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5 Signs Diaper Drama Is Destroying Your Culture

Let's Grow Leaders

It doesn’t take long to train your people to lay low and avoid the tough conversations. I’ve worked with companies where the employees tell me the unspoken rule… “Never ever bring up the the truth in a focus group.” They’re probably filled to the brim.

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Ola Snow on Building a Thriving Workforce

HR Digest

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.

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9 Must Haves for Business Success

Great Leadership By Dan

Hire for attitude and train for skill. Know your culture, have clearly written job descriptions, and train your managers to interview so they can find people who will be successful in their jobs and in your organization. Focus groups and stay-interviews can reveal why people want to come to work every day.

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Leadership Team Dynamics: Culture Change Begins Here

The Practical Leader

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. ” It’s an oft-mouthed truism; a leader’s action speaks much louder than their words.

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This is Critical to Building an Agile, Change Adaptive Organization

The Practical Leader

” They identify five ways leaders can provide stronger change leadership: Don’t just set up training programs — create a learning culture. Use focus groups (a cross-section of frontline staff) to test new management directions before making grand announcements to everyone. Collaborate to deepen the talent pool.

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To Keep You Growing: How to Avoid Being Stuck in the Muck

The Practical Leader

An HR professional, professionally trained coach, or trusted mentor can help you interpret the results and build a strengths-based personal development plan. Leaders stuck in the muck of the technical growth trap fail to realize just how critical emotional intelligence skills are to influence, co-ordinate, lead teams, and the like.

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Your Process SUCKS! I am NOT a jerk & tell me the behaviors you want.

Mike Cardus

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.

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