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

Strategy 100

Strategy Focus Group Management Business Objectives 100

Crossderry Blog

JANUARY 27, 2010

However, the most effective names I’ve seen weren’t focus-group tested so to speak. Home About Experience Trap/Complexity Set KM Set Metrics Set Crossderry Blog Entries RSS | Comments RSS Where’s Crossderry read?

Project 122

Project Blog PMBOK Focus Group 122

Create Learning

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.

Process 74

Process Focus Group Leadership Training 74

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.

Execution 109

Execution Charisma Reputation Emotional Intelligence 109

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).

Focus Group 109

Focus Group CEO Productivity Products 109

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.”

How To 225

How To Workshop Focus Group Morale 225

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!

Consensus 235

Consensus Reputation Focus Group Objective 235

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.

Skills 62

Skills Focus Group Education Management 62

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 [.]

Due Diligence 139

Due Diligence Construction Survey Focus Group 139

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Execution 130

Execution How To Charisma Mentor 130

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.

Video 177

Video Succession Short-term Resistance 177

Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 18, 2014

Execution 130

Execution Charisma Mentor Reputation 130

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.

Micromanagement 130

Micromanagement Magazine Leadership Styles Report 130

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.

Team 182

Team Download Resistance Long-term 182

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Action Item: Set up focus groups and ask employees how they stay informed about the company.

Leadership Development 235

Leadership Development Development Leadership Airlines 235

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.

Management 130

Management Sample Performance Review How To 130

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.

Succession 156

Succession Benchmarking Handbook Performance Review 156

Execupundit

JULY 25, 2012

They could be a focus group, listening post, early warning system, and advisor all rolled into one. Gossip can range from minor information and harmless amusement on down to the poisonous creature that destroys reputations and careers. It is easy to say "Never, ever, gossip" but such strictures probably go against human nature.

Reputation 100

Reputation Information Focus Group Politics 100

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.

Team Building 173

Team Building System How To Focus Group 173

Ron Edmondson

JUNE 28, 2016

I periodically set up focus groups of people for input on various issues. One of the biggest mistakes I’ve seen leaders make is forgetting everyone doesn’t think like the leader. I have personally made this mistake many times.

Diversity 208

Diversity Insurance Edmondson Reference 208

Strategy Driven

APRIL 27, 2016

Based on recent focus groups with clients who are involved in buying/procurement departments, we heard loud and clear their frustration with trying to get someone on the phone to quote prices. Selling is not a ‘common’ practice. It is NOT easy.

Guidelines 177

Guidelines Management Hotels Commitment 177

Six Disciplines

APRIL 26, 2013

Finding people, motivating them, compensating them, keeping them focused, and keeping them satisfied are always hot topics in focus group research and in conversations we have with business owners. In trying to better quantify factors that contribute to excellence, we surveyed more than 300 small businesses (each with 10 to 100 employees) that included a range of service, product and project-oriented companies.

Quality 126

Quality Organization Analysis Survey 126

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.

Company 197

Company How To PR Outsourcing 197

Create Learning

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.

Case Study 43

Case Study Execution TRIZ Management 43

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.

Webinar 181

Webinar Stress Metrics Industry 181

Ron Edmondson

MARCH 30, 2016

Use a focus group. On major changes, I like to bring in a group of people who are generally supportive of my leadership, but represent all the major groups within the church. As a pastor and leader, I am continually dealing with change. Everyday.

Stakeholder Analysis 208

Stakeholder Analysis Edmondson Audience Analysis 208

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.

Power 151

Power Human Resources Airlines CEO 151

Ron Edmondson

JUNE 5, 2013

Focus group – On major changes, I like to bring in a group of people who are generally supportive of my leadership, but represent all the major groups within the church. As a pastor and leader, I am continually dealing with change. Everyday. Change is a part of life.

Stakeholder Analysis 208

Stakeholder Analysis Edmondson Audience Analysis 208

Ron Edmondson

JUNE 4, 2013

I periodically set up focus groups of people for input on various issues. One of the biggest mistakes I’ve seen leaders make is: Forgetting that everyone doesn’t think like the leader. People are different. They think differently. They have different desires.

Diversity 208

Diversity Edmondson Reference Focus Group 208

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.

Outsourcing 189

Outsourcing Retail Magazine Globalization 189

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.

Audience 72

Audience Survey Focus Group Strategy 72

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.

Management 41

Management Focus Group Motivation Team 41

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”.

Innovation 100

Innovation Airlines Brand Globalization 100

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.

Policies 207

Policies Bureaucracy Banking Transportation 207

Coaching Tip

JULY 22, 2011

Additionally, employee surveys and focus groups can be beneficial. By Dennis and Michelle Reina. Mergers and acquisitions ("M&As") are on the rise in 2011, and industry analysts now predict more than $3 trillion in global M&A activity for the year.

Energy 130

Energy Commitment Globalization Survey 130

Eric Jacobson

JULY 7, 2011

Are you holding focus groups with Baby Boomers to learn how best to serve them in the future, particularly when you consider they may be more technically inclined than you think? 93% of that age group send/read email.

Management 130

Management Business Model Industry Magazine 130

Strategy Driven

JUNE 7, 2013

’ I commissioned focus groups. To test the premise, I staged a focus group dinner meeting at a prominent inner-city church, eliciting ideas and insights. Business Know-How Comes From Experience – The Value of Life-Long Mentoring.

Budgeting 196

Budgeting Pryor Franchising Armstrong 196

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Three major implications drawn can be from this research: Rethink Traditional Research – Companies that rely on traditional surveys and focus groups alone (which in my experience is most of them) are probably getting but half the story.

Globalization 130

Globalization Management Brand Survey 130

Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 26, 2013

We will give you customizable focus group agendas and surveys to connect with and learn from your audiences. The church is the hope of the world.

Storytelling 145

Storytelling Audience Brand Document 145

Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 27, 2012

The main focus of the national investigation on this disaster is the New England Compounding Center (NECC), a pharmacy in Massachusetts. Guest post by Beth N.

Compliance 139

Compliance Committee Trends Mentor 139