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Succession Planning and Management: The Nuance of Maximizing Excellence in Leadership Continuity

Succession Planning and Management: The Nuance of Maximizing Excellence in Leadership Continuity By Lori Harris, Harris Whitesell Consulting Leadership transitions are one of the most disruptive events in an organization’s lifecycle. They test not only continuity of operations but also investor confidence, employee trust, and market competitiveness. Despite this reality, less than 35% of organizations […]

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Harris Whitesell Consulting Leadership Pipeline

Why Your Leadership Pipeline Needs a Reboot to Compete Now

Why Your Leadership Pipeline Needs a Reboot to Compete Now – Your Pipeline Isn’t as Ready as You Think Most organizations believe they have a leadership pipeline because they’ve identified successors. But many pipelines are pipelines of placeholders, not readiness. We see it every day: New supervisors struggle to lead former peers. Managers default to

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Executive Presence Harris Whitesell Consulting Lori Harris

Executive Presence – An Essential Competency

Executive Presence – An Essential Competency All leaders are capable of executive presence. Some have varying levels of it. Not all are consistently effective at it. Beyond vision and strategy, both key competencies for executives, there are various other key functional areas of tactical experience and technical knowledge of industry, business, and operational systems

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Elevate Your Success Without Sacrificing Your Well-Being

We are thrilled to invite you to a transformative event that Harris Whitesell Consulting, Managing Partners, Lori Harris and Lynn Whitesell, are a part of — The Beautiful, Balanced BOSS Summit: Harnessing Hormones, Productivity, and Presence for Peak Performance After 40. Hosted by my friend, Dr. Susan Lovelle, we’ve gathered an impressive lineup of experts

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Harris Whitesell Consulting Maximize Excellence Podcast General Session

MAXIMIZE EXECLLENCE!© PODCAST – General Session 2022April25

MAXIMIZE EXCELLENCE!© PODCAST Today, Lori Harris and Lynn Whitesell hosted a general session and shared information about the company, its services, and the value of Talent Management in the workplace. CLICK TO WATCH AND LISTEN

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Forbes Workplace Leadership Roles Harris Whitesell Consulting Lori Harris

16 Ways New Leaders Can Manage Shifting Workplace Relationships

When an employee is promoted to a leadership role, the dynamics of their relationships with others in the workplace inevitably change. It’s important that they create a good rapport with new peers and team members. However, they also need to change their approach to maintaining current relationships to ensure their success as a leader. Most

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15 Tips For Small Business Owners Planning Their First Budget

Opening a small business is an exciting and scary prospect. However, the sense of overwhelm may only hit when the owner is preparing their first month’s budget. An experienced individual who opens a small business might have insight into how to draft a reasonable budget, but even then, there are things that they won’t know.

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Conscious Culture: Insights For Customizing Your Company Culture

Consciously creating and maintaining culture in organizations is simply complex. Culture is defined by the way people in the organization behave, what they believe and think, and what they say. It’s the realistic, silent code of conduct that plays out each day. Culture sets the foundation for the scope of what the organization does: vision,

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Harris Whitesell Consulting Competitive Advantage

13 Mistakes Business Owners Make When Trying To Differentiate Their Company

Standing out from the crowd is essential when competing in the business world. However, when trying to differentiate their company, entrepreneurs can sometimes make serious mistakes if they don’t have a clear strategy in place. In trying to make their business or service offerings stand out—especially in a saturated market—leaders can sometimes create the opposite

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Harris Whitesell Consulting Leadership Goals

Setting, Measuring, And Achieving Leadership Goals

If You Want To Succeed, You Must Set Goals! There is a reason why goals are so important. Goals push us to do better. Goals give us focus and direction. If you want to succeed you need to set goals. Goal setting allows you to take control of your life’s or company’s direction and provides

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Agile Organizations: Seven Steps For Excellence

“Everything has changed, except our way of thinking.”-Albert Einstein In a utopian state, organizations are able to accelerate, optimize and maximize each employee’s experience. They assess each employee’s individual aptitudes, preferences, personality, talents and competencies. They hire and assign each employee to a job that is perfectly suited to them. They have each employee make

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Trying To Narrow Down Your Career Path? Try These 15 Tips

Choosing a career is a major decision. Even if you end up switching careers down the line, the first step you take into the working world will impact the entirety of your professional journey. But as someone with multiple interests, skills and passions, it can be difficult to narrow in on just one career that

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