HR Digest

APRIL 1, 2023

This can be done through surveys, focus groups, or one-on-one meetings. Leverage Technology Leveraging technology can streamline the onboarding process and make it more efficient and effective. Gather Feedback Gathering feedback from new employees about their onboarding experience is essential for continuous improvement.

Long-term 69

Long-term Mentor Training Objective 69

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 18, 2023

Try surveying your current customers or conducting focus groups. Using technology, you can offer services that set you apart from your competitors and make your business more efficient. The derived information can then be used to inform your service expansion decisions. Not sure where to start with market research?

Strategy 110

Strategy Audience Marketing CRM 110

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 7, 2020

However, you can also create a focus group, made up of your target audience, and ask them what they think you are doing well and where they think you could improve. The most obvious place to start with this is on your reviews and social media pages. Above all else, take the feedback on board.

Outsourcing 65

Outsourcing Management Focus Group Audience 65

HR Digest

OCTOBER 27, 2023

In addition to our classic engagement surveys that we used to run every year, we also do focus groups on topics that most matter to our colleagues to better understand employees’ preferences, as well as incorporate best practices from other organizations.

Agility 98

Agility Leadership Diversity Industry 98

Experience to Lead

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

It also covers how efficiently that knowledge translates into workplace behaviors, results and organizational improvements. You can also review benchmarking prospects and employee performance, and weigh up how efficiently resources are being used. Let’s dive in by exploring how to define the effectiveness of training programs.

Metrics 52

Metrics Training Benchmarking ROI 52

In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

But, there is nothing stopping decision-makers from making early calls to more efficiently source the information with improved analytical acumen. At Apple, Steve Jobs never wanted research from focus groups or quantitative usage and attitude studies. Leaders and managers who work in these industries need all of the information.

Power 100

Power Competitive Advantage Airlines Information 100

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

They began by trying to explore some of the opportunities and challenges this group of people saw as they envisaged the future ahead of them. Across numerous focus groups and roundtable discussions, the authors spoke directly with workers across the United Kingdom, with the findings shedding new light on those in the crosshairs of automation.

Technology 95

Technology Competitive Advantage Training Report 95

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

It’s essential for you to outsource tasks such as these to people such as Digital Goliath Marketing who are able to manage your work efficiently, leaving you with less stress and hassle to have to do it yourself. Bear in mind that whilst outsourcing is efficient and necessary, you should always keep your core business functions in-house.

Outsourcing 61

Outsourcing Human Resources Learning Curve Marketing 61

HR Digest

AUGUST 14, 2023

Is it increasing revenue, improving customer satisfaction, or enhancing operational efficiency? Use surveys, interviews, or focus groups to gather their insights and opinions. So, grab a whiteboard and start brainstorming. What are the key objectives your organization wants to achieve? What did they find valuable?

Training 98

Training Succession Objective Learning-by-Doing 98

Mike Cardus

JULY 11, 2011

Working primarily with management within these organizations, my role has been honed to coach, counsel, facilitate and conduct focus group work. Organizational Development Work. Developing a leadership training program and increased trust in the competence of leadership. Interested in your organization or team having a success story?

Team Building 94

Team Building TRIZ Succession Team 94

Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Known skilled-knowledge, level-of-work, and competency metrics for internal benchmarking of current talent; Utilization of this benchmark to identify other employees that may contain the same or similar skilled-knowledge, level-of-work, and competencies; Creation / Enhancement of existing interview processes to identify candidates based upon the determined (..)

Mentor 114

Mentor Training Process Development 114

Strategy Driven

JULY 28, 2019

efficiency). Conduct focus groups, one on one’s, and surveys to get a strong grip on the current state of your business culture. As a leader, you are constantly trying to maximize the magical effort to effectiveness equation (a.k.a. You can see this play out in your daily operations and ultimately in the P&L.

Agility 62

Agility P&L Intangible Assets Team 62

Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 24, 2021

To make more efficient decisions your team can get behind, start by avoiding these two big mistakes. Perhaps they could use training on how to effectively and efficiently lead their remote teams. And then, someone else starts talking about the need for focus groups. We imagine you have too. ” choices you could make.

Consensus 619

Consensus Efficiency Training Policies 619

Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Tuesday, November 02nd, 2010 Posted by: mike Met some friends for a focus group at a local coffee place. Powered by WordPress. Design by 12GrainStudio Your Process SUCKS! I am a jerk & tell me the behaviors you want. While waiting at the counter for my drink I noticed something new. mike Wednesday, 3rd.

Process 149

Process Team Building Focus Group Learning-by-Doing 149

Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Could we gather small focus groups of Managers, Directors, and front-line staff to take on their own initiatives for Director Training and Improvement? Could your team benefit from discovering and planning solutions while proactively working to increase efficiencies and profit? Contact Mike … to make your team better.

Operations 128

Operations Training Tools Planning 128

Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

The culture required to drive a strategy of innovation is different from the culture required to develop efficiency or operational excellence. Interview relevant personnel; hold focus groups and conduct employee surveys. The challenge leaders face is that there is no one perfect culture. Talk to customers.

How To 107

How To Middle Management Reputation Short-term 107

Management Craft

JULY 25, 2011

This work is sometimes done in the form of focus groups, interviews, or team training sessions. Improving workplace efficiencies, quality, safety, and increasing accountability is critical. I am asked to evaluate teams, departments, and managers quite often. The answer is never as simple as they hope.

Team 84

Team Management Stress Resistance 84

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2011

upload the photo of a wine stain on your table cloth to a website and get back in minutes a detailed — and guaranteed — expert treatment for its safe removal); perhaps it's an invitation to participate in an 'open innovation' focus group for non-trivial compensation.

Innovation 14

Innovation Price Competitive Advantage Efficiency 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Most commentary about the Internet of Things assumes that we sacrifice privacy and security for huge efficiency gains. But what if the notion underlying that tradeoff — the idea that more connectivity always means greater efficiency — is flawed?

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Bottom-up Self-aware Productivity 8

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.”

Agility 110

Agility Team Leadership Storytelling 110

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Overlooking these realities is perilous, both for the patient’s well-being and for efficient delivery of care. This work cannot happen in a vacuum of forced efficiency. Use multiple methods to identify and systematically address impediments in clinicians’ daily work — the “pebbles in the shoes.”

Balanced Scorecard 12

Balanced Scorecard Contingency Plans Active Listening Guidelines 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Enormously more, actually, than the best survey research, focus group, or doctor's interview — the highly subjective and incomplete tools we rely on today to understand behavior. Not what they tell the world their behavior is, but rather what it really is, unedited. Scientists can tell an enormous amount about you with this data.

System 15

System Analysis Retail Focus Group 15

HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

Our employees are experts in helping our customers create more efficient, resilient and sustainable supply chains. As the scale and scope of our company have expanded over the years, so has our focus on taking meaningful steps to improve the world in which we live. Robinson and in global logistics. Within C.H.

Supply Chain 109

Supply Chain Human Resources Diversity Transportation 109

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

In focus groups we’ve run, customers report that one of their biggest sources of frustration is the feeling that they’re being treated in a generic, robotic fashion and that the rep is trying to rush them off the phone rather than taking the time required to make sure their issue is resolved. And customers can tell.

Metrics 10

Metrics Video Cost Cost Center 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

As companies start combining thick and big data, they will also stop relying on what has so far been a cornerstone of most customer insights programs—namely endless surveys and focus groups that purport to explain customers’ motivations and attitudes but in reality add very little strategic value.

Marketing 8

Marketing Discount Price Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2012

A yawning feedback gap opened that researchers have tried for decades to fill with focus groups, dial tests and surveys. Combine such increases in efficiency with radically improved ability to target and engage advocates and you've arguably reached a new era of consumer marketing.

Media 13

Media Audience Brand Advertising 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2017

Achieving improvement on these five push factors requires that HR leaders help decision makers understand the difference between analytics that are focused on compliance versus HR departmental efficiency, versus HR services, versus the impact of people on the business, versus the quality of non-HR leaders’ decisions and behaviors.

Human Capital 12

Human Capital Metrics Analysis Survey 12

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P. Rule 6: Rely on Others for Growth and Innovation. Take Mountain Dew, for example.

Media 67

Media Learning-by-Doing Open-book Company 67

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2013

For one marketing services firm, it meant being exposed to their biggest client's development teams and sitting through technical tests and focus groups to better appreciate and understand how its products were actually designed and built. For a materials company, it meant going out on maintenance calls with a huge public utility.

Innovation 8

Innovation Lean Production Disintermediation Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

Most importantly, they do fewer headcount reductions because they have lean and efficient workforces to begin with. But if you work for an organization that can, the first step is to focus your time and resources on exploring these four, key areas: What is our organization's strategy? Second, how can we simplify our processes?

Metrics 13

Metrics Parcell Call Center Productivity 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Intentionally including people who dislike your product or service in a focus group can lead to more provocative conversations. Cattle and cars don''t seem to have much in common from the surface, but the strategy for efficiently delivering a final product to consumers is a great fit for both industries.

Brainstorming 8

Brainstorming Loyalty Industry Strategy 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Yes, set up a “focus group” of employees to serve as community leaders who will shepherd your company into the social networking world, but don’t put all of the power in their hands.

Media 50

Media Follow-up Software Newsletter 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

In focus groups throughout the state, mothers routinely believed that they were doing their best for their kids. Among Hispanics, using family recipes (often frying with lard) is a measure of love. In fact, for all audiences, taking the family out for fast food was seen as a special treat.

Succession 13

Succession Long-term Short-term Budgeting 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

To help allocate its resources efficiently, the City of Boston released the excellent StreetBump smartphone app , which draws on accelerometer and GPS data to help passively detect potholes, instantly reporting them to the city. This goes beyond merely conducting focus groups to confirm what you already want to see in a big data set.

Technology 8

Technology Wilde Long-term Objective 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2015

Typically, companies ask consumers, through surveys or focus groups, questions like, “What is that benefit worth to you?” When trying to quantify intangible value (or less quantifiable tangible benefits), it’s best to go to your customers. The first relates to the estimates that go into the calculation.

Price 8

Price Venture Capitalist Incentives Cost 8

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Conduct regular surveys, focus groups, or town hall meetings to understand employee perspectives on fairness and equity in compensation. Employee Input Mechanisms You would do well to establish mechanisms for gathering input from employees when making decisions about compensation structures.

System 52

System How To Benchmarking Diversity 52

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

Yet based on my own experiences, I believed we could use technology to make shopping more efficient. By merging teams, we make the most of our investments across all channels and do things more efficiently, more powerfully. My kids are my best focus group. I firmly believe that this will be the way of the future.

Brand 11

Brand CTO Marketing Retail 11