Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Mike will serve as a resource coach and team development specialist for the group while they are achieving the determined area of improvement. *. How will we measure progress & Success?

Mentor 114

Mentor Training Process Development 114

The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 26, 2022

” The Theory X leaders at the retreat had trouble seeing the disconnect between endorsing HR’s plans for engagement focus groups and gathering input; with their inclination to mandate office facetime. Do it with people to meet shared goals. Management decides who gets rewarded and recognized for meeting their goals.

Policies 59

Policies Morale Report Survey 59

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? Growing up in this environment, and being exposed to the education system, really catapulted my growth as a leader.

Human Capital 52

Human Capital Human Resources Diversity Education 52

Ron Edmondson

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

You may have a better system in place. Consider using 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. I am going to share steps I take. If so, please help me learn from you.

Stakeholder Analysis 58

Stakeholder Analysis Learning-by-Doing Planning Edmondson 58

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.

Strategic Planning 158

Strategic Planning SWOT Analysis Planning 158

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

As 2023 draws to a close and companies begin to settle on the wages and hikes for the next year, the question of how to create an equitable compensation system might flash in everyone’s mind—if briefly. Building a conscious pay system requires conscious policies and practices that support such an initiative.

System 52

System How To Benchmarking Diversity 52

The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

As someone in a focus group quipped, “The most dangerous place in this organization is at the exit door around quitting time. When we’re excited about our work — when we feel like valued partners and have a commitment to our team and to reaching our goals together — we’re much less likely to call in sick.

Absenteeism 40

Absenteeism Leadership Participative Workshop 40

Ron Edmondson

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

You may have a better system in place. 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. I am going to share steps I take. If so, please help me learn from you.

Stakeholder Analysis 43

Stakeholder Analysis Learning-by-Doing Planning Influence 43

Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

The right culture makes it easy for employees to create the connections needed to foster collaboration and unite teams as they work toward common goals. You developed a five-step system for culture change. As time passes, the trend is for companies to decrease their attention and awareness of their goals. Talk to customers.

How To 107

How To Middle Management Reputation Short-term 107

Ron Edmondson

JUNE 5, 2013

You may have a better system in place. 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. Failing to do most or all of these, in my experience, could derail the effectiveness of the change.

Stakeholder Analysis 83

Stakeholder Analysis Edmondson Learning-by-Doing Focus Group 83

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

” Poor progress Forecasts paint a worrisome picture, suggesting that the goal of reducing childhood obesity by 50% by 2030 may fall short, with the likelihood of a doubling rather than a halving of cases during that period. Against this, they can also discourage the kind of policies designed to achieve those goals.

Policies 97

Policies Politics Objective Resistance 97

Ron Edmondson

MARCH 30, 2016

You may have a better system in place. 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. I am going to share steps I take. If so, please help me learn from you.

Stakeholder Analysis 30

Stakeholder Analysis Learning-by-Doing Planning Edmondson 30

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

AUGUST 7, 2018

It starts with a “vision” statement, moves on to “strategic themes” (six in all) and culminates in 28 “strategic goals.” Organizations which practice this system-design approach to strategic planning turn out to be gob-smackingly great. I have one such document in front of me as I write this.

Strategic Planning 15

Strategic Planning Planning Document Airlines 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Start with deep ethnographic research; avoid focus groups! Academics like Clayton Christensen and Vijay Govindarajan, leading-edge innovative companies like Procter & Gamble and Cisco Systems, and thoughtful writers like Michael Mauboussin and Bill James. How should I look? How do I come up with an idea? Who are your influences?

Innovation 16

Innovation Govindarajan Disruptive Innovation Business Model 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2018

The company conducted employee focus groups and found that working there didn’t actually feel like working for a global company. It’s an approach that has paid huge dividends for networking giant Cisco Systems. Surfacing and addressing these gaps helps protect against employee backlash and reputational risk.

Reputation 12

Reputation Brand Attrition How To 12

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. What does it mean for your company and industry? What should it mean?

Innovation 8

Innovation Lean Production Disintermediation Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2014

The company had put in place advanced mobile technology that has become increasingly standard — for instance, laptops in every truck connected to the central dispatch and order system — to track the mechanics as they did their jobs.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Bottom-up Self-aware Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2012

Second, Edmunds.com employees had plenty of creative ideas for improving the site but no standard system for evaluating and implementing them. It used to be that most of our customer feedback came in word form, either via the web site or in focus groups. You had the benefit of being in the CEO role.

Rogers 8

Rogers Learning-by-Doing Training Process 8

Strategy Driven

JUNE 6, 2014

Conduct focus groups. Organize an ongoing feedback system. Develop systems to execute the program, communicating at every step to publics. Maintain community files. Plan how to best reach each public… which avenues will be the most expedient. Get as many ideas from qualified sources as possible.

Franchising 72

Franchising Marketing Strategy Strategic Planning 72

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

So when I joined the company in December 2006, I decided to deliver a shock to the system. Soon after arriving at PBS, I called the digital team into a conference room and announced we were ripping up everyone’s annual performance goals and adding a new metric. Incremental because, well, we didn’t want to get fired.

Team 13

Team Metrics KPI Rogers 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Some companies don’t have the systems and technology to segment and profile customers. Adobe Systems has opened up access to customer insights for all employees. It doesn’t store up customer understanding in the sales and marketing groups and then expect other departments to focus solely on their functions.

Short-term 12

Short-term Learning-by-Doing Participative Human Resources 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

health care’s movement away from the traditional fee-for-service system to one that is based on value, paying providers on the basis of the quality of outcomes achieved for the money spent. Instead of incrementally improving processes, the goal became replacing them and creating whole new care models. Insight Center.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Insurance P&L 8