Mike Cardus

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

“…the ability of your company to be competitive & survive lies in the capability of the people in your organization to understand a situation and develop solutions.”. When problems arise within teams, we feel the solutions are found with the other guy – what our competitors are doing must be better. Where do you want to be?

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Benchmarking Team Learning-by-Doing Process 134

HR Digest

APRIL 15, 2024

Employee retention is crucial for the success of any organization and the tools you use to enhance employee engagement are just as important. In this article, we will explore five powerful employee engagement software tools that can help organizations increase employee engagement and create a positive work culture.

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Tools Comparison Software Cooper 110

Great Results Team Building

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Working with event professionals to deliver an entertaining event experience that provides useful content attendees can take back to their team to improve results and retention is something I am passionate about and enjoy tremendously! Because most organizations don’t bring back the exact same speaker every year.

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Conference Audience Diversity Ryan 229

Ron Edmondson

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Great organizations don’t just appear. Thankfully, in my experience, there are certain benchmarks we can aim for, which seem to exist in successful organizations I’ve observed. When we strive for these benchmarks, we at least have a path to guide us. Reflecting back, I could see some of our benchmarks.

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Benchmarking Organization Succession Goal 31

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Companies can enhance board effectiveness and ensure the right mix of competencies by assessing individual board members’ performance, evaluating overall board dynamics, and considering the alignment with the organization’s strategic goals. Establishing clear criteria is equally essential when conducting board evaluations.

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Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 26, 2016

Great organizations don’t just appear. I wonder sometimes, however, if we make it seem more difficult than it is to create success in an organization. While nothing worth doing well is ever easy, there are certain benchmarks we can aim for which seem to exist in successful organizations I’ve observed.

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Benchmarking Organization Succession Edmondson 30

Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 17, 2012

Why do the goals that you’ve set out for your team to accomplish matter? So how can you make sure the goals you’ve set out for your organization are aligned with your noble cause? Is your focus solely on how to achieve goals and not addressing why they matter?

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Goal Short-term Long-term Marketing 189

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2017

However well intended though, a reluctance to judge when leading people and managing an organization will hold the people and the organization back. The key is learning to pass judgment in a way that serves your people and organization well. We learned this the hard way in NASA Mission Control’s management team.

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Benchmarking Core Competence Learning-by-Doing Cost 192

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 25, 2020

It seems as if every organization today is looking to “get lean.” A $13 billion global organization had been “doing” Lean for close to a decade, and the plant I was visiting was considered to be one of its best. The management team ran through a myriad of metrics that had convinced the corporate office they had made real progress.

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Company Kaizen Benchmarking Metrics 99

Leading with Trust

JULY 10, 2022

Talking with team members about their performance challenges typically falls in the category of “least favorite” managerial tasks, along with things such as budgeting, attending all-day meetings, and completing performance reviews. Step 1 : Did I set clear goals? All good performance starts with clear goals.

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Blanchard Leadership Styles Commitment Goal 117

Lead Change Blog

JUNE 7, 2017

What typically comes to mind when your organization starts talking about increasing productivity? Benchmarking, finding new “best practices,” and implementing broad Management of Change documents. They developed the skills and behaviors in their team necessary to solve hard problems with simple, elegant solutions.

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Productivity Products Benchmarking Brainstorming 242

The Practical Leader

APRIL 3, 2024

How would people on your team or organization answer these questions? ” Professor Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Director of the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford, led a team of researchers to correlate the answers to the performance of over 1,600 publicly listed U.S. companies. Everybody wins.

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Company Emotional Intelligence Workshop Absenteeism 40

Tanveer Naseer

JUNE 27, 2017

And what we’ve learned over the last twenty-five years of implementing change projects is that the work doesn’t end when you’ve reached your goal. Does the change team continue to meet on a frequent basis? So this step ensures that the business operating team is ready to take ownership of the change and continue implementing the plan.

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Long-term Resistance Project Benchmarking 266

Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Developing a process to find individuals with the necessary skills, knowledge and competencies (both cognitively and behaviorally) for enhanced growth and improved performance within the organization. Working to ensure the organizations long-term success to flourish into its potential and 5–10 year strategic plan.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 22, 2017

Efficiency and reliability exceeded the industry's previous benchmark. This dynamic shows up in organizations of all shapes and sizes. Though many managers and organizations struggle with providing feedback, I’ve been able to boil feedback problems down to three different categories -- what I like to call the “Feedback Trifecta”.

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Offshoring Chemicals Construction Benchmarking 151

Lead Change Blog

MARCH 29, 2017

This post is part of our 2017 Team Buzz Builder Guest Blogger Series. All of our efforts to advance our goals are futile if we don’t have new leaders ready to jump onboard. Our ultimate goal is to elevate the organization within the community so that people want to attend our events and join our volunteer efforts.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 1, 2015

I was serving a team that was feeling a lot like that. The number of objectives the team was responsible for and the goals for each objective were increasing. Like every team under pressure, we had choices: We could throw our hands up and surrender. And it sounded nuts to the rest of the organization.

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Energy Restructuring Efficiency Document 150

Mike Cardus

JANUARY 16, 2013

DiSC Team Building & Leadership simulations and activities can add application and understanding to your existing programs. Below is one example of a DiSC Team Development activity other development options; Using DiSC to create a shared language of team performance. Creation of 360 feedback using DiSC. Steady Changing.

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Development Team Team Building Training 114

HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

What this looks likes may vary person to person, but if you believe in the company’s purpose, discover an inclusive culture aligned with your values, find leaders and teams that you can have open and honest conversations with, and are offered opportunities to keep learning and growing – you’ve hit the career jackpot.

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 16, 2012

This online assessment is designed to help HR professionals pinpoint and track their professional development goals. But the first six of eight Domains provides a very useful summary and checklist of the critical “soft skills” everyone in a management position needs to build peak performing teams or organizations.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 20, 2015

Next month’s Festival is all about “Spring Cleaning” for your leadership or team (e.g. The achievements of an organization are the result of the combined efforts of each individual. Unlimited gives pointers on setting goals with your team that will achieve breakthrough results. New contributors welcome.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

90% of leaders think an engagement strategy is important while only 25% of organizations have one (ACCOR). In such an underperforming state, without leadership that can drive real change, organizations are trapped in a vicious cycle. Disengaged teams stem from disengaged leaders. Where are we? It’s business as usual.

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Chart Your Course

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Listen for a strong commitment and contributions to team members working towards a specific goal. Sample question: “Give me an example of one of the most significant contributions you made as a member of a high performing team.”. Planning/Organizing: Utilizing logical, systematic and orderly procedures to meet objectives.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

DECEMBER 4, 2020

As organizations redefine their talent development strategies, many are looking to outsource custom learning development to accelerate and enhance their offerings. This includes how they work internally (their design process, project team members, project flow, etc.) So, how do you find the right learning partner? Criteria 3: Approach.

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HR Digest

MARCH 22, 2022

’ In this difficult scenario, the goal of improving diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) may easily fall by the wayside, reversing the hard progress made by many companies in recent years. All of these factors should not be important for the company’s HR teams when the new candidates want to become part of the company.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 3, 2014

It is a vantage point by which forward-thinking organizations ask: What will we look like in the future? Usually, management has not yet articulated their own individual values, let alone those of the organization. The last draft of the statement will be an executive summary of collective ideas and works of the Visioning team.

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Mission Statement Benchmarking Tactics Strategic Planning 81

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

To help organizations do better, a team from the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) has developed guidance on so-called ‘mental health first aid’ (MHFA) in the workplace. Mental health first aid. Given the scale of the problem, it’s a change that really can’t come soon enough.

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Career System Benchmarking Constraint 96

Nathan Magnuson

JULY 6, 2015

It’s hard to take time away from “work” to invest in problem-solving – or goal-setting, performance discussions, benchmarking, etc. Other times, we need to involve a team. They self-selected the topics that most affected their part of the organization. Some problem-solving is our responsibility.

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Benchmarking Definition eBook Workshop 120

Mike Cardus

JUNE 27, 2011

This is a re-post of an article I wrote for an on-line Training Resource, that appears to no longer exist…The topic given to me was…Do you like me or like me, like me…I thought that was a pretty dumb topic to write about so I instead inserted some Aristotle on Friendship and answered the question; Team Members should be friends?

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Cooper Metrics Commitment Benchmarking 135

The Empowered Buisness

JULY 14, 2015

You could easily predict the performance of your leaders, your teams and your organization ? Such a solution exists and can unleash the potential and performance within your organization. Such a solution exists and can unleash the potential and performance within your organization. Goal Orientation.

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Motivation Leadership McClelland Long-term 100

Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Research from two well-respected organizations makes it clear that we have a big collective blind spot that’s dragging down productivity, innovation and economic performance. All the Six-Sigma, Lean, benchmarking and metrics in the world won’t help us lead people if we fail to recognize these realities.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 13, 2021

Mechanics are a vital part of the team; their role in maintaining equipment and vehicles across such a large geographic area is essential. The decline of young adults entering the workforce as mechanics and other trades contributes to an organization’s ability to meet its improvement goals and provide public services.

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Operations Succession Automotive Incentives 79

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Our goal is to work shoulder to shoulder with each other to drive missionary change. . It’s my belief that culture does not happen organically, especially in today’s world of hybrid or remote work , but that companies have it in their power to develop and foster environments that respect issues of S&B.

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Diversity Katz Learning-by-Doing Globalization 52

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Our goal is to work shoulder to shoulder with each other to drive missionary change. . It’s my belief that culture does not happen organically, especially in today’s world of hybrid or remote work , but that companies have it in their power to develop and foster environments that respect issues of S&B.

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Diversity Katz Learning-by-Doing Globalization 52

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2016

This ladder holds true for managers and employees within the organization, as well as outside consultants brought in. At whatever level one enters the ladder, he-she is trained, measured for performance and fits into the organization’s overall Big Picture. Values, customs, beliefs, goals, objectives, benchmarking.

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Leadership Benchmarking Learning-by-Doing Ethics 50

Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2018

This ladder holds true for managers and employees within the organization, as well as outside consultants brought in. At whatever level one enters the ladder, he-she is trained, measured for performance and fits into the organization’s overall Big Picture. These are a rare breed… the backbone of well-run organizations.

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Advice Strategy Company Bureaucracy 57

CO2

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Needs drive decision-making, so it pays for leaders to know not only what their own needs are, but what their team members’ needs are as well. In the process, I invite you to consider how you’re meeting your needs and your team members’ needs. Stuart-Kotze, 2009) This type of person is a team player and wants to be respected and liked.

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