Lead Change Blog

JUNE 8, 2021

Run surveys and do focus groups and one-on-one interviews to get quantitative and qualitative data on the virtual work issues in your organization. To cultivate human connection and a sense of trust, you need to replace bonding activities from office culture with innovative virtual bonding activities.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

This entails assessing the workforce requirements and identifying key talent needs to drive innovation and growth. The CPO works closely with executive leadership, department heads, and HR teams to align these strategies with the organization’s goals and objectives.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Kristen Ludgate, who leads 3M’s human resources team, talks to The HR Digest about the “15% culture” philosophy that has helped attract the industry’s most driven workers and how tough times can have a motivational impact on the workforce. To what extent is that down to a successful ‘Culture of Innovation?’

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The findings emerged from a number of focus groups involving both managers and non-managers from a wide range of different sectors. Things were not all bad, of course, and a number of positives emerged from the focus group. Indeed, these platforms also seem to have improved communication within and between teams too.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 20, 2020

Guest post from Karin Hurt and David Dye: You’ve asked your team for their great ideas. Laura’s story Laura, an IT Vice President at a mid-sized energy company, was excited to spend some time with her teams, hold a few skip level meetings, and see their new system in action. You have an open door. No one had ever raised the issue.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Instead, “theme clinics,” involving large focus groups of highly-targeted consumers evaluating designs on paper, are relied upon. As a result, companies end up spending vast amounts of money and manpower on designs that ultimately fail to connect with focus groups and are subsequently abandoned.

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Mike Cardus

JULY 11, 2011

To read more success stories check out Team Building Stories and the Exponent Leadership Stories. Team Building & Leadership Success Stories. Financial Services Group. Working primarily with management within these organizations, my role has been honed to coach, counsel, facilitate and conduct focus group work.

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Working with a team of 5 Executive Directors from a company that employs ~2000 people we identified a gap in the Managerial Leadership Training , Mentoring and coaching of employees prior to being promoted to a Manager Level within the company. With this team we used it to explore the challenge of Developing a Managerial Leadership Process.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

They are more likely to speak up and share their ideas, take initiative and make active decisions, innovate and go beyond their basic job roles, and commit more effectively to their work overall. for your organization, you need to share it with your team for it to be implemented. Once you answer “What is a strong company culture?”

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

This can be done through individual interviews or focus group discussions, where the facilitator encourages open and honest conversations. By assigning ownership, the organization can ensure that a dedicated individual or team is championing the implementation, which increases the likelihood of success.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 11, 2021

Get input from your team. Make sure when designing a product that you have a meeting with your team and start brainstorming it together. You may find that your team has some amazing ideas you wouldn’t have thought of before and this will likely help you to succeed in a way you couldn’t on your own. Ask for opinions.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 24, 2015

She and her team decided to embark on a grand experiment. Lead Change Instigator Bill Benoist wrote in his Bold, Innovative Leadership article: “This is what bold, innovative leaders do. Smart teams know that small changes, over time, provide great results. They lead you to a better place.”

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The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 11, 2019

There’s a direct line between levels of employee engagement and service/quality, productivity, innovation, safety, revenue, profitability, and other key results. But most team members quit — and stay. Numerous studies show that 60 to 70 percent of engagement levels are directly determined by the team member’s boss.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 27, 2023

For me, the key ingredients for team success are to trust each other, help each other, and be agnostic in the way we deliver for clients and colleagues on a daily basis. That’s why it’s so important that we remain both flexible and agile in the way we build our teams to serve their needs and to help them make better-informed decisions.

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Mike Cardus

MAY 24, 2011

Contact me to make your leaders & teams better. Situation: Currently there is an authoritarian style of management creating a decrease in morale, satisfaction with work and innovation amongst employees. Executive Coaching and peer coaching groups were established to highlight and sharpen existing great behaviors and actions.

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Mills Scofield

DECEMBER 5, 2014

In the case of the former, they typically would want to know why and how could they innovate their current product to regain their position as number one. Back then, they would run focus groups to see what customers liked/didn''t like about the product and would check competitors that began to do well. Fast forward to today.

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LDRLB

MAY 1, 2013

A team of researchers led by Sophie Ellwood wanted to examine the effects of a short break on individual creative output. Ellwood and her team assembled 90 undergraduate psychology students and divided them into three groups. The group given the other creativity test during their break generated 7.6

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Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 11, 2012

And when they handle the complexity of factors thrown at them, engaged employees by default will innovate, and improve ways of doing the work. Creating a system that drives needed innovation and allows people to make progress on their work, creates a reinforcing loop of innovation and progress. 5 Levers of Employee Engagement.

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Management Excellence

MAY 18, 2011

If you’ve ever been part of a truly effective team…a high performance team, you know the experience is memorable.

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Mike Cardus

JUNE 28, 2013

My interviews and focus groups with employees it was obvious they have too many levels and people are confused. Have someone or a team work on the ‘What if this doesn’t make things better?’ In our first meeting we began to tackle the challenge of ‘Determining the Levels of Work Within the Company’. end of the argument.

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LDRLB

MARCH 15, 2013

In a recent study conducted by Sylvia Ann Hewlett and a team of researchers at the Center for Talent Innovation , the senior leaders surveyed listed executive presence – being perceived as leadership material – as the essential factor in determining who gets ahead in an organization. But what exactly is executive presence?

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HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

Some of the other initiatives revolve around work-life flexibility, recruiting veteran talent and building a more diverse talent pipeline – all of which support the company’s long-term growth and innovation. Our Kapable team has driven positive change to make our internal policies and workplace more inclusive.

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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. Innovation is a group activity at Apple.

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Ron Edmondson

MARCH 5, 2020

This may need to be the subject of another post, but one example of how I have tried to address this lid is with what I call “focus groups”. Granted this takes creativity, especially when finances are stretched, but always hearing “we can’t afford that” or “we aren’t big enough to do that” is never motivating to a team.

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Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 12, 2012

Having a solid strategic plan will allow your company and team to flourish and accomplish needed results. In the ‘ High Performance Team Building ’ class a smart friend Brian Pagkos shared an idea he had ‘SNOT Analysis’ strengths, needs , opportunities, threats. While preparing for a focus group meeting it came to me NOISE.

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 16, 2023

” These are a bit extreme, but we’ve heard variations of these thoughts over the years in focus groups to survey a Client’s organizational culture. One morning, I asked a group of very quiet participants a series of questions about their organization’s climate and leadership effectiveness.

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

ABOUT Contact Us Create-Learning.com Get Connected Facebook LinkedIn RSS Feed Log in Join and Receive 9 Team-Building & Leadership Activities:That work and allow people to learn from the experience. Tuesday, November 02nd, 2010 Posted by: mike Met some friends for a focus group at a local coffee place. All rights reserved.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Whether you’re a digital start-up or an institutional entrepreneur, three simple heuristics offer an excellent way to determine whether a fledgling innovation initiative should be put out of its misery (and yours). Almost all innovation efforts have the hiccoughs and bumps in the road. 1) No Pleasant Surprises. That is fuel.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

When Karl Ronn recently said, "Companies that think they have an innovation problem don't have an innovation problem. I featured Ronn, a former P&G executive (and current executive coach and entrepreneur), in several places in The Little Black Book of Innovation , most notably for his rant against the evils of focus groups.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Bally Technologies , a leading provider of gaming systems for casinos, has earned more than 60 awards for innovation in just the last four years. Through an innovation excellence framework. Innovative companies create an environment that fosters the right balance between current and future with “and thinking.”.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

The fear of getting Netflix-ed or Uber-ized is spurring big companies to dial up their investment in innovation. But as investment increases, many companies are struggling with a challenging question: how do you know whether your chosen innovation strategy is actually bearing fruit? Number of projects in the innovation pipeline.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2013

As global innovators, however, they share a remarkable core value and best practice: they invest in the innovative capabilities of their suppliers. While lean production has almost nothing to do with video production, the clear message was that genuinely lean enterprise craved innovation that made their suppliers more innovative.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2010

I thought it would be helpful to provide the list of 31 questions, and my one sentence perspective on each question, as it dovetails with my current book project (tentatively titled, The Little Black Book of Innovation.) How do you define innovation? What are different types of innovation? What is disruptive innovation?

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

Teams with strong positive cultures can weather short-term blows to engagement, such as economic downturns, anxiety over mergers, or increased competition. 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. Talk to customers.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Building the right culture in an era of fast-paced teaming, when people work on a shifting mix of projects with a shifting mix of partners, might sound challenging – if not impossible. But, in my experience, in the most innovative companies, teaming is the culture. So teaming is here to stay. An HBR Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2018

In prior research , we at the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI) found that women leave STEM fields in droves: 52% of highly qualified women working for science, technology, or engineering companies leave their jobs. In STEM fields, the ideas that spark innovation are currency, markers of exceptional colleagues.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

In 2016, former American Express CEO Ken Chenault tasked chief human resource officer Kevin Cox with finding new opportunities that would drive innovation and revenue growth. They separated into teams of four to five, received briefings on available data and existing strategy, and engaged with customers, employees, and other stakeholders.

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