Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 14, 2015

Every now and then managers must make exceptions, no doubt. Or, you’re a Sales Director implementing a new customer information system. You don’t want to push her buttons, and she’s got a system that works, so you leave her alone about the requirement. 3 Ways to Avoid the Slippery Slope of Inconsistency. .”

Team Building 180

Team Building System Focus Group Situational Leadership 180

Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Among the many techniques Briceño teaches, the book also offers four tips for helping your team continuously advance their skills, even when it feels like there’s no time to problem solve: Why most managers often misuse praise—and what you should do instead to help your team improve. When and how?

How To 119

How To Learning-by-Doing Books System 119

The Horizons Tracker

MAY 20, 2020

The researchers devised a system, called Dovetail Digital, which provides a blockchain-based method of managing digital consent. They believe the system provides a robust and trusted mechanism for patients to give their consent to data sharing. They each completed a questionnaire, followed by a focus group discussion.

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Focus Group Analysis Quality System 68

Mike Cardus

MAY 24, 2011

Situation: Currently there is an authoritarian style of management creating a decrease in morale, satisfaction with work and innovation amongst employees. This is developing a feeling of strife, hopelessness and contempt amongst management and subordinates. Set-up plus facilitation of monthly internal customer focus group meetings.

Case Study 116

Case Study 360-Degree Feedback Execution TRIZ 116

Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 11, 2012

The work of managers and employees has increased in complexity due to globalization, a faster work and life pace, and instability in the world’s economy. Managers, when asked, tell you that employee engagement is a must for the survival of their company. Competent Manager. Competent Manager. By Michael Cardus.

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Metrics Objective System Resources 161

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.

Energy 52

Energy Crisis Absenteeism Leadership 52

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.

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Human Resources Focus Group Crisis Definition 132

The Practical Leader

MAY 29, 2019

” That’s a key conclusion of a major study by Harvard Business School’s Project on Managing the Future of Work and the Boston Consulting Group’s Henderson Institute. Find ways to manage chronic uncertainty. “Workers are more adaptive and optimistic about the future than their leaders recognize.”

Agility 55

Agility Organization Henderson Focus Group 55

Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Internal benchmarking of existing talents based upon determined potential; skilled-knowledge, complexity-management; value of the work. Using this benchmark to determine based upon above what skills and competencies are needed to be successful in identified future management positions. How will we measure progress & Success?

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Mentor Training Process Development 114

The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The HR VP outlined a process to feed back the survey results to management and frontline teams across the organization in the coming months. They seemed to be Theory X leaders (employees will take advantage, need to be “snoopervised,” and managed like kids with rules, policies, and punishment). They see it loud and clear.

Policies 59

Policies Morale Report Survey 59

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. Define the problem : Name the system or the part of the system of interest.

Operations 128

Operations Training Tools Planning 128

Lead Change Blog

MARCH 3, 2016

I chose a compact camera system with interchangeable lenses. Within each theme Facebook provides a range of focused groups and pages – some are interest groups, others focused specifically on photography, and many commercial retail pages. How have I increased exposure for the photos?

Outsourcing 150

Outsourcing Learning-by-Doing Globalization Retail 150

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

At Geisinger, a healthcare system serving more than 1.5 By combining data-driven assessments, targeted engagement of high prescribers, EHR-based interventions, and pharmacist support in care management, Geisinger has dramatically reduced opioid prescribing. Pharmacist-supported pain management. Data-driven assessment.

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System Health Care Review Focus Group 10

QAspire

OCTOBER 24, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Establishing Forums to Build a Quality Oriented Culture Total Quality Management (TQM) says that quality is everybody’s job. What key actions will help me to align myself to those values and belief system? Train your middle managers on quality to build a right leadership ecosystem.

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Quality TQM Directory Belief Systems 122

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

It’s essential for you to outsource tasks such as these to people such as Digital Goliath Marketing who are able to manage your work efficiently, leaving you with less stress and hassle to have to do it yourself. Build processes and systems to ensure that the outsourcer can support you well. Document management and organization.

Outsourcing 61

Outsourcing Human Resources Learning Curve Marketing 61

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.

Human Capital 52

Human Capital Human Resources Diversity Education 52

Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

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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Process Team Building Focus Group Learning-by-Doing 149

QAspire

JANUARY 9, 2011

Dissatisfied customers, unhappy team members, disengaged middle management and difficulties in scaling the business. They create focus groups on process improvements, document the lessons, relentlessly train teams and incorporate preventive measures in their processes. Improvement may not always be expensive. What about you?

Learning Organization 160

Learning Organization Organization Senge Blog 160

The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

I once asked a manager how many people work for his company. As someone in a focus group quipped, “The most dangerous place in this organization is at the exit door around quitting time. The main reason they gave for this big difference was frustration with management practices. He said, “About half.”

Absenteeism 40

Absenteeism Leadership Participative Workshop 40

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

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

As 2023 draws to a close and companies begin to settle on the wages and hikes for the next year, the question of how to create an equitable compensation system might flash in everyone’s mind—if briefly. Building a conscious pay system requires conscious policies and practices that support such an initiative.

System 52

System How To Benchmarking Diversity 52

Management Craft

JUNE 2, 2011

Management or leadership training. Talent management alignment and optimization. Employee relations assessments, focus groups, surveys. Competencies and performance systems. You can email me using the email link on the top left corner of this blog (most of you know how to reach me :-)). See the list here.

Workshop 50

Workshop Travel Training Talent Management 50

Lead Change Blog

APRIL 18, 2016

If your customers’ experiences with your “parking lot” were a picture of your whole service system, what would it tell them about what you value and your top priorities? Now, focus the service garbage detection spotlight on every other process in search of stupid rules. Start with your customers’ first encounter.

Policies 150

Policies Follow-up Banking Bureaucracy 150

Strategy Driven

APRIL 27, 2016

The best way to accomplish this is to set phone appointments after the first inquiry that comes via a website or an online RFP system. Based on recent focus groups with clients who are involved in buying/procurement departments, we heard loud and clear their frustration with trying to get someone on the phone to quote prices.

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Guidelines Hotels Follow-up Commitment 50

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Critics have said that instead we need to strengthen our ‘data rights’ and the responsibilities to maintain them, with a more systemic approach including legislation, regulation, policymaking, education, and advocacy.” ” Bringing data to life.

Business Model 46

Business Model Compliance Participative Tips 46

Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

It’s HR’s Job: While HR certainly plays a significant role in the development and management of policies that can help or hurt culture, it’s the responsibility of everyone inside the organization to create and maintain a thriving culture. You developed a five-step system for culture change. Would you briefly touch on them?

How To 108

How To Middle Management Reputation Short-term 108

Management Excellence

MAY 18, 2011

For those who’ve lived and thrived on a high-performance team, the memory of what it was like to work with a motivated, caring, challenging (but respectful), accomplishment-focused group of individuals provides sustenance for the lonely, near-death experiences that characterize so many other team and project experiences in the workplace.

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Team Focus Group Project Motivation 75

Skip Prichard

AUGUST 25, 2019

According to one former employee, “Management made it clear that no employee was allowed to complain about the unethical practices that were going on within the branch.”. We’re in the business of helping clients measure and manage culture. It will help you determine how to change your “broadcasts” in a more systemic way.

Competitive Advantage 94

Competitive Advantage Leadership Analysis Tips 94

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2018

Yet many other women have managed to build highly successful careers with degrees in STEM disciplines. We hear, in interviews and focus groups, that women are consistently spoken over and even robbed of their ideas. How did they do it? Yet 82% of women in STEM say their contributions are ignored.

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Succession Reputation Focus Group Leadership Styles 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Enormously more, actually, than the best survey research, focus group, or doctor's interview — the highly subjective and incomplete tools we rely on today to understand behavior. For instance, analysis in financial systems is helping us see the behaviors and connections that cause financial bubbles.

System 15

System Analysis Retail Focus Group 15

The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Key findings include: Senior leaders of successful agile transformations “quadrupled the time spent on strategy (from 10% to 40%) and reduced the time spent on operations management by more than half (from 60% to 25%).” Realign/integrate/prune current projects, processes, systems, and development initiatives.

Agility 110

Agility Team Leadership Storytelling 110

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2018

Why is it that when a group of managers gets together for a strategic planning session they often emerge with a document that’s devoid of “strategy”, and often not even a plan ? The third step requires you to work out what your organization wants from each key stakeholder group for your organization to prosper.

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Strategic Planning Planning Document Airlines 15

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. None of these is bad, but point solutions don't solve system-level problems. It's time for leadership to step up.

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Innovation Competitive Advantage Leadership Christensen 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2017

Managing HR-related data is critical to any organization’s success. Create accurate and verified numbers and indices calculated from data systems to serve as input to the analytics, to avoid having “garbage in” compromise even with appropriate and sophisticated analysis. Vincent Tsui for HBR. on a 5-point scale).

Human Capital 12

Human Capital Metrics Analysis Survey 12

Strategy Driven

JUNE 10, 2011

After all, they conducted focus groups in a Chicago suburb for one of their industry-leading clients. One focus group in a suburb of the third-largest city in America will not capture the essence of the Heartland lifestyle. -based agency recently told me that her team understood the Heartland consumer.

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Brand How To Marketing Focus Group 50

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

As a leader and manager, you’ll learn how to use these tools to harness social interactions to improve your business and to create your own social nation. The book provides a social assessment for leaders, managers and employees to scientifically evaluate your individual social skills and competencies.

Media 67

Media Learning-by-Doing Open-book Company 67

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Corporations often approach ethics as an individual problem, designing oversight systems to identify the “bad apples” before they can turn the organization into a “rotten barrel.” They replicate despite changes in leadership and in management systems. Vince Streano/Getty Images.

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Ethics Organization Incentives Long-term 11