Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

In contrast, managers who haven’t learned this secret focus on the numbers and frantically swivel their team’s focus back and forth between twenty-seven different measurements – most of which don’t directly affect results. Sarah’s focus on the number ramped up pressure and stress. Sarah didn’t have to say a word.

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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. Technical Tunnel Vision. Symptom: I, robot.

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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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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Strong company cultures go beyond a cursory mention in the employee handbook and organizations need to actively plan out how to communicate effectively with employees for it to be successful. How to Create a Positive Work Environment? TeamStage reports that 46 percent of job seekers prioritize a good company culture.

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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. Don’t discount their feedback as “noise” really listen to what they’re hearing from customers. Give Them Context.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 26, 2021

While change management is sometimes couched as being all about “winning hearts and minds,” the truth is more nuanced: change comes with a cost — and is not necessarily positive for all stakeholders. Use polarity management as an avenue to address resistance. Job insecurity. Misaligned reward systems. Fear of failure.

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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. Middle managers are instrumental in creating a deep personal commitment to change. Walk the talk.

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 30, 2023

Managers often hire consultants to help them solve major organizational problems. The consultant will interview key leaders and staff, run focus groups, and gather input from a variety of sources. Managers are hearing them for the first time. This often starts with surveys and third-party interviews or focus groups.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 31, 2023

What managers are struggling with It’s hard to believe we’re already halfway through the year! Plus, data from our exclusive Management Diagnostics tool is also showing that managers at all levels are struggling the most with managing resource and risk. You can watch back the livestream here.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 18, 2020

You should try to make sure that you choose an audience that you know is going to be interested in what you’re offering, and you can carry out market research and use focus groups to get a better idea of this. It’s impossible to appeal to the right people when you don’t even really know who the right people are.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 14, 2015

Every now and then managers must make exceptions, no doubt. In every company I work with I hear a consistent theme in focus groups: “I wish our managers had tougher and more consistent standards. ” I hear that 10 times more than “My manager is too hard on us.” 443-750-1249.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 28, 2019

It amazes me how few leaders understand how to harness, measure, leverage, and ultimately achieve true alignment behind their strategies and objectives. Conduct focus groups, one on one’s, and surveys to get a strong grip on the current state of your business culture. This asset is, of course, alignment. About the Author.

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Tony Mayo

MARCH 10, 2010

Biography of Werner Erhard, the Source of Executive Coaching How to Conduct a "Customer Listening Session" Twitter Log XII Spidertown by Abraham Rodriguez, Jr. I hope your salespeople and customer service reps are gleaning more from customer interactions than orders–and are sharing that intelligence with management.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 3, 2020

Those who are driven by their ego, for example, will take center stage and proclaim to have the answers, ignoring or side-lining the experts who could give a more realistic assessment of a situation, managing people’s expectations. Grant, John Knights, and Greg Young co-authored Leading Beyond The Ego : How to Become a Transpersonal Leader.

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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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Eric Jacobson

JULY 12, 2015

So, there's no better time then now for the new book, The Stay Interview, A Manager's Guide to Keeping the Best and the Brightest. They are not team meetings or focus groups. In too many companies, "They are the missing link between managers and employees," says author Richard P. They are not focused on job performance.

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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. Companies would be well served by following PwC’s lead.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Hewlett is also a big believer in the power and value of having a sponsor , and explains that sponsors are not mentors.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2023

In this article, we’ll take a look at how to develop a richer understanding of your customer base. How to Identify Your Customers’ Needs There are several techniques to pinpoint the needs and preferences of your target audience.

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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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The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

We did a series of focus groups, interviews, and surveys within a division of a large company to help Chris, the division manager, determine why their culture wasn’t performing at the level he wanted. Each manager opened the folder and looked into a large mirror inside. Change begins here.

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Joseph Lalonde

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

There are several ways to collect customer data, including surveys, interviews, focus groups, and website/app analytics. That’s why it’s so important to train them on the importance of customer service and how to provide it. They should also be given specific examples of how to provide excellent customer service.

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The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Where agreement falls apart is how to boost engagement levels. Some leaders feel that running organizational surveys and giving that aggregated data to managers will somehow get them to improve engagement. The data on employee engagement is overwhelming and very clear; the biggest factor — by far — is the immediate manager.

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Mike Cardus

MAY 24, 2011

Situation: Currently there is an authoritarian style of management creating a decrease in morale, satisfaction with work and innovation amongst employees. This is developing a feeling of strife, hopelessness and contempt amongst management and subordinates. Set-up plus facilitation of monthly internal customer focus group meetings.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Hewlett is also a big believer in the power and value of having a sponsor , and explains that sponsors are not mentors.

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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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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. These sessions were designed to gather input on how to turn the culture around and increase engagement. Then they’ll complain that supervisors and managers aren’t getting the message.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Managers need to be trained on the importance of balancing business needs with safety and to take frontline employees concerns seriously. At this point in the process, HR should analyze the data and information for trends and share important findings with senior management along with recommendations. And 37 people would still be alive.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 5, 2018

Randy Conley of Leading with Trust provided How to Tell Someone You Don’t Trust Them Without Destroying The Relationship. “Discussing low or broken trust in a relationship is a scary proposition, but it has to be addressed if the relationship is going to prosper.” Discover David on Twitter at @thoughtpartner. Development.

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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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Eric Jacobson

JUNE 9, 2020

Hewlett is also a big believer in the power and value of having a sponsor , and explains that sponsors are not mentors.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 25, 2011

At the same time, Jobs does not rely on focus groups. That might be good for incremental change, but to “make a dent in the universe,” you need people that focus on what the experience could be. Not only is Jobs enthusiasm infectious, but he thinks regularly about how to build enthusiasm.

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Center for Creative Leadership

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Managing a multicultural team can be a rewarding experience, giving leaders the opportunity to work closely with employees from diverse backgrounds and offering the chance for personal and professional growth. Learn our best practices for managing virtual teams and meetings.). Management should talk to employees ?

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

It’s essential for you to outsource tasks such as these to people such as Digital Goliath Marketing who are able to manage your work efficiently, leaving you with less stress and hassle to have to do it yourself. Some of the outsource administration you could consider are: Surveying, polling, and focus group tests.

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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. But when you ask either party how to achieve employee engagement?

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Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 12, 2012

While preparing for a focus group meeting it came to me NOISE. I’ve led this with larger teams you can break the group into teams of 6 or less and they each work independently then get together and share ( or the facilitator finds commonalities and categorizes them) OR lead a series of focus groups with smaller team separately.

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QAspire

JANUARY 9, 2011

Dissatisfied customers, unhappy team members, disengaged middle management and difficulties in scaling the business. When problems occur, they first correct it but then, give a careful thought to how it can be prevented. You can form small focus group from your current team and improve in small iterations. Thanks Chris!

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