N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

This can be done through individual interviews or focus group discussions, where the facilitator encourages open and honest conversations. Boards play a crucial role in shaping the long-term direction of organizations and making critical decisions that impact their success.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 3, 2020

This approach self-evidently enables a mindset that offers a long-term perspective. Because, if leaders are balancing the needs of stakeholders in a values-conscious way, they will not cut corners or put short term gains at the forefront of decisions. This meets the need to slow down and not overreact.

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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. For example: How long do they have to wait, and can they get their issues resolved to their satisfaction? Ninety-four,” she said.

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HR Digest

APRIL 1, 2023

Employee onboarding is just as important as the recruitment process and can either make or break a long term relationship with a new employee. This is equivocally true, especially since about 69% of employees are willing to commit long-term to an organization with an excellent onboarding process.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 28, 2015

There’s no long-term commitment. I ask this question every time I go into a focus group. ” “Karin, I just don’t think anyone on this team is ready to take on my role… and I can’t get promoted until I find a successor.” I don’t think they care. Dig deeper.​. Start here.

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HR Digest

AUGUST 14, 2023

Well, those days are long gone. Remember, a good story sticks with people long after the training is over, ensuring better retention of knowledge. Evaluating and Evolving: Continuous Improvement for Long-Term Success As the training program comes to a close, it’s not the end of the road. What did they find valuable?

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HR Digest

APRIL 20, 2023

By implementing these strategies, employers can create a workplace that attracts and retains top talent and positions itself for long-term success. Employee Retention Strategies to Decrease Staff Turnover Rates Employers need to focus on fostering a positive work environment as a step in managing attrition.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Understanding what a strong company culture is and creating a positive work environment is necessary for any company’s long-term success. If you aren’t bothered as much by hiring stats , then it’s also important to note that 65 percent of employees would leave a company that received negative publicity for its company culture.

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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.” ” You probably got bored right at the phase “long-term shareholder value.”

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Mission Statement Motivation Long-term Customer Loyalty 120

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Can you tell The HR Digest readers more about 3M’s recent Cultural Revolution and how the initiatives promote change within the company in practical terms? We led focus groups, created advisory and steering teams, and engaged our executives in workshops and feedback sessions. Personally, I need to keep working on this.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 24, 2021

Invest in focus groups, conduct surveys with your target audience, research public data and SEO in order to make a full-proof business plan. Create a clean, minimal, mobile-friendly website that has the capacity to convince your potential customers into long-term customers. Conduct a Thorough Market Research. The Wrap Up.

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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.” ” You probably got bored right at the phase “long-term shareholder value.”

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Mission Statement Motivation Long-term Customer Loyalty 78

Lead Change Blog

JUNE 5, 2018

Through our quantitative research of more than 750,000 leaders and employees inside some of the world’s leading organizations, and in the many focus groups we conduct every year, we’ve identified these 11 attributes that matter most.” This can lead to feelings of disconnectedness and what I term: leadership misfit syndrome.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 7, 2020

A little bit of planning goes a long way for your startup. Describe your product or company in simplistic terms and avoid buzzwords or jargon. Have you ever conducted a focus group? Does your startup have the marketing blueprint it needs to make it in 2020? Follow these seven keys to marketing success and avoid mistakes.

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Time: If time were extremely long what would success look like, how would that happen, in what ways could that system be developed? List ideas/solutions: If time was extremely long the Directors in the Managerial Leadership Process would have more than adequate time to learn and master the concepts.

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Miles Anthony Smith

DECEMBER 10, 2018

You Aren’t 100% Sold Out to Your Idea As described above, starting your own business is going to take a lot of hard work, so if you don’t fully believe in what you’re doing, you’re unlikely to stick with it for the long haul. See if you can't put a small focus group together, preferably strangers.

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Tips Learning-by-Doing Industry Long-term 95

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. How do you measure the value these D&I programs bring to the company?

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

Yet, without the right culture, organizations cannot succeed short term, nor can they endure. Teams with strong positive cultures can weather short-term blows to engagement, such as economic downturns, anxiety over mergers, or increased competition. Interview relevant personnel; hold focus groups and conduct employee surveys.

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Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Working to ensure the organizations long-term success to flourish into its potential and 5–10 year strategic plan. Creating a mentoring program, that will work with the individuals that are selected as high potential to ensure their skilled-knowledge development for continued growth of the organization and the individual.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 25, 2019

Dust off that copy of Good to Great on your bookshelf and remember that not long ago Jim Collin’s very credibly lionized them. One of the things we preach in the book is for leaders to be more “long-term greedy.” Again, very costly in the long run. Wells Fargo springs to mind. Let’s be candid: That’s part of the job.

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Management Craft

JULY 25, 2011

This work is sometimes done in the form of focus groups, interviews, or team training sessions. Long-term employees tend to struggle more with these changes than those who have been in their roles for fewer years. I am asked to evaluate teams, departments, and managers quite often. But this is no surprise to you, right?

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 25, 2011

Nobody would have told Jobs in a focus group that they want a thousand songs in their pocket because it’s impossible for most people to imagine something that doesn’t exist, if not knowing what your company is capable of creating. They will want to re-invent your service or product because they think in terms of customization.

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 25, 2011

Nobody would have told Jobs in a focus group that they want a thousand songs in their pocket because it’s impossible for most people to imagine something that doesn’t exist, if not knowing what your company is capable of creating. They will want to re-invent your service or product because they think in terms of customization.

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Engineering Reference Incentives Merchandising 182

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

To effectively bring together the what and the why — a problem and its cause, in order to find a probable solution — leaders need to combine the advanced capabilities of big data and analytics with tried-and-true qualitative approaches such as interviewing groups of individuals, conducting focus groups, and in-depth observation.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Bad apple explanations also fail to explain the string of ethical crises at Uber, the long-term impunity of powerful men who sexually harass colleagues, or any of the other ethics scandals we’ve seen this year.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

Several studies by Towers Watson show that just 25% of change management initiatives are successful over the long term. We found that while people understood our vision, they worried about their careers and what would happen to their long-term health and investment programs. What values drove them? What made them proud?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2016

Engaging with your users on a regular basis — through reporting tools built into your product, online surveys, or focus groups, for example — is a necessary step for understanding, rather than assuming you know, their challenges and needs. So encouraging people to start with small steps can go a long way.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

It's even harder for low income parents when getting those vegetables to the table involves two bus rides after a long day standing on your feet, plus a big chunk of your paycheck. In focus groups throughout the state, mothers routinely believed that they were doing their best for their kids. What could we try differently?

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Succession Long-term Short-term Budgeting 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2012

So it shouldn't surprise that its founder — long a devotee of all things Zen — would be inspired by Paramhansa Yogananda and his Autobiography of a Yogi — reportedly the only book Jobs had downloaded onto his iPad. Anyone can hire a focus group. A muse offers the promise and potential of epiphany.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

While financial incentive programs are popular, they may not achieve long-term behavior change; instead, they may lead to resentment and even rebellion among workers. Introducing short-term campaigns. In fact, they may even do more harm than good by promoting quick fixes as opposed to long-term progress.

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Planning Incentives ROI Long-term 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

’ But more importantly, Ganz is able to keep tabs of how many customers it has, how long they spend online, and how they feel about the products they’ve bought. StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr.

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Media Learning-by-Doing Open-book Company 67

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2012

Preview audiences were leaving Spider-Man confused, so the co-producers conducted focus groups, asking early questions about specific aspects of the show. They traded short-term pain — no one wants to go back to the drawing board in the 11th hour — for long-term success.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

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. Ronn is thoughtful, widely read, a seasoned practitioner, and a great communicator. It isn't either/or. It is both/and.

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Innovation Competitive Advantage Leadership Christensen 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2012

Others, mostly northerners, are concerned with the potential costs to themselves or the project's long-term viability and desirability. 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.

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Restructuring Banking Politics Project 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Leaders have long recognized that a diverse workforce of women, people of color, and LGBT individuals confers a competitive edge in terms of selling products or services to diverse end users. Yet a stark gap persists between recognizing the leadership behaviors that unlock this capability and actually practicing them.

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Diversity Career Focus Group Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2015

If that happens, you may find yourself in the midst of a competition between user generations or in a fad cycle where start-ups’ short-term popularity is followed by saturation and then by the birth of new start-ups, and so on. Making sure you don’t lose them can reduce long-term risk. Blackberry, and MySpace.

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Early Adopters Innovation Short-term Rogers 8

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. Consequently, although you should leverage the communities they have built, you need to create your own community to ensure your long-term success.

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