Strategy Driven

AUGUST 11, 2023

In today’s dynamic business arena, effective communication isn’t just a tool; it’s the bedrock of success. Communication training equips teams with the tools to share insights and feedback seamlessly. Investing in training enhances dynamics and establishes leadership.

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Training Active Listening Bond McKinsey 116

Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 9, 2012

I’ve recently had the opportunity to help design a brand-new open-enrollment Woman’s Leadership Development Program to be offered through the University of New Hampshire’s Executive Development Program. Here are 10 Elements of a Great Woman’s Leadership Development Program: 1. Start with a solid research foundation.

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Leadership Development Development Committee Leadership 249

Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

It contains concise explanations (without all the jargon) of some of the most popular strategy tools and how to use them. In his own words: “First, there are the most popular tools—those that are used most often in the workplace. Second, there are some of the most influential tools from the field of strategy and management.

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Strategy Books Balanced Scorecard Mauborgne 282

CoachStation

AUGUST 26, 2022

The risk of not getting leadership and culture ‘right’ are significant. It’s about understanding how important leadership and engagement are. Thankfully, this attitude and openness to leadership and personal growth is improving. In recent years I have developed a tool regarding communication effectiveness.

Motivation 130

Motivation McKinsey Attrition Influence 130

Leading Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2019

McKinsey alums Charles Conn and Rob McLean teach us how to be bulletproof problem solvers using a simple 7-steps approach. Some problems don’t need complex analysis, others require more complex tools. Organizations are looking for people that can define problems and form solid creative responses. Yet these skills are rarely taught.

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Disaggregation Analysis McKinsey Process 220

The Practical Leader

JUNE 16, 2021

– Warren Bennis, An Invented Life: Reflections on Leadership and Change. Leadership is almost all emotional intelligence, especially in distinguishing between what managers do and what leaders do… – Daniel Goleman, Working with Emotional Intelligence. – Winston Churchill.

Positioning 109

Positioning Emotional Intelligence Goleman Competitive Advantage 109

Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 20, 2015

. Great leaders get the best out of their teams by providing 12 core leadership “services” The best leaders provide these services in an efficient and effective way. . In our new book , Victor Prince and I describe the 12 “leadership services” that leaders must provide to their teams: Directing.

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Team Leadership McKinsey Efficiency 100

Tanveer Naseer

JULY 21, 2015

You can too with a simple assessment tool that provides insights as to how to most effectively lead the unique members of your team. We call that second piece “leadership capital.” The result of those comparisons is the Leadership Matrix (or “the box” for short). The phrase “think outside the box” makes me physically ill.

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Leadership McKinsey Cost Comparison 100

Center for Creative Leadership

AUGUST 26, 2019

Our series of industry trend research reports — created using our flagship 360-assessment tool, Benchmarks® for Managers — shows that great similarities exist among leaders across industries including healthcare, pharmaceutical, financial, tech, energy, and government (civilian). Army Leadership Trend Report. Contributing Author.

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Benchmarking Leadership Bottom-up Leadership Pipeline 57

Strategy Driven

MARCH 25, 2016

The call for greater diversity at senior leadership levels is not new, although it has itself become more inclusive, extending beyond gender, race and ethnicity, to encompass age, education, socioeconomic background and sexual orientation, as well as experience, skills and talent. McKinsey & Co. Picking up the pace.

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Diversity McKinsey Team Leadership 50

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

To be recognized on the 2020 Top CHRO List, the words leadership, team, succession, purpose, culture, governance, and diversity are not just buzzwords – they represent who a CHRO is, what they believe, and where they work every day. Prior to joining Microsoft in 2003, Hogan was a partner at McKinsey & Co. Blank Family Foundation.

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Human Resources Globalization Diversity Resources 469

Leading Blog

MARCH 24, 2017

McKinsey reports that eight out of ten time strategists focus on known hypothesis—opportunities that have been examined in the past or are already evident. Analytics is just and tool and soon will be found and used by everyone everywhere. You can evolve over and over. Use the force and create the future.

Agility 158

Agility Uncertainty Competitive Advantage McKinsey 158

Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 11, 2020

According to McKinsey , many CEOs struggle to identify people good at innovation -- the “intrapreneurs” within their organizations who possess the rare mix of skills, motivation and attitude to successfully bring new ideas to market. The standard solution is to create teams that focus explicitly on innovation. The problem? Why is that?

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Innovation Team How To Uncertainty 227

The Practical Leader

AUGUST 20, 2012

The more we learn about Zenger Folkman’s leadership development research and approaches, the more excited we are to be their Canadian Strategic Partner. At risk of sounding like a sleazy late night TV pitch man; Zenger Folkman’s Strengths-Based Leadership Development System is a major revolution in our field.

Leadership Development 53

Leadership Development Development Leadership McKinsey 53

First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 25, 2013

Bob''s blog entries "Givers take all: The hidden dimension of corporate culture" "How Do You Create Innovation in Your Business?

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Blog ROI Film McKinsey 75

The Practical Leader

AUGUST 20, 2012

The more we learn about Zenger Folkman’s leadership development research and approaches, the more excited we are to be their Canadian Strategic Partner. At risk of sounding like a sleazy late night TV pitch man; Zenger Folkman’s Strengths-Based Leadership Development System is a major revolution in our field.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership McKinsey 45

HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2024

There are going to be all different types of models and different types of tools and technology…So errors, trading, hedging research; every app, every database you can be applying AI. McKinsey ’s research into AI and its predictions about the future of work has a lot of useful insight to offer. It’s a living, breathing thing.

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Hedge McKinsey Technology Learning-by-Doing 52

HR Digest

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Most CEOs rank HRs as the eighth most important function in their organization, according to a research by McKinsey. Though coaching is a vital tool in helping employees to achieve their full potential, it has its limits. This breeds dissatisfaction of CHRO roles and HR functions in general. That’s absolutely wrong.

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CEO CFO McKinsey Human Resources 63

Skip Prichard

MAY 22, 2019

This framework of AI tools to help assist in the writing process was comprised of AI Voice Recognition, AI Content Understanding/Summarization, and AI Content Creation and Generation. McKinsey: AI is advancing 10 times faster and at 300 times the scale of the Industrial Revolution. . AI to the Rescue. Read the rest of this post.

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Content Innovation Creativity McKinsey 88

CO2

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

In a McKinsey survey , 70% of respondents cited work as a defining factor in their sense of purpose—with 63% saying they would like more opportunities to live out that purpose in their day-to-day work. . Recommended Reading: Corporate Purpose Monumental Change Starts with Your Leadership. What are our values? or What’s our purpose?

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How To Long-term Performance Review Mission Statement 78

CO2

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

In a McKinsey survey , 70% of respondents cited work as a defining factor in their sense of purpose—with 63% saying they would like more opportunities to live out that purpose in their day-to-day work. If people far removed from leadership can answer questions such as What’s our mission? What are our values? or What’s our purpose?

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How To Long-term Performance Review Mission Statement 78

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 27, 2019

The Matthew Effect is a phenomenon commonly seen in the online world, as tools that ostensibly should lower inequality by giving all people access to fantastic resources, end up benefiting the better off because they have the willingness and ability to better capitalize on these tools. Fairer recruitment.

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Diversity Class Education Analysis 53

leaderCommunicator

JANUARY 6, 2015

One especially effective tool is a briefing book that provides succinct and current information. The organizational structure, including make-up of senior leadership teams. Looking for more leadership tips? Our Leadership Toolbox ebook is filled with the best tactics and strategies all in one place.' David Grossman. -.

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Audience McKinsey eBook Tactics 60

Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 2, 2013

At the C-suite, businesses need not only a data analytics strategy, but a data-analytics culture, researchers from McKinsey have concluded. And the tools provided have to be usable and relevant so people will actually enter the data that’s needed.

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Leadership Styles Human Capital Ethics McKinsey 83

Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2014

Trust is a tool to assess and manage (reduce and/or increase) risk, depending on the situation. Technology does not do much in a complex interaction (per McKinsey´s articles on interaction). Personal leadership and character become more important. Trusting is efficient and effective.

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Efficiency Energy Senge Resources 132

Eric Jacobson

MAY 25, 2016

To achieve " connected leadership " you must: Map your world -- Analyze stakeholders as precisely as your customers, understand trends and discontinuitites, and quantify the value at stake from external relationships. People’s tools of communication and organization—from smartphones to social media—are more powerful than ever before.

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Company Competitive Advantage Open-book Long-term 50

Mills Scofield

JUNE 23, 2015

” But Brown has given us every tool and every reason to Venture Boldly into our discomfort. A California native, she will move to New York to work for McKinsey & Company and plans to pursue a career in public service. These questions push us into uncomfortable places. This is how we’ve grown.

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Class Education Construction McKinsey 70

Mills Scofield

JUNE 23, 2015

” But Brown has given us every tool and every reason to Venture Boldly into our discomfort. A California native, she will move to New York to work for McKinsey & Company and plans to pursue a career in public service. These questions push us into uncomfortable places. This is how we’ve grown.

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Class Education Construction McKinsey 70

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 8, 2010

As a leader and manager, you’ll learn how to use these tools to harness social interactions to improve your business and to create your own social nation. Indeed, a 2008 issue of the McKinsey Quarterly noted that women tend to make deeper emotional connections with colleagues and business partners.

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Self-aware Media Open-book Learning-by-Doing 72

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2011

Every aspect of traditional industries is affected by Internet tools and social networks, as I proposed in my e-G8 talk for the plenary session on digital reinvention. A McKinsey Global Institute study unveiled at e-G8 estimated that Internet economic output is bigger than Spain and growing faster than Brazil.

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McKinsey COO Technology CEO 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2017

According to academic estimates , the baseline for effective corporate leadership is merely 30%, while in politics, approval ratings oscillate between 25% and 40%. A recent McKinsey report suggests that fewer than 30% of organizations are able to find the right C-suite leaders, and that newly appointed executives take too long to adapt.

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McKinsey Self-aware Motivation Report 15

Leading Blog

AUGUST 3, 2018

One of the most effective tools of persuasion is to use the classic narrative structure of dividing the story into three parts or ‘acts’: the set-up describes the current situation; the conflict highlights the problem your customer's faces, and the resolution proposes your idea or solution.” David Pakman.

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Open-book Storytelling McKinsey Maturity 218

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

“Because you’re from McKinsey and I want to work there,” he replied. MiB was founded through Stern’s Leadership Development Program in partnership with NYU’s Global Spiritual Life program. He began his lecture to a packed auditorium with a question: “Why did you all come here today?”

Emotional Intelligence 8

Emotional Intelligence Self-aware Audience McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Reorganizations can be a useful management tool for finding new value and are often essential as part of a merger or acquisition integration. Common pitfalls are a lack of cultural understanding between the integrating parties, poor integration leadership, and a focus on the wrong activity set or the wrong targets.

Process 8

Process McKinsey Due Diligence Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Is it critically important for companies’ consumer-data teams to have someone who truly understands statistics in a leadership position, or can an untrained manager learn to be more discerning about data? And are there times when you should completely ignore the data and go with your gut?

Information 8

Information Information Technology McKinsey Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Google Trends is fast becoming an indispensable tool for many analysts who believe — as Brin does — that the wisdom (and/or delusions) of googling crowds can successfully inform investment strategies worldwide. That's as true for a Walmart or a JCPenney as it is for a McKinsey & Co. or a PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Hedge 15

Hedge Core Competence CFO ROI 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

social media users actively seek customer service through social media, according to Nielsen and McKinsey Incite , we’ve made getting globally aligned one of GM’s priorities. The CoE has worked with IT and purchasing to procure a global set of tools for social media management, which are also integrated with our CRM systems.

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Media Automotive Globalization Active Listening 8