Roundtable Talk

MAY 30, 2024

Book: Be the Unicorn – 12 Data-Driven Habits that Separate the Best Leaders from the Rest By: William Vanderbloemen Reviewed by: Collen Jones The Premise: Be the Unicorn by William Vanderbloemen offers a unique and insightful exploration into “what” sets exceptional leaders apart from the rest.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In my career of 25+ years, I had several moments that required me to exhibit courage. I went back to my boss with a detailed business plan to set up a Quality Consulting unit as an independent business unit. It enabled my evolution and defined the trajectory of my career. There is no growth without courage.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Robyn McLeod of Chatsworth Consulting Group submitted How to prepare for an important conversation. Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog submitted Self-Defeating Behavior. For some, it can sabotage promotions or careers. “ Discover Robyn on Twitter at @ThoughtfulLdrs.

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Leadership Development Development Review Leadership 276

HR Digest

MAY 8, 2023

While it’s easy to fall into the trap of using generic phrases and templates, truly effective performance reviews require a personalized touch. But what makes an effective performance review? Additionally, having a variety of phrases to choose from helps ensure the review is comprehensive and objective.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 20, 2024

Consultants recommend paying attention to different aspects when choosing a Bulgarian city. According to migrants’ reviews, the best cities are Burgas, Stara Zagora, Varna, Blagoevgrad and Sofia. In Varna and Burgas, living is expensive, but there are great prospects for reaching heights in your career.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

I’ve written about these and other crucial tools for helping leaders improve relationships, gain executive presence and succeed in my new book, The Heart of a Leader: 52 Emotional Intelligence Insights to Advance Your Career. Share this information with your manager as a head start to your performance review.

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Emotional Intelligence Performance Review Review Self-aware 311

Roundtable Talk

MARCH 23, 2023

Book: How Women Rise By Sally Helgeson and Marshall Goldsmith Reviewed by: Ashley Michael The Premise: Sally Helgeson is a top expert in women’s leadership. She’s an author, speaker and consultant. Marshall Goldsmith is a New York Times best selling author of Triggers and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There.

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Women on Business

OCTOBER 17, 2012

No matter what your age, it’s challenging to switch to a completely new career. However, more and more women are “re-careering” every day & I must speak to several successful female career executives each day who are looking to do something different. What has made you successful in your professional career to date?

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Consulting and Coaching. Once upon a time, accessing consulting was out of reach for most people. Today, you can hire coaches and consultants for reasonable rates. project management consultant” or “productivity coach”). Otherwise, return to step two to review another person. That is starting to change.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Ask any career-oriented woman about her top work-related concerns, and she will likely rank having access to high-quality jobs at desirable companies and having equitable opportunities to advance within those organizations at the top of the list. Your Performance Reviews Are Frequent and Detailed.

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Leading Blog

JULY 12, 2019

In all my years as a consultant, I haven’t either. What matters to the average worker includes career opportunity, meaningful work, a balanced life, a fair wage, and being treated with respect—not increasing output. H AVE YOU EVER heard a front-line worker say, “I can’t wait to make more money for our shareholders today!”

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Consultative Career Goal Metrics 203

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Culture Is the Way : How Leaders at Every Level Build an Organization for Speed, Impact, and Excellence by Matt Mayberry (Wiley, 2023) Former NFL Pro, world-renowned keynote speaker, and management consultant Matt Mayberry delivers an incisive and hands-on blueprint to employee engagement and peak productivity. But you're ambitious.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 22, 2013

valued by an organization’s leadership, just take a peek at the agendas for their business review meetings, board meetings, operations reviews, quarterly shareholder meetings, sales meetings, or any other kind of management meeting that permeates a busy executives’ calendar. Any mention of a review of talent?

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Smart Growth : How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company by Whitney Johnson (Harvard Business Review Press, 2022) Growth is the goal. Martin (Harvard Business Review Press, 2022) Over a stellar career, Roger Martin has advised the CEOs of some of the world's most successful companies. Blog Post ). Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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Eric Jacobson

APRIL 8, 2024

Davis is a Managing Director and Senior Partner at the Boston Consulting Group. In The Generous Leader , Joe tells a story about a performance review he received as he was just starting his career: He was told he was not the best at problem-solving solo; but in collaboration with others, he could solve any challenge.

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Books Performance Review Consultative Career 114

Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Lisa Kohn of Chatsworth Consulting Group shared Why tough conversations are so tough to have – and what to do about it. Stephanie Skryzowski of 100 Degrees Consulting provided Are you guilty of saying this? Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog shared How to Increase your Visibility at Work. Development. tops the list.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 26, 2021

I also wanted to share with you my story about the power of authenticity and vulnerability, because I truly believe it is the key to everything I have achieved in my career in the last few years. Authenticity and Career Success. My ex was scared it would cost us the respect of our clients and, ultimately, their business.

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HR Digest

APRIL 3, 2024

Marking a tough time in the consulting industry, McKinsey’s staff exit offer details how employees can continue to look for alternate sources of employment while still being able to support themselves and use the company’s resources to transition in their careers.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 4, 2018

He most likely does not have had a high paying career as a cashier, but he does create a joyful work environment! At work, try a monthly lunch meeting to review business books that might increase knowledge, efficiency, and teamwork. ? Chris Edmonds is a sought-after speaker, author, and executive consultant.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Use Consultants. You’ll find that you do need to reach out to others who dedicate their entire careers to specific areas of interest for ongoing advice and guidance. This is where specialist consultants can come into play. From Healthcare Consultanting. Come Up With a Budget. Invest in Marketing.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

These foundational leadership skills will make all aspiring executives more effective in their roles today and lift the trajectory of their careers. It’s not because they hire a new CEO or expensive consultants but rather because these pioneering companies have adopted a new way of strategizing. Blog Post ). How did you react?

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Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

45 Career Advice Experts Share Their Blueprint for Career Success (Plus Leaderboard)​ Does your career seem to be a struggle at times? It’s why I wrote my book Why Career Advice Sucks™ … to share the stories of my own career success and failures and help you grow your career more quickly.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 9, 2019

Chris Edmonds : Cornell University professor Dr. Tony Simons’ powerful article, “ The High Cost of Lost Trust ,” appeared in the Harvard Business Review in 2002. Chris Edmonds is a sought-after speaker, author, and executive consultant. Chris has also served as a senior consultant with The Ken Blanchard Companies since 1995.

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QAspire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Thoughts on Effective Management Consulting Consulting is a trust game. Consultants are hired because they have an expertise and deeper understanding of a particular area. Core expectation from any consultant is that they deliver results. Please be careful."

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

The following post is a preview excerpt from “ Up is Not the Only Way: Rethinking Career Mobility ” by Beverly Kaye, Lindy Williams, and Lynn Cowart, with permission from Berrett-Koehler Publishers (2017). Careers used to be predictable. Careers today happen in that world–a world that continues to change.

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Restructuring Career Human Resources Globalization 173

Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 3, 2021

Lisa Kohn of Chatsworth Consulting Group shared The Secret to Ending an Argument. Bill Treasurer of Giant Leap Consulting contributed Perfectly Imperfect. Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog shared 6 of the Most In-Demand Skills for the Future Workplace. It’s not that difficult to do. Here’s how to do it.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 6, 2020

In a 2018 Harvard Business Review article Ego is the Enemy of Good Leadership, the authors note that as leader take on greater responsibility, they can become susceptible to ‘hubris syndrome’ – where power goes to their heads and the leader comes to see world as serving their own needs.

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QAspire

APRIL 8, 2024

Throughout my career, I have consistently seen increasing friction as an organization scales and grows. The post Be a Leader Who is a ‘Friction Fixer’ first appeared on QAspire Consulting.

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Rich Gee Group

MARCH 11, 2019

It happens to the best of us — sometimes we need a career 'reset' button to help us re-focus on what's really important and where we want to take our career. Extra-Credit: Upper management employs a 'consultancy firm' to help them turn the ship in the right direction - always a clear signal something's wrong.

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Exit Strategy Long-term Consultative Project 150

Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

How will the team regularly review the company’s value statement and make sure to implement it? The Economics of Wellbeing by Tom Rath & Jim Harter and Positive Intelligence by Shawn Achor (from the January/February 2012 Harvard Business Review) S. Chris Edmonds is a sought-after speaker, author, and executive consultant.

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Blanchard Consultative Metrics Review 187

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2022

A S A LIFELONG communication skills coach, I was asked recently by one of my colleagues how important individual coaching attention is for a person to learn and grow at any stage of their career. Of course, this is sort of like asking a baker if bread is worth baking. We all have different growth needs. We all have different growth needs.

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Development Self-aware Executive Coaching Mentor 248

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

In addition to professional networks, online job boards and career websites also serve as other channels for executive director recruitment. When evaluating executive search firms or consultants, one of the critical factors to consider is their track record of success.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 5, 2021

Julie Winkle Giulioni shared How to Navigate Year-End Reviews for Employees. Despite the challenges of 2020, it’s essential for leaders to engage in year-end reviews as a way to celebrate accomplishments, extract learnings, and enhance trust and connection. Angela Hummel of Angela Hummel Consulting writes For Such a Time as This.

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Chartered Management Institute

OCTOBER 15, 2023

ChMC Case Study: Richard Day Principal Consultant at AtkinsRéalis Richard Day, Principal Consultant at AtkinsRéalis, on why he is a Chartered Advocate Richard Day is a Chartership pioneer. Richard is committed to breaking down barriers to a career in consultancy. He said: It has given me confidence in the work that I do.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

I’m going to be a consultant, I’m going to do that work. They’ve checked all the boxes, weekly one-on-ones, mid-year reviews, check development plans, check. And exit interviews say that the biggest reasons people are leaving are a lack of career path and support from their manager. Yep, check.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Review popular employee retention strategies and why they work to retain key employees. Bonuses for top performers and performance reviews with the chance of a hike are also good motivators. Another employee retention example is paying attention to an employee’s career projections.

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Strategy Metrics Report Examples 96

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

A success plan is much more than an annual performance review. Annual performance reviews focus only on what’s born out of hard skills and tend to boil your people down to metrics around what they’ve done for your company. But first, we have to define success. And that can be a moving target. What Is a Success Plan?

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