Resource Center
Welcome to the LeadVantage Consulting Resource Center. Consider this a place to explore leading edge thinking on the topics of Project Management, Business Improvement, and Business Management Coaching.
Over the last 15 years, we have compiled our favorite content on our favorite subjects. We encourage you to explore our site, tell your friends and colleagues and visit often. The Resource Center includes the following material:
- LeadVantage Consulting Newsletters (current and archived)
- Book recommendations and summaries
- LeadVantage Consulting articles
- Video featuring current management topics (coming soon)
We would love to hear from you. If you have comments or questions about anything you saw on the Resource Center or any topics that you would like to see added, please contact us.
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The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership
Coaching, Books Her husband had everything: wealth, privilege, position and a royal title. Yet instead of him, Princess Diana won over the whole world. Why? She understood the Law of Influence. |
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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Coaching, Books Patrick Lencioni provides a very entertaining fable and an intriguing analysis of what makes teams work effectively. For example, dysfunction #2 is fear of conflict. Lencioni states that all great relationships, the ones that last over time, require productive conflict in order to grow. This is true in marriage, parenthood, friendship, and certainly business. Unfortunately, conflict is considered taboo in many situations, especially at work. And the higher you go up the management chain, the more you find people spending inordinate amounts of time and energy trying to avoid the kind of passionate debates that are essential to any great team. |
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If Everyone Owns it, No One Owns It
Project Management, Articles On occasion, managers think the best solution is to assign an issue or project to multiple people. Although solving most issues does require the collective input of several people, not assigning a clear owner slows decision making, often compromises quality, and immediately provides a built in excuse for not delivering. |
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LeadVantage Consulting Launches a New Website and Gets a Taste of Their Own Medicine
Project Management, Articles LeadVantage Consulting has worked with great clients over their seven-year history. In that time, they have touted the virtues of a structured approach to project management on countless occasions. Three months ago, when they launched an internal project to redesign their website with the help of Chicago-based Orbit Media, they had to take a dose of their own medicine. |
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Eye See You
Coaching, Articles The eyes, arguably the most important sense we possess, are often the most misused and misunderstood. For a minute, let’s think about the purpose of the eyes. The first, as we all know, is to see. What we see provides us with information on how to act. When you see your bus approaching, you get on. When you see a person you love, you embrace. The second purpose of the eyes, and often times the most overlooked, is to communicate. From rolling your eyes to squinting, gazing to looking away, many different messages are exuded from the simplest twitch of an eye. |
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Business Improvement: Trend or a Classic?
Business Improvement, Articles You know that moment when you can’t decide if what you are wearing is still “in”. You think, of course it is. I’m hip. I’m young. Right? And then you suddenly realize that you’re not that young and not really that hip. Certain things are meant to be trends like leg warmers and Flash Dance sweatshirts. They have a short shelf life. However, other trends becomes classic and are immortalized forever like white polo shirts and the little black dress. What about Business Improvement? Was it a trend or has it evolved into a classic? |
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New Processes Critical for Growth
Business Improvement, Case Studies Over a five-year period, the company went from 28 employees to over 150 employees with revenue from $11 million to over $103 million. Our client achieved this growth through its strong relationships with customers and vendor partners as well its employee base that provided superior customer service. Although our client enjoyed significant growth, it was at a crossroads as it attempted to double in size within the next 4 years. |
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