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Managing Company Culture Anthropologically

Leading Blog

Despite its perceived importance, for the most part, companies have a miserable track record when it comes to managing their people. Companies consistently get culture wrong because they go about assessing it, and attempting to manage it from the top-down, not the bottom-up. But what does this mean?

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SWOT analysis (TOWS matrix) Made Simple

Rapid BI

SWOT analysis - There are many analysis tools used in supporting strategic planning in businesses, among them is the SWOT analysis. swot for management consulting Arguably one of the most commonly used and misused tools. This pages outlines what a SWOT analysis is and some options to use it effectively.

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8 Ways You Can Improve Your Strategy & Leadership Skills to Scale Your Business

Joseph Lalonde

SWOT analysis: this business analysis tool helps you to discover your business’ strengths, shortcomings, opportunities you can use, and circumstances that may pose threats to your business. You can consult business consulting firms like FIRMSconsulting and others to study your business and its surrounding factors effectively.

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NOISE Analysis, an alternative to SWOT. Strategic Planning

Mike Cardus

Working with companies and developing strategic plans everyone seems to feel that the default method is a SWOT analysis strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats. For example ‘Communication between sales and production’ or ‘More knowledge of how to use our internal knowledge management system’. NOISE Analysis.

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8 Guidelines for Leadership Coaching and Team Building Activities

Mike Cardus

The purpose of these guidelines is to help the (coach / consultant / facilitator) keep their designs based on the teams’ and / or person’s patterns in a modified form and in a different context. (1). Examples of 1 on 1 coaching using activities: 3 Ideas for Time Management and Getting Your Work Organized. Guidelines.

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Favorites of 2012: Team Building & Leadership activities / simulations

Mike Cardus

NOISE Analysis, an alternative to SWOT. Consulting & Coaching a Management team, we created this 4 x 4 Goal (what-by-when) matrix. Each variation can be used as a stand alone, or can be sequenced into an experiential learning and team building program. DiSC Perception can be the catalyst to that team development.

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StrategyDriven Professional Podcast Episode 2 – Standing Out Among Professional Peers, part 2 of 3

Strategy Driven

During our discussion, Wendy Powell, author of Management Experience Acquired : Necessary Skills for Successfully Managing Any Employee , shares with us her insights and illustrative examples regarding: six of twelve steps to standing out among professional peers. Wendy Powell is the author of Management Experience Acquired.