The Center For Leadership Studies

APRIL 24, 2024

Stay Interviews The place to start is a stay interview most often led by the employee’s manager or the manager’s manager. It could be with someone in Talent Development or Recruiting. The group develops a strategic business plan to tackle or solve the challenge and formally presents it to relevant stakeholders.

Attrition 52

Attrition Mentor Training Situational Leadership 52

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Increasing demand for clean, affordable electricity combined with an aging infrastructure, retiring workers, growing regulations, rising capital costs, and intensifying budget pressures challenge utility executives and managers now more than ever before. Complimentary Resource – Chief Marketer. Consider leaving a comment!

Chief Executive Officer 50

Chief Executive Officer Execution Operations Asset Management 50

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 28, 2011

While CEO’s can’t be in charge of recruiting, it’s important to realize that CEOs still own responsibility for the outcome – the buck always stops at the desk of the chief executive. Rather in most instances, I believe HR should be a compliance, training and risk management function.

Insurance 353

Insurance Bottom-up CEO Compliance 353

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Usually, management has not yet articulated their own individual values, let alone those of the organization. This process helps to define and develop value systems to create success. Develop a mission statement. The last draft of the statement will be an executive summary of collective ideas and works of the Visioning team.

Mission Statement 86

Mission Statement Benchmarking Tactics Strategic Planning 86

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Develop attitudes, behaviors and skills as the motivator to create bigger successes. Body of Knowledge – Develop profound insights and life-long perspectives into the teachings of success and failure (learning three times more from failures than success). 7 Benefits of Success, Stemming from Failure.

Succession 90

Succession Due Diligence Budgeting Risk Management 90

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Power Stars to Light the Business Flame , by Hank Moore, encompasses a full-scope business perspective, invaluable for the corporate and small business markets. This is a creative way of re-treading old knowledge to enable executives to master change rather than feel as they’re victims of it.

Strategy 103

Strategy Budgeting Risk Management Strategic Planning 103

Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 27, 2012

And how can executives in other companies and organizations prevent such a costly tragedy? If current employees are hesitant to talk, HR should also be conducting exit interviews , particularly in high-risk occupations like healthcare, to identify any areas that may put the company, its customers and consumers at risk.

Mentor 232

Mentor Trends Committee Compliance 232

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2014

It is good business to recognize opportunities for practice development. It opens your services to additional market niches. Power Stars to Light the Business Flame , by Hank Moore, encompasses a full-scope business perspective, invaluable for the corporate and small business markets. Actions are always required.

Diversity 99

Diversity Budgeting Open-book Risk Management 99

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2018

She was the model for executive assistants and office managers everywhere. Those vital employees in the business world might include the IT guy, the receptionist, the mailroom manager, the ethics adviser and the secretary to the Board of Directors. Study and utilize marketing and business development techniques.

Rogers 63

Rogers Henderson Mentor Learning-by-Doing 63

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

But what about the more strategic risk areas, such as those related to emerging market entry or acquisition growth strategies? What about the risks that could affect the financial performance (or even the very survival) of the enterprise—risks like brand degradation or product relevance?

Risk Management 13

Risk Management Maturity EBITDA Management 13

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 2, 2015

I sat in a meeting of highly educated business executives. The ‘brand’ is a marketing term. Customer experience” comes right out of marketing surveys, which rarely ask for real feedback or share the findings with company decision makers. When people hear certain words and expressions often enough, they parrot them.

Strategy 50

Strategy Strategic Planning Budgeting Risk Management 50

Strategy Driven

JULY 11, 2014

Power Stars to Light the Business Flame , by Hank Moore, encompasses a full-scope business perspective, invaluable for the corporate and small business markets. This is a creative way of re-treading old knowledge to enable executives to master change rather than feel as they’re victims of it.

Energy 86

Energy Strategic Planning Succession Humphrey 86

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Natural disaster stages: Warning, hit, search and rescue, recovery, rebounding, analysis, flood prevention planning, learning from crisis, community development. Cause-related marketing is a good thing. Some companies use “philanthropy” as a marketing scam. Commit to a program of volunteering. Most companies give to communities.

Crisis 63

Crisis Teamwork Marketing Commitment 63

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 30, 2021

When the news of a data breach gets into the ears of the company’s executive and other people, it’s easy to attach the fault to some employee who clicked the wrong link. Instead of blaming the employees, you should develop a plan that’ll ensure every worker has the knowledge they require to prevent attacks. Avoid Blame Games.

Training 89

Training How To Policies Budgeting 89

Strategy Driven

APRIL 24, 2013

StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC and NTE Solutions partner to provide energy industry executives and managers with asset lifecycle management and regulatory compliance advisory services. This partnership will create a more complete set of offerings that efficiently serve diversified generation utility executives.”

Energy 59

Energy Chief Executive Officer Chief Operating Officer Compliance 59

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

The fact of the matter is that senior executives who rise to the C-suite do so largely based upon their ability to consistently make sound decisions. Making sound decisions is a skill set that needs to be developed like any other. Decisions made at the gut instinct or data level can be made quickly, but offer a higher level of risk.

Blog 416

Blog Analysis CEO Brand 416

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Welcome to the September edition of the Leadership Development Carnival ! For this month’s edition, I asked an all-star cadre of leadership development bloggers, authors, and consultants to submit an answer to the following question: “We all know that individual development plans (IDPs) need to be tailored for each leader.

Leadership Development 283

Leadership Development Development Planning Self-aware 283

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

We must learn to benefit from change management, not to become victims of it. Corporate Responsibility relates to every stage in the evolution of a business, leadership development, mentoring and creative ways of doing business. Change is 90% beneficial.

Ethics 52

Ethics Mission Statement Strategic Planning Benchmarking 52

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Life-threatening experiences (loss of business or market share, economic recession) signal the urgency for the team to collaborate. Marketing’s importance was fully embraced in the 1960′s. Marketing departments deal most often and immediately with the side effects of poor quality. Access to global markets.

Quality 50

Quality Metrics Strategic Planning TQM 50

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2016

Planning, tactics, organizational development. Business is run economically and efficiently, with excellent accounting procedures, payables-receivables practices and cash management. Executives possess good people skills. Business Development. You develop-champion the tools to change. Systems and Processes.

Leadership 50

Leadership Benchmarking Learning-by-Doing Ethics 50

N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

If your company’s long-term business plan requires the acquisition, or retention of the uber employee then your business not only has a risk management issue, but it is likely not scalable. It applies to your branding, marketing, supply chain, and ultimately to your customer base.

Business Model 344

Business Model Brand Blog Supply Chain 344

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 7, 2016

The Human Relations style of management flourished from 1940-1964. Under it, people were managed. Processes were managed as collections of people. Employees began having greater says in the execution of policies. Management by Objectives came into vogue in 1965 and was the prevailing leadership style until 1990.

Management 71

Management Hostile Takeover Management by Objectives Objective 71

Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 2, 2013

They can sound geeky, but they are developments that every manager needs to understand. It often helps if the executive in charge is not from IT, but from operations or marketing, and that there are close links with customer-facing and other operational roles. They are transforming each and every business model.

Leadership Styles 83

Leadership Styles Human Capital Ethics McKinsey 83

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

There are no fast-forward buttons or skipping steps inn developing an effective organization, just as there are no shortcuts in formulating a career and Body of Work. Do you have a detailed, written analysis of your market area? When “the fun ends,” the hard work begins. Do detailed action plans support each major strategy?

Entrepreneur 52

Entrepreneur Succession Strategic Planning Budgeting 52

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Whether your focus is on customer service, profits, investing, marketing, or company growth a constant awareness of your current position in relation to where you want to be is essential. Development of technical abilities, specialties and expertise. Development of core business supplier relationships. Business development.

Succession 50

Succession Strategic Planning Budgeting Goal 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

While sales objectives are most common, trade shows may also be behavior, product, distribution or marketing oriented. Perform informal market research. Delineate other categories of visitors, and develop a strategy for maximizing your time with key prospects. Introduce new products. Target a select group of visitors.

How To 50

How To Follow-up Participative Objective 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2015

It is a competitive market in today’s economy. After 26 years since the creation of the businesses now have a number of methods and channels to distribute marketing and information about their products and services and are able to reach a varied and broad audience. Engage Customers. Drive Innovation. About the Author.

Strategy 50

Strategy Outsourcing Process Technology 50

Strategy Driven

JUNE 26, 2014

But after a number of processes are selected with this ‘whoever is interested’ approach, leaders and process Improvement practitioners see that it would make sense to select processes that are underperforming, would provide increases in market share and revenue, or would directly support key strategic initiatives.

Process 59

Process Strategy BPM Metrics 59

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Through all that, I became enamored with community service, developing trust relationships with stakeholders. Others cut into programs and services in order to fund marketing. I performed a management study for my state comptroller’s office. Non-profit organizations need the support of Cause Related Marketing.

Advertising 50

Advertising Education Audience Marketing 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2016

The sharing of trust and ideas leads to developing business philosophies. The management that takes steps to “fix themselves” rather than always projecting problems upon other people will have a successful organization. Develop, update and maintain a career growth document. The mentor opens doors for the mentee.

Mentor 50

Mentor Learning-by-Doing Open-book Career 50

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 3, 2018

Where mid-managers buy the hype of the marketing slogans but stonewall the progress that would enable the company to live up to its claims. Power Stars to Light the Business Flame , by Hank Moore, encompasses a full-scope business perspective, invaluable for the corporate and small business markets.

Company 52

Company Self-aware Creativity Marketing 52

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

I developed the concept of integrating Pop Culture Wisdom with management training and business planning over the last 40 years. Executives amassed knowledge “in the streets,” through non-traditional sources. When repackaged years later, executives vigorously enjoyed the rediscovery process. Fostering respect.

Strategic Planning 52

Strategic Planning Planning Ethics Learning-by-Doing 52

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2015

The ingredients may include such sophisticated business concepts as change management, crisis management and preparedness, streamlining operations, empowerment of people, marketplace development, organizational evolution and vision. Futurism: the foresight to develop hindsight that creates insight into the future.

Benchmarking 50

Benchmarking Crisis Management Rogers Tactics 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 18, 2015

The Human Relations style of management flourished from 1940-1964. Under it, people were managed. Processes were managed as collections of people. Employees began having greater says in the execution of policies. Management by Objectives came into vogue in 1965 and was the prevailing leadership style until 1990.

Hostile Takeover 50

Hostile Takeover Management by Objectives Objective Scientific Management 50

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2023

The keystone of effective governance lies within the trapeze act of balancing stakeholder interests, harmonizing corporate objectives, maintaining legal and ethical standards, and ensuring a robust risk management system. These factors form a formidable foundation for effective organizational governance when paired together.

Compliance 235

Compliance Efficiency Ethics Metrics 235

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

By disclosing a breach, CFOs of publicly traded companies might trigger investor panic and sell-off, whereas private company CFOs risk irreparable harm to consumer and employee confidence. Middle-market businesses often assume they’ll be overlooked by attackers, whether due to a large number of similar companies, or a lack of enticing assets.

Chief Technology Officer 84

Chief Technology Officer Short-term How To Long-term 84

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

It may do to physical goods what cloud computing is now doing to digital services; what the PC, internet, and smart mobility have done to personal computing; and what outsourcing did to software development and business processing — take mass distribution and innovation to the next level while realigning the very geography of work and trade.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Execution Analysis Technology 8