Kates Kesler

JANUARY 18, 2022

They do all the right things: create a strategy, announce a leader, build and buy the talent needed, research and implement best practices, purchase new technology, and roll-out training. Think of a new internal capability in the same way you would plan to introduce a product or service to the external market. Right Connections.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

JUNE 30, 2009

I just came across an interesting blog post by Stephen Monrad with title of " Can non-profit organizations meet all the needs for-profit businesses currently meet? " If, somehow, the production of toiletries were related to the charitable purpose. I found it to be an interesting post.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2018

If all went well, AI-powered robots would enable the company to achieve a weekly production of 5,000 Model 3 electric cars to keep up with burgeoning demand. According to CEO Elon Musk, the sophisticated robots actually slowed down production instead of speeding it up. Some Training Required.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2017

Siri is super, Alexa is awesome, and Cortana’s quite clever, but better bots and digital assistants aren’t going to determine personal productivity’s data-driven future. Tomorrow’s most effective executives will merge and marry workplace data and analytics to digitally design more-productive versions of themselves.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

APRIL 13, 2010

When Consultants Should Facilitate, Coach or Train By Carter McNamara on April 13, 2010. There are strong feelings that consulting, facilitating, coaching and training are very different roles. Ongoing contributions usually do not come from clients during trainings or when receiving advice from experts. To Subscribe to a Blog.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

MAY 21, 2010

OD vs. Training – Or Is It? For example, many Organization Development practitioners almost look down on training as scoped to working only with individuals and not the broader context of organizations as does OD (by the way, we OD’rs prefer that you capitalize the name of our field. Are You Doing OD? Consulting? All of These?

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Harvard Business

MARCH 19, 2018

The goal was to find newcomers who got connected (and productive) much more quickly than peers starting at the same time and who stayed in the organization through milestones, such as the first nine months and the two- to four-year tenure band, at which flight risk is greatest. ” .

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Harvard Business

MARCH 10, 2017

By seeing exactly where and how people spend their time — rather than relying on recollections, anecdotes, or assumptions — executives have a solid basis for taking actions that will raise productivity. The company had experienced lackluster sales growth, especially outside of its core product category.

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1 to 1

AUGUST 30, 2021

The sales world is forever altered, thanks to pandemic-fueled digital transformation across entire enterprises. In-person meetings have nearly disappeared, replaced by Zoom meetings, webinars, virtual trade shows, online wine tastings, and cooking demonstrations. After all, a truly good sale is about relationships, not products.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

“Productivity isn’t everything, but in the long run it is almost everything,” wrote Paul Krugman more than 20 years ago. Productivity in most developed economies has been anemic. During much of this time, it has been shareholders, not workers, who have reaped the benefits of higher productivity.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

APRIL 14, 2013

They have an approach or a product to sell whether it is team building, coaching, process improvement, strategic planning, or restructuring. John Dupre is an organization development consultant who designs innovative ways to involve people in building more productive and satisfying workplaces. Social Enterprise. Read more.].

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Consulting and Organizational Management

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

The organization has limited or no expertise in the area of need, for example, to develop a new product or program for customers and clients. The organization’s previous attempts to meet its own needs were not successful, for example, the organization developed a Strategic Plan that was never implemented. Social Enterprise.

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1 to 1

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Outsourcing business processes and tasks can free up employees to focus on more complex or valuable work; it can extend resources, such as sales support, for targeting new or underserved markets; support new product and service rollouts; and provide expertise within a specific industry focus.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

MAY 5, 2013

Your client postpones meetings with you. For training on consulting skills, see the Consultants Development Institute. Meet this Blog’s Co-Hosts Carter McNamara of Authenticity Consulting, LLC, provides organization development and consultant training services, and is developer of the Free Management Library.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 24, 2016

In fact, it has set up a specific unit – Experian DataLabs — to actively seek out unresolved problems its customers are having and use them as a launchpad to seek out new opportunities and create new products. This is what is known in the lean startup world as a minimum viable product.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

JANUARY 7, 2011

Enterprise Law — Forming Organizations. Or Starting a New Product or Service? Product Development. Marketing Your Organization, Product or Service. John Dupre is an organization development consultant who designs innovative ways to involve people in building more productive and satisfying workplaces.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

APRIL 7, 2011

« Previous Next » Meet this Blog’s Co-Hosts Carter McNamara of Authenticity Consulting, LLC, provides organization development and consultant training services, and is developer of the Free Management Library. Social Enterprise. Training and Development. Read more.]. Human Resources. Leadership.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

For training on consulting skills, see the Consultants Development Institute. « Previous Next » Meet this Blog’s Co-Hosts Carter McNamara of Authenticity Consulting, LLC, provides organization development and consultant training services, and is developer of the Free Management Library. Social Enterprise.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 5, 2018

Like many technology companies, DataStax competes with some of the world’s largest enterprises for top talent. When we decided to take a “distributed first” approach to meetings, not everyone was comfortable with the idea. By Billy Bosworth, CEO, DataStax. That changed when it came time to add inside salespeople.

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Management Consulted

MAY 22, 2016

While originally founded as an independent strategic firm, Archstone Consulting was acquired by leading enterprise benchmarking firm The Hackett Group in 2009. Archstone Consulting specializes in working with clients in the Consumer Products (especially packaged goods), Life Sciences, and Manufacturing sectors. Industries.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 27, 2018

Looking at the distance between your idea and the finished product — whether it’s a podcast, a coaching practice, an app, or anything else — can seem overwhelming. Being Engaged at Work Is Not the Same as Being Productive. Here are targeted strategies to overcome each one. Focusing on the wrong first steps.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

OCTOBER 26, 2011

« Previous Next » Meet this Blog’s Co-Hosts Carter McNamara of Authenticity Consulting, LLC, provides organization development and consultant training services, and is developer of the Free Management Library. Social Enterprise. Training and Development. Read more.]. Human Resources. Leadership.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

JANUARY 21, 2011

Regardless of the name of the step or phase, the consultant can learn a great deal about the client — and even get a sense for the likelihood of the client’s participation in (and thus, success of) the project — by asking useful questions when first meeting the client. Social Enterprise. Training and Development.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

DECEMBER 2, 2012

For example, say I’m working with a team of people representing a bottling operation in a brewery, and the team has figured out how to redesign the bottling operation to reduce costs, simplify the process, and increase production. Social Enterprise. Training and Development. I love that type of project.”. “On Read more.].

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Consulting and Organizational Management

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

« Previous Next » Meet this Blog’s Co-Hosts Carter McNamara of Authenticity Consulting, LLC, provides organization development and consultant training services, and is developer of the Free Management Library. Social Enterprise. Training and Development. Read more.]. Human Resources. Leadership.

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Makarios Consulting

JANUARY 5, 2021

Here’s where the rubber really meets the road: what are you going to do in the next 90 days? Exchange perspectives, listen to questions and concerns, and be receptive to new ideas from people across your enterprise. Set specific goals – we advise no more than seven – for the next twelve months that will keep your progress on track.

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Makarios Consulting

JANUARY 5, 2021

Here’s where the rubber really meets the road: what are you going to do in the next 90 days? Exchange perspectives, listen to questions and concerns, and be receptive to new ideas from people across your enterprise. Set specific goals – we advise no more than seven – for the next twelve months that will keep your progress on track.

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Epicflow

APRIL 19, 2022

Today, in times of war and crisis, companies dealing with aerospace and defense projects have to timely react to arising challenges and suggest the best solutions possible to meet the consumers’ requirements and stay competitive in the market. You should change the way you look at your enterprise and the way you analyze progress.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

For instance, we examined predatory pricing in the airline industry and illegal product tying by Apple, Microsoft, and AT&T. What I found particularly fascinating was the number of variables that needed to be taken into account while making strategic decisions on governance, production or any other function.

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

CEB reports that the average organization has undergone five enterprise-wide changes in the past three years and 73% expect change to accelerate (URL: [link] ). Look for boundary-spanning partnerships: As work becomes more complex, it takes teams and cross-boundary collaborations to build products, attract customers, and achieve results.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

APRIL 28, 2010

The challenge with any of the “management movements” — and with many new subjects introduced at or below the “C suite” level — is the lack of follow-up training. You can’t learn a new paradigm in a one-day (or even one-week) training session. Social Enterprise. Training and Development.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

DECEMBER 10, 2010

However, even in projects where you are an expert consultant, for example, training clients how to conduct a certain procedure, your client must participate substantially in the project. ” The process must always be interactive or else the consultant, as you note, may produce a product that just sits on a shelf. Read more.].

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Consulting and Organizational Management

DECEMBER 10, 2011

« Previous Next » Meet this Blog’s Co-Hosts Carter McNamara of Authenticity Consulting, LLC, provides organization development and consultant training services, and is developer of the Free Management Library. Social Enterprise. Training and Development. Read more.]. Human Resources. Leadership.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Another pervasive reason is that senior executives are trained as operators, not innovators. Yet every enterprise is essentially a square-peg business waiting for a round-hole world. When it launched as a consumer product, it was a disaster, inspiring a huge backlash against the “glassholes” who bought them.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 6, 2018

Using historic data from software projects, it trains a machine learning-based model to predict, weeks in advance, whether a problem is likely to occur. Training the model. To train this model, we first collated historical data from the past three years across thousands of projects, comprising millions of records.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

They help leaders and managers be more productive at planning, organizing, leading and coordinating resources in the organization. Later on, you might function as a management consultant to train and coach various leaders and managers during the change effort. Many organizations hire technical consultants. Management consultants.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

MARCH 6, 2013

Often these internal consultants are in large organizations and from training and development or human resource departments. For training on consulting skills, see the Consultants Development Institute. Social Enterprise. Training and Development. Read more.]. Read more.]. Recent Blog Posts. Human Resources. Leadership.

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