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. Manager One-on-Ones. No one has a bigger impact on employee experience than your company’s managers.

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Metrics Survey Focus Group Proposal 84

Joseph Lalonde

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

There are several ways to collect customer data, including surveys, interviews, focus groups, and website/app analytics. 2) Set achievable goals: . It’s important to set realistic goals for your customer experience improvement efforts. When setting goals, it’s helpful to use the SMART framework : .

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Word of Mouth Marketing Brand Goal Customer Loyalty 206

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. This change, however, does not necessarily mean changing the end goal.

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Entrepreneur Storytelling Leadership Long-term 105

HR Digest

APRIL 13, 2023

Managing employee benefits and compensation is an essential function for any organization that wants to attract, retain, and motivate top talent. In this article, we explore the importance of managing employee compensation and benefits and offer some tips on how organizations can promote pay equity effectively.

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Incentives Motivation Objective Trends 64

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 31, 2022

A side benefit is that when their manager appreciates them, it improves their relationships. Employees end up trusting their managers, and it leads to a more positive experience for everyone. Set Goals for Your Team. Set Goals for Your Team. Some employees will have goals to move to another position.

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Call Center Incentives Productivity Products 103

HR Digest

APRIL 12, 2023

This means that leaders and managers must be committed to engaging and empowering their employees , and that engagement must be embedded in the organization’s values and mission. One way to foster a culture of engagement is to prioritize employee feedback and participation.

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Survey Human Resources Motivation Career 111

Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Among the many techniques Briceño teaches, the book also offers four tips for helping your team continuously advance their skills, even when it feels like there’s no time to problem solve: Why most managers often misuse praise—and what you should do instead to help your team improve. a focus on what you have mastered to "we don’t know."

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How To Learning-by-Doing Books System 119

Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 6, 2018

The fact is, they still share many of the same traits as their older counterparts (First-Wave Millennials)—raised to feel special, high achieving, tech-savvy, but Second-Wavers (born 1995 – 2004) have some distinct differences that are making managers sit up and take notice. Consulting form PwC has a unique approach to this issue.

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Leadership Learning-by-Doing Brand Career 222

Lead Change Blog

JUNE 5, 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 these 11 attributes that matter most.” John Hunter of Curious Cat: Management Improvement Blog submitted Good Project Management Practices.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Simon 248

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Guest post from Cornelia Gamlem and Barbara Mitchell: Ask any manager and they’ll agree that people issues are some of the most important ones they face in their day-to-day routine. Manage it through your culture and your actions and hire staff who will fit it. What can an organization do to assure they’ve got great practices?

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Succession Benchmarking Performance Review Handbook 137

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 18, 2023

Try surveying your current customers or conducting focus groups. For instance, if you’re running an event management company, ensure to account for the needs of varying audience members. But don’t just focus on imitating your competitors – use that information to find new opportunities and develop something unique.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

From top leaders to freshers and interns, every employee needs to be clued in on the company culture and equally committed to pursuing it.

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Company Environment Policies Metrics 98

The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The HR VP outlined a process to feed back the survey results to management and frontline teams across the organization in the coming months. They seemed to be Theory X leaders (employees will take advantage, need to be “snoopervised,” and managed like kids with rules, policies, and punishment). They see it loud and clear.

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Policies Morale Report Survey 59

Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 11, 2012

The work of managers and employees has increased in complexity due to globalization, a faster work and life pace, and instability in the world’s economy. Managers, when asked, tell you that employee engagement is a must for the survival of their company. Competent Manager. Competent Manager. By Michael Cardus.

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Metrics Objective System Resources 161

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

We led focus groups, created advisory and steering teams, and engaged our executives in workshops and feedback sessions. As we continue to bring our culture to life in our operating model and our HR practices, we continue to use surveys, crowdsourcing, focus groups and other tools to ensure our people are heard.

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Human Resources Focus Group Crisis Definition 132

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. Find ways to manage chronic uncertainty. “Workers are more adaptive and optimistic about the future than their leaders recognize.”

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Agility Organization Henderson Focus Group 55

Mike Cardus

JANUARY 9, 2013

Symptoms of a rush into leadership development 1 : No clear concept of what leadership is and how it relates to management and the roles that the people will fill with and without leadership accountability. Identification of needed accountability and authority of the organizations managers and employees. What do you think?

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Leadership Development Skills Development Leadership 154

Experience to Lead

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

From management courses to leadership seminars, there is no shortage of opportunities to further your learning, gain new skills or master the ones you already have. When people feel engaged and find purpose in their learning, they’re more likely to want to continue to be a part of the team and buy into the organization’s goals.

Metrics 52

Metrics Training Benchmarking ROI 52

Strategy Driven

MAY 20, 2021

In other words, your goal is to learn about your competition, not your consumers. Based on it, you can build your business and marketing plans, track and analyze your progress, and make new goals for the future. For this step, you need metrics like trends, size, as well as projected growth. Sources for market analysis. Key takeaways.

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Analysis Marketing Trends Audience 123

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. Many organizations have risk management programs focused on financial, legal, or safety risks. Are you flying into turbulence?

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Open-book Consensus Engineering Brainstorming 92

Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Internal benchmarking of existing talents based upon determined potential; skilled-knowledge, complexity-management; value of the work. Using this benchmark to determine based upon above what skills and competencies are needed to be successful in identified future management positions. A proposal for the consulting will be sent.

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Mentor Training Process Development 114

Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 12, 2012

While preparing for a focus group meeting it came to me NOISE. A method that uses solution-focused language and is able to build upon the teams existing knowledge and goals. Once you are done sorting and clustering into common groups, the team will look for broad categories for each small cluster. Opportunities.

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Strategic Planning SWOT Analysis Planning 158

HR Digest

APRIL 9, 2024

Additionally, how do these initiatives align with broader organizational goals, and what progress has Cardinal Health made toward achieving its well-being objectives? The first was when I was an SVP, and I was part of a team that did a 30-day tour of managing an acquisition in Asia.

Human Capital 52

Human Capital Human Resources Diversity Education 52

LDRLB

APRIL 13, 2020

Well, in a lot of cases it’s not actually the goal of any leader to have a terrible mission statement; it’s the process that they used to write one. It needs to give an aspiration that is so big that it requires interdependence and as a result we put aside our petty differences—what the research would call a superordinate goal.

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Mission Statement Motivation Long-term Customer Loyalty 120

The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

I once asked a manager how many people work for his company. As someone in a focus group quipped, “The most dangerous place in this organization is at the exit door around quitting time. The main reason they gave for this big difference was frustration with management practices. He said, “About half.”

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Absenteeism Leadership Participative Workshop 40

Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

It’s HR’s Job: While HR certainly plays a significant role in the development and management of policies that can help or hurt culture, it’s the responsibility of everyone inside the organization to create and maintain a thriving culture. As time passes, the trend is for companies to decrease their attention and awareness of their goals.

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How To Middle Management Reputation Short-term 108

Strategy Driven

JULY 28, 2019

Conduct focus groups, one on one’s, and surveys to get a strong grip on the current state of your business culture. Harris is Associate Vice-President and Country Manager for Allergan PLC in Brazil. It’s often the reason behind why people choose to stay with your company over jumping ship to a competitor. About the Author.

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Agility P&L Intangible Assets Team 62

LDRLB

APRIL 13, 2020

Well, in a lot of cases it’s not actually the goal of any leader to have a terrible mission statement; it’s the process that they used to write one. It needs to give an aspiration that is so big that it requires interdependence and as a result we put aside our petty differences—what the research would call a superordinate goal.

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Mission Statement Motivation Long-term Customer Loyalty 78

Tony Mayo

MARCH 10, 2010

I hope your salespeople and customer service reps are gleaning more from customer interactions than orders–and are sharing that intelligence with management. A focus group is not a survey. There are many ways to do this. You may also have a blog open to comments. Action makes the difference. Begin and end on time.

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Mayo Execution Executive Coaching How To 158

Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 24, 2021

We’ve both heard these words and so has nearly every manager we’ve ever worked with. The first type is a decision about goals. can take many forms, but it’s always about your group’s goal, destination, or outcome. Managers get in trouble when they allow these discussions to get mixed up. We imagine you have too.

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Consensus Efficiency Training Policies 619

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

To increase diversity at senior executive levels, more must be known about one group in particular: women of color in midlevel leadership, who successfully developed and progressed beyond individual contributor and first-line management. How did (or didn’t) managers play a role? They pursue management challenges.

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Management Tacit Knowledge Diversity Leadership Pipeline 13

Next Level Blog

JULY 23, 2010

The Lloyds team was on board the rig about a month before it blew and conducted a safety survey and a number of focus groups with Transocean crew members over the course of several days. Heres the passage from the article that really hit home with me. If you're concerned about reprisal, get another job! Posted by: Mike Henry Sr.

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Executive Coaching Open-book Blog Report 167

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2018

Why is it that when a group of managers gets together for a strategic planning session they often emerge with a document that’s devoid of “strategy”, and often not even a plan ? The third step requires you to work out what your organization wants from each key stakeholder group for your organization to prosper.

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Strategic Planning Planning Document Airlines 15

The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Key findings include: Senior leaders of successful agile transformations “quadrupled the time spent on strategy (from 10% to 40%) and reduced the time spent on operations management by more than half (from 60% to 25%).” Meetings need be focus less on operating details and more on strategic issues. ” Further Reading.

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Agility Team Leadership Storytelling 110

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2013

The suspense is no doubt killing you, so I''ll go ahead and tell you the secret to recognizing opportunities: promotion focus. And as new research by Andranik Tumasjan and Reiner Braun from Germany''s TUM School of Management shows, that''s the combination you need to be an opportunity-spotter. Entrepreneurship Managing yourself'

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Entrepreneur How To Open-book Creativity 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2012

That's an ambitious goal, of course. True ownership by line managers. Most large companies depend on HR to measure and manage employee engagement. Most large companies depend on HR to measure and manage employee engagement. Most companies' approaches to employee engagement fail to achieve the right sort of engagement.

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Survey Customer Loyalty Metrics Loyalty 17

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

A big goal requires a “thick we” network — a community of people who feel responsible for collaborating toward a shared purpose that they see as superseding their individual needs. Network members readily participated in focus groups and collaborated with Gilbert’s group to develop new programs and store designs.

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Gilbert Participative Cooper Network Economy 9