Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

It helps too to look past typical metrics to see what is actually happening long-term. Dan Honig, a political scientist at the John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, believes that “metrics can be useful when an organization has a simple, concrete goal such as building a road. Look Beyond Near-Term Targets. “We

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Boost Employee Productivity A study by Stanford University found that remote workers are 13% more productive than their in-office counterparts, making it a compelling reason to consider remote work. Clear guidelines help remote workers stay on track and can ensure that everyone is working together towards the same goals.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 8, 2023

The oilfield services industry (OFS) encompasses all products and services related to oil exploration and extraction. Cost-Effective Oilfield services are vital to oil and gas exploration and production success. Service providers must establish key satisfaction metrics and present them to the producer on every job.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 14, 2013

Define Your Metrics. Starting from your own performance metrics, you have to extend individualized and group metrics for your team. A research paper titled Metrics: You are what you measure by John R. A research paper titled Metrics: You are what you measure by John R. Management isn’t just about goals.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 8, 2020

Step 1: Set up for Success The most resilient businesses have a forever promise they make to their customers—it’s like a mission, but completely focused on the customer’s goals and challenges. But you need the right culture for this approach, the right metrics (hint, the main KPI isn’t topline revenue) and the right resources.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Not only do companies need to put out job postings and hire correctly, but they also need to ensure that employee productivity is maintained and any roadblocks to their work are addressed immediately. Gartner’s HR trend of 2024 showcases HR technology as one of the top priorities for the next 12-24 months.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 27, 2023

In recent times, gestation speed has garnered increasing attention as a proximate performance metric. As such, we sought to examine gestation speed as a means to illuminate the cognitive processes at play in new technology ventures. Adapting products to existing demand instead of seeking specific customers.

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HR Digest

AUGUST 14, 2023

In fact, a well-designed training program can lead to increased productivity, improved job performance, and even higher retention rates. This process serves as the foundation for a successful program, ensuring that the training aligns with the goals and objectives of the business.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

With the way trends and technology keep adapting, having strong control over the human resources invested in a company and planning for the long term can be just as crucial a decision as planning a new product launch or seeking a profitable business deal. Investment in HR Technology Another investment avenue is in HR technology.

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Next Level Blog

MARCH 23, 2021

With those ideas in mind and the hope that it will be useful to you, I want to share the apps I’ve been using and how I’m using them: First, the power of fitness and health and wellness apps in 2021 is that through a technology called API’s they can all share information with each other.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 7, 2022

Concern propagated , however, that the very technologies that enabled us all to work from home would mean that we could, in theory, work from anywhere , which means we wouldn’t need to be tied to cities in order to work for companies based there. A smarter normal.

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 4, 2017

That we move beyond simply evaluating our leadership in terms of various established metrics like goal achievement, productivity, and efficiency ratings, in order to ask ourselves what seeds are we planting in the hearts and minds of those we lead? And this, of course, is what makes these achievements extraordinary.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 19, 2018

We found that to create a common goal, it’s vital to ramp up your purpose as an organization. Take Dell Technologies, as a great example of a company that hit pause and found its purpose. The fact is that people see through the focus on purpose solely for the sake of business, instead of a greater goal.

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HR Digest

APRIL 11, 2024

Karen Beaven’s “ Strategic Human Resource Management: An HR Professional’s Toolkit ” provides a comprehensive guide, covering both technical and personal aspects of talent management, workforce planning, and leveraging new technologies. Laszlo Bock’s “ Work Rules! ‘Work Rules! . ‘Work Rules!’

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 22, 2014

The challenge, then, is to strike a productive balance between the confidence you need to be successful and the doubt you need to identify and address the weaknesses that matter. In order to avoid this, you should establish metrics for assessing your assumptions about what is occurring around you. Promote Productive Fights.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Additionally, it provides clarity about their specific roles and responsibilities, ensuring that they have a clear understanding of what is expected of them and how their contributions fit into the larger organizational goals. This includes instructions, tips, and best practices for navigating and maximizing the utility of the digital tool.

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HR Digest

APRIL 9, 2024

Henry discusses EY’s response to evolving workplace dynamics, including flexible work models and investments in emerging technologies. We track progress through standardized metrics and measurement. Technology, coupled with the shift to flexible work models, has transformed the workplace at rapid speed.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

They must be relevant, meaningful, in alignment with cultural values, and tied to the right set of metrics. My experience is that bonuses are absolutely effective given this caveat: they must be structured and implemented properly. It is not the bonus that is right or wrong, but the manner in which it is rolled-out.

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The Empowered Buisness

JANUARY 26, 2016

BHAG stands for Big Hairy Audacious Goal , a concept introduced by Jim Collins in his book, “Built to Last.” A bigger, bolder, more powerful outcome than goals with a target timeframe of 10 – 30 years from now. It can uncover whether the underlying reasons for your goals/decisions are for healthy or unhealthy reasons.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

I’ve sung CCL’s praises before – I love their research-based approach, resources, programs, and products. They are pursuing the goal of making leadership development more affordable and accessible in the world with some remarkable results. So when I came across CCL’s 2011-2012 Annual Report called What’s Next for Leadership?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Intrigued by the possibility of a way out of the burnout cycle, a coworker (Colin) and I started meeting every other week to discuss productivity. To give more rigor to our meetings, we decided to define a metric for our productivity: average weekly hours worked. We began measuring it and setting goals for reducing it.

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RapidStart Leadership

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Maybe it’s a Monday morning phone huddle to set weekly goals, or a Friday video conference to share updates. If you are leading, that means that you are closely involved with the process of goal-setting, providing feedback and evaluating performance. 12 Ways to Close the Gap. Set a rhythm. Get (virtually) face to face.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Essentially, they serve as the guiding light, steering the organization toward its goals and objectives. Strategies to Maximize Organizational Efficiency and Effectiveness Efficiency and effectiveness serve as critical performance metrics in any business setting. However, more is needed to paint the complete picture.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

The basic flaw in most arguments in support of CEO term limits stems from a belief that tenure is somehow a very relevant metric, and that there is some mystical optimum time to serve. And what if a company finds or is built by just that person…and loses them to a term limit?

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

According to a study by Brandon Hall Group , an organization with a strong onboarding process can improve employee retention by 82 percent and productivity by 70 percent. By establishing clear expectations from the beginning, you set the stage for a productive and focused employee.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 22, 2018

The CHRO functions should be recognized as imperative in building and assigning talent and as the appropriate channel to unleash the organization’s workforce in the most productive sense. Designing the specific metric requires a huge contribution from the CHRO. The HR is supposed to be a true partner to the CEO, just like the CFO.

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Skip Prichard

APRIL 26, 2022

A pandemic, fast-changing technologies, global competition, the Great Resignation, and shifting leadership demands. Today’s workers are looking for leaders who put people first, who respectfully acknowledge and support their wellness, their goals, their lives outside of work, their financial needs and their differences.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 21, 2012

The promise of flexibility and agility as an organization, inspired by establishing shared goals across organizational boundaries, is only attainable if you back it up by sharing resources as well. Modeling the desired collaborative behaviors -- showing your employees that you walk the talk -- is the goal.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2017

But today’s sales technologies enable companies to measure almost anything, which leads many managers to try to measure everything. As a consequence, managers don’t have a clear sense of what is really driving sales in their business, while salespeople, who are inundated with dozens of metrics, get lost in the day-to-day noise.

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The Empowered Buisness

AUGUST 18, 2015

Measurement and metrics. You need accountability to achieve your company goals. What if you could achieve ‘x’ (a seemingly impossible) goal, what would be the first step you would take? Creative destruction is the process in which new technologies, new kinds of products, new production methods, etc.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 16, 2011

While a brand without exposure is not much of a brand, I consistently find that brand exposure is an aspect of brand management that is all too often overlooked as a success metric. and ATIG, Productivity links. Please keep in mind that the personal brands of business people are not immune to the phenomenon mentioned above.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

APRIL 20, 2020

Even those that generally distance themselves from standard performance data and productivity updates are more inclined to get a sense for what just happened and how things are trending. Analytics provide an opportunity for increased communication, celebration and, if need be, goal adjustment and recalibration.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Many companies use the wrong metrics to measure their performance, especially when it comes to social media. I run a social-media company, and until recently even we were confused about what metrics mattered. Those metrics are the most common false idols of analytics. Vanity metrics look good but fail the "So what?"

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HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2022

And as a company, we’ll lean into digitally enabled workflows and digital tools and resources for people to be productive working wherever they are. When I started at the company, our products like Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Acrobat were updated once every two years and were sold in boxes through mail-order catalogs.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 23, 2010

In today’s post I’ll address a key metric that all companies should be focused on – Customer Experience Management (CEM)… Before I go any further let’s get the semantical arguments out of the way…Some will claim that a well conceived CRM initiative includes CEM as a subset.

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LDRLB

APRIL 23, 2012

Others experience the inherent tension but let short-term goals and fire-fighting consume their lives – at the expense of preparing for and positioning themselves for the future. Some leaders consciously acknowledge this fundamental paradox. This one little question lies at the intersection of two big fields – leadership and innovation.

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LDRLB

APRIL 23, 2012

Others experience the inherent tension but let short-term goals and fire-fighting consume their lives – at the expense of preparing for and positioning themselves for the future. Some leaders consciously acknowledge this fundamental paradox. This one little question lies at the intersection of two big fields – leadership and innovation.

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