Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Posted in Leadership Development I sit on the board of directors for a small nonprofit that’s in the process of fine-tuning its mission and strategy. Connect with Jane on her LeadBIG blog , Braithwaite Innovation Group or @thehrgoddess on Twitter. Leadership Development empathy personal development Strategy'

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Due Diligence Construction Focus Group Leadership Development 289

HR Digest

JUNE 27, 2022

For example, imagine that slipping employee retention rates prompt your business to launch a pulse survey. In this survey, you ask employees if they see themselves working at your company in two years, and a high percentage of respondents answer “No.” Pulse Surveys. Focus Groups. Performance Management.

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Metrics Survey Focus Group Proposal 84

The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Here are a few ways leaders can tap into the organization’s knowledge, experience, and partner with everyone involved in implementation: Work with your internal partners to develop an annual Listen-Feedback-Action process. This often starts with surveys and/or third-party interviews or focus groups.

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Focus Group Decentralization Objective Project 124

Lead Change Blog

MARCH 26, 2021

Baseline and follow-up surveys, along with well-timed pulse surveys, facilitate the collection of information about where resistance is occurring. Often follow-up will be needed to any quantitative data collection, such as a focus group or confidential interviews, to understand the reasons for the resistance.

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Resistance Restructuring Survey Agility 274

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 19, 2023

” They strongly believe that using virtual reality could be a positive and creative way for empathy with disabled people to be developed among carers and even the wider public. Nine participants took part in the study by completing surveys and participating in a video-conferenced focus group.

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Participative Information Technology Teamwork Focus Group 90

The Practical Leader

JULY 26, 2023

” Their Perceptions Are My Leadership Reality Key to leadership development is understanding how others see me. ” Joe reports, “We found that what set highly coachable leaders apart was their scores on one particular survey item in their 360-degree assessment: Does this person SEEK and RESPOND (his emphasis) to feedback?

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360-Degree Feedback Survey Learning-by-Doing Attitude Survey 52

Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2023

In this article, we’ll take a look at how to develop a richer understanding of your customer base. A deep comprehension of your target audience forms the basis for crafting effective marketing strategies, developing appealing products and services, and fostering long-lasting relationships with your clients.

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The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Leaders who don’t seek feedback often develop deadly blind spots. Build personal and team development plans around that feedback that leverages strengths and addresses any fatal flaws. Use an external coach to leverage your strengths in building a personal development plan from a feedback assessment.

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The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

We did a series of focus groups, interviews, and surveys within a division of a large company to help Chris, the division manager, determine why their culture wasn’t performing at the level he wanted. So, Chris did a strength-based 360 assessment and built a detailed personal development plan to elevate his leadership.

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Team Leadership Mission Statement Drucker 98

The Practical Leader

JANUARY 20, 2021

Leaders who don’t seek feedback often develop deadly blind spots. Build personal and team development plans around that feedback that leverages strengths and addresses any fatal flaws. Use an external coach to leverage your strengths in building a personal development plan from a feedback assessment.

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Focus Group Report Planning Survey 78

The Practical Leader

AUGUST 30, 2023

The consultant will interview key leaders and staff, run focus groups, and gather input from a variety of sources. This often starts with surveys and third-party interviews or focus groups. Managers often hire consultants to help them solve major organizational problems.

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Energy Power Focus Group Decentralization 52

HR Digest

APRIL 1, 2023

Provide Ongoing Training and Development Effective new-hire training shouldn’t end after the first week or month. Providing ongoing training and development opportunities ensures that employees have the necessary skills and knowledge to perform their job effectively and grow within the organization.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

To start with, companies need to develop a clear sense of purpose in all that they do. According to Queens University of Charlotte , 9 percent of surveyed employees worldwide stated that their organization did not collaborate enough. Image Credit – Pexels What Is a Strong Company Culture? How Do We Create It?

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LDRLB

MARCH 15, 2013

In a recent study conducted by Sylvia Ann Hewlett and a team of researchers at the Center for Talent Innovation , the senior leaders surveyed listed executive presence – being perceived as leadership material – as the essential factor in determining who gets ahead in an organization. Leaders with executive presence must project confidence.

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Execution Survey Audience Active Listening 168

The Practical Leader

APRIL 28, 2021

There are many ways you can get feedback on your personal, team, or organizational effectiveness without formal surveys. These include external coaches, reverse performance appraisals, facilitated focus groups, meeting reflections, project reviews, external assessments, informal networking, and so on.

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Information Leadership How To Focus Group 59

HR Digest

APRIL 20, 2023

Provide professional development opportunities Employees want to know that their employer is invested in their professional growth and development. Providing opportunities for training, coaching, and mentorship can help employees develop new skills, increase their job satisfaction, and, in turn, decrease staff turnover rates.

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Attrition Innovation Strategy Training 59

Mike Cardus

JANUARY 9, 2014

Management they told me morale was a big problem, and they had results from an employee survey that supported their beliefs. Management and employee teams agreed to wait to work on morale BUT they still wanted to see improvement in their employee survey. In the initial meeting with the Sr. Time for Patient Care.

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Morale System Project Team Building 147

The Practical Leader

JUNE 30, 2020

The consulting firm usually interviews people, runs focus groups, and gathers input from a variety of sources. They cite a recent Gallup survey showing that only one in five U.S. An American Working Conditions Survey found that “just 11% of frontline U.S. ” It gets worse. ” Everybody loses.

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Hamel Power Absenteeism Compliance 130

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 18, 2023

Try surveying your current customers or conducting focus groups. But don’t just focus on imitating your competitors – use that information to find new opportunities and develop something unique. Focus on Customer Service Customer service (CRM) plays a crucial role in the service sector.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 18, 2022

An HR professional, professionally trained coach, or trusted mentor can help you interpret the results and build a strengths-based personal development plan. It’s also a great idea to take the summarized results back to the people who completed the survey for further clarification and improvement or action ideas.

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Emotional Intelligence How To Career Skills 80

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 22, 2023

Accomplished entrepreneur Kenny Smith , a former NBA player who won two consecutive championships with Houston Rockets, has been given the National Civil Rights Museum Sports Legacy Award for his services, including teaching the use of sports to develop valuable leadership skills.

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Entrepreneur Storytelling Leadership Long-term 98

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

We led focus groups, created advisory and steering teams, and engaged our executives in workshops and feedback sessions. As we continue to bring our culture to life in our operating model and our HR practices, we continue to use surveys, crowdsourcing, focus groups and other tools to ensure our people are heard.

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Human Resources Focus Group Crisis Definition 132

Experience to Lead

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

When you measure how people responded to a training program through survey questions or reviewing changes in their work behavior and productivity in training assessments, you can see how effective the process has been. Training programs are developed for a reason. Return on Investment ROI is a big one for business owners and leaders.

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Metrics Training Benchmarking ROI 52

HR Digest

APRIL 13, 2023

This can involve conducting surveys and focus groups to gather feedback from employees about their benefit preferences, as well as monitoring trends in the industry to identify emerging benefit offerings and ensure that pay equity is prioritized.

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Incentives Motivation Objective Trends 64

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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Energy Crisis Absenteeism Leadership 52

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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Mentor Trends Committee Compliance 232

The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Some leaders feel that running organizational surveys and giving that aggregated data to managers will somehow get them to improve engagement. It’s become a truism in the organization/leadership development field — people join an organization, but quit their boss. Some people quit and leave.

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Webinar Participative Quality Document 72

Mike Cardus

MAY 24, 2011

Below is an actual Executive Coaching and Managerial Leadership Training + Development process I facilitated. This is developing a feeling of strife, hopelessness and contempt amongst management and subordinates. Executive Coaching and peer coaching groups were established to highlight and sharpen existing great behaviors and actions.

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Case Study 360-Degree Feedback Execution TRIZ 116

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 31, 2022

Consider how to get people to the next level and develop your employees in your company. This can be done by conducting focus group interviews, or by online forms and surveys. A way to find out what your employees care about and what interests them is to survey your employees.

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HR Digest

AUGUST 14, 2023

When training was nothing more than a mere suggestion, and the only development opportunities were the occasional team-building retreats? They not only upskill and reskill employees but also contribute to their overall development and job satisfaction. Use surveys, interviews, or focus groups to gather their insights and opinions.

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Training Succession Objective Learning-by-Doing 98

HR Digest

OCTOBER 27, 2023

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. In our industry, the only constant is change.

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Agility Leadership Diversity Industry 98

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.

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Policies Morale Report Survey 59

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.

Human Capital 52

Human Capital Human Resources Diversity Education 52

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. 6 Culture Myths. Would you briefly touch on them?

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How To Middle Management Reputation Short-term 110

The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

As someone in a focus group quipped, “The most dangerous place in this organization is at the exit door around quitting time. ” In another organization, I was facilitating a development workshop with a few “prisoners” as participants. You’ll get trampled.”

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Absenteeism Leadership Participative Workshop 40

Strategy Driven

APRIL 7, 2020

Have you ever conducted a focus group? Do you give customers a chance to provide feedback through surveys? Instead, startups should approach the customer and markets with a curious mind. When was the last time you had a conversation with customers?

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Marketing Succession Media Marketing Strategy 74

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

Some of the outsource administration you could consider are: Surveying, polling, and focus group tests. Therefore it may not be worth your time to learn how to web develop, code an app, migrate your information to the cloud, optimize your website, or implement two-factor authorization for your data. Travel arrangements.

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