Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Keep in mind that learning organizations are those that prioritize the development of – people – everyone comes to work every day in part to grow, and to support one another in doing so. Do our processes include after-action or mid-action project reviews? Common habits that suppress individuals and teams from improving. When and how?

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The Practical Leader

JULY 26, 2023

” Their Perceptions Are My Leadership Reality Key to leadership development is understanding how others see me. The Clemmer Group’s long partnership with Zenger Folkman is based on their evidence-based approach to 360 assessment and strengths-based leadership development. ” The doctor said, “Good!

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 28, 2021

These include external coaches, reverse performance appraisals, facilitated focus groups, meeting reflections, project reviews, external assessments, informal networking, and so on. There are many ways you can get feedback on your personal, team, or organizational effectiveness without formal surveys.

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The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Development — major resources are committed to developing or refining the new products, services, or businesses that are ready to be capitalized on. Make senior leaders responsible for some business development and ongoing customer service. Link part of their compensation to new business or development success.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 18, 2022

Is multitasking and constant interruptions fragmenting your attention and limiting your ability to concentrate on important tasks or projects? An HR professional, professionally trained coach, or trusted mentor can help you interpret the results and build a strengths-based personal development plan. Are you leveraging your time ?

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

It also drives teams to explore new ideas through our “15% culture” philosophy, which empowers 3Mers to work on projects of their own choosing, outside of their regular scope of work. 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

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. It’s been a vital focus for many of our leadership team retreats and culture development work.

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LDRLB

MARCH 15, 2013

The study surveyed 18 focus groups, 4,000 college-degreed professionals, 50 personal interviews and 268 senior-level executives and concluded that leadership positions are most often given to those who look the part. Leaders with executive presence must project confidence. Is your appearance polished and put together?

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HR Digest

APRIL 9, 2024

This is why my team and I have developed a comprehensive listening strategy to understand where our employees are in their lives and work journeys. As a result, we continue to develop global initiatives within our company designed to reduce stigma and increase access to mental health resources for all employees.

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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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QAspire

JANUARY 9, 2011

Same challenges show up in each project. They create focus groups on process improvements, document the lessons, relentlessly train teams and incorporate preventive measures in their processes. You can form small focus group from your current team and improve in small iterations. So, they try to correct it instead.

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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. Group Size. NOISE analysis is that format. NOISE Analysis. Opportunities. Improvements.

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QAspire

OCTOBER 24, 2010

Establish quality circles or improvement/quality focus groups and rotate people to give everyone a chance to participate. Organize events like group discussions and brainstorming sessions to promote ideas, share success stories, best practices and project case studies. Check it out if you haven’t already ! Don’t Kill It!

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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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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

With this team we used it to explore the challenge of Developing a Managerial Leadership Process. Dimensions: If dimensions were extremely large what would success look like, how would that happen, in what way could that system be developed? Can we create a long term research project from this? The DTC Operator Algorithm.

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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.

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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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The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

.” Leaders need to get out of their silos and work together as a multidisciplinary group to rebalance and realign the organization. Meetings need be focus less on operating details and more on strategic issues. Realign/integrate/prune current projects, processes, systems, and development initiatives.

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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. Anyone can develop an app for the iPhone or iPad. And it’s a good thing, too. Still skeptical?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2017

But I am also excited about “stagecraft,” a related approach that fakes a new product or service to get real-life reactions from users early in the development process. Employed early in the development process, stagecraft can yield critical insights that you might not discover until much later on. It’s all staged.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2018

A new research study I led at CTI uncovers, through a nationally representative survey of 3,212 individuals with STEM credentials, and through dozens of additional interviews and focus group conversations, the differentiators of success for women in STEM. Yet 82% of women in STEM say their contributions are ignored. Hone your brand.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

In 2007 and 2008 the Clayman Institute for Gender Research and the Anita Borg Institute conducted research on approximately 1,800 tech workers in seven high-tech companies, finding that women reported being less likely than their male counterparts to be assigned to high-visibility projects. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2015

It’s a good practice to develop mentoring relationships with a few trusted advisors. Here are some best practices we’ve noticed: Set yourself up for positive feedback by ensuring that you and your client are in agreement on the project plan and deliverables right from the start. This can be either in-person or virtual.

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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. One such project addressed a user’s control of his personal data. They link their work to existing priorities , moving opportunistically to join projects already under way.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2012

Others, mostly northerners, are concerned with the potential costs to themselves or the project's long-term viability and desirability. The European project risks becoming a zero-sum game edging towards disaster, and all seem to be forgetting an important point: The problems of the south are structural rather than fiscal.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

When a team markedly outperforms its peers, it develops a mystique that serves to block scrutiny of the basis of that success. In-group language : Humans need both to hide and rationalize unethical behavior, leading to the widespread use of in-group jokes and euphemisms.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

We've seen large companies adopt a startup mindset and cut campaign development times by 50%. If a user clicks on the banner, she is taken to a 404 / "Not Found" message; if enough users click on the banner, the product will go into development. The company first mapped out every step in its campaign development and execution process.

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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. Number of projects in the innovation pipeline. Stage-gate specific metrics, i.e. projects moving from one. Sixty-nine percent of respondents said they’re gathering that data.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

They are projected to make up the majority of all women by 2060, which means they’ll also likely become the majority of the U.S. Developing a diverse leadership pipeline can benefit companies in all sectors. Sixteen women were interviewed and seven others participated in a focus group.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

In the flurry of analysis and research that followed those early results, a major dispute erupted between product developers and the design group. The sales materials for the new products were too "artsy," the developers said. As one developer said, "The designers are trying to win design awards, not sell product.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

When you stop to think about it, you’ll realize that your fans and followers are essentially volunteering their time and energy to serve as developers, sounding boards, and advertisements for your company. Pitfall #9: Developing your own social software and analytics solutions.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Building the right culture in an era of fast-paced teaming, when people work on a shifting mix of projects with a shifting mix of partners, might sound challenging – if not impossible. When you join an unfamiliar team or start a challenging new project, self-protection is a natural instinct.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2011

When you look at who's coming into the workforce and what they can mean for the development of human capital, it's a no-brainer that women are a competitive advantage," says Valentino Carlotti, president of Goldman Sachs Bank in Brazil. But corporate headhunters are having a problem. based multinational.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

A unit of a company that sells janitorial supplies to industrial customers spent years trying to develop a new cleaning agent that was more effective and "better smelling" than its previous offering. Unfortunately, the project wasn't able to hit the former target. Modify mindset.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

We've seen large companies adopt a startup mindset and cut campaign development times by 50%. If a user clicks on the banner, she is taken to a 404 / "Not Found" message; if enough users click on the banner, the product will go into development. The company first mapped out every step in its campaign development and execution process.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

We have taken an intentional approach to develop a vision and strategy that takes all our stakeholders’ perspectives into account – one that our customers, carriers and employees can stand behind. Through a combination of efficiency projects and the use of renewable energy, we are on pace to reach our carbon emissions goal ahead of schedule.

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