HR Digest

APRIL 9, 2024

Leveraging a variety of listening methods, such as surveys, focus groups, department-wide fireside chats with leaders, and so on, we pull back the layers on the needs of our employees and tackle what matters most to them, while also keeping in mind the needs of our customer and business.

Human Capital 52

Human Capital Human Resources Diversity Education 52

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?

Succession 137

Succession Benchmarking Performance Review Handbook 137

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. Work with Relevant Influencers. Consider Direct Mail and Email.

Audience 65

Audience How To Marketing Focus Group 65

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. Cluster the similar points until you have 5 – 7 major groupings or clusters. Do the same for things you can influence.

Open-book 92

Open-book Consensus Engineering Brainstorming 92

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.

Emotional Intelligence 80

Emotional Intelligence How To Career Skills 80

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. When and how?

How To 119

How To Learning-by-Doing Books System 119

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. We need to be accountable for our own words and actions along with doing what we can to influence positive action from others.

Executive Coaching 167

Executive Coaching Open-book Blog Report 167

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.

How To 107

How To Middle Management Reputation Short-term 107

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.

Management 13

Management Tacit Knowledge Diversity Leadership Pipeline 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

When he was running a small division years ago, a manager we know, Christien (not his real name), promoted Laura to head a small group of designers. She didn't deny many of the developers' claims, which were backed up with data from interviews and focus groups. Why, then, do such people become managers?

Influence 15

Influence Market Segmentation Direct Marketing Focus Group 15

Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Tuesday, November 02nd, 2010 Posted by: mike Met some friends for a focus group at a local coffee place. Make decisions & Solve Problems Within a Time Span…TeamBuilding & Leadership Process Category: Buffalo NY , Management , creativity , innovation , manager training Comments 14 Responses Nina Tuesday, 2nd.

Process 149

Process Team Building Focus Group Learning-by-Doing 149

Ron Edmondson

JUNE 4, 2013

I periodically set up focus groups of people for input on various issues. It’s not easy being a leader, but it is more manageable when you discipline yourself to allow others to help you lead. 5 Ways to Influence Those Who Lead You…Leading Up! We do assessments as a team. We have frequent all staff meetings.

Diversity 82

Diversity Edmondson Team Focus Group 82

Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 26, 2013

Learning to use social media to reach the lost and to extend the influence of the church isn’t just a good idea; it’s a must. You will receive practical methods and customizable project management system templates. We will give you customizable focus group agendas and surveys to connect with and learn from your audiences.

Storytelling 54

Storytelling Audience Brand Long-term 54

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Staying in touch with your customers should also allow them to influence how you grow and develop your business. Another way to gain customer feedback is to run a focus group. Customer focus groups also provide forums for people to give their opinions in a more open way. Use a Customer Feedback Loop.

Customer Loyalty 16

Customer Loyalty Loyalty Discount Incentives 16

Strategy Driven

JUNE 10, 2011

Both cities are hubs of culture, entertainment, sports, media, fashion and business; both have worldwide fame and influence, not to mention affluence. After all, they conducted focus groups in a Chicago suburb for one of their industry-leading clients. Now, in their defense, New York and Los Angeles are amazing.

Brand 50

Brand How To Marketing Focus Group 50

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

As a leader and manager, you’ll learn how to use these tools to harness social interactions to improve your business and to create your own social nation. The book provides a social assessment for leaders, managers and employees to scientifically evaluate your individual social skills and competencies.

Media 67

Media Learning-by-Doing Open-book Company 67

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.

Strategic Planning 15

Strategic Planning Planning Document Airlines 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2015

Subha Barry, an adjunct professor at Columbia University and former Merrill Lynch managing director, attributes this to deeply engrained cultural mores across the region. “Even in rural India, women manage the households and pay the bills,” she says. ” While women in the U.S. ” While women in the U.S.

Survey 8

Survey Diversity Telecommunications Focus Group 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

As one technology executive has explained to us, “We have some very capable women in the middle management and junior VP levels, but they leave our firm to advance their careers as they continually get passed over for promotion.” How talent management is changing. Insight Center. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders.

Focus Group 8

Focus Group Skills Technology Review 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

As a leader and manager, you’ll learn how to use these tools to harness social interactions to improve your business and to create your own social nation. The book provides a social assessment for leaders, managers and employees to scientifically evaluate your individual social skills and competencies.

Media 50

Media Follow-up Software Newsletter 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

They replicate despite changes in leadership and in management systems. Groups are more than the sum of their parts; we know we act differently when we’re on a team (or in a mob). And our explanations for ethical scandals are incomplete without a focus on group dynamics.

Ethics 11

Ethics Organization Incentives Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2012

Some reverse leaders are people quite content to remain individual contributors, like the scientist who has no interest in managing a team but cares deeply about the company's mission. Reverse leaders lead through influence, not authority, and they gain that influence by making strong interpersonal connections.

Self-aware 12

Self-aware Competitive Advantage Follow-up Content 12

You're Not the Boss of Me

MARCH 8, 2010

Were the hospital’s costs better managed or the patients’ experience enhanced? One place I worked for it was a way for management to move people around/let some go. You can run focus groups (and believe me I have run hundreds!) Were their opinions being sought out more often? Did they feel more energized and valued?

Survey 40

Survey Human Resources Blog Learning-by-Doing 40

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Start with deep ethnographic research; avoid focus groups! Who are your influences? The pull of the core business and business model that subtly influences new ideas so they resemble what the organization has done before. How should I form and manage innovation teams? How should I look? Why is innovation so hard?

Innovation 16

Innovation Govindarajan Disruptive Innovation Business Model 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2017

Managing HR-related data is critical to any organization’s success. There is virtually no research on these questions, and very few organizations actually conduct the sort of user “focus groups” needed to answer these questions. Vincent Tsui for HBR. And yet progress in HR analytics has been glacially slow.

Human Capital 11

Human Capital Metrics Analysis Survey 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

More than ever before, managers are using large-scale randomized controlled trials (i.e., In 2018, in the run-up to the launch of Express Pool, Uber tasked one of us (Duncan, who manages a group of economists and data scientists within the company) with assessing how likely it was to succeed. Martyn Goddard/Getty Images.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Metrics Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2012

Spain's massive banking mess with the Cajas de Ahorros is due to local politicians' influence on banks, and their iniquitous links to property developers. The EU task force is an overwhelmed and unwelcome band of mid-level European bureaucrats who speak Greek; what is needed is a focused group of senior change managers with a strong mandate.

Restructuring 13

Restructuring Banking Politics Project 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2015

There are just too many external influences that affect employees’ performance. Specifically we used interviewing and focus groups to find out whether many of the root causes of engagement are actually found outside the workplace. Managing people Human resource management Organizational culture' The answer?

Human Resources 8

Human Resources Self-aware Survey Influence 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Also, all of his work was done outside the boundaries of strategic management practices within the organization. We started with focus groups drawn from both our graduate class at Northwestern University and a global high-potential program we run at Aon. Those individuals came from nine countries and numerous industries.

Strategy 8

Strategy Power Idea Generation Project 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

What needs to be in place for people in these roles to succeed, and on a personal level, what is it like to manage your dual roles? Having a CDO elevates digital to the c-level, giving digital a voice among top management to advocate for new efforts and build infrastructure to support ideas. My kids are my best focus group.

Brand 11

Brand CTO Marketing Retail 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Harley Earl and Raymond Loewy could only dream of enjoying the transformative global design influence — technical and experiential — that Apple has exercised this millennium. has emerged as a rhetorical question that product managers have learned to ask — or be forced to publicly answer. and it was off to the races.

B2B 8

B2B Retail Innovation Download 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Given the influence of these consumers, you would expect that the health care industry would be supporting them with tools and services. These seem like no-brainers, but in our interviews and focus groups, women continually report these provisions absent in their own relationships with insurance providers.

Health Care 8

Health Care Industry First-mover Advantage Market Segmentation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2015

If you aren’t visible to others in the company, you’re unlikely to have a strong network, expand your influence, and move up in the organization. For another, your company could alter its management structure or change directions. Serve on a focus group to assess a new vendor or benefit options.

Reputation 8

Reputation Career Learning-by-Doing Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2015

But a recent experience made me question some of my assumptions about consumers, “influencers,” and the companies who can make a difference. Despite these hurdles, some companies do manage to change. Public relations aside, why wouldn’t an organization take advantage of the world’s greatest free focus group?

Media 8

Media Airlines Travel Brand 8

Strategy Driven

JUNE 7, 2013

He influenced my life. ’ 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. It influenced what I’ve preached for the last 30+ years: determine who your stakeholders are. He was 65. I only met him once.

Franchising 63

Franchising Budgeting Pryor Consultative 63