HR Digest

OCTOBER 27, 2023

As we navigate the intricate landscape of HR and talent management, seamlessly addressing the complexities of overseeing a region spanning 40 countries, the interview unfolds against the backdrop of Aon EMEA’s agile response to industry challenges. In my view, employee engagement operates like the stock market exchange.

Agility 98

Agility Leadership Diversity Industry 98

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 ?

Team 88

Team Emotional Intelligence Diversity Globalization 88

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?

How To 107

How To Middle Management Reputation Short-term 107

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.

Call Center 103

Call Center Incentives Productivity Products 103

Mike Cardus

JULY 11, 2011

. · Working with a financial service group that was facing the challenge of regulations changing the amount of fair-share revenue they could claim as their total profit. Organizational Development Work. Developing a leadership training program and increased trust in the competence of leadership.

Team Building 94

Team Building TRIZ Succession Team 94

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.

Strategic Planning 158

Strategic Planning SWOT Analysis Planning 158

Ron Edmondson

MARCH 5, 2020

Just like the people they lead, they become protective of the way things operate. This may need to be the subject of another post, but one example of how I have tried to address this lid is with what I call “focus groups”. I wrote a post on innovative ways to develop people , as an example. They are just “normal”. .

Bureaucracy 56

Bureaucracy Brainstorming Guidelines Edmondson 56

Coaching Tip

JULY 22, 2011

Are business units operating in silos? 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. Are workers disengaged?

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Energy Bottom-up Commitment Globalization 95

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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Management Tacit Knowledge Diversity Leadership Pipeline 13

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.

Executive Coaching 167

Executive Coaching Open-book Blog Report 167

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

Change management can be a test for any organization. Several studies by Towers Watson show that just 25% of change management initiatives are successful over the long term. Change management certainly tested us. We have hired more than 5,000 new employees since beginning the effort in late 2013.) What values drove them?

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Management IPO Diversity Long-term 10

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.

Agility 110

Agility Team Leadership Storytelling 110

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

By combining data-driven assessments, targeted engagement of high prescribers, EHR-based interventions, and pharmacist support in care management, Geisinger has dramatically reduced opioid prescribing. In addition to developing programs on pain-management for our broad clinician population, we targeted a focused group of high prescribers.

System 10

System Health Care Review Focus Group 10

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. Hone your brand.

Succession 14

Succession Reputation Focus Group Leadership Styles 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2018

Why is it that when a group of managers gets together for a strategic planning session they often emerge with a document that’s devoid of “strategy”, and often not even a plan ? The third step requires you to work out what your organization wants from each key stakeholder group for your organization to prosper.

Strategic Planning 15

Strategic Planning Planning Document Airlines 15

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

As a leader and manager, you’ll learn how to use these tools to harness social interactions to improve your business and to create your own social nation. The book provides a social assessment for leaders, managers and employees to scientifically evaluate your individual social skills and competencies.

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Media Follow-up Software Newsletter 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

It has a more rigorous organization structure that divides responsibilities between the innovation team and development team, and strengthens management around the opportunity pipeline. This provides the casino operators an enterprise-wide view of what works, what doesn’t, and what actions to take to improve performance.

Technology 8

Technology Innovation Kaizen Chief Executive Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2012

True ownership by line managers. Most large companies depend on HR to measure and manage employee engagement. So Apple stores, JetBlue Airways , and others deliver employee survey results directly to operating managers, who can then sponsor shop-floor change initiatives. Here's some of what's needed: 1.

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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.

Strategy 8

Strategy Power Idea Generation Project 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2011

And these companies build closed-loop learning into their daily operations so that they're constantly improving. And instead of delegating the effort to HR, you'd make employee engagement a top priority for frontline managers and employees themselves, with built-in procedures for closed-loop learning.

Tactics 14

Tactics Customer Loyalty Survey Loyalty 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

You can make customers provide more rigorous authentication before they make a transaction, or have managers limit distribution of sensitive plans. How do we protect intellectual property and other sensitive business information while also encouraging collaboration in product development processes?

Supply Chain 12

Supply Chain Risk Management Hedge Banking 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2017

Missed medical appointments, or “no-shows,” often create several operational challenges as well, from difficulties rescheduling clinical staff to interference with patient care and treatment. Design thinking has already taken hold in health care, leading to the development of new products and the improved design of spaces.

Health Care 14

Health Care Transportation Mayo Cost 14

Strategy Driven

JUNE 6, 2014

Business development. Conduct focus groups. Develop systems to execute the program, communicating at every step to publics. Interpret the results to management in terms that are easy to understand and support. Provide management with information that justifies their confidence. Running the business.

Franchising 72

Franchising Marketing Strategy Strategic Planning 72

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.

Planning 8

Planning Incentives ROI Long-term 8

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.

System 52

System How To Benchmarking Diversity 52

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. ’ I commissioned focus groups. To test the premise, I staged a focus group dinner meeting at a prominent inner-city church, eliciting ideas and insights.

Franchising 63

Franchising Budgeting Pryor Consultative 63

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.

Company 8

Company Airlines Ries Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

The original creation of Sephora.com was largely outsourced, and we didn’t have an internal digital development team when I joined. So, one of the first things I did — and something I’d recommend to anyone who’s serious about building a digital brand — was to bring web development in-house. My kids are my best focus group.

Brand 10

Brand CTO Marketing Retail 10

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.

Document 8

Document Marketing Learning-by-Doing Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Take the following steps before and after your network is launched, and you’ll develop a network with a large following and with powerful, positive impact. In these organizations, the working parents’ groups feel like natural and essential outgrowths of core operations. Build up from what works.

Organization 10

Organization How To Seminar Follow-up 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

With all this in mind, a group at the Mayo Clinic led by the four of us developed and implemented a standardized practice model over a three-year period (2010-2012) that significantly reduced variation and improved predictability of care in adult cardiac surgery. An example is falls prevention in the hospital. Remaining Challenges.

Mayo 10

Mayo Education Software Participative 10

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. The product manager? Our development team went Agile. Properly managed, it’s a healthy tension. Others began taking risks.

Team 13

Team Metrics KPI Rogers 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Instead, according to new research from the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI), the fundamental issue is the health care industry’s failure to develop a nuanced understanding of, and commitment to, women as consumers and decision makers. Surprisingly, it’s not the cost of care.

Health Care 8

Health Care Industry First-mover Advantage Market Segmentation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Others lack the processes and operational capabilities to target them with personalized communications and experiences. At Hootsuite, the social media management platform, marketing and human resources executives collaborate to do this. The volume, velocity, and variety of customer data that now exists overwhelms many organizations.

Short-term 12

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

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

A team of engineers, designers, operations specialists, and clinicians was assembled and led by an experienced, well-respected physician “chief engineer” whose vision for the future of care was disruptive. .” Develop a complete understanding of the system. prior focus groups, surveys, and Press Ganey data).

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Insurance P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2016

There is something marketing managers seem to forget about the internet: it was made for people, not for companies and brands. As such, it offers managers a source of insight they never had — social listening. Why, then, do managers fail to fully exploit it? Information and meaning work at cross purposes.

Media 8

Media Sample Brand Marketing 8