With all the restructuring, lay offs, asking people to do more with less, and working harder every day for less, it really can be debilitating when an opportunity comes along and you don’t get promoted. It makes you wonder. What is wrong with me? Aren’t I doing a good job? Can I do something different [...]
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The short answer, lots of companies. The more complete answer, however, is companies where there is expected turn over and companies who provide services to people. The companies who are hiring are often the larger organizations who always have openings because of people moving up, people moving on and people retiring. To apply and get [...]
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ECI has helped companies make a smooth transition after merger and acquision. Our studies have shown that the number one reason merger or acquisions fail is because the culture is never fully integrated. Company leaders often think that because they have introduced the cultural expectations to the new company members, that is sufficient for a [...]
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Consultants usually have their own jargon that they consistently use to describe various behaviors their clients demonstrate. Over the years, ECI has devised or adopted several of these terms. The interesting thing to me is that as we work with clients for the long term, many of them begin to speak in the same terminology. [...]
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My sister was an executive vice president in banking. She decided to retire when she saw the sub-prime market starting to go crazy and realized that the way she believed a book of mortgages should be developed and managed differed substantially from others in the industry. Too bad she didn’t stick it out. While my sister [...]
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