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. Setting up systems and habits : Often, we set up systems for the Performance Zone, such as weekly meetings with a set agenda or dashboards with key metrics.

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How To Learning-by-Doing Books System 119

The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

But it’s much, much harder for competitors to duplicate a leadership culture and management system producing a continuous stream of successful product and service improvements, innovations, adaptations, and extensions. Stages three and four lean heavily on disciplined management systems and processes.

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Innovation Agility Strategic Planning Core Competence 59

Lead Change Blog

MARCH 26, 2021

Misaligned reward systems. 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. Change means uncertainty, which is an uncomfortable state for many. Job insecurity. Fear of failure. Lack of trust in leadership.

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Resistance Restructuring Survey Agility 274

Mike Cardus

MAY 24, 2011

Below is an actual Executive Coaching and Managerial Leadership Training + Development process I facilitated. This is developing a feeling of strife, hopelessness and contempt amongst management and subordinates. Executive Coaching and peer coaching groups were established to highlight and sharpen existing great behaviors and actions.

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Case Study 360-Degree Feedback Execution TRIZ 116

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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Human Resources Focus Group Crisis Definition 132

Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 11, 2012

In this article I will illustrate that achieving employee engagement is a systems solution. Creating a system that drives needed innovation and allows people to make progress on their work, creates a reinforcing loop of innovation and progress. Objective measures of progress and regress. The necessary resources to get the job done.

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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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Human Capital Human Resources Diversity Education 52

Lead Change Blog

MARCH 3, 2016

I wanted to develop skills and an artistic passion – very different from my natural logical nature. I chose a compact camera system with interchangeable lenses. I can take a railway themed photo, provide commentary, and share out to over a dozen different groups and pages. Photography. Life learning. Something for me.

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Outsourcing Learning-by-Doing Globalization Retail 150

The Practical Leader

MAY 29, 2019

Leading change was a key focus that emerged from reader feedback on the main topics over 600 readers said they’d like to see in my latest book project. It’s been a vital focus for many of our leadership team retreats and culture development work.

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Agility Organization Henderson Focus Group 55

Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

With this team we used it to explore the challenge of Developing a Managerial Leadership Process. Define the problem : Name the system or the part of the system of interest. Dimensions: If dimensions were extremely large what would success look like, how would that happen, in what way could that system be developed?

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Operations Training Tools Planning 128

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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Energy Crisis Absenteeism Leadership 52

The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 1, 2020

The researchers conducted a number of focus groups around the United Kingdom, where 18-25 year olds were quizzed on their attitude towards work, the economy and on industrial relations. The group covered a cross section of skill levels and consisted equally of male and female participants. Treading water.

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Parcell Participative Crisis Report 85

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

At Geisinger, a healthcare system serving more than 1.5 For example, in 2012 we launched a controlled-substance monitoring dashboard to better understand use of controlled substances in our system, with a focus on improving pain management. The devastating opioid epidemic in the U.S. Data-driven assessment.

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System Health Care Review Focus Group 10

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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Process Team Building Focus Group Learning-by-Doing 149

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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Strategic Planning SWOT Analysis Planning 158

The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 26, 2022

” The Theory X leaders at the retreat had trouble seeing the disconnect between endorsing HR’s plans for engagement focus groups and gathering input; with their inclination to mandate office facetime. But the executives were in favor of HR developing a talent management and engagement strategy.

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Policies Morale Report Survey 59

QAspire

OCTOBER 24, 2010

What key actions will help me to align myself to those values and belief system? Establish quality circles or improvement/quality focus groups and rotate people to give everyone a chance to participate. Spread awareness of your quality beliefs and systems by designing e-bulletins or newsletters. How will it benefit me?

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Quality TQM Directory Belief Systems 122

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

As 2023 draws to a close and companies begin to settle on the wages and hikes for the next year, the question of how to create an equitable compensation system might flash in everyone’s mind—if briefly. Building a conscious pay system requires conscious policies and practices that support such an initiative.

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System How To Benchmarking Diversity 52

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Critics have said that instead we need to strengthen our ‘data rights’ and the responsibilities to maintain them, with a more systemic approach including legislation, regulation, policymaking, education, and advocacy.” ” Bringing data to life.

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Business Model Compliance Participative Tips 46

QAspire

JANUARY 9, 2011

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. Even they face similar challenges and problems, but only once. What about you?

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Learning Organization Organization Senge Blog 160

Lead Change Blog

APRIL 18, 2016

If your customers’ experiences with your “parking lot” were a picture of your whole service system, what would it tell them about what you value and your top priorities? Now, focus the service garbage detection spotlight on every other process in search of stupid rules. Start with your customers’ first encounter.

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Policies Follow-up Banking Bureaucracy 150

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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How To Middle Management Reputation Short-term 108

The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

As someone in a focus group quipped, “The most dangerous place in this organization is at the exit door around quitting time. ” In another organization, I was facilitating a development workshop with a few “prisoners” as participants. You’ll get trampled.”

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Absenteeism Leadership Participative Workshop 40

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

Build processes and systems to ensure that the outsourcer can support you well. Some of the outsource administration you could consider are: Surveying, polling, and focus group tests. Remember you shouldn’t be outsourcing your core business functions, however, you can outsource parts of your core functions like the admin.

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Outsourcing Human Resources Learning Curve Marketing 61

The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

.” The authors concluded, “Agile leadership demands that executives create a carefully balanced system that delivers both stability and agility — a system that runs the business efficiently, changes the business effectively, and merges the two activities without destroying both elements.”

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Agility Team Leadership Storytelling 110

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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Succession Reputation Focus Group Leadership Styles 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2018

I’ll let you in on the six-step technique I have developed over many years, working with clients and in teaching my public seminars on strategic planning. ” Metrics were developed to monitor these, and targets were set before moving on. The fourth step is to identify what these stakeholder groups want from you.

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Strategic Planning Planning Document Airlines 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Corporations often approach ethics as an individual problem, designing oversight systems to identify the “bad apples” before they can turn the organization into a “rotten barrel.” They replicate despite changes in leadership and in management systems. Vince Streano/Getty Images.

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Ethics Organization Incentives Long-term 11

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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Media Learning-by-Doing Open-book Company 67

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Bally Technologies , a leading provider of gaming systems for casinos, has earned more than 60 awards for innovation in just the last four years. It has a more rigorous organization structure that divides responsibilities between the innovation team and development team, and strengthens management around the opportunity pipeline.

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Technology Innovation Kaizen Chief Executive Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2017

A doctor’s medical toolbox and supply of best-practice guidelines, ample as they are, do not address a patient’s fears, grief over a diagnosis, practical issues of access to care, or reliability of their social support system. We can create more space for active listening.

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Balanced Scorecard Contingency Plans Active Listening Guidelines 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2013

However, in the rush to become more patient-centered, the health care system has misplaced its focus. Researchers and health systems deploy focus groups and surveys to assess general patient preferences in an effort to determine "what patients want." Medical schools should help students develop these same skills.

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Industry Health Care Meyer How To 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

Medical science has enabled our health care system to deliver outcomes that would have been impossible a generation ago, and advances in fields such as genomics and stem-cell therapy offer immense promise to further accelerate medical innovation. We must strive to move beyond our own experiences. Get authentic patient voices in the room.

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Health Care Policies Porter System 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2012

Through our experience utilizing the "jobs-to-be-done" concept in a range of settings, my colleagues and I have developed five tips for would-be innovators: the five Cs of opportunity identification (modeled after marketing's famous four Ps — price, product, place, and promotion). Circumstance. Constraints.

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Sample Innovation Software Airlines 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2015

To scale that connectivity requires integrating social media data into your CRM system. And a leading hotel chain asks customers to direct message their account number so the company can link the social handle to their account in the brand’s CRM system. Gather and track the right information. decline).

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CRM Company Airlines Guidelines 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Analytics allow studios to go beyond simple focus groups or established financial modeling to determine how audiences might respond to a given film. By planning releases in a more systemic way, predictive analytics will be considered just as important as the producer, director, and actor who make a film a blockbuster.

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Film Franchising Budgeting Audience 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Analytics allow studios to go beyond simple focus groups or established financial modeling to determine how audiences might respond to a given film. By planning releases in a more systemic way, predictive analytics will be considered just as important as the producer, director, and actor who make a film a blockbuster.

Film 16

Film Franchising Budgeting Audience 16