Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 10, 2022

How women build smart teams by embracing a growth mindset and welcoming varied perspectives. It inspired me to know that we can all push ourselves to be better–not by competing against others but by measuring our own progress against our own benchmarks. Focusing on long-term outcomes rather than near-term gains?

Benchmarking 110

Benchmarking Diversity Long-term CEO 110

Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 4, 2022

How women build smart teams by embracing a growth mindset and welcoming varied perspectives. It inspired me to know that we can all push ourselves to be better–not by competing against others but by measuring our own progress against our own benchmarks. Focusing on long-term outcomes rather than near-term gains?

Benchmarking 84

Benchmarking Diversity Long-term CEO 84

Mark Sanborn

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Financial Health and Sustainability Sound financial management, diversification of revenue streams, and long-term financial planning are vital in weathering financial crises and market fluctuations. Extraordinary companies equip their sales team with the best training and technology. Ordinary products languish. They’re not.

Organization 75

Organization Agility Ethics Operations 75

Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

By asking more of these questions – of yourself and others -- you articulate goals, set benchmarks and assess risk. They ask about long-term goals, interests, and priorities. The Oxford Dictionary defines strategic as “relating to the identification of long-term or overall aims and interests and the means of achieving them.”

Groupthink 237

Groupthink Objective Long-term Tactics 237

Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

How women build smart teams by embracing a growth mindset and welcoming varied perspectives. It inspired me to know that we can all push ourselves to be better–not by competing against others but by measuring our own progress against our own benchmarks. Focusing on long-term outcomes rather than near-term gains?

Benchmarking 65

Benchmarking Diversity Long-term CEO 65

HR Digest

APRIL 30, 2024

If you’re unfamiliar with the term, stay interviews refer to the discussions between employers and employees that delve into the workers’ experience on the job. For the smallest of projects to run smoothly, there needs to be a system of open communication between the team members.

How To 52

How To Trends Project Long-term 52

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The term 360-degree feedback has gained global popularity with reports from Forbes indicating that more than 85 percent of Fortune 500 companies use 360 feedback to review their employees regularly. The 360 feedback encourages healthy team dynamics. The evaluation report is a compilation of feedback from managers, peers, and juniors.

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360-Degree Feedback Company Peer Review Review 110

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

A well-functioning board is instrumental in making strategic decisions, providing effective oversight, and ensuring long-term sustainability. By clearly defining the criteria, organizations can hold board members accountable for their performance and provide them with a benchmark against which they can assess their effectiveness.

360-Degree Feedback 388

360-Degree Feedback Strategy Objective Diversity 388

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

We chase short-term wins. Disengaged teams stem from disengaged leaders. They go after short-term wins and cannot lift their heads high enough to glimpse the future. Leaders are expected to move things forward: the organization (business), the teams that do the work, and each individual on those teams.

Leadership Development 322

Leadership Development Development Leadership Self-aware 322

Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Working to ensure the organizations long-term success to flourish into its potential and 5–10 year strategic plan. Internal benchmarking of existing talents based upon determined potential; skilled-knowledge, complexity-management; value of the work. What are the outcomes? How will we measure progress & Success?

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Mentor Training Process Development 114

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. As a trade, mechanics require a long lead time and many labor hours to gain skills and experience, especially with the technology and alternative fuels of complex and heavy equipment continuously changing.

Operations 78

Operations Succession Automotive Incentives 78

Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 17, 2012

Why do the goals that you’ve set out for your team to accomplish matter? While most of us understand that a key element to achieving a goal is being able to devise and implement a plan for how we can reach it, few of us spend time communicating to our team the message of how these goals serve to fulfill our shared purpose.

Goal 189

Goal Short-term Long-term Marketing 189

Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2018

Culture and Mission : values, customs, beliefs, goals, objectives, benchmarking. Philosophy : purpose, vision, quality of life, ethics, long-term growth. Never were too busy to set good examples, share ideas with others and help build the teams on which they played. 7 Levels of Authority Figure. Self Appointed.

Advice 57

Advice Strategy Company Bureaucracy 57

The Empowered Buisness

JULY 14, 2015

You could easily predict the performance of your leaders, your teams and your organization ? how to do something faster, better or cheaper) over procedures; high motivation toward goals, rather than avoiding problems; and high future time orientation with a focus on long term strategies, future customer needs and environmental changes.

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Motivation Leadership McClelland Long-term 100

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 3, 2014

It is a catalyst toward long-term evaluation, planning and implementation. Crystallize the core business in terms of viabilities to move successfully forward to some discernible point. The last draft of the statement will be an executive summary of collective ideas and works of the Visioning team. How will we evolve?

Mission Statement 79

Mission Statement Benchmarking Tactics Strategic Planning 79

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

The three most critical items to focus on when conducting your planning are: Insure that personal accountability is present on any major benchmark, milestone or deliverable. Sidebar : This post was inspired by a conversation I had last month Mark Oakes ( @MarkOOakes ) about the historical origin of the term&# Plan B.&#

Contingency Plans 360

Contingency Plans Planning Blog Ryan 360

Six Disciplines

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.” - Jack Welch. First and foremost, your senior leadership has to be on the same page with a crisp and clear long term vision.

Execution 70

Execution Strategy Succession Short-term 70

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2016

Values, customs, beliefs, goals, objectives, benchmarking. Organizational purpose, vision, quality of life, ethics, long-term growth. Value-added leadership requires a senior team commitment. Learn to pace and be in the chosen career for the long-run. Plan and Benchmark. Philosophy. The Big Picture.

Leadership 50

Leadership Benchmarking Learning-by-Doing Ethics 50

Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 9, 2010

The report went on to show this has been a long-term downward trend rather than a temporary decline due to the Great Recession. All the Six-Sigma, Lean, benchmarking and metrics in the world won’t help us lead people if we fail to recognize these realities. It’s also damaging to our mental and physical health.

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Leadership Six Sigma Competitive Advantage Consensus 400

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

And, as many writers in this series argue, one of the chief means of fixing the system lies in focusing on the creation of long-term value. However, when determining the CEO's compensation, most corporate boards today give the highest priority to short-term financial results at the expense of long-term value creation.

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Long-term Attrition Six Sigma Balanced Scorecard 13

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2023

These initiatives entail more than mere box-checking; they spotlight an organization’s commitment to pursuing high-quality performance, enhancing reputation, and achieving long-term success. The strength of governance can be significantly amplified with the employment of a dedicated leadership team.

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Compliance Efficiency Ethics Metrics 235

Chartered Management Institute

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

A more long-term approach would involve compensating managers for managing the risks that they take much better. To test their hypothesis, Wiseman and his research team examined financial data and CEO compensation in manufacturing companies between 1996 and 2009.

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Wiseman Management Benchmarking CEO 72

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Anne Erni: I actually tend to stay away from using the term “diversity,” as it’s often associated with just meeting compliance requirements. The HR Digest: What measure(s) did you take with your team to ensure that Audible’s global corporate company culture would reflect its D&I goals? The HR Digest: What is diversity to you?

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Diversity Katz Learning-by-Doing Globalization 52

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Anne Ernie: I actually tend to stay away from using the term “diversity,” as it’s often associated with just meeting compliance requirements. The HR Digest: What measure(s) did you take with your team to ensure that Audible’s global corporate company culture would reflect its D&I goals? The HR Digest: What is diversity to you?

Diversity 52

Diversity Katz Learning-by-Doing Globalization 52

Lead from Within

AUGUST 25, 2015

What are the functional roles within your team? Make sure you understand the value proposition of your team, your company and those who you work with you. Your list may be long and arduous, but with small incremental steps you can set things in position. Speak To Your Team. Check Yourself At Benchmarks.

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Power Succession Learning-by-Doing Brainstorming 60

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Benchmark Your Feedback Step 8. Understanding why a deal is won or lost is critical, yet most sales teams and companies have a limited understanding of the true reasons for winning and losing. It is only through this type of process that sales teams can learn the true, candid reasons why they win and lose. Juliano Howard T.

Analysis 62

Analysis Benchmarking Newsletter Learning-by-Doing 62

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

Rather they should benchmark their decisions against the question of “is it the right thing to do?” Do you ever wonder how the term “Politically Correct&# evolved from an obscure catch-phrase that was once used to label those who would not take a controversial position to the dominant mind-set of the day in our society?

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Politics Blog Leadership Diversity 375

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Some years ago, the then-CEO of Air Products told me that it took his team two months to decide and plan layoffs, two weeks to do them, and two years to recover. If the analyst didn't like the fact that this might constrain profits in the short term, he could sell the stock. The people working for the bank weren't idiots.

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CEO Benchmarking Long-term Banking 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Just 36 percent of CMOs, for example, have quantitatively proven the short-term impact of marketing spend, according to the 2013 CMO Survey (and for demonstrating long-term impact, that figure drops to 32 percent). Help CFOs focus on the long term. Why is this so challenging?

CFO 8

CFO Short-term Long-term Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2012

As a management consultant, I often have a courtside seat to the senior team discussions of many companies. Often these situations are accompanied by unwritten peer-to-peer contracts that basically say, "I won't challenge your plans, as long as you don't challenge mine. Some leaders look at how to squeeze a new role into the team.

Benchmarking 11

Benchmarking Dunning CEO Airlines 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

The reality is that many of them are unable to take such basic steps as setting achievable benchmarks, removing underperformers, collecting useful data, or offering coherent bonus schemes to motivate employees. At our web site , you can quickly benchmark your organization by country and industry on a management-scoring grid.

Management 8

Management Benchmarking Short-term Incentives 8

Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

I really don't think there is just one - it is competence (having skills listed on the job description), willingness to listen and learn, adaptability, dependability, honesty, team work. The times of having one job for a long time are long gone, so while it's good to have some plan and direction, it's good to be adaptable.

Career 74

Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2018

With so many learning options available these days, people are often tempted to simply go to Google, type in some general search terms, and start one of the first courses that pops up. You and Your Team Series. Set a golden benchmark. A return on investment (in terms of time and money spent) is hard to gauge in the near term.

Skills 8

Skills Benchmarking Learning-by-Doing Career 8

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

I asked each leadership blogger to give me their favorite NFL team. Posts are organized by NFL team conferences and divisions. Those that did not provide a team were slotted under a random team. This post seems to be a good fit for my favorite team, the Bills: How to be a Leader in a Crappy Culture. Chicago Bears.

Leadership Development 243

Leadership Development Development Leadership Benchmarking 243

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

But based on our research with several large companies, we want to offer a word of caution: Engagement is often an ambiguous term. This gave us two groups: those who work long hours (above the median) relative to their colleagues and those who work shorter hours (below the median). Working long hours with a low engagement score.

Productivity 15

Productivity Products Attrition Long-term 15

HR Digest

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

HRIS or Human Resource Information Systems, are critical aids for the HR team within any given organization. These provide even more efficiency in terms of regulating the workforce. Benefits of an HRIS Systems There are many benefits to using HRIS software within your organization.

Software 52

Software Human Resources Performance Review System 52

Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2012

That way, KAM gets onto the top team agenda and the champion gets the support they need to make changes. Don't give in to pressure to add certain customers to your key account program just because they have been customers a long while, or they are golfing buddies with the CEO. Step Seven: Benchmark and build.

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Supply Chain Management How To Benchmarking 14