N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

with equal rotation of study in the final year of GMI’s Business Administration School, really launched my career at GM and led to my quick progression through the organisation culminating in my leading the team that restructured General Motors in Australia in 1986. Rio Tinto provided that opportunity.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 23, 2024

In contrast, consulting is a more directive approach that involves providing expert advice and guidance to organizations. The coach helps individuals unlock their full potential, offering guidance, support, and accountability. They analyze the organization’s current state, evaluate challenges, and recommend practical solutions.

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Roundtable Talk

APRIL 23, 2020

Roundtable Mentor, Sylvie Doré, Sales Director, Central & Western Canada at Jobillico, shared his advice for keeping a team motivated and confident after a stressful restructuring. “It does not matter if you are letting go of 70% of your workforce or a couple of individuals, the team will be unsettled.”

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The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Check your timing and approach — tailor your approach to using facts or feelings, catch the waves of restructuring or shifting priorities, and manage the emotional climate. For even more practical advice, Upward Leadership: 7 Tactics to Influence Your Boss draws from the Harvard Business Review article “Getting the Boss to Buy In.”

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The Office Blend Blog

MARCH 5, 2020

We are offered an abundance of advice about how to start something, but not nearly enough about when and how (and why) we should walk away. Restructure/re-imagine your work. Moreover, this will serve you longer-term — helping you to engage more productively with your work. Here is what I’ve learned: 1. When to stop.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Bill George and Doug Baker remind us in True North Groups that, “We need people around us to whom we can look for support and advice, who can help us develop as human beings. We often try to, imagining that we can see and know the things we need to know without the discerning eye of a outside point of view. It’s easy to get off track.

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 19, 2023

You may need to document the abuse and get legal advice. Check your timing and approach — tailor your approach to using facts or feelings, catch the waves of restructuring or shifting priorities, and manage the emotional climate. No job is worth ongoing abuse. Get away from this boss and get your life back.

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Roundtable Talk

APRIL 23, 2020

Roundtable Mentor, Chad Crago, Senior Manager, Leadership Development at Walmart, shared his advice for keeping a team motivated and confident after a stressful restructuring. “Being aware and honest with yourself around your own reactions allows you to prepare, and to be intentional in your approach.” ” READ MORE.

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Roundtable Talk

APRIL 23, 2020

Roundtable Mentor, Fiona Ellis, AVP, Dealer Relations at Canadian Tire, shared her advice for keeping a team motivated and confident after a stressful restructuring. “As leaders, we need to be empathetic, respond truthfully and give employees a chance to process the changes before asking them to resume business as normal.”

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HR Digest

APRIL 28, 2023

This occurs when the employer no longer requires the employee’s job to be done or when the employer’s business needs to be restructured. Therefore, it is recommended that employers seek legal advice and support to ensure that they follow the correct procedure when dismissing an employee.

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 31, 2020

We are in a very serious emergency, and we all need to closely follow the advice of our healthcare experts to reduce the spread of this new virus. We all MUST follow the advice of our healthcare leaders and take this pandemic very seriously. And we need to find ways to guard against fear damaging our mental and physical health.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 26, 2020

Being more introverted versus extroverted, the author's advice and teachings would have helped me during new jobs and after promotions, when relocating to new cities, when joining new clubs and organizations, and whenever I became a member of a new team.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

Leaders who want to make their team more effective often ask me for help with teambuilding, training in team skills or advice on restructuring. My first question is always, “What do you want to accomplish? What will be different as a result?”.

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HR Digest

APRIL 24, 2023

However, if you were laid off due to budget cuts , company restructuring, or other reasons beyond your control, your employer may be more inclined to offer you a severance package, and you can go ahead with organizing a severance pay worksheet.

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LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

They provide advice on the spot and can create “trouble tickets” which are then handled by subject matter experts via a network, coordinated by a 24/7 call center. Mobile agents (doctors, insurers, agriculture experts) carry these handhelds to relay advice and look back upon previous engagements in order to craft custom solutions.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 30, 2018

Being more introverted versus extroverted, the author's advice and teachings would have helped me during new jobs and after promotions, when relocating to new cities, when joining new clubs and organizations, and whenever I became a member of a new team.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 29, 2015

There is plenty of advice on how to run effective meetings, but not enough on planning. A restructuring? An off-site meeting can be a great way to develop strategy, get creative, develop a team, learn, and re-invigorate a team. Of course, they can also be like a sentence in purgatory if not planned and run well. A new team member?

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Exit interviews are a key way to identify why an employee wasn’t able to settle into an organization so it can be addressed in the next round of hiring Ensuring a job description accurately represents a role can help ensure candidates know what they are signing up for Explain company policies, probation criteria, salaries, etc.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Being more introverted versus extroverted, the author's advice and teachings would have helped me during new jobs and after promotions, when relocating to new cities, when joining new clubs and organizations, and whenever I became a member of a new team.

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Being more introverted versus extroverted, the author's advice and teachings would have helped me during new jobs and after promotions, when relocating to new cities, when joining new clubs and organizations, and whenever I became a member of a new team.

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In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

Indeed, a case can be made where specific restructuring is necessary to bring companies to the new economic reality. This is fantastic advice. Through no fault of their own, they either lack the experience, the clout or the motivation to drive innovation into the brands they manage. About John. Sarah Allen. February 9, 2011 at 6:09 pm.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 4, 2021

I can’t tell you how many times a manager has come to me for advice after they’ve made a technically authentic, but clumsy move: Storming out of a staff meeting in anger. I once had a client call me and say, “My boss just told me that there is going to be a major restructure and a significant downsizing. scrapped.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2016

” I’ve heard it said about feedback, conflict, difficult conversations, restructuring, losing deals, collaboration, dealing with career ups and downs — all kinds of daily workplace issues. And yet it’s an absurd idea.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 5, 2023

This might involve tough decisions like restructuring or letting go of less profitable product lines, but such changes can lead to a more robust business post-crisis. Seeking Expert Advice Lastly, don’t be afraid to seek expert advice. Are there inefficiencies you can address?

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The Practical Leader

MAY 7, 2012

I recently ran a Moose-on-the-Table workshop for a major division of a large company going through the wrenching change of a wholesale restructuring and totally refocusing their business. Any advice on how to keep making progress, but not make the team feel that they’re left behind?”

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2021

This is where a business has to restructure their company debt, contacting their debtors to arrange manageable payment instalments or liquidate assets to pay off outstanding debts. The Insolvency Service is a Government agency that helps to deliver economic support and advice to businesses who are in financial distress.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 16, 2013

We spent half a million dollars to train our people and restructure our reward systems over 10 years. The only material differences between our campuses were geography and the quality of the leadership. Their leadership was measurably dysfunctional and ineffective; ours was functional and effective.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2018

Mark’s boss was leading meetings to discuss restructuring the research business, and hadn’t been including Mark on the invites. In an effort to not step on toes, he had been deferring to his boss on the restructuring — but his passive approach was undermining him. He wondered whether his voice was appreciated.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2016

For advice on how to handle it better, I turned to executives who have conversations on some of the trickiest topics in an organization: trust on teams, organizational restructuring, and addressing underperformance. By definition, these kinds of conversations require you to get out of your comfort zone.

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Women in the LEAD

OCTOBER 27, 2009

  I am convinced that we are at a point now where so many systems are being restructured that we ourselves don’t even know what feels right.   We have to get real about this topic, because we often don’t have a good balance or discretion about what really feels good.   Now knowing is not good enough any longer.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

An early example comes from an organization restructure we have been working on. In the organization restructuring referenced above, it took only three weeks to analyze a year’s worth of behavioral data to be included in the design of the future processes and structure.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Rather, they are boldly restructuring every function in their organizations to boost their firms' long-term ability to deliver affordable and sustainable solutions to increasingly cost-conscious and eco-aware consumers. These visionary CEOs aren't caving in to Wall Street's demands for short-term gains.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Its opening sentence: "Despite another quarter of robust corporate profits, an ominous impulse is stirring at many big companies — restructuring.". In his work on responsible restructuring, Cascio discovered profitable alternatives to employee layoffs. This strikes us as a knee-jerk reaction and a bad idea.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Rather, they are boldly restructuring every function in their organizations to boost their firms' long-term ability to deliver affordable and sustainable solutions to increasingly cost-conscious and eco-aware consumers. These visionary CEOs aren't caving in to Wall Street's demands for short-term gains.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Acquisitions always get a lot of senior management attention and, for those who want it, there is no shortage of outside advice, including a lot in the management literature. But this is usually when they have a major restructuring, which is to say when they're in trouble of some kind. And it's a shame.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Employees at TEKCO greeted with cynicism the senior executives' blog posts and podcasts about the importance of community spirit, because the same executives had previously engaged in a massive restructuring that involved layoffs. He has established personal relationships with many of them by visiting all major centers of activity.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

JUNE 21, 2021

Change can involve the adoption of new technologies, reengineering, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, culture blending, or any of a number of other forms. Others will resist getting in the car at all. For most people, change is a big deal. Change is a big deal because it often requires leaving our comfort zones.

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