Organizational Talent Consulting

JUNE 27, 2022

When companies look for a competitive advantage, there is often talk about making leadership development investments. But during these conversations, leadership development programs are typically questioned. The truth is that leadership is more than a position, and event-driven development often fails to create lasting change.

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Halo Psych

MARCH 10, 2025

Sarah Hill offers a useful take when she says, In our context, we are not asking leaders to engage in therapy with us We are simply asking them to look behind or beneath the behaviours they manifest in their leadership in order for them to develop their awareness, understanding and command of their more negative behavioural tendencies.

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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. For example, consider two employees walking down a hall.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 24, 2018

We also explored several decades of research on that subject published in HBR; and we reflected on our own experience in the area of leadership development. Take the case of Dominic Barton, who served as the Global Managing Director of McKinsey & Company from 2009-2018. These are not mysterious and certainly aren’t new.

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Harmonious Workplaces

JANUARY 11, 2024

Regrets to Leadership Risks? However, in leadership, I feel we always risk something. Inclusive leadership: Realizing positive outcomes through belongingness and being valued for uniqueness. Within a few months, despite receiving a letter of recommendation, citing budget constraints, I found myself laid off. I would do it again.

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Harvard Business

JULY 2, 2018

The leap into leadership. For instance, Gil Amelio was Apple’s CEO for less than a year in 1997, and General Motors’ chief human resources officer decamped in 2018 after just eight months in the job. For some, this high-profile leadership transition is more than they bargain for. The organizational transition.

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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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Organizational Talent Consulting

JULY 11, 2022

No leader strives to create a toxic culture. Dr. Strange was considered by executive leadership to be the best surgeon to lead a new, highly competitive, and lucrative service line. Leaders need to be concerned about toxic culture. Here are five signs of a toxic culture and two detoxing steps every leader can take.

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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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Markovitz Consulting

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Louis last week at the Global Lean Leadership Conference. But at the same time, I didn’t hear any of the usual griping about how it’s so hard to change the corporate culture, how people won’t embrace lean, about how the leadership team isn’t really supporting it, etc. I spent two days in St. It probably sounds a little cultish.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JULY 24, 2023

Culture is the one thing that impacts everything. An innovation culture supports beliefs and feelings about the importance of innovation, as well as habits that encourage research and development. Here are three proven steps that will move your company closer toward an innovation culture. This culture highlights coming in first.

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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. If you don’t also address the cultural problems of rewards, you won’t continue with your agile transformation. How can you see your system and your culture?

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

We’re leading the workshop in the Boston area, June 7-8, 2018. You need to continue and to nurture the cultural changes necessary for a successful agile transformation. Cultural change is a key to your success. I’ve said many times in this blog and in my books that agile is a cultural change.

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Harmonious Workplaces

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Photo by Christina @ wocintechchat.com on Unsplash Leaders who embrace and leverage the strengths of each generation through intentional collaboration and reverse mentoring build a workplace culture that prioritizes psychological safety. Delving into the intricate dance of workplace dynamics, a meta-analysis study led by Burton et al.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MAY 16, 2022

Many businesses are trying to build coaching skills, but leadership habits take time to change. Does being a leader and leadership coach have to be that hard? Leadership is a relationship. Too often companies make narrow investments into leadership development with little to no results to show. The truth is it doesn’t.

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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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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 8, 2018

We searched for public information on the hobbies of CEOs whose companies were in the S&P 500 index at the start of 2018. This helped us build a rich picture about how they and others connect their hobbies to their leadership. It strengthens your authentic leadership.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

In 2018, NAVEX Global, the leading provider of whistleblower hotline and incident management systems, provided us secure, anonymized access to more than 1.2 firms with governance protocols that limit shareholder power relative to firm leadership—are less likely to actively use their internal reporting systems. What this means.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Leadership creates pressure. What is the alternative to leadership pressure? What is the alternative to leadership pressure? Here are three reasons to embrace the leadership journey and the pressure it brings and four tips for making better decisions under pressure. "A No productive conflict? No aligned goals?

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LSA Global

JUNE 3, 2018

Top Employee Engagement Trends for 2018. These Top Employee Engagement Trends for 2018 are based on the employee engagement surveys from nearly 50 Best Places to Work contests, this comprehensive report is the one and only of its kind, examining employee engagement and culture trends at America’s top workplaces.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 19, 2018

Agile Transformation: See Your System and Culture, Part 3. The post Influential Agile Leader Early Bird Reg Ends May 1, 2018 appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. I wrote a number of posts about transformations: Introduction and Part 1: Introduction and Why. Agile Transformation: Practice Change, Part 2.

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Rick Conlow

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The Conference Board’s “Executive Coaching Survey” (2018): This survey found that 68% of organizations use internal coaching programs, and 47% use external coaching programs. It also highlighted that coaching is highly effective in developing leadership skills.

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Harmonious Workplaces

JANUARY 17, 2024

This approach focuses on identifying and leveraging an organization’s strengths rather than concentrating solely on its problems (Bridger, 2018). Leverage Empathy in Inquiry Constructive questioning encourages a culture of openness, fosters innovative thinking, and promotes a deeper understanding of challenges and opportunities.

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Harmonious Workplaces

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

They wanted someone with strong leadership skills and a history of motivating others — CHECK! However, those workers loan their respective value to the organizations they serve, and they take that value with them when they leave (Jiang & Messersmith, 2018). * They wanted someone who has a desire to make a difference — CHECK!

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 15, 2018

Part of what makes an agile transformation difficult is the cultural change required. Agile approaches change the organizational system of work and the organization’s culture. Cultural change rarely occurs fast. Cultural change is a journey. As with all agile cultural change, your journey is your own, too.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

I developed the following framework to help categorize the different types of assessments: Type 1 Assessments: 360 Surveys As the name implies, 360 surveys are tools for collecting feedback from multiple directions relative to the executive's position about an executive's leadership performance, skills, and contributions.

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Harmonious Workplaces

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Leadership should exercise mindfulness and keen observation of the warning signs of information hoarding with individuals and groups. Better Employee Morale and Collaboration: An open and transparent culture promotes trust and collaboration among employees, leading to a more cohesive and motivated workforce.

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Cheryl Cran

JANUARY 2, 2018

The disruption that we will see even more is to do with ‘people’ – how people are treated, how people are judged, how people are dealt with depending on their culture, their gender or their financial status. now in 2018 we are going to see even more ‘outing’ of inappropriate, inexcusable and intolerant attitudes and behaviors.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 29, 2022

In contrast, Team 2 started “this” project back in 2018, almost four years ago. Manage your environment or culture. The reason the teams worked on so many projects was that senior leadership was not clear on the strategy. They're not really working on this project. That's related to the 90% Schedule Game.).

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

This is an ill-defined catchall for a multitude of issues from the seemingly trivial but career damaging body odor, to deeper challenges, such as when someone doesn’t carry herself/himself in a way consistent with company culture. Often executives who fail to appear confident get comments about lackluster executive presence.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Employees of large companies just don’t go to those lengths, and often, the corporate strategy or leadership changes and doesn’t allow them to persist in perfecting a new concept. I once interviewed an entrepreneur who, instead of paying for an apartment in Cambridge, Mass.,

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Organizational Talent Consulting

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Unfortunately, many organizations keep strategic plans a secret and don't involve leaders outside the executive leadership team. 5 Key strategic thinking leadership competencies A leader's ability to question and make connections between ideas and evaluate options improves strategic thinking.

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Brimstone Consulting

OCTOBER 21, 2020

With the shift to remote work, employee experience and culture are crucial to attracting and retaining talent. A 2018 survey asked recent hires to identify the factors most important when considering a job offer – 68% reported they were influenced by job location. Another 2018 survey found that 71.5% Employee Experience.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JANUARY 9, 2023

Here are the four leadership dimensions and practical ideas for creating a shared identity at work. link] 4 Stages of psychological safety and the leadership challenge. The leadership challenge is to increase intellectual friction while decreasing social friction. We all share a need to belong. Why a shared identity matters.

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Brimstone Consulting

AUGUST 9, 2021

A 2018 study found that 55% of Americans reported not using all of their paid vacation time – a 9% increase over 2017. Leaders can also encourage vacation time by creating policies and building a culture that supports unplugging. I recently had the honor of discussing the topic of burnout on Amy Irvine’s Wine and Dime podcast.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 29, 2021

An agile approach will work better, but an agile approach is a cultural change, which you might not need.). I gave a talk at Agile 2018 called, “ Agile and Lean Roadmapping: Incorporating Change at Every Level of Planning.” That includes the customers, the purpose, everything. Less Predictiveness, More Options.

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Cheryl Cran

JANUARY 30, 2018

Fortune 500 article indicates there are 5 million jobs that companies are looking to fill in 2018. Video is the medium that helps job seekers determine the culture of a company , the brand reputation and more. Look in places that may not be so obvious to find cultural fits for your companies.

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