Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

We still live with a ‘sheep dip’ mentality, where staff are cycled through a ‘training programme’ and then expected to transform organisations overnight. Increasingly, leaders exist in a much longer ‘span of control’ network. They need to get things done without too much ‘command and control’.

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Leadership Development Development Span of Control Leadership 215

HR Digest

AUGUST 18, 2023

However, as organizations recognized the importance of human capital, HR shifted its focus to functional excellence in areas such as staffing, training, and reward systems. Initially, HR practices focused on efficiency, ensuring that HR processes were streamlined and cost-effective.

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Organization Power Span of Control SWOT 96

CEO Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

We have 8 teams which is a good number for span of control. Education (everything from English skills, schooling to job training), Adjustment, Housing, Transportation and Finance. 3 - Director of Education/Training. This team also looks at the adult training needs for job skills. So how are we doing it?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2014

This meant that management span of control had more than doubled from an average of 5-6 salespeople per manager up to 12-15 per manager. The average span of control for U.S. The merchandising force operates with an unusually high span of control of 50 merchandisers per manager.

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Span of Control Company Merchandising Management 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2012

After considerable thought, she decided that the best way to force her managers to take a more holistic perspective was to increase their spans of control so that they were responsible for end-to-end processes and wouldn't have the time to micro-manage the technical details. Rely on structural shifts to change behaviors.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

While it’s essential that leaders proactively create contingency plans for the next crisis – identify vulnerable areas, analyze the organization’s state of readiness, provide appropriate staff training, among other important tasks – there is a famous military maxim that says, “Every plan is a good one – until the first shot is fired.”

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

When an employee becomes a people manager for the first time, they experience an expansion in responsibility, a broader span of control, and new types of accountability. This requires education and training through their promotion. Employees both desire and deserve continuous development as they navigate their careers.

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