HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Kristen Ludgate, who leads 3M’s human resources team, talks to The HR Digest about the “15% culture” philosophy that has helped attract the industry’s most driven workers and how tough times can have a motivational impact on the workforce. It was not a top-down approach, even though this work was sponsored by our CEO and senior team.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

for your organization, you need to share it with your team for it to be implemented. Once you answer “What is a strong company culture?” Communication of the work culture is essential, but communication, in general, needs to be prioritized for an organization.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 31, 2022

You can also split your call center into teams and set up a friendly competition. When you break up your call center into more teams, you can have more awards given. Set Goals for Your Team. By helping your employees achieve these career goals, you can have them working for you more productively.

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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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The Practical Leader

MAY 18, 2022

You can get Informal feedback through external coaches, reverse performance appraisals, facilitated focus groups, meeting reflections, project reviews, anonymous online surveys, external assessments, informal networking, moose hunting , and so on. Technical Tunnel Vision. Symptom: I, robot. A legend in your own mind?

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 5, 2018

We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, employee performance and engagement, personal and professional development, productivity, team building, and more. Sean Glaze of Great Results Team Building submitted Top 11 Inspirational Songs to Motivate Your Team.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Filled with relatable case studies from top-performing individuals and companies—including Tim Cook, Starbucks, and Microsoft—Briceño lays out crisp, clear tactics for constant learning that will take your team to the next level and create a culture of high performance. Common habits that suppress individuals and teams from improving.

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HR Digest

APRIL 20, 2023

Employers can focus on improving workplace culture, developing strong teams, and fostering a sense of community. Employers can conduct regular employee surveys or hold focus groups to gather feedback and suggestions from their workforce.

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HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

From the vantage point of a lifelong career in human resources, Melissa Howell talked with The HR Digest about the various Diversity & Inclusion programs which have put Kellogg on the global map as one of the top companies for veterans, LGBT employees, and executive women. for seven years.

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QAspire

JANUARY 9, 2011

In my career so far, I have (broadly) seen two kinds of organizations. They create teams and structures where people are driven (and sometimes forced) to work harder when problems occur. Dissatisfied customers, unhappy team members, disengaged middle management and difficulties in scaling the business. The end result?

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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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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. ” A stronger indicator of management’s ability to energize or enervate team members is absenteeism. They had a very large number of disengaged people. You’ll get trampled.”

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QAspire

OCTOBER 24, 2010

One of the biggest challenges for a lot of organizations today is to involve each and every team member in the quality game. Here are a few forums you can establish/use to promote quality consciousness across the organization: Promote quality initiatives in all your monthly/weekly team meetings. RSS feed for comments on this post.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 25, 2019

Over 20 years, we looked at the difference between leadership teams that successfully “moved the needle” on the culture and those that didn’t. I’d need to conduct a dozen customer and employee focus groups to fill in the gaps if I wasn’t having regular check-ins with the shoeshine guy.” Used by Permission.

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Ron Edmondson

JUNE 15, 2011

Also, get out of the office and get into stores and online to understand the focus of merchandising and promotions. We conduct focus groups and surveys to gain insight into the key decision drivers as well as candid feedback on product and pricing. What would you do or advice to give someone starting their career?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

After all, one of their most valued employees is an indigenous Peruvian, a man who is respected, well-paid, and included in the leadership team’s decision-making discussions. For respondents who reported that their team leader has none of these traits, those percentages dropped to 51%, 46%, and 37%, respectively. Authenticity.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2018

Yet many other women have managed to build highly successful careers with degrees in STEM disciplines. We hear, in interviews and focus groups, that women are consistently spoken over and even robbed of their ideas. How did they do it? Yet 82% of women in STEM say their contributions are ignored. Ramos-Kwok resisted that advice.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

Firms with the most ethnically diverse executive teams were 33% more likely to outperform their peers on profitability, and those with executive-level gender diversity worldwide had a 21% likelihood of outperforming their industry competitors. Sixteen women were interviewed and seven others participated in a focus group.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2018

We doubted, for example, that we would come across Swedish investment banking teams with under 40% women. The Swedish investment bankers we interviewed told us their teams were on average only comprised of 5% to 20% women. Another group of allies? Consider investment banking. But data shows that, at least in the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

When we spoke with Cox and his team, they told us they turned to a specific company cohort: young vice presidents who had already graduated from the company’s six-month Accelerated Learning Development (ALD) program. While a high degree of coaching and mentoring is a part of the program, the teams own their own process.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2013

You may think you already know how others view you — as a skilled communicator, or an incisive numbers guy, or a manager who always brings out the best in her team. Hold your own focus group. The focus group "took me to the next level in terms of my professional development.".

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

These women often are less satisfied with their careers , perceive that they are unlikely to advance at their current organizations, or believe they must change jobs in order to reach the next level. Some of the women in our focus groups described being turned away when they requested big, new opportunities.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

How do you think it was possible and what were the steps you took as a CHRO to motivate employees to work as a team and achieve it? Our global team is made up of individuals from different backgrounds, experiences, cultures and skillsets. Robinson recently received its World Finance Sustainability Awards 2022.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2015

Having a good boss — someone who stands up for you, who buffers you from interoffice politics, and who competently represents your team to the rest of the company — is a wonderful thing. Except when it’s harmful to your career. Serve on a focus group to assess a new vendor or benefit options.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

One such dad commented in a CTI focus group, "I'm the primary breadwinner, so I can't take time off now. Even when I send a recognition note to a big group or team, I try to add a personalized paragraph in each person's email, so it's highly tailored to the individual.".

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

But before the hiring team starts measuring candidates’ culture fit, they need to be able to define and articulate the organization’s culture – its values, goals, and practices — and then weave this understanding into the hiring process. Does the response reflect your organizational culture?).

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

We hired roughly 1,000 new employees in approximately 15 months to build our operations, human resources, compliance, and technology teams. (We What I did know was that I, and our leadership team, needed to solicit feedback — a lot of it. We have hired more than 5,000 new employees since beginning the effort in late 2013.)

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

Whether it''s insights about how to build a team or launch a new product, those recollections often contain the kernels of what matters most to them. Sure, your personal brand and your message can be focus-grouped and wordsmithed by others. Branding Career planning Managing yourself'

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Teams with one or more members who represent the culture of the team’s target end users are 158% more likely to understand that end user, boosting the likelihood of that team innovating for that audience. trillion within the next four years. .”

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Inclusive Decision Making: Equitable Workplace Strategies for Fair Compensation Similar to how we prefer to have a say in what careers we choose or who governs us, most employees also appreciate having a voice in setting up an equitable compensation program guide that can be used company-wide.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

MARCH 8, 2010

Were their teams more functional and productive? You can run focus groups (and believe me I have run hundreds!) Did they feel more engaged or involved? Were they happier? Were their issues and concerns being heard more than before? Were their opinions being sought out more often? Did they feel more energized and valued?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2015

You and Your Team. Over the past decade, my colleagues and I at Emergent Research have interviewed more than 1,500 freelancers/independent workers both one-on-one and in focus groups, during which we often discussed the role that feedback plays for them — mostly as it pertains to developing a new business.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2014

During a long and illustrious career that is far from over (you can read all about one of his most recent ventures — building the most direct fiber-optic connection between Chicago and New York – in Chapter One of Michael Lewis’s new book ), Barksdale has become a big believer in the value of the folksy aphorism as management tool.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

By “total health” we mean a culture that’s supportive of career, emotional, financial, physical and social well-being – not just an occasional road race. There are a few simple ways to start doing this.

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