 Current IssueWelcome to the April 2008 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
Breakthrough Development White Paper Released McCreight & Company, in collaboration with Cambria, has released a guide to successful project management focused on creating customer value in new, difficult, or untested situations. Based on work with a large global client and supported by other research on project and program management conducted by our two firms, this model for managing breakthrough development initiatives is a customer- and talent-centered approach to success in achieving high-value development outcomes quickly – on-time, on-budget, and on-target. According to Steve Neubert, co-leader of Cambria’s consulting practice, “While we believe the blueprint for breakthrough performance is unique to each organization, we can group actions and competencies into seven guiding principles for breakthrough development success.” Neubert continued, “None of the elements of our Breakthrough Development Model are new. However, taken together, the elements focus on a new way to assemble the puzzle pieces and to behave differently in the launch and management of breakthrough initiatives.” “Breakthrough Development: A Concept and Process,” is chapter 18 of McCreight’s publication series, Strategy Implementation Insights.
Leadership Agility Assessment Enters Next Development Phase The ChangeWise Leadership Agility 360™ developed by Cambria, in partnership with ChangeWise, has entered its next stage of development. Based on extensive research, the original version was field tested last year in leadership development programs conducted by a number of our clients. The new version, available now, is more user-friendly, both for raters and for feedback recipients. The new ChangeWise Leadership Agility 360 provides an online assessment of what many now consider to be the “master competency” for leading organizational change, improving team performance, and engaging in productive business conversations. Based on groundbreaking research by Bill Joiner and Stephen Josephs, as described in their book, Leadership Agility (Jossey-Bass, 2007), the ChangeWise Leadership Agility 360 is available as a 360-degree feedback assessment and as an assessment of leadership bench strength for use as input to team development and succession planning discussions. Contact us for more information.
Business Week’s Best Undergrad B-Schools Survey Powered by Cambria Cambria Consulting has again collaborated with Business Week magazine to conduct its annual survey of the best undergraduate business programs. The results of the survey, including the top 50 undergraduate bsuiness degree programs, were published as the feature article in Business Week’s February 21 issue. Since 1998, Cambria has worked with Business Week to develop a series of well-respected surveys, including the surveys used to rank the best B-Schools and the best Executive MBA programs. Business Week has also turned to Cambria’s survey capability to explore issues around business education, including a path-breaking look at MBAs ten years after their graduation, and evaluating the best companies for graduates to start a business career.
Cambria Consulting Releases Coaching Director 2.0 Cambria Consulting has just released a major enhancement to Coaching Director™, the firm’s revolutionary web-based coaching management system. The upgrade to version 2.0 brings over 100 new or enhanced administrative capabilities, including sophisticated self-service functions that allow administrators to add, modify, and remove coaches, participants, coaching engagements and a more robust and flexible administrative structure to manage multiple coach groups and programs. Coaching Director is the only commercially available system of its kind, tailored to managing complex coaching programs and initiatives, and is a flagship product of Cambria’s executive coaching practice. Developed in partnership with Fortune 200 organizations, Coaching Director reduces the administrative burden of managing executive coaching programs and practices while providing real-time access to engagement status, progress, and other critical information, as well as sophisticated aggregate reporting capabilities.
Your World: Building Realistic Simulations for Complex Jobs 2008 Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) Conference This presentation will help attendees understand the different types of simulations available, choose the most appropriate type of simulation based on their needs, and combine it with suitable participant learning or behavioral assessment techniques. Cambria’s Tim Kroecker and Jeff Peisach will discuss different types of simulations; current best practices in development, technology platforms, and delivery mechanisms; and when to use – or not to use – technology-enhanced simulations.
Measuring the Impact and Value of Executive Coaching 2008 Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) Conference When the topic of the ROI of executive coaching comes up among professionals in the field, there is often skepticism about its viability, accuracy and usefulness. Cambria’s Derek Steinbrenner and Dr. Barry Schlosser of Clarity Consulting will discuss their research findings, experiences and efforts to develop meaningful methodologies for measuring the value and impact of executive coaching. They will then present an overview of the rationale for continued efforts to come to grips with the ROI challenge and lead a group discussion of others’ perspectives and experiences, drawing on their work developing and implementing the Coaching Impact Study™ with Booz Allen Hamilton, Credit Suisse, Deloitte, Citigroup and Wachovia.
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. © 2008 Cambria Consulting, Inc. One Bowdoin Square, Boston, MA 02114.  Print This Page
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