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Chris Hoff’s Guide for Consultants and Coaches Navigating Radical Change

Consulting Matters

Chris sheds light on our collective discomfort with uncertainty and how coaching and consulting can train us to build resilience during such tricky times. First coined by Arnold Van Gennep, it is a fascinating term that captures the transitional phase between what was and what is yet to be.

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How Future-Proof Are Your Leadership Skills?

Organizational Talent Consulting

If you believe that training is expensive, it is because you do not know what ignorance costs." According to a study by McKinsey & Company, it is projected that by 2030, the time spent during a workweek on information technology and programming tasks will increase the most. IBM (2014) The value of training IBM Corporation.

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Types of Consultants - Free Management Library

Consulting and Organizational Management

These consultants often use a wide variety of approaches, tools and techniques to affect various systems and functions across the organization, for example, technical assistance, coaching, facilitation and training. For training on consulting skills, see the Consultants Development Institute. Types of Consulting Can Overlap.

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You Can’t Delegate Talent Management to the HR Department

Harvard Business

A centralized function also enables a comprehensive and objective view of the company’s talent landscape (overcoming the problem of silos hiding talent), and makes it easier to implement solutions, such as leadership training, that cut across the organization and can be delivered cost-effectively.

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Who Killed the GE Model?

Harvard Business

These strategies eroded GE’s competitive advantage in everything from consumer electronics and home appliances to trains and aircraft engines. The diffusion of manufacturing technology through global trade, investment, and education has hurt the company, too. Silicon Valley and the rise of information technology.

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The Secret History of Agile Innovation

Harvard Business

Toyota hired Deming to train hundreds of the company’s managers, eventually capitalizing on his expertise to develop the famous Toyota Production System — the primary source of today’s “lean” thinking. Once the Snowbird meeting had canonized a creed for agile innovation, the agile movement spread rapidly.

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Hiring Data Scientists from Outside the U.S.: A Primer on Visas

Harvard Business

Here’s what we found: F-1 Visa “Optional Practical Training” Who’s eligible? This year of employment is known as “Optional Practical Training” or “OPT.” Most F-1 students apply for their optional practical training employment cards on their own and without the assistance of an attorney.

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