The Consultants Peer Group

APRIL 3, 2023

We’re trained to provide answers. That’s how you develop your people. Here are just some examples of the questions I use to help leaders develop their employees.* When someone walks up to your desk and drops something on it, you’re empowered to ask 4 simple questions: Are the deadlines appropriate based on your current workload?

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The Management Centre

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Throughout our Project Management training programmes, we find out about the kinds of challenges that make for a worried Project Manager. Talk through options for communicating better, aiming to ensure the Project Sponsor has the right information at the right time and an agreed turnaround time. But fear not, you are not alone.

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Markovitz Consulting

JULY 11, 2017

He describes his “shock and awe” approach (my terminology) in his excellent book The Lean Turnaround , where he takes the company through several week-long kaizen events. To be sure, there is some up front training, but the emphasis is on starting the lean journey with kaizen events. You build your way up to those levels.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Talent Development Building on our last point, optimizing skills is an urgent priority as we move into 2024 — experts must learn to augment existing knowledge with AI and automation, use data to build valuable solutions, and at the same time, ensure that digital doesn’t diminish the human relationships still at the heart of the service-based org.

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 2, 2017

Turnarounds. Consultants can also recommend growth strategies like market development or product development, which may be good for the organisation overall but not in the interests of a particular manager, division or department. software development) consultants may represent a cost-effective solution.

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The Fearless Marketer

DECEMBER 7, 2020

What you do instead is educate your prospective clients about your consulting methodology, coaching approach, or training process that they need to understand and implement to get the results they are looking for (mostly in their businesses). How to develop an HEOB program or service. None of that. Here’s what I’ll cover: 1.

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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.” Translate This. Library Blogs Home. This Blogs Home. Guest Writer Submissions. To Subscribe to a Blog. Read more.].

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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. 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. Litigation discovery.

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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. When I’m not teaching about case interviews and working with clients, I volunteer and train as an emergency medical responder.

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Peter Stark

JANUARY 30, 2018

Administer a 360 Leadership Development Assessment. Work with the leader to develop an action plan based on the leader’s goals and feedback collected from coworkers. Focus on three (no more than four) areas for development. Meet frequently with the leader to develop skills to effectively implement actions outlined in the plan.

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Management Consulted

JUNE 14, 2015

Founded in 1995 by former Bain consultants and headquartered in New York City, they focus on developing airline strategy and implementing major operational turnaround. Formal training, especially for new starts, is limited, which can understandably leave staff members feeling very unsupported.

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Managers rarely yell, coworkers try to help each other out whenever possible, and companies are organized to provide consultants support with training, expertise, etc. 3 SKILL DEVELOPMENT. Call me biased, but I received the best years of business training possible in my time at McKinsey. This attitude permeates all interactions.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 10, 2016

Whatever they ask for, you deliver with your best team and best turnaround — even if it’s unreasonable or unprofitable. After all, price concessions just train the customer to expect more price concessions in the future. ” You can’t afford to lose them. ” It’s a brutal process.

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Harvard Business

JULY 9, 2018

One CEO we worked with was known for his smart turnarounds of a large media company. To benefit from coaching, too-busy leaders must make the space to be fully present, both during the coaching sessions and after, doing the difficult work of developing new mindsets, skills, and habits. They focus too much on tips and tactics.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

Developing what we call an “M&A strategy for talent” is one way to overcome this. Volvo’s turnaround over the last decade offers a great example. Between 2011 and 2015, the company added 3,000 new people in engineering and development. For years, Volvo was a brand stuck between a rock and a hard place.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Improved operational efficiency: AI-based needs analysis systems allow insurers to not only improve their probability of lead-to-quote conversion but also re­duce turnaround time conversions. Start small. Insurers should focus the case for a proof of concept on activities that require agility, automation, and continuous innovation.

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LSA Global

JULY 16, 2018

Be clear about why the cuts are necessary, how it will help, your strategy for a turnaround and how you expect to make up for the reduction within a certain time frame. Maybe the company has hit a rough spot and salaries need to be reduced across the board.

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Confessions of a Consultant

APRIL 30, 2017

It offered a ‘turnaround’ challenge. Prior to Meyers’ appointment, a new commercial for Bayer Aspirin had been developed. In what Meyer described as a ‘get on the train’ philosophy, he decided to support the ‘Bear’ commercial. All you can do is hope not to screw it up.”.

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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2016

He noted his accomplishments in several areas: strategy development and execution, branding and marketing, sales, partnerships, and IP. The first one is told by a woman who’s improved the lives of at-risk youth by revolutionizing developing countries’ educational systems. BREWERY START-UP. Overall Strategy and Success.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Selectively developing top team members to accomplish the strategy. Not seeking CEOs who value talent development. Because of the short timeframe in which they hold their portfolio companies (typically five to seven years), investors may view executive development as a luxury. However, Hayek didn’t push training on them.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. As the interviews progressed, we developed seven categories that captured similar challenges. They must deliver on tight timelines, quick turnarounds and short project cycles. But what surprised us was that few of them had ever been trained or coached on how to deal with them.

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Asamby Consulting

AUGUST 30, 2022

A learning organization If you don't want to do all process improvement and development in your company, you need to build a so-called learning organization: Your employees have a structured process and tool set to formalize and document what they learn and make it available to everyone. Asynchronous, on-demand access will help a lot here.

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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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Confessions of a Consultant

DECEMBER 10, 2017

Earlier that day Joe had been to a training session with Liz McKeown who’s described on social media as a ‘Beauty Business Expert.’ The legendary book ‘Moments of Truth’ by Jan Carlzon, detailed the business turnaround enacted at Scandinavian Airlines Systems (SAS) and was on the executive best-seller bookshelf in the late 1980’s.

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2017

Garvin was a generalist more than a specialist, perhaps because he came of age at HBS during the 1980s, when the school’s primary focus was the development of skilled general managers. Case closed (until engineers develop an algorithm that does the job better). That quality made him (arguably) the quintessential HBR author.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The quickest way to spring the short-term trap is to set overly ambitious targets — the kind that make the CEO a hero with investors in the short term, but threaten the long-term plan by, for instance, skimping on scheduled maintenance, cutting R&D investment, and shrinking travel and training budgets.

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Harvard Business

JULY 20, 2016

Japan’s educational institutions and cultural work ethic give its managers a jump-start in their careers, but most companies don’t continue the development process as far as it could go. Remember that, when it comes to the jobs that help leaders develop most, complexity always beats size.

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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. On July 30, 2014, exactly 13 months after retiring as P&G’s Chairman and CEO, McDonald was sworn in as the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.

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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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Jerry Fletcher

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Not long after that I was trying to convince the man who has now been a client for a decade that moving from doing turnarounds as a CEO or COO to Leadership and Management Consulting was significantly different and that he did not have a team in place to handle the shift. Teams can trump persuasion. Technology wasn’t the answer.

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The Crazy Lives of Consultants

JANUARY 29, 2010

Not solitary do we have the unexcelled prices but our turnaround heyday for your Xrumer posting is wonderful fast. These girls are very carefully chosen from different global locations and they are trained and groomed in such a manner that they can effortlessly satisfy all types of clients- from submissive to highly demanding.

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