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It’s an informal focus group of sorts, where employees will periodically revisit the question and ideas, leading to great collaboration in real time (and without meeting!). Have something you want to get your employees’ input on? MORE
Nothing is more disconcerting that watching employees share relentless feedback in focus groups and having execs finally pay attention when the consultant comes in and says the same thing. MORE
Action Item: Set up focus groups and ask employees how they stay informed about the company. MORE
Ellwood and her team assembled 90 undergraduate psychology students and divided them into three groups. Each group was tasked with completing an Alternate Use Test – a common measurement of divergent thinking. The first group was able to focus on the problem for four continuous minutes. MORE
determine significance of achieving the business objectives Employee engagement is a shared understanding of the issues that affect the business Focus group research How Communication Strategies Can Really Engage Employees identify the largest gap between what customers think and what employees think customers think Marcia Xenitelis measure the impact of the change in thinking MedfiaTec Talent Management magazine Chief Learning Officer magazine MORE
Why leaders need to look beyond focus groups and market studies to find their next innovation. These days, everyone is talking about the importance of innovation to an organization’s future, but what exactly does it take to be innovative and how do we start? That’s the basis of my conversation with business strategist and author Andrea Kates in this latest episode of “Leadership Biz Cafe”. MORE
I’ve heard these words so frequently, in focus groups, in one-on-ones, and even behind closed doors with seasoned managers. “This is so stupid–they asked for my opinion and then ignored it. I don’t know why I even bother! MORE
After all this was a recognition focus group for the top reps in this enormous call center. Team Leader Turmoil “I used to be one of those disengaged reps, you’re talking about.” We were all a bit shocked by Mike’s response. Several of whom were on the short-list to become team leaders. I smiled gently, […] The post How to Be a Better Team Leader: A Case Study appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. MORE
In every company I work with I hear a consistent theme in focus groups: “I wish our managers had tougher and more consistent standards. Kendra is late because she was at the hospital with her sick child and barely got home to take a shower… got it. MORE
Now, focus the service garbage detection spotlight on every other process in search of stupid rules. Create an on-going virtual customer focus group focused on policies, procedures and practices. MORE
Through our quantitative research of more than 750,000 leaders and employees inside some of the world’s leading organizations, and in the many focus groups we conduct every year, we’ve identified 11 attributes that matter most. We’re often asked what qualities the most effective leaders have when it comes to communicating effectively. MORE
They are not team meetings or focus groups. They are not focused on job performance. Disengagement remains a fact of work for more than half of America's workers, according to the experts at Gallup. MORE
For those who’ve lived and thrived on a high-performance team, the memory of what it was like to work with a motivated, caring, challenging (but respectful), accomplishment-focused group of individuals provides sustenance for the lonely, near-death experiences that characterize so many other team and project experiences in the workplace. If you’ve ever been part of a truly effective team…a high performance team, you know the experience is memorable. MORE
I was moderating an employee focus group about change , and during the discussion an educator in the group shared this Buddhist quote: “When the student is ready the teacher will appear.”. It was a moment of brilliance. MORE
Creating a renewed focus for each person to be working for shared values and commitment to the organization, teams, the community, stake holders, and each other. Within these coaching times focused development, feedback and field work assignments were discussed and explored to develop the defined objectives. Executive Coaching and peer coaching groups were established to highlight and sharpen existing great behaviors and actions. MORE
4 - Customer feedback and focus groups. I am coaching a newer company on how to produce high quality products. I figured it was easier to write this blog entry where it might have use to other people than just send it in an email to them. One lesson I learned years ago by going through ISO9000 certification is closed loop. Every failure needs to be analyzed and the root cause solved. Simply fixing the problem for one customer is not enough. MORE
” Get a facilitator outside of your team to run focus groups, conduct confidential interviews, or do a survey of your team or organization to identify and prioritize Moose issues. Cluster the similar points until you have 5 – 7 major groupings or clusters. MORE
Understanding your audience helps you focus on those messages that will most resonate. For more systematic listening, targeted practices such as focus groups, surveys, and meetings with teams offer unparalleled insight into the success of any communication. MORE
He was a focus group of one, the ideal Apple customer, two years out. If you had listened to Steven P. Jobs' presentations over the years, he came across not as the creator of a product so much as its very first fan--the first person to digest its possibilities. MORE
After two years of research, forty focus groups and a national survey, author Sylvia Ann Hewlett contends the three pillars of Executive Presence are: How you act ( gravitas ) How you speak (communication ) How you look ( appearance ) All three work together to help you telegraph (signal) to others that you have what it takes and that you're star material. MORE
I just wish they would focus on the day-to-day work.” I ask this question every time I go into a focus group. I’ve never met an executive who said, “my team’s just too strategic. ” Nope in fact it’s quite the opposite concern. MORE
This post is a part of our 2016 Lead Change Group Guest Blogger Series. Within each theme Facebook provides a range of focused groups and pages – some are interest groups, others focused specifically on photography, and many commercial retail pages. MORE
Encourage your team to focus on substance over form at least in their readouts to you. I’ve worked with companies where the employees tell me the unspoken rule… “Never ever bring up the the truth in a focus group.” MORE
After conducting focus group discussions and assessments of current supervisors, we were able to identify eight core skills needed for the supervisory role compared to their former roles, along with some relevant knowledge. It is unfortunately common for employees in organizations to climb up the ladder to their “level of incompetence,” a concept in management known as the Peter Principle. MORE
All are intentionally designed to reinforce that every individual is simply one part of a larger group at work. Many of you may remember seeing the following TV commercial several years ago: A soldier is running alone across the desert, carrying a backpack but no rifle. MORE
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. MORE
David Grossman of The Grossman Group shared Top 11 Attributes of Leaders Who Excel at Communication and How We Define Them. Through our quantitative research of more than 750,000 leaders and employees inside some of the world’s leading organizations, and in the many focus groups we conduct every year, we’ve identified these 11 attributes that matter most.” Chris Edmonds of The Purposeful Culture Group provided Culture Leadership Charge: Generous Leadership. MORE
This same approach can enable a group to be assembled to look at preparedness for the post-crisis recovery. Thus, the transpersonal leader can set the ‘future-focused’ group up with the autonomy to use their fully conscious decision-making processes to create a myriad of ‘what if’ options. MORE
Make time for focus groups. A simple way to ensure that your new product, its packaging, and various marketing materials will appeal to your target audience is to hold focus groups. MORE
It may have been good advice in the past to focus solely on your own company or product, but these days startups can’t afford to forget about their competition. Have you ever conducted a focus group? Nine out of ten startups will fail. MORE
That example highlights the glaring importance of focusing on culture. I’d need to conduct a dozen customer and employee focus groups to fill in the gaps if I wasn’t having regular check-ins with the shoeshine guy.” Make Your Culture an Asset. MORE
Tuesday, November 02nd, 2010 Posted by: mike Met some friends for a focus group at a local coffee place. The challenge is that we focus on problems and just tell people “what not to do&# as opposed to finding solutions of “what to do&# mike Wednesday, 3rd. MORE
During a focus group with frontline team members to assess their current culture, participants weren’t participating. The post On The Leading Edge to Cut Wasteful Employee Engagement Efforts appeared first on The Clemmer Group. MORE
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. Very good. He gets sh__ done. It’s hard to argue with the results. MORE
Over the last few months, the organization has done its due diligence—conducting focus groups and surveys; studying program participation; reviewing revenue, expenses, and donor history; checking out its competitors and assessing its differentiators; doing [.] MORE
Mike Muhney, CEO, VIPorbit But in the end, for something this complicated, it’s really hard to design products by focus groups. I’m going to start a company so I can have what I need. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them. Steve Jobs ———————– Look, it’s… Read More “People Matter,” and that’s what matters! – (insight from Mike Muhney, VIPorbit). MORE
Focus groups and stay-interviews can reveal why people want to come to work every day. Performance reviews should focus on outcomes and results. MORE
At Apple, Steve Jobs never wanted research from focus groups or quantitative usage and attitude studies. How many times have you heard that “knowledge is power?” I’m guessing that without much thought, you readily nod your head in agreement. MORE
So, for these Second-Wavers, I’d recommend focusing on the three P’s: Personal Attention, Professional Development, and Purpose. Purpose After observing focus groups of Second-Wavers, one thing really stands out: They want to know not just what to do and how to do it, but why. MORE
” 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. They found “the two groups perceived the future in significantly different ways.” MORE
After two years of research, forty focus groups and a national survey, author Sylvia Ann Hewlett contends the three pillars of Executive Presence are: How you act ( gravitas ) How you speak (communication ) How you look ( appearance ) All three work together to help you telegraph (signal) to others that you have what it takes and that you're star material. MORE
Use a focus group of strangers. Organising a focus group of strangers and pitching your idea to them can be a way of seeing how your business idea will really get on in the market. Photo courtesy of Max Pixel. MORE
It occurred to me that our Leading Voices , Instigators , and Lead Change Group Members have touched on these principles in many of their writings. 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. MORE
Focus Group Related Topics Mike Cardus
NOVEMBER 2, 2010
Tuesday, November 02nd, 2010 Posted by: mike Met some friends for a focus group at a local coffee place. The challenge is that we focus on problems and just tell people “what not to do&# as opposed to finding solutions of “what to do&# mike Wednesday, 3rd.
First Friday Book Synopsis
AUGUST 20, 2011
determine significance of achieving the business objectives Employee engagement is a shared understanding of the issues that affect the business Focus group research How Communication Strategies Can Really Engage Employees identify the largest gap between what customers think and what employees think customers think Marcia Xenitelis measure the impact of the change in thinking MedfiaTec Talent Management magazine Chief Learning Officer magazine
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leaderCommunicator
MAY 21, 2018
Through our quantitative research of more than 750,000 leaders and employees inside some of the world’s leading organizations, and in the many focus groups we conduct every year, we’ve identified 11 attributes that matter most. We’re often asked what qualities the most effective leaders have when it comes to communicating effectively.
leaderCommunicator
FEBRUARY 20, 2019
It’s an informal focus group of sorts, where employees will periodically revisit the question and ideas, leading to great collaboration in real time (and without meeting!). Have something you want to get your employees’ input on?
Lead Change Blog
FEBRUARY 10, 2014
Over the last few months, the organization has done its due diligence—conducting focus groups and surveys; studying program participation; reviewing revenue, expenses, and donor history; checking out its competitors and assessing its differentiators; doing [.]
leaderCommunicator
MAY 27, 2015
I was moderating an employee focus group about change , and during the discussion an educator in the group shared this Buddhist quote: “When the student is ready the teacher will appear.”. It was a moment of brilliance.
Leading Blog
APRIL 3, 2020
This same approach can enable a group to be assembled to look at preparedness for the post-crisis recovery. Thus, the transpersonal leader can set the ‘future-focused’ group up with the autonomy to use their fully conscious decision-making processes to create a myriad of ‘what if’ options.
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First Friday Book Synopsis
JUNE 18, 2016
Mike Muhney, CEO, VIPorbit But in the end, for something this complicated, it’s really hard to design products by focus groups. I’m going to start a company so I can have what I need. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them. Steve Jobs ———————– Look, it’s… Read More “People Matter,” and that’s what matters! – (insight from Mike Muhney, VIPorbit).
Lead Change Blog
MARCH 24, 2015
It occurred to me that our Leading Voices , Instigators , and Lead Change Group Members have touched on these principles in many of their writings. 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.
Let's Grow Leaders
JANUARY 31, 2017
Encourage your team to focus on substance over form at least in their readouts to you. I’ve worked with companies where the employees tell me the unspoken rule… “Never ever bring up the the truth in a focus group.”
Lead Change Blog
JANUARY 28, 2020
After conducting focus group discussions and assessments of current supervisors, we were able to identify eight core skills needed for the supervisory role compared to their former roles, along with some relevant knowledge. It is unfortunately common for employees in organizations to climb up the ladder to their “level of incompetence,” a concept in management known as the Peter Principle.
Let's Grow Leaders
AUGUST 8, 2017
I’ve heard these words so frequently, in focus groups, in one-on-ones, and even behind closed doors with seasoned managers. “This is so stupid–they asked for my opinion and then ignored it. I don’t know why I even bother!
The Practical Leader
DECEMBER 11, 2019
During a focus group with frontline team members to assess their current culture, participants weren’t participating. The post On The Leading Edge to Cut Wasteful Employee Engagement Efforts appeared first on The Clemmer Group.
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Let's Grow Leaders
OCTOBER 28, 2015
I just wish they would focus on the day-to-day work.” I ask this question every time I go into a focus group. I’ve never met an executive who said, “my team’s just too strategic. ” Nope in fact it’s quite the opposite concern.
Let's Grow Leaders
APRIL 14, 2015
In every company I work with I hear a consistent theme in focus groups: “I wish our managers had tougher and more consistent standards. Kendra is late because she was at the hospital with her sick child and barely got home to take a shower… got it.
CEO Blog
JULY 23, 2018
4 - Customer feedback and focus groups. I am coaching a newer company on how to produce high quality products. I figured it was easier to write this blog entry where it might have use to other people than just send it in an email to them. One lesson I learned years ago by going through ISO9000 certification is closed loop. Every failure needs to be analyzed and the root cause solved. Simply fixing the problem for one customer is not enough.
Let's Grow Leaders
FEBRUARY 21, 2017
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. Very good. He gets sh__ done. It’s hard to argue with the results.
In the CEO Afterlife
SEPTEMBER 8, 2015
At Apple, Steve Jobs never wanted research from focus groups or quantitative usage and attitude studies. How many times have you heard that “knowledge is power?” I’m guessing that without much thought, you readily nod your head in agreement.
Strategy Driven
JUNE 16, 2017
Make time for focus groups. A simple way to ensure that your new product, its packaging, and various marketing materials will appeal to your target audience is to hold focus groups.
General Leadership
FEBRUARY 20, 2013
All are intentionally designed to reinforce that every individual is simply one part of a larger group at work. Many of you may remember seeing the following TV commercial several years ago: A soldier is running alone across the desert, carrying a backpack but no rifle.
Great Leadership By Dan
DECEMBER 6, 2018
So, for these Second-Wavers, I’d recommend focusing on the three P’s: Personal Attention, Professional Development, and Purpose. Purpose After observing focus groups of Second-Wavers, one thing really stands out: They want to know not just what to do and how to do it, but why.
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. They found “the two groups perceived the future in significantly different ways.”
Lead Change Blog
MARCH 3, 2016
This post is a part of our 2016 Lead Change Group Guest Blogger Series. Within each theme Facebook provides a range of focused groups and pages – some are interest groups, others focused specifically on photography, and many commercial retail pages.
Great Leadership By Dan
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016
Action Item: Set up focus groups and ask employees how they stay informed about the company.
Let's Grow Leaders
AUGUST 10, 2015
Nothing is more disconcerting that watching employees share relentless feedback in focus groups and having execs finally pay attention when the consultant comes in and says the same thing.
leaderCommunicator
SEPTEMBER 6, 2012
Understanding your audience helps you focus on those messages that will most resonate. For more systematic listening, targeted practices such as focus groups, surveys, and meetings with teams offer unparalleled insight into the success of any communication.
The Practical Leader
MAY 15, 2019
” Get a facilitator outside of your team to run focus groups, conduct confidential interviews, or do a survey of your team or organization to identify and prioritize Moose issues. Cluster the similar points until you have 5 – 7 major groupings or clusters.
Strategy Driven
APRIL 7, 2020
It may have been good advice in the past to focus solely on your own company or product, but these days startups can’t afford to forget about their competition. Have you ever conducted a focus group? Nine out of ten startups will fail.
Eric Jacobson
APRIL 16, 2018
After two years of research, forty focus groups and a national survey, author Sylvia Ann Hewlett contends the three pillars of Executive Presence are: How you act ( gravitas ) How you speak (communication ) How you look ( appearance ) All three work together to help you telegraph (signal) to others that you have what it takes and that you're star material.
Management Excellence
MAY 18, 2011
For those who’ve lived and thrived on a high-performance team, the memory of what it was like to work with a motivated, caring, challenging (but respectful), accomplishment-focused group of individuals provides sustenance for the lonely, near-death experiences that characterize so many other team and project experiences in the workplace. If you’ve ever been part of a truly effective team…a high performance team, you know the experience is memorable.
Eric Jacobson
AUGUST 28, 2018
After two years of research, forty focus groups and a national survey, author Sylvia Ann Hewlett contends the three pillars of Executive Presence are: How you act ( gravitas ) How you speak (communication ) How you look ( appearance ) All three work together to help you telegraph (signal) to others that you have what it takes and that you're star material.
Lead Change Blog
APRIL 18, 2016
Now, focus the service garbage detection spotlight on every other process in search of stupid rules. Create an on-going virtual customer focus group focused on policies, procedures and practices.
Great Leadership By Dan
SEPTEMBER 7, 2017
Focus groups and stay-interviews can reveal why people want to come to work every day. Performance reviews should focus on outcomes and results.
Mike Cardus
MAY 24, 2011
Creating a renewed focus for each person to be working for shared values and commitment to the organization, teams, the community, stake holders, and each other. Within these coaching times focused development, feedback and field work assignments were discussed and explored to develop the defined objectives. Executive Coaching and peer coaching groups were established to highlight and sharpen existing great behaviors and actions.
Tanveer Naseer
FEBRUARY 21, 2012
Why leaders need to look beyond focus groups and market studies to find their next innovation. These days, everyone is talking about the importance of innovation to an organization’s future, but what exactly does it take to be innovative and how do we start? That’s the basis of my conversation with business strategist and author Andrea Kates in this latest episode of “Leadership Biz Cafe”.
Strategy Driven
JULY 11, 2017
Use a focus group of strangers. Organising a focus group of strangers and pitching your idea to them can be a way of seeing how your business idea will really get on in the market. Photo courtesy of Max Pixel.
Skip Prichard
AUGUST 25, 2019
That example highlights the glaring importance of focusing on culture. I’d need to conduct a dozen customer and employee focus groups to fill in the gaps if I wasn’t having regular check-ins with the shoeshine guy.” Make Your Culture an Asset.
Coaching Tip
OCTOBER 6, 2011
He was a focus group of one, the ideal Apple customer, two years out. If you had listened to Steven P. Jobs' presentations over the years, he came across not as the creator of a product so much as its very first fan--the first person to digest its possibilities.
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.
Lead Change Blog
JUNE 5, 2018
David Grossman of The Grossman Group shared Top 11 Attributes of Leaders Who Excel at Communication and How We Define Them. Through our quantitative research of more than 750,000 leaders and employees inside some of the world’s leading organizations, and in the many focus groups we conduct every year, we’ve identified these 11 attributes that matter most.” Chris Edmonds of The Purposeful Culture Group provided Culture Leadership Charge: Generous Leadership.
Eric Jacobson
JULY 12, 2015
They are not team meetings or focus groups. They are not focused on job performance. Disengagement remains a fact of work for more than half of America's workers, according to the experts at Gallup.
LDRLB
MAY 1, 2013
Ellwood and her team assembled 90 undergraduate psychology students and divided them into three groups. Each group was tasked with completing an Alternate Use Test – a common measurement of divergent thinking. The first group was able to focus on the problem for four continuous minutes.
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