Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

In contrast, managers who haven’t learned this secret focus on the numbers and frantically swivel their team’s focus back and forth between twenty-seven different measurements – most of which don’t directly affect results. But sometimes, that stack rank was an hourly reminder of all the work I, and my team, had to do.

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Center for Creative Leadership

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Cultural Intelligence (CQ): A Must-Have Skill for Leading Multicultural Teams. Managing a multicultural team can be a rewarding experience, giving leaders the opportunity to work closely with employees from diverse backgrounds and offering the chance for personal and professional growth. Management should talk to employees ?

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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. This led to a pronounced sense of exhaustion among managers and non-managers alike as working hours typically rose. Negative experiences. Positive impact.

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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. Understanding how well the board balances competing priorities, manages risk and ensures accountability in decision-making is essential to determining its effectiveness in this critical area.

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HR Digest

JUNE 27, 2022

When used together, they’ll give your HR team the context it needs to build an exceptional employee experience. Even with this quantitative data, your team hasn’t learned anything it didn’t already know. Focus Groups. Manager One-on-Ones. Performance Management.

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Management Craft

JULY 25, 2011

I am asked to evaluate teams, departments, and managers quite often. This work is sometimes done in the form of focus groups, interviews, or team training sessions. People ask me for my opinion about what needs to change to reduce dysfunction or improve team engagement or performance. Affiliation.

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leaderCommunicator

MAY 27, 2020

Even in just two months, our team at The Grossman Group has learned a lot by listening to leaders and employers, surveying employees and conducting focus groups to really understand how various audiences are thinking about the workplace going forward.

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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. So we created a whole new level of management. Have someone or a team work on the ‘What if this doesn’t make things better?’ I shared the chart Consequences of Too Many Level of Organization below.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

So what if he’s ruffling a few feathers… with his team, with his peers, with HR, with IT? I’ve been in enough focus groups across enough companies to tell you–when you promote the jerk, people assume it’s the jerk behavior that sealed the deal. Oh he’s good. He gets sh__ done.

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 30, 2023

Managers often hire consultants to help them solve major organizational problems. The consultant will interview key leaders and staff, run focus groups, and gather input from a variety of sources. Managers are hearing them for the first time. This often starts with surveys and third-party interviews or focus groups.

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The Practical Leader

JUNE 30, 2020

To fix organizational problems or make major changes, managers often hire consultants to analyze what’s happening and provide improvement recommendations. The consulting firm usually interviews people, runs focus groups, and gathers input from a variety of sources. Frontline teams have ultimate implementation power.

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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. You’re also committed to MBWA (or in today’s pandemic-constrained world, Management By Clicking Around- MBCA). Her team had been holding user-experience calls every week and all the feedback had been positive. You have an open door.

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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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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 14, 2015

Every now and then managers must make exceptions, no doubt. In every company I work with I hear a consistent theme in focus groups: “I wish our managers had tougher and more consistent standards. ” I hear that 10 times more than “My manager is too hard on us.” 443-750-1249.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 3, 2020

Those who are driven by their ego, for example, will take center stage and proclaim to have the answers, ignoring or side-lining the experts who could give a more realistic assessment of a situation, managing people’s expectations. This same approach can enable a group to be assembled to look at preparedness for the post-crisis recovery.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 22, 2023

From analyzing the regulatory environment and building the right team to deciding which risks to take and managing and mitigating these risks by devising effective strategies, an entrepreneur is responsible for playing many roles all at once. Entrepreneurs need to be able to lead their teams and motivate their employees.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Guest post from Warren Wright: If you’re hiring and leading a team of freshly-minted college graduates, you may be noticing some differences in their behavior and preferences compared to previous graduates. That’s because they’re from a new generation—we are calling them Second-Wave Millennials (Second-Wavers).

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Strategy Driven

JULY 28, 2019

Too many leaders assume that just because they have spoken, their teams are all on the same page with them — and everything will proceed from there. Conduct focus groups, one on one’s, and surveys to get a strong grip on the current state of your business culture. About the Author.

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Ron Edmondson

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

You get poor performance from the best leaders on your team and, worst of all, your team fails to live up to its potential. I have to actually want to hear from people on my team – even the kind of information which hurts to hear initially. Knowing what my team really thinks empowers me to lead them better.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

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?” Communication of the work culture is essential, but communication, in general, needs to be prioritized for an organization.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 28, 2020

It is unfortunately common for employees in organizations to climb up the ladder to their “level of incompetence,” a concept in management known as the Peter Principle. Put another way, as soon as we gain a set of skills—for example, managing others—we have the tendency to forget what it feels like not to have these skills.

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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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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. It was not a top-down approach, even though this work was sponsored by our CEO and senior team.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 27, 2023

As we navigate the intricate landscape of HR and talent management, seamlessly addressing the complexities of overseeing a region spanning 40 countries, the interview unfolds against the backdrop of Aon EMEA’s agile response to industry challenges. The HR Digest: Employee engagement is crucial for organizational success.

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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 9, 2014

Management they told me morale was a big problem, and they had results from an employee survey that supported their beliefs. Management and employee teams agreed to wait to work on morale BUT they still wanted to see improvement in their employee survey. Morale and team-spirit are higher than before.”.

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The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Like the weather, many leaders talk about agility and innovation, but few managers do much about it. Unlike the weather, there’s a great deal managers can do about building agile and innovative cultures. Stages three and four lean heavily on disciplined management systems and processes. It’s a big competitive edge.

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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. This is developing a feeling of strife, hopelessness and contempt amongst management and subordinates. Resolution.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 31, 2022

You can also split your call center into teams and set up a friendly competition. When you break up your call center into more teams, you can have more awards given. A side benefit is that when their manager appreciates them, it improves their relationships. Set Goals for Your Team. It brings people together.

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The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Some leaders feel that running organizational surveys and giving that aggregated data to managers will somehow get them to improve engagement. The data on employee engagement is overwhelming and very clear; the biggest factor — by far — is the immediate manager. But most team members quit — and stay.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Filled with relatable case studies from top-performing individuals and companies—including Tim Cook, Starbucks, and Microsoft—Briceño lays out crisp, clear tactics for constant learning that will take your team to the next level and create a culture of high performance. Common habits that suppress individuals and teams from improving.

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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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HR Digest

APRIL 20, 2023

The current competitive marketplace has made it a necessity for organizations to discover steps in managing attrition rates. 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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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 5, 2018

We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, employee performance and engagement, personal and professional development, productivity, team building, and more. Sean Glaze of Great Results Team Building submitted Top 11 Inspirational Songs to Motivate Your Team.

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The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 26, 2022

These discussions expose underlying values about trust, partnering, and treating team members as adults or children. The HR VP outlined a process to feed back the survey results to management and frontline teams across the organization in the coming months. Last week was an especially clear example of a values disconnect.

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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

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.”

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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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