HR Digest

OCTOBER 27, 2023

In my view, employee engagement operates like the stock market exchange. In addition to our classic engagement surveys that we used to run every year, we also do focus groups on topics that most matter to our colleagues to better understand employees’ preferences, as well as incorporate best practices from other organizations.

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 16, 2023

” These are a bit extreme, but we’ve heard variations of these thoughts over the years in focus groups to survey a Client’s organizational culture. One morning, I asked a group of very quiet participants a series of questions about their organization’s climate and leadership effectiveness.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 27, 2012

In fact, HR in high-risk industries should implement a variety of avenues/opportunities for employee feedback, such as phone hotlines, online and on-site suggestion boxes, employee surveys, focus groups, new hire surveys and exit interviews. HR can facilitate discussions and task forces for planning and next steps.

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The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The HR VP presented an overview of their recent engagement survey. The HR VP outlined a process to feed back the survey results to management and frontline teams across the organization in the coming months. But the executives were in favor of HR developing a talent management and engagement strategy. ” OK, Boomers.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

It’s essential for you to outsource tasks such as these to people such as Digital Goliath Marketing who are able to manage your work efficiently, leaving you with less stress and hassle to have to do it yourself. Some of the outsource administration you could consider are: Surveying, polling, and focus group tests.

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HR Digest

APRIL 9, 2024

This is why my team and I have developed a comprehensive listening strategy to understand where our employees are in their lives and work journeys. As a result, we continue to develop global initiatives within our company designed to reduce stigma and increase access to mental health resources for all employees.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

With the ever-changing dynamics of the workforce, the stewardship of organizational culture is just as important as strategy, talent, product development, or customer service. He helps companies build strong sustained revenue growth through by developing energizing office cultures. The right culture attracts and retains better talent.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Big data has become the X factor of modern marketing, the hero of every marketer’s story. You may be thinking that data will magically turn bush-league marketing into a winning “Moneyball” performance. Data, alone, isn’t what makes marketing move the needle for business.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

workforce — and companies will increasingly grapple with how to accelerate the development of those individuals for leadership positions. The study examined the management and development preferences of America’s young and rising corporate leaders.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

You don’t need to be constantly advertising or showing off; you can ask questions, comment on industry developments or simply post things you find interesting or amusing. Staying in touch with your customers should also allow them to influence how you grow and develop your business. Use a Customer Feedback Loop.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Our traditional market research is telling us something else. This story was inspired by " Forecasting private consumption : survey-based indicators vs. Google trends," by Simeon Vosen and Torsten Schmidt, in the Journal of Forecasting (September 2011). Still — it's nothing compared to the cost of corporate market research.".

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

Instead of a monolithic one-way interaction, business is now being conducted through constant and meaningful two-way conversations between organizations and constituents – at every stage of organizational development. And it’s a good thing, too. And building your own Social Nation is increasingly necessary in the business world.

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Ron Edmondson

JUNE 15, 2011

Here is an interview with Mark Schoenwald: How do you keep up with current trends and the market in our industry? Also, get out of the office and get into stores and online to understand the focus of merchandising and promotions. The challenge and reward to guide the development of these kids and our family motivates me every day.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2018

Regular internal surveys and public online comments reveal that the scent has enhanced the visit experience and increased brand memorability for thousands of guests. Regardless of the industry, the process and considerations for developing an olfactory brand are the same. Ad agency J. Decide your points for diffusion.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2011

A recent study by Aon Hewitt , for example, found that companies with high levels of engagement outperformed the stock market in 2010. These companies typically give their customers short, quick surveys. Apple surveys its employees every few months. Employee engagement and financial performance are connected.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The Mercer QuickPulse US Compensation Planning Survey of August 2023 found that employers are planning a 3.9 Establish Benchmarks Make it a point to define industry and market benchmarks to compare your organization’s compensation practices. Then develop protocols for making adjustments to address identified pay disparities.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

When my publication, Innovation Leader, surveyed 198 senior innovation executives late last year, in partnership with the consulting firm Innosight, we found them using two different kinds of measures. Two-thirds of our respondents, for instance, said that they were tracking the number of projects in their development pipeline.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2011

When you look at who's coming into the workforce and what they can mean for the development of human capital, it's a no-brainer that women are a competitive advantage," says Valentino Carlotti, president of Goldman Sachs Bank in Brazil. But corporate headhunters are having a problem. counterparts (52%).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2016

Engaging with your users on a regular basis — through reporting tools built into your product, online surveys, or focus groups, for example — is a necessary step for understanding, rather than assuming you know, their challenges and needs. Collaborative, cross-functional teams.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2013

However, in the rush to become more patient-centered, the health care system has misplaced its focus. Researchers and health systems deploy focus groups and surveys to assess general patient preferences in an effort to determine "what patients want." But patients are a diverse group with diverse needs.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Yet, even smart companies are often clueless about how to leverage their employees’ insights that would enable them to tap into this huge and exploding Latino market — a market that is projected to reach $1.7 ” Multinational companies based in the US are desperate to unlock this growth market.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2015

And yet, employee engagement is at record lows — 13% according to perennial engagement survey leader Gallup. Either way, our models and surveys aren’t working, and we’re making very little progress. ” No engagement survey could reveal this insight so concisely. What’s wrong here?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

Developing a diverse leadership pipeline can benefit companies in all sectors. To increase diversity at senior executive levels, more must be known about one group in particular: women of color in midlevel leadership, who successfully developed and progressed beyond individual contributor and first-line management.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

The Global Empathy Index uses a combination of publicly available information and proprietary data drawn from its surveys and from social and financial feeds — including textual analysis of over half a million social media interactions. Burberry Group. Whole Foods Market. InterContinental Hotels Group. AstraZeneca.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

There are many research methods for better understanding customers, and you may be using them already: ethnographic research, focus groups, surveys, in-store intercepts, and so on. It's also important to encourage employees to use competitors' products, so they don't develop tunnel vision. Not then, anyway.

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Real Estate Wireless Industry Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2012

Breaking down silos and decision-making hierarchies, understanding customers better, bringing products to market faster — these are imperatives for many companies today. It used to be that most of our customer feedback came in word form, either via the web site or in focus groups. Were there barriers you had to overcome?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2015

To better understand this key marketing concept, I talked with Jill Avery, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School and an author of HBR’s Go To Market Tools. Typically, companies ask consumers, through surveys or focus groups, questions like, “What is that benefit worth to you?” What is EVC?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2016

When my publication, Innovation Leader, surveyed 170 executives who work in R&D, strategy, and new product development roles at large public companies, we found that 82% said they’ve already deployed some elements of the lean startup approach. A faster cycle time for developing ideas.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2014

Those tasked with developing new products and experiences have long valued prototyping as a way to fuel creativity, explore options, and test assumptions. Live prototyping replaces techniques like surveys, bases testing, and focus groups. We call this approach “live prototyping.”.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2012

Their marketing departments. R&D and product development launch products that receive tepid responses. Marketing promotions don't resonate and can't be tied to measurable results. In particular, getting customers to market and sell for you. You need to get them marketing and selling — advocating — for you.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

Marketers and innovation specialists can immerse themselves in the sights, sounds, and emotions of consumers’ daily lives, surfacing opportunities to make their products and services more emotionally resonant and durable.

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Document Marketing Learning-by-Doing Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Instead, according to new research from the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI), the fundamental issue is the health care industry’s failure to develop a nuanced understanding of, and commitment to, women as consumers and decision makers. Women account for a significant chunk of the market.

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Health Care Industry First-mover Advantage Market Segmentation 8

Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 26, 2013

Yet oftentimes, churches have a difficult time communicating this message because they don’t understand the basics of church marketing and communications. Has your church spent unhurried time developing a brand that resonates with people in your church and community? External Marketing. Brand Standards. Communication Strategy.

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