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20 Questions to Help You Uncover Your Client's TRUE Culture and Politics

Consulting Matters

Here's 20 questions to help you uncover your client's true culture and politics (and I promise you - it's not what's posted on the organizational chart or the values hanging in the break room!). DEFINING THE REAL CORPORATE CULTURE. Who are the go-to people and perceived top talent? What are the stated values?

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20 Questions to Help You Uncover Your Client's TRUE Culture and Politics

Consulting Matters

Here's 20 questions to help you uncover your client's true culture and politics (and I promise you - it's not what's posted on the organizational chart or the values hanging in the break room!). DEFINING THE REAL CORPORATE CULTURE. Who are the go-to people and perceived top talent? What are the stated values?

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Narrow Your Niche to Win More Work as a Solopreneur

Successful Independent Consulting

Examples Several years ago, my agency represented a highly talented professional with over 20 years of experience even though he positioned himself as a jack-of-all-trades. Here are three exercises to get you started. Exercise #1: Reflection. Exercise #2: Study Your Work History. Exercise #3: Get Input from Colleagues.

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Your Consulting Niche vs Jack-of-All-Trades Myth

Successful Independent Consulting

I know a highly talented professional with over 20 years of experience with several Fortune 500 companies. Instead they say something like, “Wow, it’s going to be a real challenge to make this happen given the tenure of our staff and our strong culture.” Exercise #1: Look at Your History. Exercise #2: Get Input from Colleagues.

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7 Key Decisions for Starting Your Consulting or Coaching Business Right

Consulting Matters

B2B Business (Consulting or Coaching) - Offer your advice and partnership sought out and paid for by a leader tasked with improving an organization's results – company profit, customer satisfaction, process efficiency, employee effectiveness, leadership excellence, work environment, and culture. Get enough rest.

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How One Insurance Firm Learned to Create an Innovation Culture

Harvard Business

More and more companies are realizing they must reinvent their cultures by infusing innovation into their DNA. With almost 4,000 employees, CSAA IG has embarked on a systemic approach to create a pervasive culture of innovation. Most people focus on the first type of innovation: incremental.

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Organization Design for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Kates Kesler

We start with a belief that leaders create culture. But there is no doubt that every organization has its own culture. And, leaders can choose whether they want to approach diversity on a superficial level or truly try to build an anti-racist and unbiased culture. Do our work locations put us close to diverse talent pools?

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