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Your Consulting Niche vs Jack-of-All-Trades Myth

Successful Independent Consulting

I know a highly talented professional with over 20 years of experience with several Fortune 500 companies. I have never heard a client say, “We need someone to come in and do some organizational development.” Exercise #1: Look at Your History. Exercise #2: Get Input from Colleagues. Let’s look at some examples.

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We May Not Have a Clear Path, But We Each Have One

Harmonious Workplaces

I really handled every aspect of the human resources spectrum, including job analysis, selection, training and development, talent management, rewards and benefits structures, compliance, and termination. It meant something to me when our employees, Tony and Mike, said that I was their best boss.

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3 Tactics for Accelerating Company Performance Despite an Economic Downturn

Organizational Talent Consulting

Implementation typically involves experimentation, analyzing the existing strategies, and creative experiential learning exercises. Without a good implementation strategy and effective implementation, scenario planning is nothing more than an intellectual exercise. The most threatening competitor leadership teams face is themself."

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Putting a Price on People Problems at Work

Harvard Business

These traps did not emerge from people’s weakness, lack of expertise, or character flaws but were often the direct result of many of the talents and skills that had allowed them to excel in so many other situations. Organizational Development Book. Adapted from. Tanya Menon Leigh Thompson. Add to Cart.

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Why Leadership Development Isn’t Developing Leaders

Harvard Business

Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. How talent management is changing. In practice, this mean setting up what I call “living laboratory” leadership development. Throw out pre-planned teaching schedules, content, lectures, and exercises that ask you to think about your world and how you need to lead it.