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 112

Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 12, 2012

Working with companies and developing strategic plans everyone seems to feel that the default method is a SWOT analysis strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats. While preparing for a focus group meeting it came to me NOISE. He will create and develop customized activities and simulations for what you need.

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Strategic Planning SWOT Analysis Planning 158

Next Level Blog

JULY 23, 2010

The Lloyds team was on board the rig about a month before it blew and conducted a safety survey and a number of focus groups with Transocean crew members over the course of several days. Heres the passage from the article that really hit home with me.

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The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Key findings include: Senior leaders of successful agile transformations “quadrupled the time spent on strategy (from 10% to 40%) and reduced the time spent on operations management by more than half (from 60% to 25%).” Meetings need be focus less on operating details and more on strategic issues.

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Agility Team Leadership Storytelling 110

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Data can play a leading role in developing strategy and bringing precision to execution, but it does nothing — absolutely nothing — to stir motivation and create the desire that makes cash registers ring. The goal is to help marketers find balance. But that’s an artifact of our big data obsession.

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Marketing Reis Brand Retail 9

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

AUGUST 7, 2018

It starts with a “vision” statement, moves on to “strategic themes” (six in all) and culminates in 28 “strategic goals.” I’ll let you in on the six-step technique I have developed over many years, working with clients and in teaching my public seminars on strategic planning. The reason?

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Strategic Planning Planning Document Airlines 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2012

That's an ambitious goal, of course. So Apple stores, JetBlue Airways , and others deliver employee survey results directly to operating managers, who can then sponsor shop-floor change initiatives. And it necessarily links employee engagement to customer outcomes, the ultimate source of a company's success.

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Survey Customer Loyalty Metrics Loyalty 17

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Brian specialized in open-source software development and he quickly became a champion within the company for various initiatives focused on end users. He developed unique insight to solve an emerging need and then he drove transformational change to realize that vision.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 6, 2014

Business development. Conduct focus groups. Develop systems to execute the program, communicating at every step to publics. Developing the means for self-determination. No business can operate without affecting or being affected by its communities. Running the business. Body of Knowledge. The Big Picture.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 7, 2013

Business development. It occupied one counter at 2-J’s Hamburgers, an established Austin restaurant, owned and operated by Ralph Moreland. Rather than discussing the taste of the food, I asked about his desired legacy and the Big Picture goals of the organization. ’ I commissioned focus groups.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Worse yet, they’ll sometimes hire different vendors to address different issues – lifestyle coaches, employee assistance counselors, case and disease management vendors, nurse lines, occupational health and safety experts, workers’ compensation specialists, disability managers, organizational development consultants, you name it.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Dedicate manpower and resources to look for patterns or trends that may indicate inequities, especially within specific job roles or demographic groups. Then develop protocols for making adjustments to address identified pay disparities. The gathered data needs to be reviewed in detail.

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System How To Benchmarking Diversity 52

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

AUGUST 17, 2015

The resulting images of Play-Doh, newly painted birdhouses, and freshly mown grass led product developers far from the types of scents normally associated with deodorants and antiperspirants. That insight drove the development of a new sub-brand for the Secret line, Destinations, which promises scents that evoke locales and seasons.

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Document Marketing Learning-by-Doing Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

It’s a membership organization created to serve more than 350 independently owned and operated stations, each with its own board of directors, objectives, agendas and strategies. Our development team went Agile. Radical because we needed to establish audacious goals to inspire the team. It’s so … modern.”

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Team Metrics KPI Rogers 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Others lack the processes and operational capabilities to target them with personalized communications and experiences. Companies need to develop ways for employees to interact with customers directly, even in “back office” functions. Facilitate direct interaction with customers.

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Short-term Learning-by-Doing Participative Human Resources 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Seeing how Atrius orchestrated the transition from being a fee-for-service provider to one that predominantly relies on value-based payment can benefit others pursuing the same goal. Instead of incrementally improving processes, the goal became replacing them and creating whole new care models. The results have been remarkable.

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