Consulting and Organizational Management

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Organizational Character and Leadership Development By Jim Smith on December 16, 2010. Here’s more information about leadership development and ethics. John Dupre is an organization development consultant who designs innovative ways to involve people in building more productive and satisfying workplaces. Leadership.

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Consulting Matters

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Or is more important that you take your leadership skills to further the mission of a nonprofit or social benefit organization? Instead you need engage it compassionately and productively. Is it important for you to have opportunities to move up to the next rung and experience the status of a senior executive position?

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 10, 2017

Sabbaticals and extended vacation time are not just good for employees to rest and recharge — they benefit the organization by stress-testing the organizational chart and providing interim roles to allow aspiring employees to take on more leadership. And while it may look good on paper, the only way to know for sure is to test it.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 29, 2017

In researching the book The Happiness Track , we found that 50% of people — across professions, from the nonprofit sector to the medical field — are burned out. The social repercussions of this discomfort directly impact work productivity because people disengage. So what can leaders and employees do?

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

I surveyed 260 CEOs and executives in for-profit and nonprofit sectors to find out whether they had recently undertaken a new pursuit. Only 11% admitted to being slightly less productive at work due to their new activity, while 52% reported being more productive. 53% of the responses were from men and 47% were from women.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

By contrast, Meredith, a general manager in health services, was almost removed from a leadership team because she was seen as too aggressive in negotiating with internal stakeholders in order to promote her own goals. Paradox 4: Maintaining distance yet being approachable. All names have been changed.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Focus on leadership and managment “systems/structures,” not on people (which can be hard to do with today’s infatuation with heroic leaders. Read my weekly blogs: Boards, Consulting and OD, Nonprofits and Strategic Planning. Fundraising for Nonprofits. Leadership. Nonprofit Capacity Building.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

APRIL 14, 2013

We would most often be asked in to help a leadership team that was struggling. They have an approach or a product to sell whether it is team building, coaching, process improvement, strategic planning, or restructuring. Fundraising for Nonprofits. Leadership. Nonprofit Capacity Building. Read more.]. Read more.].

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Consulting Matters

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Or is more important that you take your leadership skills to further the mission of a nonprofit or social benefit organization? Instead, you need to engage it compassionately and productively. Is it important for you to have opportunities to move up to the next rung and experience the status of a senior executive position?

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The Nonprofit Consultant

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Many charitable organizations are involved in this effort, and many have entered into cause marketing agreements with various corporations to receive donations on products sold with the pink ribbon logo. One recent survey found that " Mothers and Young People Are Most Likely to Buy Products Tied to a Cause." And Dannon Yogurt?

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Consulting and Organizational Management

JANUARY 21, 2011

Read my weekly blogs: Boards, Consulting and OD, Nonprofits and Strategic Planning. John Dupre is an organization development consultant who designs innovative ways to involve people in building more productive and satisfying workplaces. Fundraising for Nonprofits. Leadership. Nonprofit Capacity Building.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 18, 2018

These intense work styles are often celebrated as the only way to get to the top and be a super-productive leader. That’s a question Jessica DeGroot sought to answer nearly 20 years ago when she started the nonprofit ThirdPath Institute, an organization dedicated to helping people find time for work, family, and life.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 7, 2018

Business discipline: The third key quality of doctorpreneurs is that they pay close attention to finances, capital spending, and management processes because they understand that if their organization is not highly productive, it will not survive and cannot achieve its purpose of serving the greatest number of people.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The Most Successful Leaders If you are a leader who hopes to take your leadership skills and your career beyond where you are today, it would help to know what skills matter and where you should focus. What are some of the effective leadership personality traits? The 5 Traits that Predict Long-term Leadership Success.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

I mentored students in consulting skills by guiding them through real-world business cases for local nonprofits and providing networking opportunities. Before this role, he spearheaded the creation of an innovative final-mile logistics product at a startup, later acquired by Shopify.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

The organization has limited or no expertise in the area of need, for example, to develop a new product or program for customers and clients. John Dupre is an organization development consultant who designs innovative ways to involve people in building more productive and satisfying workplaces. Fundraising for Nonprofits.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

JANUARY 7, 2011

Should You Start a For-Profit or a Nonprofit? Starting a Nonprofit Organization. Or Starting a New Product or Service? Or Starting a New Product or Service? Product Development. Marketing Your Organization, Product or Service. Fundraising for Nonprofits. Leadership. Strategic Planning.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 19, 2018

Work Friends Make Us More Productive (Except When They Stress Us Out). Government employees were lonelier than for-profit and nonprofit workers, and reported slightly lower levels of social support on the job. ” Leadership entails identifying and sharing meaning no matter what one’s role in an organization.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

JULY 27, 2012

Guest post from John Scherer, Co-Director of Scherer Leadership International. Marvin Weisbord, my long-time ODN colleague and friend (also steeped in the Lewin/Lippitt school), shared his research with me both in his marvelous book, Productive Workplaces, and in personal conversations. we’re going to let the inmates run the prison.’.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

DECEMBER 10, 2011

Some experts on leadership and management assert that highly experienced people often have developed intuition that enables them to make quick, effective decisions. John Dupre is an organization development consultant who designs innovative ways to involve people in building more productive and satisfying workplaces. Leadership.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

FEBRUARY 3, 2013

— John Dupre is an organization development consultant who designs innovative ways to involve people in building more productive and satisfying workplaces. John Dupre is an organization development consultant who designs innovative ways to involve people in building more productive and satisfying workplaces. Leadership.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

For most of us, it seems pretty simple: when we ship the product or launch the service. And as the world continues to digitize and almost every product and service becomes more driven by (or at least integrated with) software, this need grows even stronger. Our goal might be to sell more of our products online.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

DECEMBER 2, 2012

For example, say I’m working with a team of people representing a bottling operation in a brewery, and the team has figured out how to redesign the bottling operation to reduce costs, simplify the process, and increase production. Fundraising for Nonprofits. Leadership. Nonprofit Capacity Building. Read more.].

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Consulting and Organizational Management

APRIL 13, 2012

Guest post from John Scherer, Co-Director of Scherer Leadership International , with Billie Alban, President of Alban & Williams, Ltd. There are surveys that look at employee morale, perceptions of leadership, clarity about mission and strategy, physical plant, technology, etc. Introduction to this Blog Series. Consulting.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 12, 2018

Vincent Siciliano, CEO of California-based New Resource Bank , was brought in to turn things around and restore the bank’s founding mission, which is to “serve values-driven businesses and nonprofits that are building a more sustainable world.” Don’t they understand how far we’ve come under my leadership?”

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Harvard Business

APRIL 7, 2016

“ The essence of management is to make [people and their expertise] productive. If these are the tasks, then here are the action items: Direct all of the organization’s work toward making strength productive and weakness irrelevant. These are more than just questions of profit or productivity.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

They help leaders and managers be more productive at planning, organizing, leading and coordinating resources in the organization. Applications for their services might include leadership, management and supervisory development. Fundraising for Nonprofits. Leadership. Nonprofit Capacity Building. Read more.].

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Consulting and Organizational Management

AUGUST 16, 2010

The organization is people and technologies, which are matched together to produce an outcome, a product or a service. It is about the steps we take to produce a finished product and we call that series of steps “a process.”. Accounting methodology, and its structure of rules, is no less a technology than an integrated production line.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Read my weekly blogs: Boards, Consulting and OD, Nonprofits and Strategic Planning. ” The process must always be interactive or else the consultant, as you note, may produce a product that just sits on a shelf. Fundraising for Nonprofits. Leadership. Nonprofit Capacity Building. Read more.]. Read more.].

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Harmonious Workplaces

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

However, many companies and nonprofits share a common obstacle — the tendency towards information hoarding. They may also miss key data points to drive productive ideas. Leadership should exercise mindfulness and keen observation of the warning signs of information hoarding with individuals and groups.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

John Dupre is an organization development consultant who designs innovative ways to involve people in building more productive and satisfying workplaces. Fundraising for Nonprofits. Leadership. Nonprofit Capacity Building. Read more.]. Read more.]. Recent Blog Posts. Consulting and Organizational Development. Supervision.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

John Dupre is an organization development consultant who designs innovative ways to involve people in building more productive and satisfying workplaces. Fundraising for Nonprofits. Leadership. Nonprofit Capacity Building. Read more.]. Read more.]. Recent Blog Posts. Consulting and Organizational Development. Supervision.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

John Dupre is an organization development consultant who designs innovative ways to involve people in building more productive and satisfying workplaces. Fundraising for Nonprofits. Leadership. Nonprofit Capacity Building. Read more.]. Read more.]. Recent Blog Posts. Consulting and Organizational Development. Supervision.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

OCTOBER 15, 2011

Read my weekly blogs: Boards, Consulting and OD, Nonprofits and Strategic Planning. John Dupre is an organization development consultant who designs innovative ways to involve people in building more productive and satisfying workplaces. Fundraising for Nonprofits. Leadership. Nonprofit Capacity Building.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

MAY 5, 2013

John Dupre is an organization development consultant who designs innovative ways to involve people in building more productive and satisfying workplaces. Fundraising for Nonprofits. Leadership. Nonprofit Capacity Building. Read more.]. Read more.]. Recent Blog Posts. Consulting and Organizational Development. Supervision.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

APRIL 7, 2011

John Dupre is an organization development consultant who designs innovative ways to involve people in building more productive and satisfying workplaces. Fundraising for Nonprofits. Leadership. Nonprofit Capacity Building. Read more.]. Read more.]. Recent Blog Posts. Consulting and Organizational Development. Supervision.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

APRIL 23, 2010

Life cycles apply to many systems, including products and teams. Read my weekly blogs: Boards, Consulting and OD, Nonprofits and Strategic Planning. John Dupre is an organization development consultant who designs innovative ways to involve people in building more productive and satisfying workplaces. Leadership.

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