Aviv’s Blog
To Lead is to Transform
Create Your Narrative
“What’s the best way to excite my team to charge forward?” The young entrepreneur asking the question started a new project. He wanted to help students prepare for the ISEE Test. You can check it out at www.iseepracticetest.com. He felt he needed to focus his team’s attention and create enthusiasm about the opportunity ahead. The business started to pull in cash, and he recognized he...
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The Thrill of Breakthroughs
There is something quite thrilling in the can-do power a team of brilliant hard working executives can create when they coalesce. The three comments below capture that exact sense. Most teams operate at a sub-optimal level and miss the greater knowledge and wisdom available for them at a higher level of collaboration. High level of trust and breakthrough collaboration make the impossible possible and the...
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Best Practices: From Brainstorming To Mind-clustering
Mind-clustering is better than brainstorming. The brain likes to compare and contrast. The mind transcends and includes brain output and more. Here are some best practices to help turn your brainstorming into mind-clustering. Whether what you seek is a future vision or strategic or innovation breakthrough apply and adapt these tips to optimize your session. You are trying to: Download ideas. Generate insight. See the...
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High Performing Teams & Open Ended Questions
Last week I worked with a brilliant team on a strategy for the 2012-13 horizons. They are the best in the world at what they do – the undisputed world champions. You know you are dealing with champions because of what is present at the point of engagement and also because of what is not present. Here are some of the characteristics I observed and...
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Grappling With Success And Growth
Consulting and coaching allows you to live in between worlds. You work with diverse people, organizations, cultures and regions. You arc across crevices of space and time and sometimes you touch the beyond, explore the archetypal and get a peek at the universal. I am back from two events, where I was asked to help organizations that are grappling with growth and change. In each...
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ASTD Published The Consultant 3.0 Manifesto
The American Society for Training & Development (ASTD) published in its Consulting Newsletter the Consultant 3.0 Manifesto by Aviv Shahar. Listen to The Consultant 3.0: How to Thrive in Consulting in a Scary, Brave New World podcast: “Who cares about having too many toys in your sandbox? Develop your core services and continue to expand to new fields. Let the market teach you what it...
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Fifty
Strange. 50 in a few days. Graduating from high school was only yesterday. Suddenly 50. Back then, 50 looked like the other side of the mountain. Unthinkable. Whoops – it’s here. Feels strange to think I’ve now lived half of my life. It’s been a great ride. Learning. Wisdom. Understanding. Great teachers. Amazing people I’ve learned from and worked with. Deep gratitude. Living is so...
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The Value Of A Strategy Summit
What Executives say about the experience and value of a Strategy Summit… Roger Bhalla Tom Mitchell Carol Hess-Nickels David Conrad Jonathan Kaye Melissa Bargainer Matt Wagner © Aviv Shahar
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Model Implementation – Four Phases
If your passion is to help leaders realize their brilliance, consulting is a great profession. What’s the difference between a subject matter expert and a process expert? The first needs to impress the client with what they know. The second needs to help the client impress themselves with their own latent knowledge by helping the client access and realize it. The fun part of getting...
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