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Strategy Driven
JANUARY 11, 2021
Ask your team, a focus group , and even ask people online via a social media poll. Innovation business management Focus Group Product Design strategydrivenProduct design as a small business owner has to be one of the most exciting parts of the entrepreneurial process.
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. The post How to Turbo-Charge Your Leadership with Informal Feedback appeared first on The Clemmer Group.
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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
Mike Cardus
NOVEMBER 2, 2010
Tuesday, November 02nd, 2010 Posted by: mike Met some friends for a focus group at a local coffee place. My friends and I sat in the coffee shop for over an hour and a half, I saw; 5 people bring their dishes to the bus tub 8 groups just leave their dishes on the tables where they were sitting and 15 people leave their dishes on the COUNTER!
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? Post a question on a flip chart in your department or office, provide Post-its, and watch the ideas grow.
leaderCommunicator
MAY 27, 2020
Even in just two months, our team at The Grossman Group has learned a lot by listening to leaders and employers, surveying employees and conducting focus groups to really understand how various audiences are thinking about the workplace going forward.
thoughtLEADERS, LLC
JUNE 17, 2021
Our reader poll today asks: How well do you maintain long-term professional relationships with those in your network?
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. I could see the concept resonated with everyone. It was almost as if I was privy to a collective “ah-ha” moment.
Let's Grow Leaders
NOVEMBER 8, 2013
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.
Lead Change Blog
JUNE 8, 2021
Run surveys and do focus groups and one-on-one interviews to get quantitative and qualitative data on the virtual work issues in your organization. As we transition from the pandemic into post-pandemic life, many companies have adapted hybrid models, with many workers coming in part-time only, while others remain fully remote. When the COVID pandemic swept through the country last year, companies rapidly transitioned employees to working from home.
The Practical Leader
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
Run focus groups using a cross-section of people in your organization. Periodically, do group assessments of your meeting effectiveness. Get an assessment from external consultants based on some combination of surveys, reviews, focus groups, and customer feedback.
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).
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Strategy Driven
JULY 7, 2022
Segment your market into distinct groups that share attributes. When a market is segmented during the research phase, it is far easier to work out which groups to prioritize with a Public Relations campaign. Good brand communication strategy is key to the success of a modern business.
HR Digest
JUNE 27, 2022
Focus Groups. Focus groups that are composed of employees across all levels and departments of your organization can be used to dive deeper into feedback you’ve collected from employee engagement surveys.
Lead Change Blog
MARCH 26, 2021
When effective change management is not implemented early and consistently throughout a major change, whether focused on new technology, business models, regulations, merger, and acquisitions, or other drivers, without thoughtful attention to the people side of change, resistance inevitably will grow and harden, leading to unnecessary confusion, delays in adoption and lost productivity. Change is a permanent feature of organizations; resistance is an expected part of the journey.
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.
The Practical Leader
JANUARY 20, 2021
Run focus groups using a cross-section of people in your organization. Periodically do group assessments of your meeting effectiveness. Get an assessment from external consultants based on some combination of surveys, reviews, focus groups, and customer feedback.
Strategy Driven
JUNE 27, 2022
In this post, we’ll try to help you avoid catastrophising and instead focus on the hard facts, using them to boost your approach and get your engines fuelled again. Focus groups, online surveys, and reading reviews can make a big difference.
Let's Grow Leaders
MAY 24, 2021
can take many forms, but it’s always about your group’s goal, destination, or outcome. What competencies should we focus on? And then, someone else starts talking about the need for focus groups. A group makes the decision through a vote.
Strategy Driven
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
It’s okay to get things wrong as they can be fixed with feedback from a focus group, but you should always try at first to cater to what the audience is going to want. Making marketing moves is essential to seeing success in your business.
Strategy Driven
MARCH 9, 2022
Encourage feedback from employees through tools like open office hours, surveys, and focus groups. As a manager, you have a lot of responsibilities. You’re in charge of the day-to-day operations and often oversee the employees. It can all be very overwhelming.
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.
The Practical Leader
MAY 18, 2022
You can get Informal feedback through external coaches, reverse performance appraisals, facilitated focus groups, meeting reflections, project reviews, anonymous online surveys, external assessments, informal networking, moose hunting , and so on.
Strategy Driven
FEBRUARY 16, 2022
One of the ways that experience can be researched is with focus groups or surveys. UX research, also known as user experience research, is used by both small and large corporations to help determine what customers want and need in a product, experience or website.
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. Those first meetings led to a focus from Cheryl on leadership characterized by bravery and humility. Cheryl emphasizes that our results focus is not once a year, it is every day.
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
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.” ” I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard about employees being coached (and in some cases even “bribed” with extra treats to paint a rosy picture on an employee survey or in a focus group.)
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.
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! From now on, I’m going to just shut my mouth and do my work.” ” “Arghhh. We keep rehashing the same conversations. Why can’t we make a simple @#%*&% decision?”
Great Leadership By Dan
AUGUST 20, 2020
You ask in ways that draw out people’s best thinking, new ideas, and customer-focused solutions. Three qualities distinguish how leaders ask questions in a Courageous Culture: they are intentional, vulnerable, and action-focused.
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.
General Leadership
FEBRUARY 20, 2013
All are intentionally designed to reinforce that every individual is simply one part of a larger group at work. The result of numerous focus groups and interviews with soldiers, it is designed to convey the idea that joining the Army will help someone gain not only physical and emotional strength, but strength of character and purpose as well.
The Practical Leader
JUNE 30, 2020
The consulting firm usually interviews people, runs focus groups, and gathers input from a variety of sources. The post Powerful Leaders Go Beyond Empowerment to Empartnerment appeared first on The Clemmer Group.
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. In every vocation, from academics to business to politics, the knowledge theorem and its power corollary is seemingly undeniable. . Knowledge Theorem: Information + Knowledge = Better Decision-Making. .
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. “How do I get my team to think more strategically?”
The Practical Leader
SEPTEMBER 30, 2020
” A rigid leadership team stuck in traditional methods of internal focus, functional accountability, and empowerment can’t reshape their organization with more agile approaches of customer focus, horizontal teamwork, and “empartnerment” by talking about it.
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.
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. Every now and then managers must make exceptions, no doubt. But now, John is late too, and you feel bad saying something to him, since you just let Kendra off the hook.
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. There are countless ways to ensure that a message hits home the way you intended. Here are five must-do strategies to cut through the clutter and turn messages into meaning: Communicate from your audience ’s perspective.
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.
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