Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Over the last few months, the organization has done its due diligence—conducting focus groups and surveys; studying program participation; reviewing revenue, expenses, and donor history; checking out its competitors and assessing its differentiators; doing [.]

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leaderCommunicator

MAY 27, 2020

Even in just two months, our team at The Grossman Group has learned a lot by listening to leaders and employers, surveying employees and conducting focus groups to really understand how various audiences are thinking about the workplace going forward.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 19, 2023

Nine participants took part in the study by completing surveys and participating in a video-conferenced focus group. They partnered with La Trobe University to test the program on recently recruited staff as part of their onboarding process. “It gives a much, much deeper understanding,” said another.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Qualitative data, on the other hand, may involve conducting interviews, surveys, and focus groups to gather insights into the board directors’ experiences and the perceived impact of the coaching program.

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The Practical Leader

JULY 26, 2023

” 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? Regular team/organization engagement or attitude surveys through a third party.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

These reviews are conducted through surveys, focus groups, or one-on-one interviews. This involves gathering feedback from employees, managers, and other stakeholders to understand their perception of the effectiveness and impact of various HR initiatives.

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HR Digest

AUGUST 17, 2023

Organizations can utilize employee surveys, focus groups, and feedback mechanisms to gather valuable insights from both in-office and remote team members. Gathering Team Engagement Insights: Understanding the needs and preferences of team members is crucial in building an inclusive and successful workplace.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 31, 2017

I’ve worked with companies where the employees tell me the unspoken rule… “Never ever bring up the the truth in a focus group.” Nothing crushes morale faster than feeling you don’t have a voice.

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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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Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2023

Regularly gather feedback through surveys, focus groups, and social media monitoring to identify areas where your business can improve and better serve your customers. Analyzing customer feedback: Paying attention to your customers’ opinions and feedback is crucial for understanding their needs.

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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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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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The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Run focus groups using a cross-section of people in your organization. Periodically, do group assessments of your meeting effectiveness. Get an assessment from external consultants based on some combination of surveys, reviews, focus groups, and customer feedback.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

According to Queens University of Charlotte , 9 percent of surveyed employees worldwide stated that their organization did not collaborate enough. Communication of the work culture is essential, but communication, in general, needs to be prioritized for an organization.

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The Practical Leader

JANUARY 20, 2021

Run focus groups using a cross-section of people in your organization. Periodically do group assessments of your meeting effectiveness. Get an assessment from external consultants based on some combination of surveys, reviews, focus groups, and customer feedback.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

This can be done through individual interviews or focus group discussions, where the facilitator encourages open and honest conversations. One best practice is to utilize anonymous surveys or questionnaires, allowing board members to share their thoughts without fearing potential repercussions.

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Eric Jacobson

JUNE 9, 2020

After two years of research, forty focus groups and a national survey, author Sylvia Ann Hewlett contends the three pillars of Executive Presence are: How you act ( gravitas ) How you speak (communication ) How you look ( appearance ) All three work together to help you telegraph (signal) to others that you have what it takes and that you're star material. (..)

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 21, 2021

After two years of research, forty focus groups and a national survey, author Sylvia Ann Hewlett contends the three pillars of Executive Presence are: How you act ( gravitas ) How you speak (communication ) How you look ( appearance ) All three work together to help you telegraph (signal) to others that you have what it takes and that you're star material. (..)

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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. Change begins here. What are the most effective means of changing attitudes and behaviors?

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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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Strategy Driven

MAY 20, 2021

You just need to sign up to the Attest platform and you can draft the survey questions to target your audience in minutes. With 7 pre-created question types and a highly powerful survey builder and analyzer, you can simplify everything. Steps of a deep market analysis. Most of them can be set into two categories: primary and secondary.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 22, 2023

However, it is noteworthy that the customers might not always know or explain in focus-group interviews or surveys what they need. Many entrepreneurs make the mistake of focusing too much on product features instead of considering whether these features offer any real utility to the customer.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 11, 2022

This can be done in a number of ways, such as surveys , focus groups, or social media polls. Ask Your Market What They Want. The best way to find out what products to add to your line is by simply asking your market what they want.

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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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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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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 31, 2022

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. When you set up a survey it should express that you want to help them achieve their goals and get things they want in life.

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Joseph Lalonde

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

There are several ways to collect customer data, including surveys, interviews, focus groups, and website/app analytics. The first step to providing excellent customer experiences is understanding who your customers are and what they want. This can be accomplished through market research and data analysis.

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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. During a focus group with frontline team members to assess their current culture, participants weren’t participating. That’s well documented, and most leaders strongly agree.

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HR Digest

APRIL 1, 2023

This can be done through surveys, focus groups, or one-on-one meetings. This can include job-specific training, soft skills development, and leadership development. Gather Feedback Gathering feedback from new employees about their onboarding experience is essential for continuous improvement.

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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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The Practical Leader

MAY 18, 2022

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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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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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 18, 2023

Try surveying your current customers or conducting focus groups. By conducting market research, you can identify your target audience’s stated and unstated needs and wants. The derived information can then be used to inform your service expansion decisions. Not sure where to start with market research?

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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.

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Eric Jacobson

APRIL 16, 2018

After two years of research, forty focus groups and a national survey, author Sylvia Ann Hewlett contends the three pillars of Executive Presence are: How you act ( gravitas ) How you speak (communication ) How you look ( appearance ) All three work together to help you telegraph (signal) to others that you have what it takes and that you're star material. (..)

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 28, 2018

After two years of research, forty focus groups and a national survey, author Sylvia Ann Hewlett contends the three pillars of Executive Presence are: How you act ( gravitas ) How you speak (communication ) How you look ( appearance ) All three work together to help you telegraph (signal) to others that you have what it takes and that you're star material. (..)

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leaderCommunicator

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

For more systematic listening, targeted practices such as focus groups, surveys, and meetings with teams offer unparalleled insight into the success of any communication. There’s no better way to know what employees heard than to ask them. Great communication takes hard work up front, and it requires follow through.

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