HR Digest

AUGUST 14, 2023

The Foundation of Success Before diving headfirst into designing a training program, it’s crucial to take a step back and assess the training needs of your organization. This process serves as the foundation for a successful program, ensuring that the training aligns with the goals and objectives of the business.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

The following are nine essentials that must be in place to ensure success. Elements that define your culture is leadership style, communication, the work environment – formal or informal – and how mistakes are handled. A key success factor for any organization is having the right people in the right jobs. Corporate culture.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The role of a Chief People Officer (CPO) in modern organizations is crucial in driving the success of businesses. By creating a productive and motivated workforce, the CPO drives business success. The CPO empowers organizations to maximize their human capital potential and achieve long-term success by spearheading these efforts.

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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. Their individual and collective leadership was weak. And he realized it started with his own leadership behaviors.

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Mike Cardus

JULY 11, 2011

Below are two short success stories. 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.

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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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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 28, 2020

Not only that, but oftentimes, they do not get trained for the new skills they need to learn to become successful in their new role. These newly-promoted supervisors were then prodded to pick up the necessary skills on the job, even without any leadership training. From that point on, things unfolded as follows.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

That’s the basis of my conversation with business strategist and author Andrea Kates in this latest episode of “Leadership Biz Cafe”. Why leaders need to look beyond focus groups and market studies to find their next innovation. The four steps leaders can implement today to initiative innovation in their organizations.

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Mike Cardus

MAY 24, 2011

Below is an actual Executive Coaching and Managerial Leadership Training + Development process I facilitated. Set-up plus facilitation of monthly internal customer focus group meetings. During these focus group meetings the leadership was able to hear what is needed for continued success and progress within the organization.

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Ron Edmondson

MARCH 27, 2024

If you’ve been in leadership for very long at all you’ve probably seen dozens of leaders in the organization change. You will need people to follow your leadership and this requires an established relationship of trust. Leadership in place. Use a focus group. Are you willing to lose people over it?

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HR Digest

AUGUST 17, 2023

By engaging leadership, communicating the benefits of the hybrid model, and addressing concerns in a considerate and timely manner, an organization can smoothly transition to a flexible work environment while preserving their core values. Companies often need support navigating this change by providing culture change management services.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

When I met with Sarah’s team later in the day for a focus group and asked what success looked like, they told her, “Ninety-four.” Sarah’s focus on the number ramped up pressure and stress. This is a critical step; you can’t improve your measurements if you don’t know what drives your success. Do you know yours?

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

To what extent is that down to a successful ‘Culture of Innovation?’ We led focus groups, created advisory and steering teams, and engaged our executives in workshops and feedback sessions. What is that one leadership practice you wish to start as we buckle up for the ‘new normal?’. PHOTO: 3M.

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The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In his article “Building a Learning Organization,” he writes, “Experimentation involves the systematic searching for and testing of new knowledge … A study of more than 150 new products concluded that ‘the knowledge gained from failures (is) often instrumental in achieving subsequent successes.’

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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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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. But you should pick a longer time horizon for calculating ROI on your leadership choices. What Leaders Tolerate.

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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. Understanding what a strong company culture is and creating a positive work environment is necessary for any company’s long-term success.

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General Leadership

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

The result of numerous focus groups and interviews with soldiers, it is designed to convey the idea that joining the Army will help someone gain not only physical and emotional strength, but strength of character and purpose as well. Eventually, senior military leaders recognized the “Army of One” slogan missed the mark.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 31, 2023

Check back every week for new listings 31 May View all 2023 CMI Highlights Dear all, We are delighted to share with you that the second CMI Women Conference was an incredible success. If you would like to join a virtual focus group on 7 June from 11am–12pm, contact Ariana Carrano. You can watch back the livestream here.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 24, 2015

Lead Change Instigator Bill Benoist wrote in his Bold, Innovative Leadership article: “This is what bold, innovative leaders do. Cheryl’s decision to lead Popeyes in a direction of servant leadership was born early on in her tenure. Cheryl emphasizes that our results focus is not once a year, it is every day.

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HR Digest

APRIL 1, 2023

Focus on Culture and Values An effective onboarding program should include a focus on the company’s culture and values. This can be done through orientation sessions, team-building activities, and discussions with leadership. This can include job-specific training, soft skills development, and leadership development.

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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. Symptom: The failure of success. Technical Tunnel Vision. Symptom: I, robot.

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Ron Edmondson

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

If you’ve been in leadership for very long at all you’ve probably seen dozens of leaders in the organization change. You will need people to follow your leadership and this requires an established relationship of trust. Leadership is in place. Consider using a focus group. People WILL ask this question.

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Center for Creative Leadership

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

While their individual cultures should be celebrated (a critical part of inclusive leadership and boundary spanning ), it’s important to shape a cohesive and constructive atmosphere for everyone involved. creating focus groups if necessary ? Learn our best practices for managing virtual teams and meetings.).

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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. And because he thinks like his future customers, he knows he has seen the future.”

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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.

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HR Digest

APRIL 20, 2023

Employee retention strategies are vital to the success of any organization. By implementing these strategies, employers can create a workplace that attracts and retains top talent and positions itself for long-term success. This will eventually lead to the success of such an organization.

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Six Disciplines

APRIL 26, 2013

Strength of the Leadership Team. In our research, the leadership teams of top-performing organizations rated 155% higher than the lower performers. The first was the ability of leadership to define a clear vision for the company. One client expressed it this way: “People go in the direction leadership is walking, not pointing.”

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Mills Scofield

DECEMBER 5, 2014

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. You can use traditional research methods and interview 25 people or perhaps create an expensive program and bring 500 people to focus groups. But what is it exactly?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2018

Yet many other women have managed to build highly successful careers with degrees in STEM disciplines. We define success in a straightforward way: satisfaction with your job, respect for your expertise, and a senior-level position. Among women who have achieved success in STEM, 39% report such confidence. How did they do it?

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Experience to Lead

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

When it comes to running a successful business, there are no shortcuts. From management courses to leadership seminars, there is no shortage of opportunities to further your learning, gain new skills or master the ones you already have. When we measure how well a learning experience has worked, we’re able to see the impact of training.

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In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

While some handle their “success” well, others fail to realize the happiness that money and celebrity status is expected to bring. Moving on your instincts is not seat-of-the-pants leadership. At Apple, Steve Jobs never wanted research from focus groups or quantitative usage and attitude studies. The reason?

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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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HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

"Presence in the Present" As a branded company whose success depends on change management, Kellogg Company puts a premium on its internal culture. The HR Digest: Under your leadership, Kellogg Company has taken great strides in the field of diversity and inclusion (D&I).

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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. Challenges of leadership.

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Coaching Tip

JULY 22, 2011

As a result, employees—who, at best, feel marginalized—lose all trust in leadership. An us-against-them mentality ensues and workers withhold the very talent and energy required for success. . The good news is that executives can easily circumvent the trust-busting failures of leadership during M&As.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 27, 2016

That is so far from the truth and anyone who has made a lot of money in sales will be able to give you consistent guidelines as to how they achieved their success. So let’s take a simple but serious look at these guidelines to success in selling. Practice makes perfect. Let’s not make it harder for customers to buy something!

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