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StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 15 – Independent Assessors

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StrategyDriven Podcasts focus on the tools and techniques executives and managers can use to improve their organization’s alignment and accountability to ultimately achieve superior results. These podcasts elaborate on the best practice and warning flag articles on the StrategyDriven website.

Episode 15 – Independent Assessors elaborates on Strategic Analysis Best Practice 4 – Independent Assessors. This discussion:

  • examines the benefits of using independent assessors
  • identifies sources of impartial evaluators
  • describes the critical characteristics independent assessors should possess to maximize their effectiveness

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Strategic Analysis Best Practice 4 – Independent Assessors

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StrategyDriven Strategic Analysis Best PracticeAn individual’s perception of circumstances and events is largely shaped by his/her knowledge and experience, beliefs, values, and biases. In the organizational setting, this perception is influenced by the organization’s shared history, its culture, and the individual’s relationships with seniors, peers, and subordinates. Additionally, event perception is often limited by the individual’s finite, relevant knowledge and experience, as well as his/her employment impact concerns and desire for self-promotion. To be effective, a strategic analysis must be free of the impairments and limitations individuals within the organization have when assessing internal events and impactful external circumstances.

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Nathan Ives, StrategyDriven Principal is a StrategyDriven Principal and Host of the StrategyDriven Podcast. For over twenty years, he has served as trusted advisor to executives and managers at dozens of Fortune 500 and smaller companies in the areas of management effectiveness, organizational development, and process improvement. To read Nathan’s complete biography, click here.