6/8/21
Listening Time:
44 min
Episode 111: Change Strategies That Make You a Valuable Consultant—with DeAdrian Maddox
As a consultant, you will have to be constantly addressing two things: people and change. The most successful consultants I know do both extremely well! But how?
In this Craft of Consulting podcast episode, I interview people and change expert DeAdrian Maddox. She is a human resources and strategy consultant who honed her change management knowledge and skills at places like NASA. She has worked for 20 years in every type of industry in multiple states and, in this episode, shares how she helps clients help their people embrace and implement changes that work.
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DeAdrian Maddox
Episode Details
In this episode, we talk about:
Demanding excellence through clients’ most important asset, their human capital
Creating sustainable processes that will give clients the excellence they deserve
Fostering the action and ownership that leads to success
Defining excellence and establishing clear expectations and enforced accountability
Checking in to see that clients still have the right people in the right place at the right time when things change
Doing needs assessments to see who's capable of what and then playing to those strengths
Conducting organizational analyses that lead to the right strategies
Assessing what a company or organization needs to do to accomplish this mission and if they have the necessary skills and talent to get there
Observing and listening before changing things
Orchestrating a timely change management process
Documenting what the changes are going to be and continually communicating the status of the changes
Knowing clients are winning by keeping score
Identifying what would help make changes stick over time
Knowing what to do when a client doesn’t want what they truly need
For more information about DeAdrian Maddox:
www.deemaddoxconsulting.com