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Why did I get passed over for the promotion?

April 13th, 2009 by The ECI Team

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 to get promoted?  The true answer to this question really depends on the person and the circumstances.  But more often than not, it is an issue of people not seeing you in the new role or having questions about how effective you might be in the new role.

Let’s take a look at some real situations, names removed, of course, to protect the candidates. Read more…

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Who’s Hiring?

April 1st, 2009 by The ECI Team

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 noticed by these organizations, you need to look at what jobs are offered and how well you match the posted job requirements. These are often the US major employers. Read more…

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How Culture Impacts Merger and Acquisition

March 25th, 2009 by The ECI Team

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 well integrated culture to emerge.

People change when the pain of change is less than continuing to do things as they always did.  So, in the case of cultural integration, some work needs to be done to disable old habits and preferences of the merging organizations, either to come to new consensus on what the culture will be, to impose one of the cultures on the whole organization, or to begin again to devise a new culture.  There are no in-between strategies here, folks.  This is one you have to make a decision around and then put the plan in place to make it happen. Read more…

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Prudent Risk Taking and Other Such Terms

March 23rd, 2009 by The ECI Team

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. Read more…

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Handling Problem Workers

January 5th, 2009 by The ECI Team

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 is a very strong person and does have a strong sense of justice, I doubt that she would have been able to overcome her high level of correctness to shame the industry into taking the higher road.   Nonetheless, she was a very effective leader in her own right and we often discussed how she was managing some of the issues she faced in overseeing her team. Read more…

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Employer Consultancy, Inc. is an Organizational Development consulting firm whose corporate mission is to help companies to do a successful pre employement assessment, and manage and develop top performers. They accomplish this by providing their customers with practical, customizable tools and systems, such their competency management systems, that promote higher levels of performance, productivity and profitability.