Successful Independent Consulting

JANUARY 20, 2017

My company represents self-employed professionals across the country, and over the last seven years I have interviewed, coached, or worked with more than 200 independent management consultants. Translation: change management for IT projects. The exact opposite is true. Translation: turnaround expert.

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Harvard Business

JULY 24, 2017

Change management can be a test for any organization. Several studies by Towers Watson show that just 25% of change management initiatives are successful over the long term. Change management certainly tested us. What words evoked the passion they felt about the organization? What values drove them?

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LSA Global

JANUARY 9, 2025

One-time events just inappropriately raise expectations for changes that will not materialize. Posters and emails do not change the hearts and minds of employees. Values are not a communications issue; they are a strategy, culture, and change management issue. Treat them accordingly.

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Consulting Matters

JULY 14, 2022

Why HR often IS your client and not the gatekeeper if you're in the organization development, leadership development, or change management consulting space. Next steps: Subscribe to the blog because I will keep bringing your interviews and episodes to help you connect with your ideal client. Sarah is fun and real. So get ready!

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On the Brink Podcast

MAY 9, 2022

George Swisher is a former marketing entrepreneur and management consultant. He has a 15-year track record of improving company performance and shifting cultures to effective change management. Remember, I'm a corporate anthropologist who, like George, helps companies change, so I loved this interview.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Then we interviewed individual employees in each segment to get a sample perspective on typical mindsets. During the interviews, we asked questions designed to uncover beliefs, feelings, questions, and concerns about the company’s current strategy. Tell People What to Expect.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Alex and his company specialize in IT and professional services with several business lines including SAP, business application software, change management and developing intellectual property. In this episode of the Strategy & Leadership Podcast , we're joined by Alex Rooney, Vice President and co-founder of Vision33 Inc.

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Ben de Haldevang

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Abhay Pande and conducted a series of interview with senior Asian leaders to understand a little more of the cultural complexity that exists across the Asian landscape, recognise the key differences and start to think about what an Asian owner might expect of a European and American business.

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

They came up with incredible solutions in change management and supporting tools for the human resources side of marketing and sales. Most of ZS Associates’ top management are old timers, which fosters a typical pharma-consulting-members-only-club leadership style that beats down some of the fresh, forward-thinking millennials.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

AUGUST 21, 2023

Appreciative Inquiry is an approach to change management that fosters positive transformation. It can be used in one-to-one coaching sessions, with teams to create strategic plans , or in companywide large-scale change initiatives. link] How is Appreciative Inquiry different from other popular change management approaches?

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The Clever Consultant

JUNE 26, 2013

Enter the management consultant. The management consultant will come in and review the problem, analyze sales, perhaps interview key management staff, and try to figure out why tablet sales have fallen so sharply. Someone in another division, who is busy with their own responsibilities?

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Ben de Haldevang

MARCH 21, 2017

A first for iROAM (inarticulate Ramblings of a Management Consultant)! I have asked my co-inteviewer to give his perspective on the interviews we conducted. Abhay Pande made some comments below which I wanted to share with you. These two aspects reveal themselves over the course of our discussions.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

JANUARY 10, 2020

Shawn's vast experience, which includes time as the Director of Social and Media Relations for Telus, has led him to become an expert in reputation management and helping organizations manage change and crises.

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LSA Global

JUNE 24, 2024

Get to know your key stakeholders by conducting surveys, 1×1 interviews, and focus groups. Communicate Effectively Change management consulting experts know that consistent and effective two-way communication is essential to managing stakeholder expectations.

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Management Consulted

MARCH 12, 2017

Generally speaking, a lawyer’s workload is more narrow and less diverse than a consultant’s; add that in with little to no travel and minimal exposure to different industries, and many lawyers are looking for a change. Management Consulting straight after Law School. We created a comprehensive course on how to do it well.

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Harvard Business

MAY 3, 2018

If your hope is for individuals to act differently, it helps to change their surrounding conditions to be more supportive of the new behaviors, particularly when they are antithetical to the dominant culture.” ” HBR: Manage Your Emotional Culture by Sigal Barsade and Olivia A.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 12, 2017

Godbout: I have yet to see the case study of massive change management of innovation where a group of people came in and, like a whirlwind, changed everyone’s thoughts and executed the whole thing themselves. I used to tell people I interviewed for 18F, “This is the Super Bowl of change management.”

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

JANUARY 28, 2020

Ryan's rich experience guiding organizations through big changes and helping the grow internally makes him a great voice for those about to undergo their own strategic planning process. In this episode of the Strategy & Leadership Podcast , we're joined by Ryan Walter.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 14, 2015

E-Edge, your organizational engagement and change management program. Internships allow graduates to gain exposure across all practice areas and to work within different areas of the business: change management, brand, strategy and innovation. You could be working with change management or innovation and brand strategy.

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Harvard Business

MAY 19, 2016

To address these questions, Coty partnered with Kotter International to implement a broad global change management program. Interview those individuals for fit. How can we as leaders help our front-line teams take more action to innovate and improve how work gets done? Devise an approach and plan.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 29, 2016

In-depth interviews with these leaders provide some insight and solutions that can help us when we do face these quandaries. Companies can warp their own ethical climate by pushing too much change from the top, too quickly and too frequently. and the U.K., many of us face an endless stream of ethical dilemmas at work.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 5, 2018

To better understand the tension between control and freedom in new roles, we analyzed more than 4000 pages of interview data, company documents, and media reports from 21 organizations that recently established a “sustainability manager” position and appointed someone to the role.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 31, 2018

Sixteen women were interviewed and seven others participated in a focus group. In her organization, there was debate about whether their associates should change managers. After hearing feedback from all across the world, she chose to have employees change managers, even though it was unpopular among some.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Victoria Pelletier is a VP and Senior Partner of North American Talent and Transformation at IBM. Having started her journey very young as a 24-year old executive, she's spent her entire career working in business-to-business services at various consulting and technology companies.

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CaseInterview.com

JULY 18, 2019

Financial Services Consulting engagements tend to tackle issues such as: Risk management. Customer relationship management. 3) The Delta practice focuses on change management initiatives. They help senior management design and implement a wide variety of enterprise-wide changes. Public policy.

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Cheryl Cran

JUNE 28, 2016

I had the opportunity to follow up with Launi post event to interview her on leadership, change leadership and more. This is great AND whenever we roll out a change we MUST have a change management approach to ensure that we look after the people aspect of the change. Launi: Great question!

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2016

Success was measured quantitatively by the firm’s performance (profit and growth) vs. that of its competitors, and also qualitatively by interviews with senior executives who were involved, but not deeply invested, in the efforts (typically the CFO). Our team examined each organization over at least a four-year timespan.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

has his PhD in cognitive anthropology and is the author of Disrupting Corporate Culture : How Cognitive Science Alters Accepted Beliefs About Culture and Culture Change and its Impact on Leaders and Change Agents. David White Jr.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

DECEMBER 2, 2012

The profession has become filled with niche players……executive coaching, team building, process improvement, change management, etc. Years ago I was interviewing for a job in a large consulting firm in NYC. They put me through a long, exhaustive interviewing process before they finally offered me the job.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Kassir Hussain, former director of Connected Home, told us: “In a space that can often be confusing and frustrating to consumers, our focus on regular user interviews, meetings, tests, and demos allowed us to build a product that was simple, easy to use, and addressed real consumer needs.”

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On the Brink Podcast

JUNE 26, 2020

Learn how to embrace change rather than flee from it. I have had the pleasure of interviewing Michael (Mike) Tate once before on our podcast , in March of 2019. He is a charming man who has a purpose and a passion to help others find their way through often-challenging times.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Founded in 1993, Value Partners Management Consulting has offices in 9 countries worldwide. Value Partners has turnaround and change management expertise working with industrial and service multinationals. Case Interviews. Management Consulting. Tel: +852 2103 1000. Leave a Comment Now. Leave a Comment. Categories.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 15, 2022

Initial Change Communications – Do It Right from the Get-Go Don’t join the 70% majority of companies whose change initiatives fail ! Too many organizations and change management simulation participants are not rigorous enough at the outset as they strategize, plan, and communicate desired organizational changes.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Interview questions were designed to test applicants for these traits. ” Some interview questions were used to test multiple competencies at once. .” ” Some interview questions were used to test multiple competencies at once. It’s important to understand unmet and latent needs.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2017

The list gave middle managers clarity about what to do, certainly, but it told them nothing about why they were doing it, or how their myriad activities might fit together to create a cohesive program. “Conduct exit interviews with all departing customers” became “reduce the customer attrition rate,” for example.

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LSA Global

MAY 13, 2023

Benefits of Feedback During Times of Change Change management consulting experts know that all the internal and external turmoil experienced by leaders and employees can make work a struggle. Organizational change is never easy; some change resistance is to be expected.

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QEmploy

MAY 9, 2019

Interviews have been conducted with clients and consultants in order to give a realistic and broad outlook. It was also said in our client interviews that there are too many brokers out there. The terms, conditions and contract details are taken up during the interview process.

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