equity firm to put in place the conditions for success. CASE STUDY. Two senior team members were onboarded.

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LSA Global

JUNE 24, 2023

Most Companies Need to Develop Better Leaders Unfortunately, most corporate leaders are not ready to lead their teams or to make effective decisions when the stakes are high. Our own leadership simulation assessment data tells us that companies need to develop better leaders if they wish to achieve their business AND people objectives.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Leadership Transitions Matter The pace of change affects shifts in leadership. Leadership transitions are important because they have an outsized influence on the success or failure of the entire organization. We know from our leadership simulation assessment data that most leaders are ill-prepared to take on their new role.

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Brimstone Consulting

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Managing your career is your responsibility. Instead, managing your career is something that needs to be done on an ongoing basis. Those who consistently manage their career are more likely to achieve their professional and career goals than those who don’t. What were you aware of, and how well did you manage the politics?

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Pressures Faced by Sales Managers Are Unique to Their Role A sales leader’s average tenure is less than two years, which is far shorter than the tenure of most other managers. In fact, a recent survey by PayScale uncovered that 73% rated the role of sales account manager as “highly stressful.”Unlike Why is this?

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LSA Global

JANUARY 23, 2021

There are several effective options to develop new managers. But, Manager Performance is Not Meeting Expectations According to McKinsey and the Corporate Executive Board, executives are not happy with the performance of their frontline managers and new managers are not being set up to succeed.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Promotion to Management and How to Develop New People Leaders While being promoted to a management role is exciting, many first time people leaders are dismayed by how difficult it can be to lead, manage, and coach teams of people with different roles, skills, attitudes, and desires.

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LSA Global

JUNE 9, 2023

Unfortunately, Leadership Succession Planning Often Fails to Meet Expectations While most leaders know that they should develop a leadership pipeline, leadership succession planning often fails to make a measurable impact. Are your leaders willing and able to support leadership succession planning? Why is that?

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Are You Unleashing the Power of Corporate Learning and Development? Because of this, smart talent leaders know that the role of Learning and Development (L&D) stands as a linchpin for organizational success. It has been said that the way that we work has changed more dramatically in the last two years than in the previous decade.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 18, 2024

The 3 V’s of Great Leadership When it comes to leadership, the distinction between good leadership and great leadership often lies in the nuanced interplay of three V’s: Vision, Voice, and Vibration. As followers, we know what good leadership truly looks, sounds, and feels like.

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Consulting Matters

JUNE 15, 2023

Puja Madan, a leadership coach who blends spirituality and entrepreneurship, shares her journey through the contrasting worlds of meditation centers and tech startups and how she developed her Amplify Model to help entrepreneurs find clarity in their values, vision, and voice.

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LSA Global

JULY 1, 2023

When Strategic Leadership Skills Are Required for Success Just as it takes a different set of skills to transition from an individual contributor to a successful new manager , it takes a different mindset and skillset (what we call Strategic Leadership Skills) to succeed as a strategic leader.

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Consulting Matters

JULY 14, 2022

Why HR often IS your client and not the gatekeeper if you're in the organization development, leadership development, or change management consulting space. Check out my free downloads so you can take your next step in your business journey: [link]. Connect on LinkedIn: Betsy Jordyn [link]. Sarah King [link].

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LSA Global

JULY 26, 2023

Do You Need Better Leadership Communication? Better leadership communication leads to higher morale and increased performance. But leadership communication impacts more than just the bottom line. Better leadership communication takes clarity, purpose, and intention based upon what matters most to each audience.

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LSA Global

APRIL 18, 2024

How to Influence Your Team as a Manager The ability to influence your team as a manager has a direct correlation to individual and team success. Effective leadership today isn’t just about giving orders; it’s about inspiring and guiding your team towards shared goals and through the inevitable challenges that will arise.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 20, 2021

Extraordinary Times Require Extraordinary Leaders Too many organizations leave their leadership development programs up to luck and chance. If you want your senior leaders to perform at their peak, you need to be intentional and purposeful in the way you invest in their development. This does not surprise us. But how to proceed?

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LSA Global

AUGUST 16, 2023

What We Know Works – High Performing Sales Managers Ask any savvy sales executive what drives high revenue growth other than having “the next iPhone,” and they will most likely tell you some version of skilled sales managers who know how to lead, manage, and coach their sales teams to higher performance.

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Brimstone Consulting

DECEMBER 20, 2021

New Books on Leadership and Change. Earlier this year, we shared a list of 31 books on leadership and change. He defines the six unwritten rules they seem to follow for using their digital platforms, ecosystems, moneymaking models, team-based structures, and leadership with a laser-sharp focus on the individual’s customer experience.

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Consulting Matters

JULY 7, 2022

Do you want to know what executives in world-class companies think about leadership and why they hire consultants and coaches? I have worked on and off with Jim since 1999, first as his Organization Development Consultant at Disney and, more recently, as a sounding board when he retired from his 43-year career. But they do. Learn more.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Why Post-Crisis Leadership and Team Development Matters. When something disrupts the way people think and work, leaders and their teams not only have to deal with managing the immediate fallout, but they must also create and enable a compelling vision for a preferred future state. Misguided leadership. Failed mergers.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Top 10 Key Sales Management Skills: Mastering the Art of Sales Leadership Sales leaders must routinely navigate high stakes internal and external relationships while meeting ever-increasing revenue targets and demands from their sales team. Do your sales managers anticipate and meet current and future customer needs?

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LSA Global

MARCH 29, 2022

So, You Want to Be a People Manager Almost everyone who has been encouraged to take on the role of people manager at work has succeeded first in their role as individual contributor or team member. But do they have the fundamental skills for every people manager? Do you know how others perceive you?

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 16, 2022

What Is a Personal Leadership Brand? A personal leadership brand is what you stand for as a leader. Your personal leadership brand is how others see you. The good news is that experienced leaders and new managers have the power to develop and shape their personal leadership brand.

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LSA Global

APRIL 18, 2022

Leadership Challenges Whether you are managing a small team, a large department, or an entire organization, leading others is not easy to do well. Leadership requires multiple and varied skills. And they know the leadership mistakes to avoid after a crisis.

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LSA Global

MARCH 21, 2023

But what are the leadership behaviors that increase employee engagement? Top Leadership Behaviors that Increase Employee Engagement Leadership teams have an enormous impact on employee engagement. Organization-wide trust is a byproduct of a culture of transparency , workplace accountability , and leadership integrity.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Talent Management. While there are many proven tips to develop top talent, it seems that talent management often becomes too complicated. Simply put, the purpose of talent management is to attract, develop, engage, and retain the top talent that leads to individual, team, and organizational success.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The Most Successful Leaders If you are a leader who hopes to take your leadership skills and your career beyond where you are today, it would help to know what skills matter and where you should focus. What are some of the effective leadership personality traits? The 5 Traits that Predict Long-term Leadership Success.

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LSA Global

JUNE 20, 2023

New Managers Struggle – The Most Important New Manager Communications to Get Right We run into the same issues when we’re called in to assess people manager performance and potential at companies. Sadly, research from CEB found that 60 percent of new managers underperform during their first two years.

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Successful Independent Consulting

JUNE 17, 2021

You may need to do some admin (busy work) like file status reports or do verbal check-ins with the client relationship/engagement manager. For more links, download the reference guide.) Agencies involve people in the matching process, to oversee projects, and to “manage the client relationship.”

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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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Rick Conlow

JULY 2, 2023

And of course, organizations and managers want the hustle and the desire to get ahead. 57% of employees blame managers for their quiet quitting. 39% of employees say managers have not noticed their lower performance. Poor leadership: Ineffective or poor leadership can lead to employee disengagement.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Performance Management Defined Simply put, performance management is a process to help managers and employees to know where they stand. Done right, performance management can lead individuals, leaders, and teams to higher levels of performance results and better alignment of behaviors with desired cultural values and norms.

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LSA Global

APRIL 4, 2024

Company culture and the inevitable subcultures that develop are the organizational DNA that — intentionally or unintentionally — guide every behavior and decision. Based upon this research, clients asked us to develop a high level HR Guide to company culture to be used as a starting point to culture change.

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LSA Global

MAY 13, 2024

Our organizational alignment research found that having the right talent to execute your business strategy accounts for 29% of the difference between high and low performing companies in terms of: Revenue growth Profitability Leadership effectiveness Customer loyalty Employee engagement The symbiotic relationship between talent and strategy matters.

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