Management Consulting: People Implications of Business Initiatives

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Business management and strategy require frequent pivots, each pivot having significant people implications. Understanding how management initiatives, especially those arising during consulting relationships, impact the organization's team often makes or breaks the initiative as well as the sponsoring senior leaders. Discusses how consultants and management navigate: the complexities of the modern workforce; the utilization of behavioral profiles for talent selection and development; aligning needed skills with the talent assessment process (how leaders find the skill sets they need to achieve the desired outcomes); coaching and developing employees and leaders; engaging the modern worker; understanding organizational structures and how they drive different outcomes related to performance, engagement, and effectiveness; addressing employee resistance to business initiatives including unionization efforts; reviewing the rightsizing (or reduction in force) process and use cases; compensation mechanics and strategies for using compensation to drive leader and employee behavior; and contemporary changes in employment law related to day-to-day people management.