Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

When it comes to managing creatives, he says you have to have patience and believe in the work. Download this podcast. Mike Ovitz, a cofounder of Creative Artists Agency and former president of The Walt Disney Company, says there are many parallels between the movie and music industry of the 1970s and 1980s and Silicon Valley today.

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Successful Independent Consulting

JUNE 17, 2021

You may need to do some admin (busy work) like file status reports or do verbal check-ins with the client relationship/engagement manager. Most global consulting firms use their own talent databases when they need to augment their own staff. For example, PwC Talent Exchange or Deloitte Open Talent.

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Consulting Matters

AUGUST 6, 2018

Download Episode Transcript. This group of talented (and sometimes competitive) senior leaders had never before embarked on a project of this scope collectively and there was trepidation if creating alignment was going to be like herding cats. I'll never forget the moment when I first fell in love with corporate politics.

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Harvard Business

JULY 21, 2016

More of us are working in organizations employing a mix of freelancers, contractors, consultants, and full-timers, explains Jonathan Younger, coauthor with Norm Smallwood of “Agile Talent: How to Source and Manage Outside Experts.” ” Download this podcast.

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LSA Global

JUNE 10, 2024

Talent Management Strategies for Retaining Key Employees Retaining key employees matters. Yet, many leaders still struggle with high turnover rates because some talent management strategies for retaining key employees are more effective than others. Do you know what matters most to engage and retain your top talent?

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Consulting Matters

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

She is an expert in helping organizations identify, acquire, nurture and retain the best talent in the world. Links: Download my free guide on how to clarify and own your unique position in the crowded consulting and coaching market: [link]. She’s the author of six books including, the recently released, Can We Talk?

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Yet, our organizational alignment research found that the alignment of strategy and talent accounts for 60% of the difference between high and low performing companies. To be effective, talent management strategies must be anchored by clear, believable, and implementable business objectives that company teams understand and commit to execute.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Build a Pipeline of Future Leaders High-performing teams require leaders who can consistently attract, develop, engage, and retain top talent. We know from change management training participants that effective change leaders know how to keep the team and the work moving forward in a way that makes sense to the business AND the people.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Each manager might have their own pet projects they want to focus on, but that trickles down to lower level workers dealing with more projects at a time that they can handle, or do well. ” Download this podcast. Hollister and Watkins are the authors of the HBR article “ Too Many Projects.”

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LSA Global

JUNE 5, 2017

If you are in charge of talent management at your organization, wouldn’t you welcome better, more effective ways of learning? Measure impact by correlating high and low skill adoption to your key performance metrics and providing individual coaching scorecards for participants and their manager.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

companies can’t fill their open positions, according to a McKinsey Global Institute study that found that analytical, engineering, and management roles are the hardest to fill. But making the most of flexible talent-access platforms is not as simple as adding a solution into an existing organization.

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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. Check out my free downloads so you can take your next step in your business journey: [link]. Sarah is fun and real. So get ready! Connect on LinkedIn: Betsy Jordyn [link].

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 29, 2020

Now you're operating in a return on investment model where you invest your money, time and talents in your business with the expectation of a return. If you want to have a world-class consulting and coaching business, invest your time, talents and treasure towards that end. I said, "I am not an expense to be managed.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 6, 2017

What Great Managers Do. Exceptional managers find and capitalize on their employees' unique strengths. Download a customizable version in Subscriber Exclusives. Although these patterns are correlational, we believe they reveal important clues to the HR puzzle of how to retain talent. Related Video. Pay Matters.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Change management consulting experts know that individual talent alone does not always equate to team performance. Conversely, many of us have been on less talented teams that have produced more than the sum of their parts. This creates a sense of loss that must be managed during the transition.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 7, 2020

Executive leadership is all about the management of power and because of this foundational reality - the advisors that succeed has to be able to stand in their own. You don't sell coaching services, team building, training, project management, websites or any of the tactics you may offer in that initial conversation with a potential client.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

When Is the Best Time for Management Training ? Done right, management training is a critical component of leadership development because it equips managers with the skills and insights necessary to lead, manage, and coach their teams to higher performance. So, when is the best time for management training?

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LSA Global

JULY 9, 2021

Some of those forced innovations can now help us identify and forge improved ways of doing business, like achieving more strategic talent management. Think of the multiple changes in the world of finding, retaining, and managing talent. Like most things, it all starts with being good at the basics.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Talent Management Questions to Test If You are On the Right Track. If you truly want to attract, develop, engage and retain a high performing workforce, you have to break through talent management barriers – outmoded ways of thinking about talent in old-fashioned and ineffective ways. The Goal of Talent Management.

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LSA Global

MAY 23, 2024

Effective Coaching and Feedback from Managers at Work Matters Effective coaching and feedback from managers at work nurtures talent, enhances performance, boosts engagement, and fosters continuous growth. Do your leaders and managers know how to build enough trust to truly help others to perform at their peak?

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Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2017

Organizations waste too much time - see how Bain helps them manage it like money in this 10-minute video slide deck. To download a customizable version, visit the Visual Library. While the former approach is friendlier from a change management perspective, we usually find that it leads to only incremental change. Related Video.

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Harvard Business

MAY 11, 2017

Jennifer Petriglieri, professor at INSEAD, discusses how talented employees can avoid being crushed by lofty expectations — whether their own, or others’ She has researched how people seen as “high potential” often start to feel trapped and ultimately burn out. Download this podcast.

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Consulting Matters

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

About Meg Crofton: In addition, Meg truly enjoys and welcomes speaking opportunities aimed at leaders who are focused on their own development, customer service, culture building, and change management. She is interested in mentoring roles for executives and consulting projects on change management initiatives.

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Consulting Matters

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

About Meg Crofton: In addition, Meg truly enjoys and welcomes speaking opportunities aimed at leaders who are focused on their own development, customer service, culture building, and change management. She is interested in mentoring roles for executives and consulting projects on change management initiatives.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 2, 2017

Michael Mankins, Bain & Company partner and head of the firm’s Organization practice, explains how organizations unintentionally fail to manage their employees’ time and energy. He also lays out what managers can do to reduce what he calls organizational drag. Download this podcast.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 9, 2019

Smart Talent Management. Smart talent management is all about deploying your workforce where they need to be, doing what they’re good at, when they need to be there. Smart talent management is doing it right, individual by individual, job by job, role by role. How to Ensure Smart Talent Management.

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LSA Global

APRIL 20, 2018

How Important is Talent Management to Business Success? So how important is talent management to business success? The Definition of Talent Management. In a nutshell, talent management is all about planning your human resources strategically to build business value and support organizational goals.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 4, 2018

They talk through how to advance in your job when you’re not in the building, deal with a problematic colleague you never see, and manage teams in other offices. Download this podcast. ” HBR: A First-Time Manager’s Guide to Leading Virtual Teams by Mark Mortensen — “First things first: don’t panic.

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Successful Independent Consulting

APRIL 1, 2024

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. Download a worksheet here.) They want to hire a specialist and you want to be that person. Absolutely, but that’s not what makes them unique.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Developing Your Top Talent Matters. Our organizational alignment research found talent accounts for 29% of the difference between high and low performing companies. Talent, along with culture and strategy, is one of the three critical elements of high performance. The Benefits of Developing Your Top Talent.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 2, 2018

Patty McCord, Netflix’s former Chief Talent Officer, sees hiring as constant matchmaking. Building a team of people that gets amazing work done, she says, requires managers to really know what they need, and for HR to actually understand the workings of the business. Download this podcast.

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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. I know a highly talented professional with over 20 years of experience with several Fortune 500 companies. Download sample worksheet.)

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LSA Global

MARCH 10, 2022

What Is Wrong with Talent Reviews? Let’s first consider the purpose of talent reviews. We need to improve talent reviews. The process of reviewing an organization’s talent has important implications for succession planning , talent development , employee engagement , and the retention of top talent.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 23, 2018

How to Become a Magnet for the Best Talent. Ever noticed that the organizations you admire for their culture and success seem to know how to become a magnet for the best talent? Some firms have cracked the code on aligning their strategy with their culture and their talent …this is their recipe for success.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 13, 2025

The four most common leadership pipeline transitions include moving: From Individual Contributor to First-Level Manager or Team Leader Success as an individual contributor doesnt automatically translate to leadership it requires a shift in mindset, behaviors, and approach. And being a people manager is not for everyone.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Talent Management. While there are many proven tips to develop top talent, it seems that talent management often becomes too complicated. Simply put, the purpose of talent management is to attract, develop, engage, and retain the top talent that leads to individual, team, and organizational success.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The Top 10 Benefits of a Management Assessment Center It is not easy to effectively lead, manage, and coach others at work. Research by our management development experts found that 60 percent of new managers underperform during their first two years in their new role. businesses in the 1950s.

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