Mike Cardus

JANUARY 9, 2014

We focused efforts on two projects, we called these “Impact Projects”: Customer Satisfaction. We, the agency and I, did surveys, interviews and focus-groups of their customers to learn what they thought and saw as the benefits and needs of the agency. Time for Patient Care.

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Morale System Project Team Building 147

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.” John Hunter of Curious Cat: Management Improvement Blog submitted Good Project Management Practices.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Simon 248

Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Do our processes include after-action or mid-action project reviews? If we want to foster a culture of feedback, do we want to focus on giving or on soliciting feedback? For example, do we first conduct significant research and use focus groups to inform the experiment, or do we move quickly to learning while doing?

How To 119

How To Learning-by-Doing Books System 119

General Leadership

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Take, for example, even some of the more mundane practices, such as parade-ground drills, formation runs, and training projects geared to collective problem solving. All are intentionally designed to reinforce that every individual is simply one part of a larger group at work.

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Bond Resistance Follow-up Focus Group 400

Strategy Driven

MAY 20, 2021

For this step, you need metrics like trends, size, as well as projected growth. For primary research, use sources like surveys, focus groups, your employees’ insight, sales data, as well as social intelligence. It can reduce risk, help project revenue, and identify growing trends. What are the trends in it right now?

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Analysis Marketing Trends Audience 123

Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Andrea is the founder of the Business Genome project and has led more than 250 business innovation initiatives with a variety of organizations, including Royal Dutch Shell (Asia-Pacific), Audi, Allstate, Continental Airlines, KPMG, and OnStar. Why leaders need to look beyond focus groups and market studies to find their next innovation.

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Innovation Leadership Airlines Brand 189

Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Purpose After observing focus groups of Second-Wavers, one thing really stands out: They want to know not just what to do and how to do it, but why. I like to say that ‘why’ is the new ‘what’ for Second-Wavers.

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Leadership Learning-by-Doing Brand Career 222

The Practical Leader

JULY 26, 2023

Focus groups (cross-section of people in your team/organization) run by a neutral facilitator who prepares a report summarizing the feedback. Building a Learning Team and Feedback-Rich Culture Here are some ways for your team to build a feedback-rich culture in the organizational Learning Zone: Lesson’s Learned project reviews.

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360-Degree Feedback Survey Learning-by-Doing Attitude Survey 52

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

It also drives teams to explore new ideas through our “15% culture” philosophy, which empowers 3Mers to work on projects of their own choosing, outside of their regular scope of work. We led focus groups, created advisory and steering teams, and engaged our executives in workshops and feedback sessions.

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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. It’s been a vital focus for many of our leadership team retreats and culture development work.

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Agility Organization Henderson Focus Group 55

The Practical Leader

MAY 18, 2022

Is multitasking and constant interruptions fragmenting your attention and limiting your ability to concentrate on important tasks or projects? Do you get dragged into minor activities that others could handle? Are you leveraging your time ? Do You See What I See? Symptom: Ignorance is (short-term) bliss. Technical Tunnel Vision.

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Emotional Intelligence How To Career Skills 80

Six Disciplines

APRIL 26, 2013

In trying to better quantify factors that contribute to excellence, we surveyed more than 300 small businesses (each with 10 to 100 employees) that included a range of service, product and project-oriented companies. For this analysis, we evaluated organizations based on a combined factor of growth and profitability.

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Quality Focus Group Analysis Motivation 110

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

The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Bring customers into your company offices and plants for visits, joint problem-solving and planning sessions, celebrations, focus groups, conferences, barbecues, presentations, and the like. Based on the input of everyone involved, you can document “lessons learned” following a major new product, service, or project.

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Innovation Agility Strategic Planning Core Competence 59

QAspire

JANUARY 9, 2011

Same challenges show up in each project. They create focus groups on process improvements, document the lessons, relentlessly train teams and incorporate preventive measures in their processes. You can form small focus group from your current team and improve in small iterations. So, they try to correct it instead.

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Learning Organization Organization Senge Blog 160

LDRLB

MARCH 15, 2013

The study surveyed 18 focus groups, 4,000 college-degreed professionals, 50 personal interviews and 268 senior-level executives and concluded that leadership positions are most often given to those who look the part. Leaders with executive presence must project confidence.

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Execution Survey Audience Active Listening 168

LDRLB

MAY 1, 2013

We hear experts tell us how to rigidly structure our calendar to make time for the serious work of completing a project or task. The last group was also interrupted, but instead of a related test, they were asked to complete the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, which was considered unrelated to the creativity test.

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Creativity Incubator Organizational Behavior Innovation 149

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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Energy Crisis Absenteeism Leadership 52

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

QAspire

OCTOBER 24, 2010

Establish quality circles or improvement/quality focus groups and rotate people to give everyone a chance to participate. Organize events like group discussions and brainstorming sessions to promote ideas, share success stories, best practices and project case studies. Check it out if you haven’t already ! Don’t Kill It!

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Quality TQM Directory Belief Systems 122

Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 12, 2012

While preparing for a focus group meeting it came to me NOISE. When we understand the NOISE conditions, we can create a path towards the future that allows the company or team or project to flourish. Group Size. Opportunities. Improvements. Exceptions. Flip Chart Paper. Lots of Post-it Notes.

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Strategic Planning SWOT Analysis Planning 158

Management Craft

JUNE 2, 2011

Let me know if you would like me to provide a talk or workshop for your organization, or work with you on an OD project. Employee relations assessments, focus groups, surveys. I will be in the cities listed in the headline over the next couple of months. Here are a few examples: Talks/workshops on topics from my books.

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Workshop Travel Training Talent Management 50

Miles Anthony Smith

DECEMBER 10, 2018

If the thought of working long hours on your project fills you with excitement, then you’re ready to start your business. See if you can't put a small focus group together, preferably strangers. You can’t coast along and expect someone else to pick up the slack — you need to maximize your productivity.

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Tips Learning-by-Doing Industry Long-term 95

Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 5, 2012

How will we measure progress & Success?

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Mentor Training Process Development 114

Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Can we create a long term research project from this? Could we gather small focus groups of Managers, Directors, and front-line staff to take on their own initiatives for Director Training and Improvement? Have we ever gathered their stories, resources and what was most effective from them?

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Operations Training Tools Planning 128

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. A: I’m a big believer in leading your customers, not following them.

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Engineering Reference Incentives Merchandising 182

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. A: I’m a big believer in leading your customers, not following them.

Engineering 182

Engineering Reference Incentives Merchandising 182

Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

Interview relevant personnel; hold focus groups and conduct employee surveys. Go out of your way to keep this influential group on board. Make sure people from both sides of the merger are involved in key projects. If you don’t know what they are, you can’t expect employees to get it. Talk to customers.

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How To Middle Management Reputation Short-term 107

The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

.” Leaders need to get out of their silos and work together as a multidisciplinary group to rebalance and realign the organization. Meetings need be focus less on operating details and more on strategic issues. Realign/integrate/prune current projects, processes, systems, and development initiatives.

Agility 110

Agility Team Leadership Storytelling 110

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.

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Succession Reputation Focus Group Leadership Styles 14

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Similarly, the eradication of smoking, initially targeted for 2030, appears to face a delayed realization, now projected to extend beyond 2050. These options include surveys, focus groups, town hall meetings, citizen assemblies, and collaboration with civil society organizations.

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Policies Politics Objective Resistance 110

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

In 2007 and 2008 the Clayman Institute for Gender Research and the Anita Borg Institute conducted research on approximately 1,800 tech workers in seven high-tech companies, finding that women reported being less likely than their male counterparts to be assigned to high-visibility projects. Insight Center. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders.

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Focus Group Skills Technology Review 8

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 European project risks becoming a zero-sum game edging towards disaster, and all seem to be forgetting an important point: The problems of the south are structural rather than fiscal.

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Restructuring Banking Politics Project 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2015

Over the past decade, my colleagues and I at Emergent Research have interviewed more than 1,500 freelancers/independent workers both one-on-one and in focus groups, during which we often discussed the role that feedback plays for them — mostly as it pertains to developing a new business. This can be either in-person or virtual.

How To 8

How To Project Review Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

For the $300 House project, we identified one non-consumer/future customer segment — rural India. Additional data was collected through interviews, focus groups and, most importantly, through observation. The goal of the survey was to understand the needs of the future customer. The "ideal" house would be 400 sq.ft.

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Education Sample Case Study Survey 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2017

I have seen stagecraft applied successfully in recent projects at Continuum Innovation, a Boston-based firm with which I am affiliated. One was a recent project for the Science and Technology Directorate of the U.S. The view through the windshield is a projection. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). It’s all staged.

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Learning-by-Doing Engineering Film Transportation 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

In-group language : Humans need both to hide and rationalize unethical behavior, leading to the widespread use of in-group jokes and euphemisms. ” Metaphors of war and sport , common in this context, help to shift the frame away from that of individual choice.

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Ethics Organization Incentives Long-term 11