LSA Global

JUNE 2, 2023

Whether you face an unexpected threat from competition, a disruption in technology, economic headwinds, or talent drain, your strategy needs to be regularly evaluated. To succeed, leadership teams need to test their strategy to ensure it makes sense within the overall market, culture, competitor, and talent realities.

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Henman Performance Executive

MARCH 28, 2011

Who Needs An Operating Plan? You don’t want your operating plan to concentrate on the past—to focus on the reflection in the rearview mirror. Instead, your operating plan should be a kaleidoscope that exhibits various symmetrical patterns that reflect the loose bits of information you have aggregated. Talent Management.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Only operating in the short term or taking too much risk and gambling on one specific future are frequent traps leaders fall into when facing economic uncertainty. Implementation typically involves experimentation, analyzing the existing strategies, and creative experiential learning exercises.

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LSA Global

APRIL 9, 2021

Do Not Underestimate the Power of Simulation-Based Learning Simulation-based learning operates on the principle that you cannot learn to swim by just reading a book. Victims, passengers, and patients are protected from unnecessary risks while learners build the knowledge, skills, and attitudes they will need to operate successfully.

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Operations Exercises Education Sales 36

Brimstone Consulting

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

What’s your framework around people and leadership –how do you identify, motivate, assess and develop talent? How do you fix operational problems, political conflicts, interpersonal issues? It’s a good exercise as it forces you to record your major achievements annually. What kind of people do you tend to surround yourself with?

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

.” While there are many contributing factors, one of the most important is the sheer lack of analytic talent, up and down the organization chart. In turn, this lack of talent makes it harder for companies to leverage their data, to take full advantage of their data scientists, and to get in front of data quality issues.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

For every company wrestling with evolutions in its strategy, success depends as much on matching the operating model to those evolutions as it does on the soundness of the strategy itself. But exactly how do today’s companies create or update an operating model to match adaptations or wholesale changes in strategy?

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2018

These are major changes that will affect every aspect of how the firm operates — from the services it offers to the structure of her organization. One employee had expressed concern that the changes would cause talented employees to leave, which would lead to a greater burden on remaining employees.

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Brimstone Consulting

JUNE 23, 2020

Strategy has traditionally been a top-down exercise conducted on an annual basis. Andy shares that they have been able to attract talent that would have been hard for V12 to attract in a different environment. In an environment of sustained, systemic disruption due to the COVID-19 pandemic, V12 is thriving. Agile Strategy.

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Brimstone Consulting

JUNE 23, 2020

Strategy has traditionally been a top-down exercise conducted on an annual basis. Andy shares that they have been able to attract talent that would have been hard for V12 to attract in a different environment. In an environment of sustained, systemic disruption due to the COVID-19 pandemic, V12 is thriving. Agile Strategy.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2018

For instance, Doug shared some new concepts for transforming an insurmountable checklist of requirements into manageable benchmarks and priorities, which he had developed after conducting a comprehensive review of his company’s operations. He also shared supply discipline systems that reduced common inefficiencies.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 28, 2016

Along with many other executives, I attended talks by noted management authors, I went to (often lengthy) team-building exercises, and I participated in discussions on different leadership styles. Without solid shop-floor management, operations grind slowly. It’s where the money, influence, and intellectual horsepower reside.

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Harvard Business

JULY 30, 2018

. “Any time you start something new like [an innovation initiative], that cuts across many areas, there’s a potential for people feeling like you’re in their backyard,” says Michael Britt, a senior vice president who heads the Energy Innovation Center at Southern Company, a major utility operator.

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Harvard Business

MAY 3, 2016

They didn’t exert heavy control in the negotiation stage, and afterward, when strategic, operational, or cultural mismatches between big and small arose, they left it to the innovation teams to solve them — a fix-it-as-you-go mentality. They focused on the entrepreneurial talent, not the technology.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2018

However, many investors seem to have concluded that the most successful companies with tens of billions of dollars of valuation today could never have justified their valuation at the start of their operation based on discounted cash flow. However, they do not possess the infrastructure or talent pool to ward off potential competition.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

AUGUST 22, 2022

Numerous research studies have linked hope with many individual, team, and organizational benefits, including: Increased revenue and decreased operating costs. Developing a vision is an exercise of both the head and the heart, it takes some time, it always involves a group of people, and it is tough to do well."

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Women in Consulting

APRIL 10, 2014

It’s not a lack of creative storytelling talent. Here’s another exercise: count how many times your writing mentions your company and its services. Companies operate as “people,” too, with their own personality attributes. Marketing is supposed to put human needs first by sounding like it was created for humans by humans.

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Harvard Business

MAY 21, 2018

Although concerned leaders try to address this problem in many ways — teamwork exercises, mentorship, perks, innovative office spaces, and incentive programs — their solutions miss a simple but pivotal point: Employees are engaged by engaging jobs. We customize without catering to prima donnas.

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Case Interview Exercises Recruiting Recruitment 34

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

More than 80% of our work is done by teams of consultants and staff who operate out of their home offices. At the same time, the fact that we do not have to maintain physical offices leaves us room to pay higher wages than others and attract top talent. The advisory firm we work for is one such company. Focus on outcomes.

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Management Case Interview Leadership Interviews 39

Harvard Business

MAY 20, 2016

To better understand how these work, try the exercise below on your own or with your team. ” There are a variety of ways you can use this exercise beyond one meeting. The New York headquarters housed over a third of its workforce, including developers, the sales team, operations, and leadership.

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Exercises Meeting Real Estate Survey 38

Harvard Business

MARCH 28, 2017

Developing leaders to drive financial performance and operational excellence has always been important. Preparing for the Future of Talent Acquisition. Part of that exercise is to include a greater variety of voices and perspectives in the leadership pipeline. Image courtesy of Korn Ferry.

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Development Survey How To Leadership 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Large enterprises typically operate dozens of security products with growing headcount in all areas of their security organizations. The current state of affairs in corporate cybersecurity is similar to how most organizations used to approach much of their IT operations, prior to the advent of public cloud infrastructure.

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Data ROI System Education 32

Harvard Business

JUNE 5, 2018

As soon as you step into a top position at a company that needs to significantly improve the way it operates, there’s pressure to get off to a quick start. He would have elevated above the action to a position where he could have exercised better judgment. HBR Staff/Clare Jackson/EyeEm/Getty Images.

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Journal Leadership Operations Company 41

Brimstone Consulting

MAY 6, 2022

There is more to “the right people” than strategic talent acquisition. Further, when leaders move people internally and bring in new talent, they are more likely to have their transformation efforts succeed. In our work, we have seen organizations make strategic talent changes, but not communicate these changes across the organization.

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How To Leadership Talent Exercises 78

Asamby Consulting

OCTOBER 24, 2022

That question becomes especially important when you operate in multiple locations. This means that you can exercise 25% of the options after one year, 50% after two years, 75% after three years and 100% after four years. You then have another 6 years time to exercise the option (10 years total).

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ROI Tools Travel Sales 40

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Believing that the best route to long-term empowerment for women was through education, Sakena Yacoobi created an underground network of schools that operated out of private homes. After all, as Afdhal notes, the most useful exercise for organizations trying to innovate more effectively is to learn from other industries.

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Education Healthcare Government Journal 28

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

ERGs drive business goals by improving customer insights, increasing employee engagement, and supporting talent development. Other Lyft executives exercise consistent, visible ERG support by adopting specific tasks at ERG programs and events.

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Deloitte Groups Exercises Examples 28

Harvard Business

APRIL 14, 2016

To attract top remote talent, start by rethinking your approach to job descriptions. Facebook’s chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, called Netflix’s now-legendary culture deck “one of the most important documents ever to come out of Silicon Valley.”

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Culture Recruiting Recruitment Video 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

In 2011, when I came to Centura Health in Colorado as President of its largest operating group (Mountains and North Denver Operating Group or MNDOG) and CEO of its flagship health organization, Saint Anthony Hospital, I saw a clear mandate for change. The organization had a strong community tradition and over 4,500 talented employees.

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How To Healthcare Operations Leadership 28

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

While I was working with them, the focus of my PhD gradually shifted toward how economic integration and various factors (domestic, international, political, economic) have impacted Japanese companies’ corporate strategy and operations over the past couple of decades. Hence I entered consulting. ” Pure humor.

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Consulting Case Interview Interviews Engineering 204

Consulting Matters

AUGUST 6, 2018

I was asked to lead a massive initiative at Disney to help the operations executives redefine the guest/cast and cast/leader experience. In this resource you'll find a series of exercises to help you quickly master politics. I'll never forget the moment when I first fell in love with corporate politics.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Through team-building exercises and the careful establishment of norms and processes, leaders aim to create a culture of trust, psychological safety, and good feeling. But this culture needs to coexist with strategic bets led by the top of the house that get an enterprise operational plan behind them.

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Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2017

Projecting new revenues to the four areas in the Opportunity Portfolio was an easy exercise. Often, a new team needs to be brought in, one with more operational expertise than the startup team. Sometimes, it is because leaders just won’t take the time away from day-to-day operations. The metrics need to change.

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How To Resources Operations Trends 28

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

You attract talent, and people are more likely to devote their discretionary time to your projects. In one case, two operational leaders at Kelly Services, a workforce solutions firm, created a Business Resource Group to promote leadership development and increase employee engagement. This occurs because people want to be around you.

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Energy Study Chemicals Research 28

Confessions of a Consultant

JANUARY 27, 2019

Leveraging synergy within and between businesses (maximum separation + optimum co-operation). Unmatched talent spotting and grooming system for ‘tomorrows leaders’. Because, launching a change initiative that subsequently fails is a costly and frustrating exercise. Disallow game playing.

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Brimstone Consulting

APRIL 4, 2023

The coachee was the head of the US Operations group; we will call him “Bob.” Having partnered with Brimstone in the past on creating a strategy for the Operations group in Europe, Bob’s manager reached out to us, and Bob agreed to enter into a 6-month coaching relationship with one of our executive coaches. Any exercise?

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Ethics Telecommunications Operations Leadership 52

Asamby Consulting

DECEMBER 15, 2021

There is the team, there is the way in which you approach sales and then there is how you manage operations. 2 Remote work opens up great possibilities for new talent We live in amazing times. Let me explain. It is all connected. If you really want to generate value for a client, you gotta tackle these things together. . #4

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