 September 2007Welcome to the September 2007 edition of New@Cambria – a newsletter designed to inform our clients and the broader world of business about new developments, share white papers on best human resource practices, press releases, upcoming presentations, and webcasts. New@Cambria provides an opportunity to highlight innovative solutions that address our clients’ needs and interact with our audience on the latest trends and leading edge approaches to building high-performance organizations through people. As always, we value your feedback and suggestions. – The Partners of Cambria Consulting, Inc.
Of Immediate Interest
The influx of Gen Y in the workplace and the transfer of knowledge from Boomers to Gen Y has led many of our clients to take a new look at their organization’s approach to recruiting and onboarding (or new employee orientation). Over the past year we have been asked to conduct studies of public-facing career/recruiting sections on our clients’ web sites as well as to develop onboarding programs for senior executives and new employee orientation programs that address all employees. Cambria’s Ray Elman shares some highlights of our findings.
White Paper: The Nature of Effective Global Leadership Over the years, Cambria has studied highly effective leaders in a select number of successful global companies – companies that have successfully managed the transition from large, hierarchical organizations with centralized decision-making and slow-moving processes to agile and highly effective players in the global marketplace. Our research reveals that highly effective global leaders, despite their many differences, act in many consistent ways and have certain experiences in common that taught them how to lead. These lessons can help companies do a better job of developing people to lead with a global perspective.
Cambria Consulting, and ChangeWise, an innovative leadership and organization development firm, have announced their partnership to create a 360 degree feedback instrument that assesses and guides the development of “leadership agility.” The new online instrument is based on research underlying the groundbreaking book, Leadership Agility, by ChangeWise principals Bill Joiner and Steven Josephs. Jim Kouzes, coauthor of the bestseller, The Leadership Challenge, declared leadership agility to be “the new master skill of leadership,” and leading executive coach and author Marshall Goldsmith says it is probably “the most important competency for leaders to have in today’s rapidly changing world.” Now in pilot test, the ChangeWise® 360 Leadership Agility Assessment is available at discounted pricing for organizations wanting to be among the first to assess leadership agility and initiate a systematic approach to developing agile leaders. For information about how you can participate, go here.
Developing Technical Program/Project Leaders for the Future - Part II Cambria Partner Tim Kroecker has been studying program and project management success factors in the public and private sectors for a number of years. He has consistently found that the difference between success and failure in managing large-scale projects usually has less to do with the lack of technical project management skills and more to do with the lack of communication, people skills and leadership skills. When a project or program stalls, it is often the leadership skills in particular – the ability to re-create and communicate a vision and to motivate others with that vision – that revitalize it. In this second installment of a three-part series, Tim addresses the challenges faced when defining program management, and details the process for creating a complete understanding of the program manager using a “success profile” structure with the required competencies. This article appeared in the March-April issue of Defense AT&L (Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics), published by the Defense Acquisition University. Download the article here. (Part I is also available for download at this location)
Cambria Launches New Company Website Cambria’s website has been dramatically redesigned to showcase our evolution as a full service HR consultancy. Whether or not you have visited us before, you will find timely articles, position papers, and news of interest to human resource professionals and the organizations they support, as well as demonstrations of many of our applications in action. Our capabilities as a firm have grown from our traditional high-performer approach to human resource management to encompass our four practice areas:
Visit www.cambriaconsulting.com and see how we can address your most pressing business needs from an HR perspective.
Ellen Kumata Elected Cambria’s Managing Director Cambria Consulting, Inc., a leading strategic HR consulting firm, announced today that it has elected Ellen Kumata to lead the firm as its first Managing Director. Since its founding in 1985, the collective partners have managed Cambria, but with the growth and expansion of its service offerings, they decided to choose Ellen to coordinate the firm’s efforts toward future growth. Ellen’s experience at Cambria spans over 20 years, during which time she built its executive coaching practice with a network of over 175 coaches located around the globe. In addition to her work as an eminent executive coach, Ellen has led engagements in succession planning, performance management, and leadership development and assessment. Her clients have included Alcoa, AT&T, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, Citigroup, Deloitte, EMC, Fidelity Investments, Gap, JPMorgan Chase, Merrill Lynch, MetLife, Pepsi, and Wachovia. Go here for the complete announcement.
NASA Renews Executive Coaching Contract with Cambria Cambria learned last month that NASA awarded its 5-year agency-wide executive coaching contract to Cambria Consulting, Inc., which has been providing these services to NASA since it was awarded the first contract in 2004. In selecting Cambria as the winning bidder, NASA recognized the progress and success achieved through the partnership in the formative years of the initial contract. With the launch of the first agency-wide executive coaching program in 2004, NASA placed itself at the forefront of a growing awareness by public and private organizations of the value and impact of executive coaching as a vehicle for accelerating the development of leaders and high-potential employees. In 2007, the NASA coaching practice remains a clear leader in the field among federal agencies, and the commitment to a new 5-year contract demonstrates the continued recognition by top agency officials of the program’s strategic importance to long-term mission success. Go here for the complete announcement.
Cambria Interactive Launches OnboardingDirector™ Cambria Interactive has recently launched OnboardingDirector™, an innovative online solution that addresses the unique needs of onboarding new leaders into strategically important roles. OnboardingDirector™ embeds Cambria’s complete process for transitioning new leaders by providing a central access point to share best practices, tools and resources across the enterprise, and it provides grounding for the individuals who support the new leader’s onboarding process – such as the new leader’s manager, HR professional, coach and administrative assistant. OnboardingDirector™ is based on benchmarking successful onboarding in prominent Fortune 200 companies as well as Cambria’s executive coaching experience. The result is a robust onboarding solution with particular emphasis on the unique socialization needs of new leaders – such as leading unfamiliar teams and developing an internal network.
The Realities of Managing an Internal Coaching Practice 12th Annual International Coach Federation Conference Ellen Kumata, along with clients Colleen Gentry and Marcel Henderson from Wachovia, will be among the presenters. On Saturday, November 3, 11am-12:30 pm they will be presenting the session, “The Realities of Managing an Internal Coaching Practice: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly.”
From Managing Projects to Leading Programs: Defining and Building Program Leaders Project Management Institute (PMI) Cambria’s Tim Kroecker will introduce the attendees to competency models and the methods to create them, and describe a general project/program manager job profile and leadership competency model. He will then hold an open discussion of how leadership competency models can be used to develop leadership qualities in project managers.
Incorporating Engaging Interview Video Techniques for Sales e-Learning DevLearn 2007: The e-Learning Development Conference & Expo Joyce Quindipan of Cambria with Liz Spencer of Cisco Systems will present a case study about overcoming the challenge of delivering critical training on new products and services to people whose most important job is face time with their clients. Cambria will also be at the Expo with our company booth.
Cambria Consulting, Inc. is a human resource management consulting firm specializing in developing people solutions that drive business performance. Through our Consulting, Coaching, Survey and Interactive divisions, Cambria helps our clients achieve their strategic objectives more effectively by designing, developing and implementing HR solutions in the areas of workforce and leadership development, performance management, competency development, 360 degree feedback, coaching, selection systems, organizational surveys, and integrated e-HR applications. Visit www.cambriaconsulting.com to find out why more and more successful companies are turning to Cambria for a full range of human resource solutions, or call (617) 523-7500. If there is a topic that you would like us to address, please tell us. If you wish to unsubscribe to this newsletter, please let us know. © 2007 Cambria Consulting, Inc. One Bowdoin Square, Boston, MA 02114.  Print This Page
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