April 2020 - Conduit Consulting

28 Apr

Challenging Negative Gossip in the workplace

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Gossip is defined as casual or unconstrained conversation or reports about other people, typically involving details which are not confirmed as true. and is usually considered to be negative. Gossiping in the workplace is usually prominent when formal communication between Executive and Leadership teams, middle management and colleagues is lacking or dysfunctional. We can easily gauge whether […]

How to increase strategy execution . . . .

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Executive Teams and C Suite Colleagues say that they lose up to 40% of their strategy’s potential value to breakdowns in execution. However, this strategy-to-performance gap is rarely the result of shortcomings in implementation; it tends to happen because the plans are flawed from the start. Too many companies still follow a “Plan-then-Do” approach to strategy: […]

Authenticity is key to successful Project Leadership

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There are many aspects of project management that contribute to project success. There are the technical skills learned and the experience gained in applying them. There are also the soft skills such as communication and influencing that a project manager must possess. Perhaps most important amongst all these skills is the ability to lead and […]