Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2020

I remember one Fidelity Investments program manager back in 2006 or 2007 who had multiple opportunities to watch me deliver one of my early workshops on leading at the next level. I didn’t realize it at the time, but that evening was the impetus for writing my second book Overworked and Overwhelmed in 2014.

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Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 8, 2013

Recently I was helping run workshops on leadership at Texas Christian University (TCU), a university of just under 10,000 students based in Fort Worth, Texas. The foundation is projected to touch the lives of 50,000 children by 2014. TCU is one of the hottest schools in America.

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Motivation Supply Chain Workshop Learning-by-Doing 326

Lead Change Blog

MARCH 4, 2016

I ask this question frequently – of executives I’m coaching to improve their company’s culture, of keynote audiences, in leadership workshops, and more. A 2014 Tiny HR study found that only 21 percent of employees feel strongly valued at work. For many people, their best team experience pops right up in their memory banks.

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Power Audience Bond Workshop 150

Michael Lee Stallard

JULY 19, 2015

When I ask this question while teaching workshops on leadership, nearly all the bosses in the room respond that they are the ones under greater stress. Consider two studies published in 2014 by Gary D. They’re wrong. Sherman, et al.

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Stress Self-aware Competitive Advantage Sample 150

Steve Farber

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

As I write this post, I have on my desk a beautiful letter from a participant in a leadership workshop I was facilitating. That note is still sitting on my desk on this 24th day of September, 2014. When was the last time you received a note like that? More important, when was the last time you wrote one? Carl English. 17 years ago.

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Letter Workshop Wilde Class 101

Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 26, 2013

12/27/13 – Images Used in Presentations & Workshops. Looking forward to meeting and working with you in 2014. With the end of the year approaching, this week is great to share some of my favorites of 2013. Here is the schedule it may change; 12/26/13 – Team Building & Leadership Articles. What an amazing year!

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Team Building Article Team Case Study 137

Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 31, 2013

12/27/13 – Images Used in Presentations & Workshops. Before, During, After a team building activity and workshop the questions asked transfer the lessons learned and can guide the people to find connections to their work and lives. Looking forward to meeting and working with you in 2014. The questions don’t need to be fancy.

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Team Building Team Guidelines Leadership 126

Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Mark has been featured as a keynote speaker and workshop director by the Tiger Woods Foundation, Smithsonian Institute and National Association of Colleges and Employers. Together with Ted Coiné, they will be releasing their book A World Gone Social on September 22, 2014.

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Letter Workshop Advice Career 194

Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 15, 2016

I wrote this post for another publication in 2014, but it appears they have deleted it. I’m preparing to do a workshop on how to nurture high potentials and found it in my archives. Still looks relevant to me! Warning: the following article contains a heavy dose of sarcasm.

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Follow-up Micromanagement Mentor Workshop 120

Deming Institute

MARCH 27, 2017

Edwards Deming Institute® Organisations as Unusual Workshop (Shift from Big Problems to Great Opportunities) and The W. The first is a workshop over two half days. The Sustainability Strategy Program includes the Organisations as Unusual Workshop and with two extra 4 hour sessions focused on sustainability.

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Seminar Deming Workshop Conference 28

Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Deming Institute Workshop – Leading With A Systems View. Learn more about the workshop and register. Related: Deming Institute Workshop Oct 6-8, 2015: Leading With A Systems View – Deming Podcast: Kelly Allan Discussing the 2 1/2 Day Seminar – Deming Seminar in Hong Kong, 12 to 14 June 2014.

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Seminar Deming Workshop Conference 28

leaderCommunicator

OCTOBER 2, 2014

©2014 Kate Nasser, CAS, Inc. Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach™, is a smart, energizing, experienced speaker, coach, and workshop leader. Appreciation comes from interdependent connection. Come on, leaders and teams, buoy and appreciate each other! Leaders, what have you been able to achieve by showing appreciation?

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Team Intellectual Capital Teamwork Workshop 144

QAspire

JANUARY 26, 2015

“ Hector and the Search for Happiness ” is a novel written by Francois Lelord which was converted into a movie by the same name in 2014. 8 Life Lessons From Yoga Workshop. I have not read the book but I am fortunate to have seen the movie last week while I was on the flight back home from Finland. Self Growth Happiness'

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Comparison Workshop Travel Books 70

Deming Institute

APRIL 29, 2015

Photo of attendees at the 2014 forum. A sampling of the pre-conference sessions: Solving the Mystery of the Soggy Pizza Case Study – Entrepreneurship Innovation Value Stream (EIVS) Workshop with Dale Deardorff. The program continues with a full day on Saturday, June 13th, and ends at noon on Sunday, June 14th.

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Deming Conference Sample Case Study 28

Strategy Driven

APRIL 16, 2014

She provides consultation, workshops and training programs for clients ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies, educational institutions, and government organizations. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. About the Author. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Metrics Process BPM KPI 52

Strategy Driven

JUNE 26, 2014

She provides consultation, workshops and training programs for clients ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies, educational institutions, and government organizations. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. About the Author. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Process Strategy BPM Metrics 58

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

The origins of our agile network can be traced back to an online idea forum called WeSolve that we launched in 2014 as a way of challenging Bayer employees to contribute solutions to specific technical or commercial problems. One popular activity is the fast session – a short, structured workshop to address a specific problem.

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Innovation Company Agility Workshop 11

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Facilitates workshops on vision, mission and values integration. Michel Kripalani – President & CEO of Oceanhouse Media, an app development company, ranked by Inc 500 as one the Fastest Growing Private Companies in 2014. Brown Johnson – EVP, Creative Director, Sesame Workshop. Strategy and Culture Advisors.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2017

If you go to job-searching workshops — and I went to more than 50 in the course of studying the contemporary hiring landscape in 2013 and 2014 — you will be told weak ties are the key. So who can actually help? What kinds of relationships should we try to use when we are looking for a job? So, are weak ties still the key?

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Storytelling Wilde Film Learning-by-Doing 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2017

In 2014, the “Foreigners under Temporary Protection” regulation granted refugees free access to public services such as education and health care. Raiding a workshop in 2016, police seized thousands of fake life jackets that were to be sold to refugees attempting to ply the illegal sea route to Greece.

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Long-term Safe Harbor Planning Constraint 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

When he was brought in as CEO in August 2014, the company wasn’t in great shape. Since September 2016, Torkild has spent a couple of days a week at the Björn Borg headquarters, attending workshops, meetings, and fitness tests; having lunch with and talking with employees; and participating in sports hours (25 to date).

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CEO Company Sports Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

In early 2014, they established a “catalyst fund” – a pool of money that internal innovation teams could use for doing rapid proof of concept on new ideas. To reverse this, senior leadership took a number of steps. First they agreed to shift funding from small, incremental acquisitions to innovation.

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Innovation Metrics Christensen Workshop 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

Corporate leaders should consider developing and delivering a customized workshop for new veteran employees about how to navigate the organization, with a specific section on understanding terminology, acronyms, and jargon. This means that only about two in 10 veterans will hold their first non-military job for more than two years.

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Company Commitment Agility Report 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2014

Recently, New York Times columnist David Brooks reflected on Sting’s talk at the 2014 TED conference, in which he revisited his childhood as a middle-aged man, seeking inspiration from some of his earliest experiences. Through Echoing Green’s Work on Purpose program , I lead a workshop dedicated to this very concept.

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Career Participative Learning-by-Doing Workshop 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2015

According to a 2014 survey from Deloitte , 86% of business leaders know that their organizations’ future depends on the effectiveness of their leadership pipelines — but a survey of 2,200 global HR leaders found that only 13% are confident in their succession plans, with 54% reporting damage to their businesses due to talent shortages.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Leadership Pipeline 8

Michael Lee Stallard

JULY 28, 2015

The first time I heard the word “love” uttered in a corporate context I was teaching a workshop on leadership for Lockheed Martin Aerospace. Image Credit: The Container Store’s “We Love Our Employees Day” 2014. He credits the company’s culture for its success. You may be seeing a future Herb Kelleher or Kip Tindell in the making.

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Competitive Advantage Leadership Stress Airlines 150

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

As a result, my company Frontier Strategy Group has forecasted Russia’s economy to grow at an average of around 1% YOY during the next three years (lower than its 3% YOY growth between 2006 and 2014) — not the rapid bounce-back companies are hoping for. How to create growth in a stagnating market.

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Depreciation B2B Price Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

In 2014, the company set a strategic goal to double revenue by 2020, which required disciplined focus on specific strategic growth trajectories. The workshops encouraged and equipped the operating managers and HR teams to take a fresh look at their workforce goals and options. Greater strategic focus required a new workforce approach.

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Strategy Span of Control Finance How To 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2015

But there were many others — from the completely unstructured (communal tables for snack and lunch breaks and narrow corridors between presentation areas, which had everyone literally rubbing elbows) to the very structured (labs, masterclasses, workshops). Technology also played a big role.

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Conference Microfinance Creativity Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2017

HMSHost will be launching workshops on engagement across the entire company. In 2014, IKEA decided to raise its minimum wage and peg it to MIT’s living-wage calculator , which led to a 5% improvement in retention in less than six months. Offer professional-development opportunities.

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Survey Retail How To Reis 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2017

day, scale-focused workshops and related activities. And we convened two dozen investors and investment professionals from around the country in a unique, closed-door Financial Innovations Workshop to see the growth first hand and then to invent financial instruments that would help them profit from financing the growth.

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Entrepreneur Mentor Banking Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

It intends to open two more warehouses and add 300 more employees in 2014. When we do scaling speeches or workshops, we ask people to think (first individually, then in duos or groups) about a few questions: What was once useful but is now in the way? What is adding needless friction? What is scattering your attention?

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Venture Capitalist Brainstorming Proposal CEO 8

Strategy Driven

JULY 24, 2014

She provides consultation, workshops and training programs for clients ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies, educational institutions, and government organizations. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. About the Author. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Project BPM Critical Success Factor Process 58

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

The parts of the business where the approach is used most intensively grew revenue by double digits in 2014. The new approach is working. Rich Products: Achieving Customer Intimacy through Reengineering. Rich Products , a $3.3 Here’s more from Suzanne Pellican: Design for Delight (D4D) is a core capability of our company.

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Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Strategy Driven

APRIL 2, 2014

She provides consultation, workshops and training programs for clients ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies, educational institutions, and government organizations. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. About the Author. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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BPM Process Tips Management 56

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2016

GE vice chairman Beth Comstock spoke to the issues of speed and continual customer input in a 2014 interview, when she said, “We work in these very complex, deep industrial technologies. More flexibility about making changes to ideas as they progress from concept to “minimum viable product” to finished product.

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Company Airlines Ries Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

When the Chinese Communist Party’s central committee wraps up the Third Plenum on November 12, 2014, a shift from efficiency to innovation will likely be one of the major planks in its vision for China. Many Chinese executives seem to recognize the challenges. in 2025.

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