The Consultants Peer Group

APRIL 3, 2023

It doesn’t matter if the employer is the CEO, a manager, or a supervisor. In 1973, I was fired from my first job mainly for not being able to meet deadlines in a timely fashion. This negotiation process helps both parties meet their needs and gives the employee ownership of their time. That’s how you develop your people.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Many pro services firms still use fragmented systems or analog methods like spreadsheets to manage projects. It prevents you from generating reliable cash-flow forecasts and makes it incredibly difficult to manage resources. fusion development)? Bad data, in turn, leads to inaccurate timelines, estimates, budgets. Retain talent?

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Prudent Pedal

JANUARY 28, 2020

If you’re a managing partner, practice leader, sales leader, or chief administrative officer in a professional services firm, you probably have responsibility for “managing” marketing. If this is you, you may be feeling a little uneasy as we approach that dreaded time of the year for most managers—annual reviews.

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Marketing How To Turnaround Meeting 52

Harvard Business

AUGUST 16, 2018

When promoted to his new role, he inherited a group of district sales managers responsible for selling to hospital systems in their respective geographies. Although his one-on-one meetings with these reports, which involved progress reviews, motivation, and coaching, were highly productive, his monthly team meetings weren’t.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2016

As work itself is changing, some of the basic tenets of leadership development are being challenged. To meet these challenges, we see three priorities for developing the next generation of leaders in the “work-disrupted” age: Mastery of Digital. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. Insight Center.

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Confessions of a Consultant

APRIL 30, 2017

The same basic point applies to new managers joining an organization. New Managers: Almost all New Managers suffer from ‘joining anxiety’ and want to do things quickly. It offered a ‘turnaround’ challenge. Prior to Meyers’ appointment, a new commercial for Bayer Aspirin had been developed.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

FTI expanded into investigation and research capabilities as well as turnaround, restructuring, bankruptcy and forensic accounting with the moves. Records management. In 2005, the firm developed their first 5-year plan with a goal to double revenues from approximately $427M to $1B in 5 years. Restructuring/Turnaround Services.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 2, 2015

They want to develop a growth strategy for the next five years. Virgin Galactic has developed a new rocket that can take off and land like a normal plane. It is currently summer, and Cabana is having trouble meeting demand. Turnarounds. The CEO asks you, “How should Toyota price this car?”. Growth Strategy.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and Organizational Development. Instead, I’ve been more successful with, e.g., ”turnaround specialist” or “business developer.” How to Manage Resistance in Consulting — Part 1 of 3: What is Resistance? Translate This. Library Blogs Home.

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Peter Stark

JANUARY 30, 2018

Meet with the leader to discuss how they perceive their leadership and what they believe others would say about their leadership, communication, and performance management style. Administer a 360 Leadership Development Assessment. Focus on three (no more than four) areas for development. Conduct one-on-one interviews.

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ConsultX

AUGUST 10, 2021

You can meet the challenges, reclaim your life, and grow your business at the same time. A one-stop turnaround plan, Conquer the Chaos lays out a complete path to make your business run smoothly and provide you with the freedom you desire. Alex Rogo is a harried plant manager working ever more desperately to try improve performance.

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1 to 1

DECEMBER 7, 2021

When volume surges or the unexpected happens, organizations can pivot and scale support capacity quickly to meet customer needs across channels. Cloud solutions can also offer real-time knowledge management to provide more relevant and consistent answers that are desperately needed during the holidays.

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Harvard Business

JULY 9, 2018

But while executive coaches have improved the performance of many already-good managers and sanded the rough edges off many less effective ones, they aren’t a miracle cure. So how do those who control the coaching purse strings — HR, talent managers, and other buyers — avoid throwing money away on uncoachable executives?

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2016

While some situations demand outside successors — such as a turnaround or a discontinuous shift in the industry and strategy – we believe that internal candidates remain the future CEOs-of-choice. Assess candidates against industry benchmarks, valid indicators of executive potential, and the CEO profiles you’ve developed.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2016

While the world of quarterly reports is the preserve of managers, the long term is the fiefdom of leaders. As managers deal with delivering short-term results to keep the stock price high and leaders evangelize on the long-term future of the organization, the medium term is all but forgotten. It is pleasingly limitless.

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CaseInterview.com

MARCH 16, 2020

With the media, stock markets, and social media going crazy over the topic, I spent a lot of time digging into the data to develop my own conclusions. In looking at the medical literature on coronavirus, the current treatment protocol is essentially symptom management. There is no known cure for the virus. you can’t breathe.

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CaseInterview.com

MARCH 26, 2019

It is an approach I developed that is tailored for answering these questions in job interviews for management consulting, as well as interviews for senior executive positions in industry. Did you just show up at the sales meeting? The servers we wanted had a two-week turnaround time. E nd-Result. and to do it fast.

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1 to 1

AUGUST 18, 2021

Meeting these challenges while reducing cost to serve will require a digital-first, customer-centric approach. More often we are seeing digitally transforming legacy support systems as a key to meeting modern expectations. These roll up into what we call ‘effortless’ experiences, which will define the new age in retail.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

For example, when James Wolfensohn first became president of the World Bank, in 1995, he went on fact-finding trips to developing countries to understand the kinds of projects that the bank was doing. However, as CEO he stopped meeting with his brain trust and removed the two executives who had been his competitors.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

But when some CEOs in this position look at the people they employ, they discover a problem: a swath of their existing team doesn’t have the necessary skills or metabolism for change to meet the new challenges. Developing what we call an “M&A strategy for talent” is one way to overcome this.

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Harvard Business

MAY 20, 2016

Pick an example of a work activity that happens regularly, like a daily or weekly standing meeting. For the attribute “location,” for example, you could ask your team: Is the meeting best facilitated if it’s held in an in-demand central meeting room or near where other people are likely to gather?

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Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2016

” This is a framework I have developed over the course of 35 years of working with and doing research in corporations around the world. In the fall of 1981, [I challenged] the Elfun Society, an internal management club at GE… It was a networking group for white-collar types.”

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

In fact, management consultancy Bain & Co. Selectively developing top team members to accomplish the strategy. He was very smart and polished but didn’t see how his pointed words and micromanaging ways were affecting his management team. Not seeking CEOs who value talent development.

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Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2016

Perhaps nervous about the meeting in the morning, you find yourself lying on the bed flicking through the TV channels for something to watch to keep you awake to offset the growing jet-lag. Managing Across Cultures. “We started meeting in each other’s homes every few months. That’s a missed opportunity.

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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2016

What were their biggest challenges, and how did you help meet them? Hiring managers will see what you have done — and can do for them. He noted his accomplishments in several areas: strategy development and execution, branding and marketing, sales, partnerships, and IP. Tell compelling before-and-after stories.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

After studying and working with hundreds of companies in free fall, we’ve identified concrete steps that leadership teams can take to engineer successful turnarounds and transformations. When a company is in free fall, it makes sense to replace the management team, for all sorts of reasons. Build a Re-Founding Team.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 4, 2017

The idea of boomerang employees — workers who voluntarily leave a job at an organization and then rejoin that same organization at a later date — is gaining more and more acceptance from hiring managers and in the labor force. The experience has also had a positive impact on how she manages. ” Be positive.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

He developed a three-year plan for his turnaround vision, which was translated into annual and quarterly operating plans, and biquarterly responsibilities for his executive team. The company’s stated purpose is to “help people walk through walls.” The power of that process was that I got their attention.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Obama nominated Robert McDonald , an Army veteran and experienced executive who had honed his leadership skills during a 33-year career at Proctor and Gamble, to attempt the difficult turnaround. Measure performance carefully and manage with an eye on what’s most important to customers.

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