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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Effective Managers

DECEMBER 6, 2022

If you are a management consultant looking to improve your skills and differentiate yourself in the marketplace, then you need to take ISO 20700 Checklist Training. This course will help you understand the ISO 20700 guidelines for the effective delivery of management consultancy services. ISO 20700 can help you do just that.

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Granite Leadership Strategies

AUGUST 14, 2023

By analyzing profit in a structured and informative manner for each bid, the company can determine what the range of profit ought to be using a simple tool like Weighted Guidelines from DD1547. After analyzing profit using weighted guidelines, a company can also perform a performance price analysis versus a bid price analysis.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 12, 2021

Some managers wanted to prevent Bad Things from happening in the organization, so they added policies or procedures. Now, these same managers want business agility. Worse, sometimes, managers add more policies and procedures. I saw that in an organization that had management signoff for changes the technical people made.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Even when managers try to create cross-functional teams, the teams still have dependencies. Instead of treating people as individuals (resource efficiency thinking), what if you looked at the team as a harmonic whole? Dependencies slow and make finishing the work more difficult. Some Choices for Inside the Team Dependencies.

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Makarios Consulting

AUGUST 30, 2023

Mary Ann shows an understanding of Sam’s role in maintaining operational efficiency and financial health. For the Plan stage, Sam proposes the creation of well-defined pricing guidelines and timelines for four basic project types. For projects beyond this scope, a formal proposal process will still be required.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

We manage the risks of long-term commitments (decisions) by gaining experience with that person in many circumstances. (I Create a yearly budget as a guideline for our specific goals, but manage that budget every week and month to manage our risks. That's how we manage all our decisions: the Important and the Urgent.

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Business Consulting Agency

JUNE 13, 2023

Supply Chain and Distribution Management Efficient supply chain management and strategic distribution are crucial for the success of skincare businesses. Business consultants offer expertise in sourcing raw materials, identifying reputable manufacturers, and establishing efficient supply chain processes.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 12, 2019

In the last installment , we explored how management has gone through big evolutionary changes since its inception. When a business is falling behind in its evolutionary journey towards adopting a Teal management style, it has two main options: transformation or reinvention. Relevance of the Teal management philosophy.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 5, 2019

In the last installment , we explored how management has gone through big evolutionary changes since its inception. When a business is falling behind in its evolutionary journey towards adopting a Teal management style, it has two main options: transformation or reinvention. Relevance of the Teal management philosophy.

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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. The first time I had to manage a layoff, I had to lay off five people (across my department). I made lists for both the general and specific: Reasons my management were idiots so we could avoid doing this again. (A But layoffs? I focus on empathy.

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Melissa Agnes

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

If you’re in law enforcement or emergency management, I highly recommend the listen. Prioritization / Triage – ranking and managing various problems by severity and urgency. But our law enforcement field is missing pieces to effectively and efficiently respond to those initial moments (maybe up to an hour?) Tune in here.

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Melissa Agnes

MAY 2, 2016

I often get asked the following question: What should we include in our organization’s crisis management plan? 1- Activation guidelines. 1- Activation guidelines. The crisis management levels that all incidents should be categorized into. Your action plans are basically a crisis management check list for your crisis team.

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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

JANUARY 6, 2022

Tim didn't have much time to manage paying people by value at their various levels. Engineering management, including the directors and first-level managers, knew about the salary problem. Tim's management used power-over, not power-with to decide. The managers, because they are in a terrible position.

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LSA Global

MAY 8, 2017

If you are in charge of talent management , it is important to do it right. New hires need to have clear statements regarding the company’s mission, values and culture; a procedures manual that covers compliance regulations, and pay and compensation timing and guidelines; and an org chart that explains whom to contact, when, why and how.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 21, 2019

Part 2 was why we need managers in an agile transformation. Start with management first. How can the managers use agility in their work? Management Teams and Agility: Flow & Resilience. When I think about management agility, I often think of managers working in flow, especially for decision.

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Melissa Agnes

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

If you’re in law enforcement or emergency management, I highly recommend the listen. Prioritization / Triage – ranking and managing various problems by severity and urgency. But our law enforcement field is missing pieces to effectively and efficiently respond to those initial moments (maybe up to an hour?) Tune in here.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 27, 2019

I use the guideline: If I can't write large enough on the front of the card to see, my story is too large. If the team hands off work, they're working in resource efficiency, not flow efficiency. See Manage It! If the PO writes stories or epics as problems to solve, the PO manages some of the documentation effort.

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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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Asamby Consulting

AUGUST 30, 2022

A wiki is a knowledge management system that: Is digital and Is updated and edited by its own audience. But given the above (growing volume of information), you as the CEO or manager can't update all information yourself. Notion Notion is a multifunctional collaboration, documentation and project management software.

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Women in Consulting

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Best practices, models, guidelines are freely available, published by experts as part of their content marketing strategies, or easily accessible online via Udacity, Udemy, LinkedIn Learning or Stanford. Here are three reasons why: Democratization of information. Today, anyone can learn just about anything about everything.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 11, 2019

Having a great mentor is critical for personal skill development, especially early in your career, and so I wanted to share the guidelines that my mentor provided me to follow in 2019 to become a better consultant / strategist. Benefits: Efficiency: one marketing strategy and one brand covers every offering. Image: Pexels.

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Asamby Consulting

JANUARY 20, 2022

The goal trap for small businesses Small businesses realize as they grow that they need goals and goal setting to manage their company but often fail to adopt them. Goal setting refers to how these goals are defined, tracked and managed. MBO (Management By Objectives) Presented by Peter Drucker in 1954 "The Practice of Management."

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Nash Consulting

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Sheila, a leader for a team of project managers, has a tight deadline to deliver on an important client project. There is a simple nuts-and-bolts kind of management tool that will help your team avoid this common pitfall. Here are some guidelines for establishing a culture of by-whens in your workplace: 1. Yes, like, every time.)

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The Fearless Marketer

JANUARY 6, 2020

In addition, you could say, “Right now I’m looking for connections to HR directors in high-tech companies who want to help their engineers be better managers. Make these meetings short and efficient. Just follow these guidelines to the best of your ability and fine-tune as you go. Do you know anyone I should be speaking with?”.

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Seth Godin Blog

MAY 28, 2021

It would be impossible to efficiently build a house if the subcontractors could deliver their goods or services whenever it were convenient for them. It won’t work the same on everyone, which means that some people will take you at your word and actually deliver on time, while others will assume that it was simply a guideline.

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Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2016

By looking at detailed sales data from 40 companies in technology-related industries, we have identified guidelines for the optimal amount and type of sales support and management. This includes all non-quota-carrying roles in the organization: customer-facing support, sales operations and administration, and sales management.

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Harvard Business

JULY 7, 2017

In both cases, any new leader must manage intense exposure (as it sinks in that top leaders have few places to escape to) and unrealistic expectations (of both self and others). How to Evaluate, Manage, and Strengthen Your Resilience. A journal is an effective, efficient, private way to take a similar break. Resilience.

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 13, 2015

The frameworks help you quickly identify hot topics that will assist you in solving a case – real or in an interview – in an extremely short – and efficient – amount of time. The post Intro to Consulting Case Frameworks appeared first on Management Consulted. Overview of consulting case frameworks.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 12, 2015

Founded in 1992, North Highland is an employee-owned global management consulting firm that has been named as a Best Firm to Work For every year since 2007 by Consulting Magazine. This will be of particular interest for students and recent graduates who are looking to pursue a career in the management consulting industry.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

But social media managers face innumerable possibilities for posting content. For example, a social media manager tasked with posting 10 stories in a day and with a budget to promote four of those stories can schedule the sequence of social media posts in over 7 trillion ways. Putting an Ad Hoc Strategy to the Test.

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LSA Global

JULY 2, 2019

This autonomy gives workers an opportunity to think through the best way to proceed.Most often middle management and employees devise simpler and more efficient approaches than you would have suggested because they are the frontline experts. But give your employees some leeway in how they go about reaching key strategic targets.

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MishTalk

JUNE 23, 2014

Moreover, driverless truck convoys will be safer and more fuel efficient than human-driven trucks. " These guidelines open the door for driverless tests of all kinds. Mike "Mish" Shedlock [link] Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management. In the wake of new U.S.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Tight cultures have an efficient orderliness and reassuring predictability, but are less adaptable. Rooted firmly in the manufacturing industry, Amazon has defined processes to maximize its efficiency. Employees operate within a hierarchy and are well aware of the guidelines that dictate their behavior.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

China has unveiled the much-awaited guidelines for reform of its bloated state-owned enterprise sector as the latest official data show its economy continuing to slow. Mike "Mish" Shedlock Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2017

There’s a lot of advice out there about how to make meetings more efficient and productive. I’ve worked with managers and project leaders to create these kinds of experiences. Set up and manage the conversation. Ask the group for permission to deliberately manage the conversation. Marion Barraud for HBR.

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