Tom Spencer

MARCH 17, 2023

Arms raised in triumph, and revelling in the glory of your success, you are a hero! However, the very next week you make your way back to the starting line and ready yourself for the starter’s gun. Bang* You run the race over again, and then again the next week, over and over. You are like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day.

Ethics 78

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The Management Centre

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

As a project manager it’s important to know and understand who your stakeholders are and how to manage your relationships with them. For other bigger, more complex projects you can face a potential minefield of relationships that you need to manage. And, therefore, how you should allocate your time and energy in handling them.

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PM Alliance

AUGUST 18, 2023

If your project isn’t going well, you need to understand how close your effort is to failing and which options are still on the table to fix it. If your project isn’t going well, you need to understand how close your effort is to failing and which options are still on the table to fix it. Missed deadlines are piling up.

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Harmonious Workplaces

DECEMBER 27, 2023

I thought that, while businesses may take this time to plan for the New Year, this short list of recruiters can help you find a partner to conduct your search: Tree Top Staffing Myles Rickert serves as the Head of Talent Acquisition at Tree Top Staffing. Recruitment and Retention Across Cultures.

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Harvard Business

JULY 24, 2023

In the authors’ experience leading and coaching sales teams, they see evidence that a brief, well-pointed sales retrospective, where you unpack the reasons behind a win or a loss, can significantly improve a team’s future win rate. Teams should ask three questions: 1) How would the customer articulate the value of their choice?

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

By employing these strange metaphors, Balter was trying to highlight how hard some individuals are willing to work to seek out, absorb, and use new information to gain an advantage and break through barriers. This is also a perfect analogy for how consultants work and thrive. How can you become a sponge? Read hungrily.

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PM Alliance

MAY 12, 2023

1 – User data Something as seemingly bland as the number of users that are expected to interact with the new system can be hugely influential in determining a project’s scope. This data is useful in highlighting where you risk falling behind if your project doesn’t achieve the right deliverables.

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PM Alliance

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Influential sponsors are valuable members of the project team because they’re uniquely positioned to convince high-ranking people to throw their support behind key projects. Try this: Provide historical information to demonstrate how priorities were established during the initial planning phase, and who was involved in those decisions.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MAY 30, 2022

Remember campaigning to be the leader so you could pick your friends or play a particular position you wanted. I want to share a couple of key insights about self-sacrifice with a view toward helping you achieve leadership success and significance. As kids, the motivation to lead was often merely selfish. Follower performance.

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Most people intuitively grasp that the last sentence is true but don't know how to acquire or borrow power when they lack it. When you've developed strong, individual relationships with the most influential members of your audience, your ideas will be taken more seriously. You need to know something very, very well.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Ryan Ripley, host of Agile for Humans, interviewed Gil Broza and me in AFH 102: The Influential Agile Leader. We spoke about the workshop I lead with Gil, the Influential Agile Leader. If you’re interested, sign up at that link. Oh, we had fun! I always have a blast talking with Ryan, and this time was no exception.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 7, 2019

If you want to achieve sustainable success as a consultant - ideally you want to create a marketing system to ensure you have a consistently full pipeline of right-fit clients. However, there will be times when you have to feel the cash flow pressure and need to find clients.right now! Before we get started. your peers.).

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Asamby Consulting

JULY 25, 2022

What does a good strategy execution require If you have the right strategy and execute it well, your business will thrive. How do we win (why will our customers buy from us instead of buying from the competition or not buying at all)? It describes the resources and potential you have in your team to execute your strategy.

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CaseInterview.com

APRIL 30, 2023

Over time, though, I realized how valuable this skill is. To be influential, we must be open to being influenced by others, which also requires comprehension. Do this before you respond to the substance of their point. Did I understand you correctly? We’ll never spam you or share your email.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 4, 2019

However, they don't know what their options are, nor how to accomplish them. If you recognize these challenges in your organization, consider joining Gil Broza and me at the Influential Agile Leader workshop in Toronto, April 24-25, 2019. You'll see who holds which beliefs, and where you might start to influence them.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 21, 2019

So the question that remains is - how profitable and PROPHET-able is your consulting? Cares equally for what gets accomplished AND how. There's two types of consultants. The ones who are drawn to the profession because of the potential for making great money and the prestige that comes from working with the executives.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 7, 2019

If you want to achieve sustainable success as a consultant - ideally you want to create a marketing system to ensure you have a consistently full pipeline of right-fit clients. However, there will be times when you have to feel the cash flow pressure and need to find clients.right now! Before we get started. your peers.).

Consulting 202

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JUNE 12, 2023

Today, many leaders are asking how they can change the organizational culture. If you are looking for a good discussion topic at an upcoming meeting, take some time to ask those attending how they would describe the organization's culture. You will likely hear many different perspectives on what culture is and is not.

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Culture Strategy Strategy Strategy& 76

Johanna Rothman

MARCH 21, 2019

The senior managers love the agile promise because they can see how agile approaches help the teams release a more constant flow of value. They're supposed to figure out how to create an agile culture inside of the various organizational constraints. They can see the benefits of attracting new customers and retaining current customers.

Agile 45

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 19, 2018

Are you looking to help support your team, management, or organization’s agile adoption? Do you feel as if you are part of the formal or informal team leading your agile transformation? You need what Gil Broza and I teach and facilitate at the Influential Agile Leader Workshop.

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Chad Barr

AUGUST 16, 2023

Do you ever find yourself stuck, searching for fresh content to create? As a staunch believer in content calendars, I decided to ask ChatGPT to craft a one-week content schedule tailored for my target audience (which might include you!). It’s at these times that I turn to ChatGPT, and it has never disappointed me.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

But, maybe you feel the importance of effective leadership is often overstated and are somewhat skeptical of the real impact leadership has on a business. Given the lack of a standard definition for leadership and seemingly contradictory evidence, it is no surprise you may feel skeptical.

Leadership 52

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 21, 2019

So the question that remains is - how profitable and PROPHET-able is your consulting? Cares equally for what gets accomplished AND how. There's two types of consultants. The ones who are drawn to the profession because of the potential for making great money and the prestige that comes from working with the executives.

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The Fearless Marketer

OCTOBER 18, 2021

So, how exactly do you do it? You can stop reading now if that’s a turnoff to you! And honesty is a developed characteristic you learned in your family, through education, and in working for a living. If you don’t know what it is by now, it’s probably too late! An Email Newsletter.

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Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

MAY 11, 2023

Which got me to the question: “How likely is this partnership to work for either Twitter or Tucker Carlson?” The Power Framework, created by Dr. Kamal Munir, at the Judge School of Business at Cambridge talks about a strategy being good by how much power it gives to the organization formulating the strategy. How do you rate power?

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The Management Centre

MAY 4, 2022

If you want to have a good relationship with your colleagues, managers and leaders at work, the best thing to do is to perform your job well. But there will be times when you need to actively influence someone – to get help or resources, to get buy-in for your ideas, or to raise a particularly difficult problem. Expressive. ANALYTICAL.

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CaseInterview.com

MAY 13, 2020

Just because everyone else is having a crisis doesn’t mean you are having one. You see, this is the idea that so many people in the emergency responder community have been taught and led to believe. If you run a company where sales are down significantly, you’re selling your staff on why they should continue working for you.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 7, 2021

If you think your relationship with your manager is a one-way street with the manager doing all the delegating and you doing all the following, think again. At its core, managing up isn’t just about the way you interact with your supervisor. How to Manage Up. When others seek you out for advice, you become influential.

Management 88

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

If you read my scaling agile series , you can see that becoming an agile organization requires seeing your organization as a system with a culture. You can start with teams, move to programs and the product part of the organization. You know why you want the organization to use agile approaches. Define Culture.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

OCTOBER 30, 2023

It seems logical to think of pressure as a negative and something to be avoided, but as a leader, should you? Leaders in a fast-changing world need to be influential in articulating their vision and, paradoxically, at the same time, be open to changes as the idea needs to change due to the world's turbulence. No aligned goals?

Leadership 52

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CaseInterview.com

MARCH 22, 2021

I’ve always said you never really know what’s going on with someone else and how they’re experiencing the events around them. Second, I couldn’t help but notice how often she referred to “The Firm.” As some of you may know, this is how people in the McKinsey ecosystem refer to McKinsey… they all call it The Firm.

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Peter Stark

JANUARY 3, 2024

Some leaders are struggling with how to cope with the added pressure. If all you do during your day is put out fires, you will probably spend tomorrow doing the same thing all over again. If you get the most important items done each day, it will minimize the fires. Other leaders are thriving in this environment.

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PM Alliance

JANUARY 21, 2022

Any time you have a shakeup—particularly a significant one—your team’s productivity could take a hit. Try this: Prepare your team in advance as much as you can. Try this: Prepare your team in advance as much as you can. 1 – The business goes through a reorg. 2 – New project team leaders come on board.

Productivity 52

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 28, 2022

But being an influential communicator is not something you are born with or not. You can be just as trustworthy and inspiring working remotely as in the office. You can be just as trustworthy and inspiring working remotely as in the office. In fact, sometimes, it's incredibly challenging. It can be exhausting.

Leadership 52

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 24, 2020

” The developer said, “If you didn't pressure me so much, I could have done a better job.” If you pressure one piece of the system and don't accommodate that pressure elsewhere, you create bad products. Years ago, I wrote The Influential Test Manager. I urge you to reconsider how you talk about problems.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Before you can unlock a better future, you have to know what it looks like. Taking an "I will know it when I see it" approach will not help you get in front of the busyness of life as a leader or persevere when life throws you a curveball. Starting with the end in mind goes far beyond knowing what you love or desire.

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CaseInterview.com

MAY 13, 2019

Several years ago, one of my clients taught me a great framework to describe how to be influential with others in the workplace. It’s a communication approach you can use to manage direct reports, manage colleagues, and even to manage your boss. If you ask, "Do you want to take on this project?", he’ll say, “Well.

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