Leading Blog

JULY 23, 2021

Most people grapple with multiple disruptions, from hybrid teams to restructuring, digital transformations, and mergers and acquisitions. Their career experience doesn’t provide the context needed to quickly take the best action that will move them forward. Why Uncertainty is Difficult. Both responses add risk and slow you down.

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HR Digest

MARCH 23, 2023

Research shows that bad layoffs rarely help the leaders accomplish their goals. You want to inform the employee that they are being laid off due to reasons such as company restructuring or budget cuts. This could include severance packages, job search assistance, or career counseling services. Layoff due to restructuring.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 16, 2022

This type of termination of employment occurs either because the company needs to lay off some employees due to a lack of financial funds or business restructuring. This could be a result of finding a new job, personal reasons, or a shift in their career goals.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 5, 2022

As layoffs hit tech, professional recruiters are forced to rethink their careers. Recruiting: A Bellwether Career? Companies are now restructuring with measures such as layoffs and hiring freezes as they enter the last phase of the boom-bust cycle. Layoffs that began in tech are now spilling to retail and beyond.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 15, 2018

A strategy is simply a plan that helps you reach your goals, a way to give yourself the structure that will help you succeed. The best way to form a new habit is to remove anything that will tempt you into your old ways, to restructure your environment so it won’t tempt you. Strategy is a fancy word for action plan.

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Experience to Lead

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Whether it’s your social life, family or career, one thing you can count on is the consistency of change. Whether it be a global pandemic, a company restructuring or a merger, a leadership strategy is crucial if you want to manage shifts and times of uncertainty. By embracing the potential for change, you can harness its power.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 25, 2022

Despite working 50 hours and more per week (with an increasing amount of weekend work to “catch up”), it felt like his career wasn’t going anywhere. Down the hall, Brian’s boss was meeting with the HR director to review staffing for new roles and projects emerging from the recent organizational restructuring.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 10, 2018

Unfortunately, the uncertainty of frequent restructuring actually makes problems worse. Confusion about goals. If team members don’t understand the distinction between what is good for them and what is good for the organization, it’s impossible to set clear goals. High turnover. Filtering bad news. Perfectionism.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

She is reaching a point in her career where the path seems to be narrowing suddenly and precipitously. They don't like to be pigeon-holed or pushed out on a limb of specialization — with the inherent danger of a whimsical corporation sawing that limb off behind them during the next restructuring.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 4, 2021

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. Talk about that marathon you’re training for (and be sure to ask about their running goals too). Being Overly Transparent. My team may or may not be impacted. I may or may not have a job.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2018

Job personalization is best applied when there are clear inflection points: when career trajectories are stalled, during corporate restructuring, or in recruiting for open positions. Ask the person to describe themselves and their career, and listen closely. What gets them excited about their career successes?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2015

Restructurings may be an inevitable part of organizational life but living through them—even when you’re one of the lucky ones still standing—is challenging and stressful. ’” Showing compassion is not only kind it’s also a smart career move, according to Coyne. How do you stay positive?

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

In addition, because of the successive generations entering the workforce, rising education levels, globalization, the flattening of organizations, and an increased willingness to change careers and companies, employees have come to understand they can add more value doing meaningful work.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2011

Not to mention you're putting your career — and even your sense of self — on the line. So he remained at the company — and the next time there was a restructuring, he was laid off. Make sure your resume is up to date and clearly shows your career interests. Change at least some of the content of your job.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

A successful leadership transition depends on substantial cognitive restructuring. Those who choose to make this transition need a clear vision of why they are stretching to develop a new mindset and skill set in the middle of an already established and successful career.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

But it's important to know the difference between a one-time error in judgment and a decision to pursue a critically flawed strategy — in fact, your future career may depend on knowing the difference. I would recommend a few corporate household remedies: Refocus on the goal. Get yourself out of the way.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

The ability to get new initiatives off the ground is also critical to your career. If your new initiative involves, say, improving employee health, zero in on a particular goal, such as decreasing employees’ back pain or helping workers quit smoking. ” Here are some pointers on how to get your idea moving. Gather feedback.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

They struggle to see how their labor contributes directly to the performance of the corporation, or how it helps the progress of their career. “We had to train harder, measure our goals better, and become a better team,” Bunge said. For many in today’s knowledge economy, this feeling is elusive.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

The findings show that fewer than half of analytics programs met initial return-on-investment (ROI) goals. Frequent restructurings of the analytics function. High-achieving executives have been shaped by the pivotal experiences of their careers, yet analytics requires executives to think beyond these mental models.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

The ability to immerse oneself in terabytes of data, identify (individually or collaboratively) what''s most important and restructure it in an accessible, meaningful and usable form for a variety of audiences will increasingly be an essential skill. Business education Career planning Education' What makes a prosthetic limb responsive?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

It dents your self-esteem; it’s tough on your bank account; and if you’re not smart about your next steps, it can derail your career. “The old adage that it’s not about you is nonsense,” says John Lees, the UK-based career strategist and the author of How to Get a Job You Love. Losing your job is hard.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2015

By understanding your boss’s interests and goals, and aligning those with your own case, you are more likely to get what you want. Assure your boss that you understand his pressures and goals, and pitch your raise as a way to help him. Here’s how to craft your request. Gather evidence. Preparation is critical.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

As the CEO of a global oil company who had risen through the ranks, Michel had faced many stressful events on off-shore rigs early in his career, and considered himself to be a tough guy with no tolerance for wimps. G for growth tension: Growth is a result of learning and stretch goals. Is the person becoming bored?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

Dave didn’t advocate any particular design model, just one the leader knows how to employ and one flexible enough to be applied to the range of organizational situations a leader faces in the course of a career. So leaders at many different levels need to get in on the act.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

His letter announced a compensation restructuring, which accompanied a dismantling of hierarchy and the introduction of self-managed, self-organizing teams throughout the company. ” He would later call this the most important insight of his career. But Stayer wasn’t happy. Everything, he had resolved, had to change.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

At the front end of the project, always ask: “What resources do you need to achieve your goal?” If you’re new to leading the team, ask how they would restructure the team and their own work. Be candid about career consequences if they don’t change. Ask what they would most like to be doing if they could.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2010

But turn to the question of why more women leaders is a good goal, or why it's such an elusive one, and you're spoiling for a fight. Organizations could, for example, offer greater opportunities for job-sharing, and restructuring professional jobs so that hours of overtime on a weekly or even daily basis is not a routine expectation.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

We’ve found that you can’t create a culture just through values, new processes, or an organizational restructure. We’re not about stringent policies or old-fashioned career paths. In the end, our goal is to hire and retain the best people in order to provide the best service to our customers.

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