Journal Your Way To More High-Paying Clients
Henry DeVries
APRIL 26, 2022
There are many benefits associated with keeping a daily journal. Here are comments from the creators of two new planning journals, along with my reviews.
What's Servant Leadership?
Organizational Talent Consulting
MAY 8, 2023
Have you ever wondered what servant leadership is? Maybe you already understand the basic concepts but have questions about how servant leadership differs from other leadership styles or if a servant leadership approach is appropriate for your team. Intrinsic motivation is also a moderating factor in employee engagement.
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Journaling Can Boost Your Leadership Skills
Strategy+Business
MAY 14, 2018
See also "How Journaling Can Help Leaders Achieve Their Goals." Stepping away from the screen and putting pen to paper allows the brain to reflect, process, and find patterns.
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6 Organizational Culture Change Strategies
Organizational Talent Consulting
JUNE 12, 2023
There are many different definitions for leadership, but most would agree it is about influence. Here are six practical culture change strategies that will move your company closer toward your goal. The following six proven leadership strategies can change how employees behave, and what they think, feel, and perceive.
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Want a Data-Driven Organization? Start with Your Talent Strategy
Organizational Talent Consulting
MARCH 4, 2024
But, unlocking the full potential of what is possible requires a talent strategy tightly aligned with your company's data analytics strategy. To avoid falling behind and making costly mistakes, here are two essential talent strategy steps you need to take now. The table below shows the expected employee skills from 2015 to 2030.
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Why Your Employees Aren't Committed to Your Company Strategy
Organizational Talent Consulting
OCTOBER 2, 2023
To turn those dreams into workplace realities, leaders set strategies. Unfortunately, many organizations keep strategic plans a secret and don't involve leaders outside the executive leadership team. Evidence suggests only 5% of employees understand their company's strategy.
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How Leadership Self-Awareness Improves Financial Performance
Organizational Talent Consulting
JULY 10, 2023
Unfortunately, self-awareness is rare in leadership. A global study found that 95% of leaders think they are self-aware, but only 10-15% met the criteria to be considered self-aware on essential leadership competencies related to empathy, trustworthiness, and leadership performance.
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Does Effective Leadership Really Matter?
Organizational Talent Consulting
FEBRUARY 21, 2022
Compelling evidence indicates that leadership moderates company performance and results. 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. Great leaders achieve great results and create great company cultures.
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Leading by Lending a Hand to Others
Harmonious Workplaces
JANUARY 25, 2024
Strong manager-employee relationships through great leadership leads to positive outcomes After hearing so many people talking about the Apple TV show Ted Lasso and using it in the context of business leadership, I had to see what caused all the buzz. The show has captured my attention and a little of my heart.
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2 Leadership Tactics for Motivating Your Team
Organizational Talent Consulting
OCTOBER 3, 2022
Here are two leadership tactics that are proven to create optimal work motivation conditions. Tactic 2: Servant leadership How you lead makes a difference. Servant leadership is an emerging 21st-century leadership style. This paradigm stands in stark contrast to traditional transactional leadership. Empowerment.
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Is Stress Killing Productivity? Here's How Leaders Improve Efficiency & Wellbeing
Organizational Talent Consulting
APRIL 8, 2024
Why you need a workplace stress reduction strategy Managing long-term stress can lower your risk for conditions like heart disease, obesity, high blood pressure, and depression. Getting Started Step #1: Cultivating Your Attitude of Gratitude Cultivating an attitude of gratitude is something we can all do and is a healthy leadership habit.
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How to Bring Out Your Best in the New Year
Organizational Talent Consulting
JANUARY 8, 2024
As we begin this new year, I encourage you to spend some quiet time reflecting on this past year - the unforeseen challenges, the changes you made to your leadership habits, and what is most important. Why critical reflection matters Reflection is a powerful leadership tool. Biases are present in all leaders. Open-mindedness.
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How Future-Proof Are Your Leadership Skills?
Organizational Talent Consulting
JANUARY 2, 2023
You might be entirely on board and curious about how work and leadership will be different in the future. No leader sets out to become obsolete, and developing leadership habits is a competitive advantage. Why develop future-proof leadership skills? Well-equipped leadership makes a difference.
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Journaling Can Boost Your Leadership Skills
Strategy+Business
MAY 14, 2018
Stepping away from the screen and putting pen to paper allows the brain to reflect, process, and find patterns.
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4 Ways to Improve Your Leadership Communication Effectiveness
Organizational Talent Consulting
MARCH 28, 2022
Effective leadership is communication. A few things about effective leadership communication are proven based on several studies over the past two decades. With these recommendations, you can focus on the critical few proven leadership communication solutions that create business results. Why Leadership Communication Matters.
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The Long Game with Author, Speaker, Consultant, and Broadway Lyricist Dorie Clark
Consulting Matters
JUNE 1, 2023
We also delved into her networking strategies for introverts, leveraging unique advantages, and establishing credibility through content and publications. She shares how she learned to recognize that running a small business was what she was doing, and how she decided to use those skills to launch her own practice.
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How Journaling Can Help Leaders Achieve Their Goals
Strategy+Business
MAY 14, 2018
For more insight, read "Journaling Can Boost Your Leadership Skills." Tips for clarifying your thoughts and testing new ideas.
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Amplify Your Brand Image by Writing Books with Roberta Matuson
Consulting Matters
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
I have witnessed her remarkable journey from a start-up consulting business owner to an established expert with five published books and author of articles featured in Fast company, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Forbes. Learn more about my Brand Positioning and Messaging strategy services: [link].
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Embracing Selfless Love in the Workplace
Organizational Talent Consulting
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
There is no serious debate that well-designed organizations with clear organizational strategies influence desired behaviors, culture, and performance. The following short video from leadership guru Ken Blanchard provides some thoughts on the power of servant leadership in today's workplace. link] What is selfless love?
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Change Readiness?—?Essential but Oft-Omitted
Harmonious Workplaces
DECEMBER 12, 2023
During the month of October, I had the pleasure of learning Organizational Development (OD) and Change Leadership from The Drucker School of Management at Claremont Graduate University. Leadership Support: Leaders must champion change and cultivate an environment that encourages adaptability. Is your organization ready for it?
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Does Your Team Hoard Information?
Harmonious Workplaces
NOVEMBER 17, 2023
Strategy from Shared Data In today’s fast-paced business environment, effective strategic management stems from data-informed decision-making. Leadership should exercise mindfulness and keen observation of the warning signs of information hoarding with individuals and groups.
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How Executive Leaders Build Trust
Organizational Talent Consulting
AUGUST 28, 2023
Building trust is increasingly challenging and vital for executive leadership teams. Here are proven strategies you can use to build high-quality trust-based relationships and a quiz to gauge your trustworthiness. Why executive leadership trust matters "The reliance on the character, ability, strength, or truth of someone or something."
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How to Empower Others for Excellence
Organizational Talent Consulting
OCTOBER 9, 2023
Here is what leaders need to know about empowerment and five strategies to ignite a spark in others to achieve excellence. Why igniting the spark in others holds a key to achieving excellence The word empowerment has come in and out of favor with leadership. Leaders need committed employees. “As Not all questions are equal.
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Say Goodbye to Strategic Planning? What’s Next?
Organizational Talent Consulting
MARCH 11, 2024
Annual off-site meetings to change dates on unsuccessful strategies don't make sense. The goal is for leadership teams to become more informed by broadening ideas about what multiple futures might bring. The most threatening competitor leadership teams face is themself. Health Information & Libraries Journal, 27: 28-36.
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How to Activate Team Creativity and Innovation
Organizational Talent Consulting
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Enhancing an employee's self-leadership capability improves self-awareness, inspiring experimentation with new ways to solve existing challenges. Innovative Workforce Development Step #5: Leadership Style There are several well-researched employee and company benefits associated with servant leadership , such as creativity.
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How Journaling Can Help Leaders Achieve Their Goals
Strategy+Business
MAY 14, 2018
For more insight, read "Journaling Can Boost Your Leadership Skills." Tips for clarifying your thoughts and testing new ideas.
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How Digital Transformation Can Help You Win Digital Customers w/Howard Tiersky, FROM CEO Ep#128
Strategic Planning and Management Insights
NOVEMBER 4, 2021
On this episode of the Strategy & Leadership Podcast, Howard joins us to discuss everything digital transformation: Different types and scopes of digital transformation, winning digital customers, dealing with resistance to change, and much more. Previously, Howard worked at Capgemini & EY.
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How to Use Reflection to Bring Out Your Best in the New Year
Organizational Talent Consulting
DECEMBER 26, 2022
Leadership is about recognizing and leveraging the gap between stimulus and response to make a choice rather than a knee-jerk reaction. Critical thinking is the ability to use cognitive skills and strategies to increase the probability of the desired outcome when problem-solving. This is one leadership assessment you need to be using.
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The Power of Others Presence on Performance
Organizational Talent Consulting
OCTOBER 16, 2023
The following are five tips for applying the social facilitation research to leading geographically dispersed teams: Leadership Social Facilitation Tip #1: Presence Matters Leaders need to be present with employees. Frontline leaders and senior management should establish strategies to be present and check in with employees.
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3 Tactics for Accelerating Company Performance Despite an Economic Downturn
Organizational Talent Consulting
OCTOBER 31, 2022
Reactive workforce reductions, burn-the-furniture cost-cutting, and spray-and-pray strategies out of desperation have historically led to considerable losses. Implementation typically involves experimentation, analyzing the existing strategies, and creative experiential learning exercises. It is easy to find out what doesn't work.
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Fight Ageism, Fuel Growth with Inclusive Hiring & Retention
Harmonious Workplaces
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
They wanted someone with strong leadership skills and a history of motivating others — CHECK! Today’s workplace strives to employ DEI strategies to foster innovation, employee satisfaction, and a competitive edge. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 29(1), 6–33. Journal of Applied Psychology. link] Li, Y.,
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Mastering the Digital Chessboard to Outmaneuver Your Competitors
Chad Barr
APRIL 3, 2024
What strategies do they employ, and in what areas do they outshine you—or perhaps, where do you eclipse them? Here’s why: Forecast and Adapt : By closely examining your rivals’ business and web strategies, you place yourself a step ahead, ready to anticipate and adapt to the ever-changing market trends.
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How to Become a Better Leader Than You Ever Thought Possible
Organizational Talent Consulting
MAY 29, 2023
But these heroic lessons from the worst day of life reveal an unexpected leadership lesson. It's a leadership mindset and skillset for how to become a better leader than you thought possible. Fostering innovation within an organization is an increasingly important leadership behavior for every business.
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4 Ways Leaders Keep Hope Alive In Uncertain Times
Organizational Talent Consulting
AUGUST 22, 2022
Pathways Thinking –specific strategies to reach those goals. Agency Thinking – motivation to apply strategies. Concerning leadership, hope is a positive state that contributes to leaders and followers pursuing, expecting, and achieving organizational goals. link] Conclusion: Why Hope Should be a Leadership Strategy.
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How Leaders Can Get the Feedback No One Wants to Give
Organizational Talent Consulting
MARCH 14, 2022
Increased operational complexities associated with disruptive changes in the workplace make the importance of good leadership habits essential. Also, in a global study of more than 100 workplace improvement strategies, fair and accurate informal feedback had the most significant positive impact on employee performance and engagement.
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Virtual Coaching is Inevitable but is it Effective?
Organizational Talent Consulting
JUNE 26, 2023
Although evidence suggests that the challenges with the lack of multiple cues and sharing emotions could be moderated by a skilled virtual coach, it is best to look at each client's situation and needs uniquely rather than a one size fits all strategy. Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research, 63, 243–253. Charbonneau, M.A
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3 Steps to Cultivate an Innovation Culture
Organizational Talent Consulting
JULY 24, 2023
The following are three proven strategies leaders can use to help employees overcome a fear of failure: Game Theory: Game theory can be used in a safe environment without the harmful consequences of the real world to teach employees about failure as learning. Competing values leadership: Creating value in organizations. Bishop, D., &
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The Secret of a Thriving Company Culture
Organizational Talent Consulting
DECEMBER 5, 2022
You've probably experienced this to some extent before, and maybe now you're in a leadership position. Leadership style and how leadership competencies align to culture. Strategic emphases are the aspects of culture that guide strategy. Different cultures have different needs for leadership competencies.
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Holiday Human-Capital Culling Could Cost
Harmonious Workplaces
DECEMBER 5, 2023
The delay in hiring may provide the perception of a lack of decisive leadership or a sign that the organization does not innovate with forward-thinking, which can affect your brand as an employer, steward to the community, and provider of goods or services. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 29 (1), 6–33. Hellgren, J.,
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How to Build Organizational Commitment
Organizational Talent Consulting
AUGUST 15, 2022
Accelerator 1: Leadership style How you lead matters. Compelling evidence indicates that leadership style moderates company results and organizational commitment. Laissez-faire leadership has a negative correlation with organizational commitment. Journal of Nursing Management , 18 (5), 582–591. Bulut, C., &
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It’s time to Be REAL about CX leadership
1 to 1
NOVEMBER 2, 2022
Customer Strategist Journal: What excites you most about your role at TTEC? I love the combination of capabilities that we have to work with here at TTEC, whether it’s CX strategy, CX design, the technology capabilities that we have, and of course the great talent that we have helping our clients serve their customers every day.
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11 Best Consulting Blogs: Read These Blogs To Grow Your Consultancy
Tsavo Neal
MARCH 30, 2017
These best consulting blogs offer bite-sized reads packed with actionable tips and strategies for consultants. Rattleback Rattleback has an excellent blog that I read frequently to validate many of my own strategies for marketing my consulting business. 3 Website Best Practices of the Leading Thought Leadership Marketers.
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Are You A Future-Ready Leader?
Organizational Talent Consulting
APRIL 18, 2022
And a huge knowledge and skill shift that is looming will serve as a leadership validation test. Here are three future smart leadership qualities, two steps for rethinking the future of leadership, and one good leadership habit for keeping you moving in the best direction. Effective leaders are good learners.
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The Consulting Blog’s new editor
Tom Spencer
JUNE 27, 2013
Ashley was previously a Staff Writer for the NYU International Business Journal. Business Strategy. Leadership. INTRODUCING Ashley. We have chosen the talented Ashley Sherman to be an Editor of the Consulting Blog for 2013/14. Get Email Updates (It’s Free). -- Australia’s premier consulting blog. Graduate Consulting Group.
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