Lead Change Blog

MARCH 26, 2021

Lack of trust in leadership. 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. Reasons for resistance vary, and may include: Loss of status from the change. Job insecurity. Misaligned reward systems. Fear of failure.

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Resistance Restructuring Survey Agility 274

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

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Elements that define your culture is leadership style, communication, the work environment – formal or informal – and how mistakes are handled. Focus groups and stay-interviews can reveal why people want to come to work every day. Employee development. Corporate culture. Employee engagement and retention.

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Succession Benchmarking Performance Review Handbook 137

Mills Scofield

DECEMBER 5, 2014

This guest post by Amir Golan , VP of Business Development at Signals , shows how important it is to look for the small signals and patterns in big data that are easily lost. Back then, they would run focus groups to see what customers liked/didn''t like about the product and would check competitors that began to do well.

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Stage-Gate Productivity Products Innovation 128

Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 6, 2011

But the years away reportedly helped him develop his leadership style and begin ceding more responsibilities to others. He was a focus group of one, the ideal Apple customer, two years out. Perhaps, Jobs was the greatest user of technology to ever live. He became less enamored of tech for tech's sake.

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Micromanagement Leadership Styles Focus Group Magazine 77

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

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. Training programs are developed for a reason. When it comes to running a successful business, there are no shortcuts.

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Metrics Training Benchmarking ROI 52

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2018

In prior research , we at the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI) found that women leave STEM fields in droves: 52% of highly qualified women working for science, technology, or engineering companies leave their jobs. We hear, in interviews and focus groups, that women are consistently spoken over and even robbed of their ideas.

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Succession Reputation Focus Group Leadership Styles 14

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

Instead of a monolithic one-way interaction, business is now being conducted through constant and meaningful two-way conversations between organizations and constituents – at every stage of organizational development. And it’s a good thing, too. Still skeptical? Then take a look at the hard numbers.

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Media Learning-by-Doing Open-book Company 67

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

As one technology executive has explained to us, “We have some very capable women in the middle management and junior VP levels, but they leave our firm to advance their careers as they continually get passed over for promotion.” Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. ” The same pattern happened for leadership skills.

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Focus Group Skills Technology Review 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Using our robust data archive system which captures electronic health record, medical and prescription claims, and other information, we create dashboard displays for use by leadership, operational teams, and clinicians to reveal population-level trends and identify patients and clinicians for targeted interventions.

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System Health Care Review Focus Group 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

Developing a diverse leadership pipeline can benefit companies in all sectors. And yet black women’s advancement into leadership roles has remained stagnant , even as the number of them in professional and managerial roles has increased. Sixteen women were interviewed and seven others participated in a focus group.

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Management Tacit Knowledge Diversity Leadership Pipeline 13

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. Yes, set up a “focus group” of employees to serve as community leaders who will shepherd your company into the social networking world, but don’t put all of the power in their hands.

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Media Follow-up Software Newsletter 50

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

Seems like strategic management 101, but oftentimes companies are unable to ask this question due to turf battles or leadership blind spots. One professional service firm told us how a senior partner sold only technology implementation services &38212; an area he was personally passionate about — to his clients in South America.

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Supply Chain Sample Hedge Engineering 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2012

In the spirit of reverse innovation, and reverse mentoring , I submit to you that the next trend to watch out for in leadership is, you guessed it — reverse leadership. You've likely seen reverse leadership in action. Reverse leadership doesn't replace regular leadership. Quite the contrary.

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Self-aware Competitive Advantage Follow-up Content 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Two-thirds of our respondents, for instance, said that they were tracking the number of projects in their development pipeline. The first was the difficulty in creating a set of metrics that are aligned with what senior leadership actually cares about. Alignment can take a while. The vision thing. “How big could this be?

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Metrics Innovation Company Stage-Gate 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

While every CEO is forced to work through organizational change, many will tell you that of all their duties, change management scares them the most, because nearly every aspect of a company and its leadership is tested. What I did know was that I, and our leadership team, needed to solicit feedback — a lot of it.

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Management IPO Diversity Long-term 11

Eric Jacobson

JULY 7, 2011

What is the digital company or the new technology that will force you to change your business model? Perhaps it won't be digital technology that will change or crush your business model. 93% of that age group send/read email. Or expand, or morph? Or, worse.that will cause you to close your doors?

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Business Model Bottom-up Industry Focus Group 61

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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Company Airlines Ries Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

When your company is in trouble — a new competitor or technology threatens your business model, your cost structure changes, the economy tanks — you have one job as a leader: to get the company back on track. ” The process paid dividends for McKay’s leadership brand as well. Yet, so few do.

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Crisis Banking CEO Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

A rudimentary approach is to segment customers into fairly large groups based on some demographic data (age, address, gender, etc.) An evolving approach is to develop customer data hubs with advanced analytics that enable one-to-one segmentation and real-time decision making. coupled with recent purchase history.

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Company Content Information Software 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

But what these groups should be doing longer-term — what value they should be providing their members, how their leaders should steer and contribute to the effort, and what types of events and services they should offer — is frustratingly hard to see, or agree on. Build up from what works. This if for you.”

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Organization How To Seminar Follow-up 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

This idea of keeping people in their homes became a powerful mantra for the team and drove the development of Care in Place. Develop a complete understanding of the system. prior focus groups, surveys, and Press Ganey data). The innovation and operations teams must work together and negotiate the use of these resources.

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Health Care Innovation Insurance P&L 8