Laura is an Organizational Development Trainer and Consultant with a wide
array of experience in areas of organizational development and operation,
analysis and management. Ms. Magone’s track record in developing
organizations has spanned the length of her twenty-two year career.
For the past four years, Ms. Magone has been self-employed. Previously,
she did business development work for a consulting firm. Prior to that,
Ms. Magone was with Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, a medium-sized,
private University where she managed consulting and training activities
for entrepreneurial ventures. She holds a B.S. in Business and
Administration and an MBA from Duquesne University.
Ms. Magone’s training and consulting career has been with a wide variety
of for-profit and not-for-profit organizations.
Consulting
Laura’s consulting background has allowed her to work with a multitude of
clients ranging from not-for-profit to entrepreneurial ventures to Fortune
100 and 500 corporations. Her direct consulting and management of a
university-based consulting staff has been in the areas of:
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Business Planning and Strategic
Planning
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Management and Leadership Development
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Change Management
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Organizational Development
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Marketing Strategy Development and
Market Research
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Direct Marketing
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Generating Revenues (both in
for-profit and not-for-profit arenas)
Training
Over the course of her career, Laura has marketed, designed and
facilitated management training programs that have been attended by over
10,000 people. Known for her creative approach to delivering training,
some programs she has delivered have been in the areas of:
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Strategic Planning
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For Managers: Developing Direct
Reports
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Leadership
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Communication Skills
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Goal Setting
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Presentation Skills
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Team Building
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Developing Annual Performance
Objectives
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Employee Retention
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Delegation
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Conflict Management/Resolution
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Correcting Performance Problems
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Coaching Direct Reports
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Understanding Vision, Values,
Competencies, Strategic Direction
Comments from Recent Training Participants:
I totally enjoyed our training and I came back with some
wonderful ideas and insight on how to manage my team. In fact, this week
is the first time in 5 months that I had time to go out and physically
talk to every single member of my team....the "priority list" of things we
do really made me re-look at the things I fill my day up with!! It has
been a great week thus far---the team had nothing but good things to
say...which really made my day!
Linda M., Manager, Fortune 100 Corporation
I truly enjoyed your training. It was the best.
Everyone had positive things to say about it.
Paddy D., Manager, Fortune 100 Corporation