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. Here are a few examples: Talks/workshops on topics from my books. Employee relations assessments, focus groups, surveys. I will be in the cities listed in the headline over the next couple of months.

Workshop 50

Workshop Travel Training Talent Management 50

The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Every workshop or planning session I’ve led since returning to in-person sessions earlier this year has discussed approaches or policies to working remotely or hybrid models balancing in-office and at-home work. These discussions expose underlying values about trust, partnering, and treating team members as adults or children.

Policies 59

Policies Morale Report Survey 59

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

The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

As someone in a focus group quipped, “The most dangerous place in this organization is at the exit door around quitting time. ” In another organization, I was facilitating a development workshop with a few “prisoners” as participants. You’ll get trampled.”

Absenteeism 40

Absenteeism Leadership Participative Workshop 40

Next Level Blog

JULY 23, 2010

The Lloyds team was on board the rig about a month before it blew and conducted a safety survey and a number of focus groups with Transocean crew members over the course of several days. Heres the passage from the article that really hit home with me.

Executive Coaching 167

Executive Coaching Open-book Blog Report 167

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2017

In those cases, it had hosted workshops with vendors, surveyed police, EMTs, and fire departments, and run focus groups to get requirements, which were then turned over to engineers and designers to work up prototypes. In the past, the agency’s attempts to design gear around emerging technology had missed the mark.

Learning-by-Doing 10

Learning-by-Doing Engineering Film Transportation 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Women are so hypersensitive about their appearance already," one male executive shared in a CWLP focus group. "I Some fear being slapped with a harassment suit; most simply don't wish to hurt feelings. Hence the wisdom of the ever-precise Swiss in detailing the dos and don'ts of personal grooming and banker wear.

EPS 15

EPS Banking Handbook Micromanagement 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

In all, we engaged more than 500 employees from around the world for feedback on our culture through focus groups, interviews, workshops and anonymous ideation sessions. What words evoked the passion they felt about the organization? What values drove them? What made them proud?

Management 11

Management IPO Diversity Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

It can be easy to count the number of innovation workshops held at company outposts around the world, or tally revenues from add-on services developed by an innovation group and then handed over to the sales force. The vision thing.

Metrics 8

Metrics Innovation Company Stage-Gate 8

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Conduct regular surveys, focus groups, or town hall meetings to understand employee perspectives on fairness and equity in compensation. Allow employees to choose courses, workshops, or certifications that align with their career goals and personal interests.

System 52

System How To Benchmarking Diversity 52

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2016

Better-quality feedback from customers and stakeholders, often because you’re asking them to actually buy something, rather than just spout opinions in a focus group. A faster cycle time for developing ideas. “Getting out of the building” to speak to and observe real customers and stakeholders.

Company 8

Company Airlines Ries Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

They shared out the findings from this in an immersive, internal cross-functional Action Setting workshop, where they mapped out changes in advance of the 2015 Open Enrollment period. “You just can’t get this depth of insight in a one-off focus group or survey,” Hadnot notes.

Document 8

Document Marketing Learning-by-Doing Travel 8