Thoughts from the Field - The Three Signs of a Miserable Job

Last week we met with all of our Consulting Partners from across the country at our 3rd Annual Consulting Partner Conference. During this past year, our Consulting Partners have collectively worked with an amazing 200+ clients, many of you included. At our gathering we shared client stories and best practices, fine-tuned consulting skills and more. We also spent considerable time talking about The Three Signs of a Miserable Job and the model's potential impact on companies both large and small.

Thoughts from the Field - Organizational Clarity

During 2006, The Table Group and our Consulting Partners worked with nearly 200 companies addressing both team and organizational challenges. One of the first areas we address in our consulting sessions with clients is organizational clarity. The concept around clarity is outlined in Pat's book, The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive, and requires an executive team to be on the same page regarding various foundational concepts around their business. During our sessions, we have teams answer questions such as: Why does this organization exist? What is our strategy? What are our goals? etc. Without clear, consistent answers to these questions, confusion and hesitation begin to plague an organization.

Thoughts from the Field - SILOS, POLITICS AND TURF WARS TOOL

DEVELOPING YOUR THEMATIC GOAL - JEFF GIBSON, VP OF CONSULTING It's only been six months since Silos, Politics and Turf Wars was released, but we've been using the Thematic Goal model with our consulting clients for several years. Our hands-on, real-time experiences have helped us to refine the model to where it is now. Because we've received some additional questions on how to properly establish a Thematic Goal, we created a tool with additional instructions (see below). Over years of using the model with various companies, we have come to realize that developing a Thematic Goal and the accompanying Defining Objectives usually goes in one of two ways: it is either relatively straightforward, or it's extremely difficult.