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Why Top Performers Don’t Always Make Great Managers

Effective Managers

This capability is not developed simply through experience or tenure. Skills and Knowledge Have they developed the managerial and leadership competencies needed for success? Application Do they value the new kind of work enough to fully commit their energy and effort to it? Management consultants can play a vital role here.

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Developing Employees’ Strengths Boosts Sales, Profit, and Engagement

Harvard Business

We’ve found that there’s significant potential in developing what is innately right with people versus trying to fix what’s wrong with them. Manager alignment on a strengths initiative is crucial because managers are ultimately responsible for developing workers based on strengths.

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Project Management Best Practices That Can Help You Better Manage a Project

Clarity Consultants

Ideally, companies want to dedicate a significant amount of time, attention, and energy to the earliest stages of the project’s development, ensuring a reliable roadmap is in place that can guide everyone toward an ideal outcome. Often, the first step is to develop a project brief. Contact us today.

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A 5-Part Process for Using Technology to Improve Your Talent Management

Harvard Business

And because organizational change tends to be driven by those who most acutely feel the pain, it’s often line managers who are the strongest champions for “talent tech”: innovations in how firms hire people, staff projects, evaluate performance, and develop talent. Insight Center. Adopting AI. Sponsored by SAS.

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HR’s Vital Role in How Employees Spend Their Time, Talent, and Energy

Harvard Business

Complaints about HR include things from weak, reactive business partnering to poor talent recruitment and development, from time-wasting processes to incomprehensible communications. Next, consider talent. The best companies get a 29% boost in productivity from their talent. Finally, let’s look at energy.

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What If Companies Managed People as Carefully as They Manage Money?

Harvard Business

In contrast, today’s scarcest resource is your human capital, as measured by the time, talent and energy of your workforce. Difference-making talent is also scarce. Finding, developing, and retaining this talent is hard — so much so that the business press refers to a “war” for talent.

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Ten Factors to Consider Before Jumping into Independent Consulting

Successful Independent Consulting

Now I run a national talent agency for HR consultants as well as the Professional Independent Consultants of America, both organizations that help independent consultants be successful. It takes a lot of confidence and energy to be successfully self-employed so be honest with yourself. Are you feeling confident?

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