Mike Cardus

JANUARY 9, 2013

An earlier post listed the 7 Principles of Leadership Development in no specific order of importance : Necessary Skilled-Knowledge. Strategy for Leadership Development. Exploring lessons learned and how an organization and I developed a leadership development process for high potential employees.

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Great Results Team Building

APRIL 10, 2024

Of course, building a healthy and high-performing workplace culture integration is an ongoing process, not a one-time event. Utilize management interviews, employee surveys, and even customer feedback , but don’t stop there. Conduct focus groups where employees from both sides can share their concerns and aspirations.

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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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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. The best way to reduce resistance is to plan for it, monitor it, and take appropriate steps to address it throughout the change process.

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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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HR Digest

APRIL 12, 2023

However, despite the importance of employee engagement, many organizations struggle to develop effective engagement programs that truly resonate with their employees. In this article, we’ll explore key strategies and best practices for developing employee engagement programs that work.

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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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The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Like the weather, many leaders talk about agility and innovation, but few managers do much about it. Unlike the weather, there’s a great deal managers can do about building agile and innovative cultures. Controlled chaos is a tricky process with four main stages. It’s a big competitive edge.

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Mike Cardus

JUNE 28, 2013

We are working to develop present and future organizational capacity to grow and be change ready for the next 5 years. My interviews and focus groups with employees it was obvious they have too many levels and people are confused. So we created a whole new level of management. Develop and lead a Talent Pool Assessment.

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Design by 12GrainStudio Your Process SUCKS! Tuesday, November 02nd, 2010 Posted by: mike Met some friends for a focus group at a local coffee place. THE PROCESS IS BROKEN. Exponent Leadership Process Coaching Methodology Leadership Development Process Program Leadership Development Process, a Success Story!

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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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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. The methods and processes worked! Situation: Currently there is an authoritarian style of management creating a decrease in morale, satisfaction with work and innovation amongst employees. Resolution.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 18, 2023

Try surveying your current customers or conducting focus groups. For instance, if you’re running an event management company, ensure to account for the needs of varying audience members. For example, you can utilize virtual reality to create virtual tours of your services or use automation to streamline certain processes.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 22, 2023

From analyzing the regulatory environment and building the right team to deciding which risks to take and managing and mitigating these risks by devising effective strategies, an entrepreneur is responsible for playing many roles all at once. However, the most important duty associated with entrepreneurship is leadership.

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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 9, 2014

Management they told me morale was a big problem, and they had results from an employee survey that supported their beliefs. Management and employee teams agreed to wait to work on morale BUT they still wanted to see improvement in their employee survey. In the initial meeting with the Sr. I wasn’t interested in working on morale.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Guest post from Cornelia Gamlem and Barbara Mitchell: Ask any manager and they’ll agree that people issues are some of the most important ones they face in their day-to-day routine. Manage it through your culture and your actions and hire staff who will fit it. Employee development. Corporate culture. Strategic staffing.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 20, 2020

You’re also committed to MBWA (or in today’s pandemic-constrained world, Management By Clicking Around- MBCA). There’s too much friction to overcome: time away from their normal work, not knowing how their manager will respond, or not even realizing they have an idea to share. You have an open door.

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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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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.

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The Practical Leader

JUNE 30, 2020

To fix organizational problems or make major changes, managers often hire consultants to analyze what’s happening and provide improvement recommendations. The consulting firm usually interviews people, runs focus groups, and gathers input from a variety of sources. Good managers often empower.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Alas, attitudes towards retraining are far from uniform, and indeed those who are most vulnerable often have the least aptitude for developing the new skills they need to successfully transition to a new career. ” Views from the frontline. This resulted in confidence in the new ways of working being undermined. Smarter learning.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The very first thing we did was deploy multiple listening channels to bring the voices of our employees all over the world into the process of defining our aspirational culture. We led focus groups, created advisory and steering teams, and engaged our executives in workshops and feedback sessions. PHOTO: 3M.

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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. They seemed to be Theory X leaders (employees will take advantage, need to be “snoopervised,” and managed like kids with rules, policies, and punishment).

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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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Mike Cardus

JULY 11, 2011

Organizational Development Work. Developing a leadership training program and increased trust in the competence of leadership. I consulted and led a 6 month coaching and training process with the Executive Vice President of Human Resources and 14 of the Associate Vice Presidents. michael cardus is create-learning.

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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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QAspire

JANUARY 9, 2011

Processes (and improvement) are seen as costs. Dissatisfied customers, unhappy team members, disengaged middle management and difficulties in scaling the business. They create focus groups on process improvements, document the lessons, relentlessly train teams and incorporate preventive measures in their processes.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Among the many techniques Briceño teaches, the book also offers four tips for helping your team continuously advance their skills, even when it feels like there’s no time to problem solve: Why most managers often misuse praise—and what you should do instead to help your team improve. When and how?

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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. Can you share any success stories or outcomes resulting from these efforts?

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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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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 12, 2012

You must have a format and a process that is effective. 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. NOISE analysis is that format.

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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. Training programs are developed for a reason. Follow our simple step-by-step process and get started today on maximizing employee performance today.

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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. Competent Manager. Competent Manager. By Michael Cardus.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 16, 2017

The fact is that although coming up with the initial product idea and developing it can seem like the hardest part of launching a new product, that isn’t necessarily the case. Make time for focus groups.

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QAspire

OCTOBER 24, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Establishing Forums to Build a Quality Oriented Culture Total Quality Management (TQM) says that quality is everybody’s job. Establish quality circles or improvement/quality focus groups and rotate people to give everyone a chance to participate. Check it out if you haven’t already

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