Center for Creative Leadership

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Cultural Intelligence (CQ): A Must-Have Skill for Leading Multicultural Teams. 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. Management should talk to employees ?

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The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

I was interviewing a leadership team member to prepare for an offsite planning retreat. I asked about the biggest challenges facing their team. When you and your team add new projects, objectives, or to-do activities, do you prune older projects, objectives, or activities to make room? ” Sound familiar?

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Focus Group Decentralization Objective Project 124

Rich Gee Group

MARCH 5, 2024

Take Action: Assemble a cross-functional team to gather diverse perspectives and craft an overarching transformation narrative. Conduct research or focus groups to uncover real employee experiences that can be incorporated into the narrative.

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Organization Audience Storytelling Stakeholder Analysis 222

Rich Gee Group

MARCH 5, 2024

Take Action: Assemble a cross-functional team to gather diverse perspectives and craft an overarching transformation narrative. Conduct research or focus groups to uncover real employee experiences that can be incorporated into the narrative.

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Organization Audience Storytelling Stakeholder Analysis 195

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

By conducting these assessments regularly, organizations can gain a deeper understanding of their board’s capabilities and identify areas for development and improvement. It helps identify areas for development and improvement within the board. To evaluate board dynamics, a comprehensive and objective approach should be adopted.

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Compliance Risk Management Objective Process 402

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. Education for Leadership.

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Leadership Development Skills Development Leadership 154

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

AI Assistance The researchers developed a two-part machine-learning model that could revolutionize the way automobile designers and marketers approach vehicle development. Instead, “theme clinics,” involving large focus groups of highly-targeted consumers evaluating designs on paper, are relied upon.

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Market Segmentation Focus Group Marketing Engineering 59

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.”. Decisions that they are authorized to take.

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McKinsey Emotional Intelligence Crisis Self-aware 294

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Action Item: Set up focus groups and ask employees how they stay informed about the company. Doing little things will amaze and impress employees and they, in turn will learn to do the same for their teams. Leaders who are proficient communicators understand how employees learn and adapt their communication style accordingly.

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Leadership Development Development Airlines Loyalty 120

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The findings emerged from a number of focus groups involving both managers and non-managers from a wide range of different sectors. Things were not all bad, of course, and a number of positives emerged from the focus group. Indeed, these platforms also seem to have improved communication within and between teams too.

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Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 5, 2012

The talent pool development and mentor training process aligns individual aspirations and competencies with the company’s current and future needs so that the interests of both can be served. This will happen through succession steps and continued training and development of the High Potential employees. What is it?

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HR Digest

JUNE 27, 2022

When used together, they’ll give your HR team the context it needs to build an exceptional employee experience. Even with this quantitative data, your team hasn’t learned anything it didn’t already know. Focus Groups. 5 Ways to Collect Qualitative Data for Employee Engagement. Manager One-on-Ones.

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Metrics Survey Focus Group Proposal 84

Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

So what if he’s ruffling a few feathers… with his team, with his peers, with HR, with IT? I’ve been in enough focus groups across enough companies to tell you–when you promote the jerk, people assume it’s the jerk behavior that sealed the deal. Oh he’s good. He gets sh__ done.

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Mike Cardus

JULY 11, 2011

To read more success stories check out Team Building Stories and the Exponent Leadership Stories. Team Building & Leadership Success Stories. Financial Services Group. Organizational Development Work. Developing a leadership training program and increased trust in the competence of leadership.

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Team Building TRIZ Succession Team 94

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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360-Degree Feedback Survey Learning-by-Doing Attitude Survey 52

Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 28, 2020

This challenging situation came from the curse of knowledge, with the majority of leaders in the transportation department having forgotten the challenges they also faced when they had to develop their own leadership skills. Creating a mentor program teaming a new supervisor with one who had more than five years of experience.

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Training Transportation Skills Guidelines 211

Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Guest post from Warren Wright: If you’re hiring and leading a team of freshly-minted college graduates, you may be noticing some differences in their behavior and preferences compared to previous graduates. So, for these Second-Wavers, I’d recommend focusing on the three P’s: Personal Attention, Professional Development, and Purpose.

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Leadership Learning-by-Doing Brand Career 222

The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Leaders who don’t seek feedback often develop deadly blind spots. Build personal and team development plans around that feedback that leverages strengths and addresses any fatal flaws. Use an external coach to leverage your strengths in building a personal development plan from a feedback assessment.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 20, 2020

Guest post from Karin Hurt and David Dye: You’ve asked your team for their great ideas. Laura’s story Laura, an IT Vice President at a mid-sized energy company, was excited to spend some time with her teams, hold a few skip level meetings, and see their new system in action. You have an open door. No one had ever raised the issue.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Kristen Ludgate, who leads 3M’s human resources team, talks to The HR Digest about the “15% culture” philosophy that has helped attract the industry’s most driven workers and how tough times can have a motivational impact on the workforce. It was not a top-down approach, even though this work was sponsored by our CEO and senior team.

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Human Resources Focus Group Crisis Definition 132

The Practical Leader

AUGUST 30, 2023

The consultant will interview key leaders and staff, run focus groups, and gather input from a variety of sources. This often starts with surveys and third-party interviews or focus groups. Managers often hire consultants to help them solve major organizational problems. The outside company then prepares a summary report.

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The Practical Leader

JANUARY 20, 2021

Leaders who don’t seek feedback often develop deadly blind spots. Build personal and team development plans around that feedback that leverages strengths and addresses any fatal flaws. Use an external coach to leverage your strengths in building a personal development plan from a feedback assessment.

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Focus Group Report Planning Survey 78

Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Filled with relatable case studies from top-performing individuals and companies—including Tim Cook, Starbucks, and Microsoft—Briceño lays out crisp, clear tactics for constant learning that will take your team to the next level and create a culture of high performance. Common habits that suppress individuals and teams from improving.

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How To Learning-by-Doing Books System 119

HR Digest

APRIL 1, 2023

A structured onboarding plan ensures that new employees receive consistent and relevant information, are introduced to key team members and departments, and have the necessary resources and tools to perform their job effectively. This can be done through orientation sessions, team-building activities, and discussions with leadership.

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Long-term Mentor Training Objective 69

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. Entrepreneurs need to be able to lead their teams and motivate their employees.

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Entrepreneur Storytelling Leadership Long-term 108

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

To start with, companies need to develop a clear sense of purpose in all that they do. for your organization, you need to share it with your team for it to be implemented. Image Credit – Pexels What Is a Strong Company Culture? How Do We Create It? Once you answer “What is a strong company culture?”

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Company Environment Policies Metrics 98

Mike Cardus

MAY 24, 2011

Below is an actual Executive Coaching and Managerial Leadership Training + Development process I facilitated. Contact me to make your leaders & teams better. This is developing a feeling of strife, hopelessness and contempt amongst management and subordinates. The methods and processes worked! Resolution.

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Case Study 360-Degree Feedback Execution TRIZ 116

Mike Cardus

JANUARY 9, 2014

Management and employee teams agreed to wait to work on morale BUT they still wanted to see improvement in their employee survey. We, the agency and I, did surveys, interviews and focus-groups of their customers to learn what they thought and saw as the benefits and needs of the agency. I wasn’t interested in working on morale.

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The Practical Leader

JUNE 30, 2020

The consulting firm usually interviews people, runs focus groups, and gathers input from a variety of sources. The article centers on how the France-based tire manufacturer, Michelin, harnessed the genius and engagement of frontline teams for major performance breakthroughs. Frontline teams have ultimate implementation power.

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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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Innovation Agility Strategic Planning Core Competence 59

HR Digest

OCTOBER 27, 2023

For me, the key ingredients for team success are to trust each other, help each other, and be agnostic in the way we deliver for clients and colleagues on a daily basis. That’s why it’s so important that we remain both flexible and agile in the way we build our teams to serve their needs and to help them make better-informed decisions.

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HR Digest

APRIL 20, 2023

Provide professional development opportunities Employees want to know that their employer is invested in their professional growth and development. Providing opportunities for training, coaching, and mentorship can help employees develop new skills, increase their job satisfaction, and, in turn, decrease staff turnover rates.

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Attrition Innovation Strategy Training 59

Lead Change Blog

MARCH 24, 2015

She and her team decided to embark on a grand experiment. The original focus group of leaders who she asked about what needed to change all answered that they wanted to be leaders different from them. Smart teams know that small changes, over time, provide great results. They lead you to a better place.”

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Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 12, 2012

Having a solid strategic plan will allow your company and team to flourish and accomplish needed results. 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.

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Strategic Planning SWOT Analysis Planning 158

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

The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 11, 2019

It’s become a truism in the organization/leadership development field — people join an organization, but quit their boss. But most team members quit — and stay. Numerous studies show that 60 to 70 percent of engagement levels are directly determined by the team member’s boss. Some people quit and leave.

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Webinar Participative Quality Document 72

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. Develop and lead a Talent Pool Assessment. Coaching and consulting a CEO named Chris.

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Management Team Building Human Resources Metrics 126