The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

A recent study from Australia’s La Trobe University highlights how the number of remote workers jumped by around 20% as a result of the pandemic. The findings emerged from a number of focus groups involving both managers and non-managers from a wide range of different sectors. Negative experiences.

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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. Many professionals are hired for their technical abilities, promoted for their management abilities, and then derailed, passed over, or even fired for their lack of people skills.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 31, 2022

A side benefit is that when their manager appreciates them, it improves their relationships. Employees end up trusting their managers, and it leads to a more positive experience for everyone. Consider how to get people to the next level and develop your employees in your company. Reward the Employees Who Care. < 6.

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

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 26, 2021

While change management is sometimes couched as being all about “winning hearts and minds,” the truth is more nuanced: change comes with a cost — and is not necessarily positive for all stakeholders. Use polarity management as an avenue to address resistance. Job insecurity. Misaligned reward systems. Fear of failure.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 3, 2020

A S a McKinsey & Company article stated in late March 2020: “What leaders need during a crisis is not a predefined response plan but behaviors and mindsets that will prevent them from overreacting to yesterday’s developments and help them look ahead.”. Here is one example from a leader. Which might yours be?

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Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 5, 2012

The talent pool development and mentor training process aligns individual aspirations and competencies with the company’s current and future needs so that the interests of both can be served. This will happen through succession steps and continued training and development of the High Potential employees. What is it?

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HR Digest

JUNE 27, 2022

Armed with this additional information, your business could decide to launch new initiatives to boost employee recognition , show that professional development is a top priority, and ensure that job satisfaction remains high. Focus Groups. Manager One-on-Ones. Performance Management.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 31, 2023

What managers are struggling with It’s hard to believe we’re already halfway through the year! At CMI we've been digging into the content that’s been speaking most to the CMI community over the past six months – and there are definitely some themes that stand out: resilience, personal development and inclusion, in particular.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Strong company cultures go beyond a cursory mention in the employee handbook and organizations need to actively plan out how to communicate effectively with employees for it to be successful. How Do We Create It? To start with, companies need to develop a clear sense of purpose in all that they do.

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 30, 2023

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

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 6, 2018

The fact is, they still share many of the same traits as their older counterparts (First-Wave Millennials)—raised to feel special, high achieving, tech-savvy, but Second-Wavers (born 1995 – 2004) have some distinct differences that are making managers sit up and take notice. Professional Development This is a big one.

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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 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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Strategy Driven

JUNE 18, 2020

You should try to make sure that you choose an audience that you know is going to be interested in what you’re offering, and you can carry out market research and use focus groups to get a better idea of this. It’s impossible to appeal to the right people when you don’t even really know who the right people are.

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HR Digest

APRIL 13, 2023

Managing employee benefits and compensation is an essential function for any organization that wants to attract, retain, and motivate top talent. In this article, we explore the importance of managing employee compensation and benefits and offer some tips on how organizations can promote pay equity effectively.

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Mike Cardus

MAY 24, 2011

Below is an actual Executive Coaching and Managerial Leadership Training + Development process I facilitated. Situation: Currently there is an authoritarian style of management creating a decrease in morale, satisfaction with work and innovation amongst employees. The methods and processes worked! Resolution.

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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

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Where agreement falls apart is how to boost engagement levels. Some leaders feel that running organizational surveys and giving that aggregated data to managers will somehow get them to improve engagement. The data on employee engagement is overwhelming and very clear; the biggest factor — by far — is the immediate manager.

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Center for Creative Leadership

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Managing a multicultural team can be a rewarding experience, giving leaders the opportunity to work closely with employees from diverse backgrounds and offering the chance for personal and professional growth. Learn our best practices for managing virtual teams and meetings.). Management should talk to employees ?

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Managers need to be trained on the importance of balancing business needs with safety and to take frontline employees concerns seriously. At this point in the process, HR should analyze the data and information for trends and share important findings with senior management along with recommendations. And 37 people would still be alive.

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The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The HR VP outlined a process to feed back the survey results to management and frontline teams across the organization in the coming months. These sessions were designed to gather input on how to turn the culture around and increase engagement. Then they’ll complain that supervisors and managers aren’t getting the message.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 29, 2019

” That’s a key conclusion of a major study by Harvard Business School’s Project on Managing the Future of Work and the Boston Consulting Group’s Henderson Institute. Find ways to manage chronic uncertainty. “Workers are more adaptive and optimistic about the future than their leaders recognize.”

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Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 11, 2012

The work of managers and employees has increased in complexity due to globalization, a faster work and life pace, and instability in the world’s economy. Managers, when asked, tell you that employee engagement is a must for the survival of their company. But when you ask either party how to achieve employee engagement?

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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. As the group reaches agreement on the broad categories re-write these in the proper NOISE areas.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 25, 2011

At the same time, Jobs does not rely on focus groups. That might be good for incremental change, but to “make a dent in the universe,” you need people that focus on what the experience could be. Not only is Jobs enthusiasm infectious, but he thinks regularly about how to build enthusiasm.

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Experience to Lead

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

From management courses to leadership seminars, there is no shortage of opportunities to further your learning, gain new skills or master the ones you already have. But how do we know that the training we’re doing is effective? Let’s dive in by exploring how to define the effectiveness of training programs.

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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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QAspire

JANUARY 9, 2011

Dissatisfied customers, unhappy team members, disengaged middle management and difficulties in scaling the business. When problems occur, they first correct it but then, give a careful thought to how it can be prevented. You can form small focus group from your current team and improve in small iterations. Thanks Chris!

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Working with a team of 5 Executive Directors from a company that employs ~2000 people we identified a gap in the Managerial Leadership Training , Mentoring and coaching of employees prior to being promoted to a Manager Level within the company. With this team we used it to explore the challenge of Developing a Managerial Leadership Process.

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 25, 2011

As Tanveer writes about leadership and managing employees, I thought I’d share some of the questions I often get asked by business leaders about managing customer expectations, developing their employees and how to involve your team in the process of selling your business when the time comes to put it on the selling block.

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 25, 2011

As Tanveer writes about leadership and managing employees, I thought I’d share some of the questions I often get asked by business leaders about managing customer expectations, developing their employees and how to involve your team in the process of selling your business when the time comes to put it on the selling block.

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Engineering Reference Incentives Merchandising 182

Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Tuesday, November 02nd, 2010 Posted by: mike Met some friends for a focus group at a local coffee place. Make the counter space one so that I cannot place my dishes on the counter Alright…you get the point; Creating problem statements are important and if you want to change peoples behavior you have to develop solution statements.

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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

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. How to make your company more nimble and responsive.

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Coaching Tip

JULY 22, 2011

Here are seven such failures and how to avoid them: . Additionally, employee surveys and focus groups can be beneficial. They are co-founders of the Reina Trust Building Institute, a global enterprise specializing in measuring, developing, and restoring workplace trust. Failure to acknowledge what’s happening.

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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. If you're concerned about reprisal, get another job! Posted by: Mike Henry Sr.

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