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.

Human Resources 132

Human Resources Focus Group Crisis Definition 132

Skip Prichard

AUGUST 25, 2019

” Those words are printed on the back cover of Five Frequencies: Leadership Signals that Turn Culture into Competitive Advantage. I followed up with the authors to learn more about their leadership philosophy. There’s nothing wrong with operating out of self-interest. 5 Leadership Frequencies. What Leaders Tolerate.

Competitive Advantage 92

Competitive Advantage Leadership Analysis Tips 92

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. Developing a leadership training program and increased trust in the competence of leadership. Below are two short success stories.

Team Building 94

Team Building TRIZ Succession Team 94

Center for Creative Leadership

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

However, operating a team with genuinely different people also comes with a number of challenges that must be overcome to create a productive work environment. creating focus groups if necessary ? I’ve always been a strong proponent of what CCL has done, which is a behavioral-based approach to leadership development.

Team 88

Team Emotional Intelligence Diversity Globalization 88

In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Moving on your instincts is not seat-of-the-pants leadership. When I was a CMO and CEO, I operated with an entrepreneurial mindset that required taking decisions as early as possible. Not everyone or every organization can, or should operate this way. Less is better, strategically and managerially. Entrepreneurial Mindset Power.

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Power Competitive Advantage Airlines Information 100

Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

The culture required to drive a strategy of innovation is different from the culture required to develop efficiency or operational excellence. Corporate leaders that operate with an ivory tower mentality are likely to find their tower tumbling down. It’s a byproduct of leadership that should cascade down throughout the organization. #2.

How To 107

How To Middle Management Reputation Short-term 107

LDRLB

APRIL 13, 2020

Consider a few examples: “The company’s primary objective is to maximize long-term shareholder value while adhering to the laws of the jurisdictions in which it operates and at all times observing the highest ethical standard.” Or how about this one: “Undisputed marketplace leadership.” Is it for the industry?

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Mission Statement Motivation Long-term Customer Loyalty 120

LDRLB

APRIL 13, 2020

Consider a few examples: “The company’s primary objective is to maximize long-term shareholder value while adhering to the laws of the jurisdictions in which it operates and at all times observing the highest ethical standard.” Or how about this one: “Undisputed marketplace leadership.” Is it for the industry?

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Mission Statement Motivation Long-term Customer Loyalty 78

Ron Edmondson

MARCH 5, 2020

Just like the people they lead, they become protective of the way things operate. 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”. With good leadership desperation can often lead to innovation. . They are just “normal”. .

Bureaucracy 56

Bureaucracy Brainstorming Guidelines Edmondson 56

HR Digest

AUGUST 14, 2023

Is it increasing revenue, improving customer satisfaction, or enhancing operational efficiency? Use surveys, interviews, or focus groups to gather their insights and opinions. So, grab a whiteboard and start brainstorming. What are the key objectives your organization wants to achieve? What did they find valuable?

Training 98

Training Succession Objective Learning-by-Doing 98

Coaching Tip

JULY 22, 2011

As a result, employees—who, at best, feel marginalized—lose all trust in leadership. The good news is that executives can easily circumvent the trust-busting failures of leadership during M&As. Are business units operating in silos? Additionally, employee surveys and focus groups can be beneficial.

Energy 95

Energy Bottom-up Commitment Globalization 95

Next Level Blog

JULY 23, 2010

Thats Not Leadership. 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. I have the feeling that the disaster in the Gulf will be fodder for leadership case studies for years to come.

Executive Coaching 167

Executive Coaching Open-book Blog Report 167

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.

Strategic Planning 158

Strategic Planning SWOT Analysis Planning 158

Strategy Driven

JULY 28, 2019

You can see this play out in your daily operations and ultimately in the P&L. Conduct focus groups, one on one’s, and surveys to get a strong grip on the current state of your business culture. As a leader, you are constantly trying to maximize the magical effort to effectiveness equation (a.k.a. efficiency).

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Agility P&L Intangible Assets Team 62

The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Many leadership teams seem to think that talking about agility will magically transform their organizations. A department, division, or organization’s culture ripples out from its leadership team. Organizational behavior reflects leadership team behavior. Leadership Team Planning ( click for typical agenda).

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Agility Team Leadership Storytelling 110

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

They have a leadership problem," I listened carefully. 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. It's time for leadership to step up.

Innovation 11

Innovation Competitive Advantage Leadership Christensen 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2018

A new research study I led at CTI uncovers, through a nationally representative survey of 3,212 individuals with STEM credentials, and through dozens of additional interviews and focus group conversations, the differentiators of success for women in STEM. Yet 82% of women in STEM say their contributions are ignored. Be authentic.

Succession 14

Succession Reputation Focus Group Leadership Styles 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

Developing a diverse leadership pipeline can benefit companies in all sectors. And yet black women’s advancement into leadership roles has remained stagnant , even as the number of them in professional and managerial roles has increased. Sixteen women were interviewed and seven others participated in a focus group.

Management 13

Management Tacit Knowledge Diversity Leadership Pipeline 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

After working with numerous marketers, we developed the Intelligent Brand Framework to provide a structure for thinking about marketing investments across creative and operational disciplines, using a combination of data-driven and human-centric approaches. They are: Observation is where customer behavior reveals new insights.

Marketing 9

Marketing Reis Brand Retail 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

While every CEO is forced to work through organizational change, many will tell you that of all their duties, change management scares them the most, because nearly every aspect of a company and its leadership is tested. What I did know was that I, and our leadership team, needed to solicit feedback — a lot of it.

Management 11

Management IPO Diversity Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Using our robust data archive system which captures electronic health record, medical and prescription claims, and other information, we create dashboard displays for use by leadership, operational teams, and clinicians to reveal population-level trends and identify patients and clinicians for targeted interventions.

System 10

System Health Care Review Focus Group 10

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Yes, set up a “focus group” of employees to serve as community leaders who will shepherd your company into the social networking world, but don’t put all of the power in their hands. Pitfall #7: Neglecting employees, partners, investors, or customers when building your Social Nation.

Media 50

Media Follow-up Software Newsletter 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

In our view, Brian’s work is an excellent demonstration of strategic leadership. But Brian’s accomplishment challenges conventional definitions of strategic leadership. He had no formal authority as a leader, operating without any title or mandate. Those individuals came from nine countries and numerous industries.

Strategy 8

Strategy Power Idea Generation Project 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Women, certainly, struggle more than men to achieve the look of leadership, a factor that contributes to their overall stall in middle- and upper-middle management. Women are so hypersensitive about their appearance already," one male executive shared in a CWLP focus group. "I

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EPS Banking Handbook Micromanagement 15

Strategy Driven

JUNE 6, 2014

Conduct focus groups. No business can operate without affecting or being affected by its communities. Every community relations program has five steps: Learn what each community thinks about the company and, therefore, what information needs to be communicated to each public. Maintain community files.

Franchising 75

Franchising Marketing Strategy Strategic Planning 75

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Leadership commitment and support. Boosting engagement in wellness can only be achieved when workers own the program, understand how they and the company benefit, and are given a meaningful voice in its ongoing operation. So what does? There are a few simple ways to start doing this.

Planning 8

Planning Incentives ROI Long-term 8

Strategy Driven

JUNE 7, 2013

It occupied one counter at 2-J’s Hamburgers, an established Austin restaurant, owned and operated by Ralph Moreland. ’ 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. Its CEO (John Y.

Franchising 65

Franchising Budgeting Pryor Consultative 65

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2016

Better-quality feedback from customers and stakeholders, often because you’re asking them to actually buy something, rather than just spout opinions in a focus group. Most large companies are populated more by skilled operators than by innovators hunting for underserved markets or new business opportunities.

Company 8

Company Airlines Ries Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

” Start by ensuring the group’s leadership is demonstrably diverse; prospective members will want to “see themselves” in the network’s composition. In these organizations, the working parents’ groups feel like natural and essential outgrowths of core operations. This if for you.”

Organization 11

Organization How To Seminar Follow-up 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

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. Those who have found their way to leadership positions, or who work within forward-thinking organizations, have achieved incredible connections to the female market.

Health Care 8

Health Care Industry First-mover Advantage Market Segmentation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

It’s a membership organization created to serve more than 350 independently owned and operated stations, each with its own board of directors, objectives, agendas and strategies. Executive leadership has your back. Also, PBS is the opposite of a top-down company. The idea was to deliver a clear message: Move fast. Iterate fast.

Team 13

Team Metrics KPI Rogers 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

A team of engineers, designers, operations specialists, and clinicians was assembled and led by an experienced, well-respected physician “chief engineer” whose vision for the future of care was disruptive. The innovation and operations teams must work together and negotiate the use of these resources. Protect the work.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Insurance P&L 8