Lead Change Blog

JULY 2, 2015

No amount of tactical change management training will substitute for having an entire organization that has a clear vision of goals, shared responsibility, and personal accountability to achieve results. At best practice organizations, these success metrics are included in individuals’ annual performance goals.

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QAspire

AUGUST 8, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Metrics: Are They Mapped With Your Business Objectives? You can measure almost anything in your business, but if those metrics don’t serve a real business objectives, they are just numbers with no real meaning. Identify metrics : What metrics can effectively help you meet your goals?

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Business Objectives Metrics Objective Directory 142

N2Growth Blog

MARCH 4, 2012

In today’s post I’ll look at the topic of resourcing as a key success metric for anyone in a leadership position. The essence of Leadership is not found in doing things yourself, but in teaching others how to do things better than you ever could. Leadership is about teaching, coaching, developing, and mentoring.

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Mills Scofield

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

This seems like a no-brainer, something we read in all the ‘effective meeting’ manuals, right? So, given our level of zoom fatigue, why not try it?

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Mills Scofield

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

This seems like a no-brainer, something we read in all the ‘effective meeting’ manuals, right? So, given our level of zoom fatigue, why not try it?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

If you’re looking to benchmark your leadership ability the following self examination will give you a baseline to build from. If you check your ego at the door and give a thoughtful, introspective evaluation of your ability, it is likely that you’ll learn something about your leadership abilities or lack thereof.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

You might call this a North Star tactic , calling on people in an organization to habitually look up from daily minutiae to reorient themselves to their ultimate destination.”. It helps too to look past typical metrics to see what is actually happening long-term. Look Beyond Near-Term Targets.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 10, 2011

Put simply, leadership is not a static endeavor. In fact, leadership demands fluidity, which requires the willingness to recognize the need for change, and finally the ability to lead change. Senior leadership must champion any new initiative. Be careful of high level, pie-in-the-sky projections.

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 29, 2012

At those moments there’s a natural tendency to immediately start forging ahead – after all, YOU are all up to speed on the vision, the plan, and now, the strategies and tactics that will be needed to get to the mountaintop. Alignment is not a leadership assumption , as the impatient parts of our brain may love to think.

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

First off, that’s fantastic – leadership is a great calling that can bring you great success and satisfaction on so many levels, both personally and professionally. Trust without micro-managing, and let them fail without creating a poisoned atmosphere of fear? Be a teacher as well as a manager?

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

They use the term ‘metrics’ out of context. Their metrics are arbitrary, and they jerk the chains of sellers with figures that are unsubstantiated. Metrics are easily skewed and do not reflect the overall customer satisfaction. Quality is not something that managers assign others to achieve.

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CO2

AUGUST 14, 2017

These are pretty sobering statistics, given all the time and effort you and your management team likely put into the preparation of your strategic plan. Failure to Focus On Strategy The senior leadership team will often spend less than an hour a month reviewing and discussing the strategic plan.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2014

The best Healthcare Executive Resumes outline human capital management, profitability successes, market share increases in addition to their impressive academic and association credentials that will generate the most calls for interviews. The following six healthcare resume and job search tactics will help you obtain the results you seek: 1.

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 10, 2022

An iteration-led approach can move financial metrics up and to the right, but it doesn’t guarantee that you’ll build game-changing products. Good products (and companies) go bad as they become bloated, fragmented, and driven by irrelevant metrics – they catch product diseases that are often fatal to innovation. Managing up.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Let me be clear: leadership and diversity should have nothing to do with one another. This blog was recently nominated for Kevin Eikenberry’s Best Leadership Blogs of 2010 , and I noticed recently that Kevin was taking heat from the gender police for having only one woman on the list of nominees.

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The book " Leadership Conversations " by Alan S. Stieglitz challenges managers to become great leaders by holding effective conversations. A program manager encouraged his staff to be open and blunt with him, with each other, and with other organizations. For more on the new role of leadership, go to: [link].

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CO2

AUGUST 14, 2017

These are pretty sobering statistics, given all the time and effort you and your management team likely put into the preparation of your strategic plan. The senior leadership team will often spend less than an hour a month reviewing and discussing the strategic plan. Failure to Focus On Strategy.

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Strategic Planning Balanced Scorecard Planning Kotter 60

HR Digest

OCTOBER 6, 2021

2] But in today’s dynamic environment, even retrospective metrics and measurements offer limited value. For example, traditional diversity metrics (e.g.,

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The Center For Leadership Studies

APRIL 20, 2020

For comparison’s sake, it’s what has always distinguished them from managers: Management: What you do when you have an identifiable endpoint and personal familiarity with how to get there … and what it looks like when you arrive. Leadership: What you do when you (and pretty much everybody around you) have no idea.

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Magazine » December 06, 2010 How to Drive Change with a Leadership Point of View Every so often, The New York Times will run a long feature on the CEO of a large business.    I love those articles because they’re great opportunities for data mining on leadership.  A strong leadership point of view is memorable. 

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LDRLB

APRIL 28, 2020

But as it turned out, O’Neill’s mind was still very much intact—and it was focused not only on the right metrics. Part of leadership,” O’Neill once explained, “…is to create a crisis.”. About six months into his tenure, O’Neill was awoken in the middle of the night by a telephone call from a plant manager in Arizona.

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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.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 12, 2023

As I travel the country, I find one consistent theme: most executives, managers, and employees are “unaimed,” meaning they don’t know their company’s top goals or how they contribute to those goals. My management philosophy for Brass Ring producers is: “I work for you.” It is much easier to manage strengths than correct weaknesses.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 5, 2011

It has definitely caused its fair share of angst, frustration, and vigorous debate among executives and professional advisors simply for the reason that it is one of the few metrics that touches virtually every aspect of a business.

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LDRLB

APRIL 28, 2020

But as it turned out, O’Neill’s mind was still very much intact—and it was focused not only on the right metrics. Part of leadership,” O’Neill once explained, “…is to create a crisis.”. About six months into his tenure, O’Neill was awoken in the middle of the night by a telephone call from a plant manager in Arizona.

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Crisis Hotels Motivation Industry 78

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

And as odd as it may sound, one of the greatest impediments to building productive teams is practicing management by consensus. He is one of my favorite leadership bloggers, and hopefully we’ll still be on speaking terms after this post.

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Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Susan Fowler is a thought leader on discipline and self-leadership. She outlines how to rid yourself of failed motivational tactics and shares ways to go beyond discipline, willpower, and goal setting. “In a world crying out for effective leadership, I think we need to begin with an obvious source: ourselves.”

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Center for Creative Leadership

APRIL 24, 2019

I recently spoke with the CEO of a medium-sized manufacturing company about his new CFO who was poised to attend our flagship program for senior executives, Leadership at the Peak. By coming to Leadership at the Peak , this CFO had — with some encouragement and initial trepidation — chosen the latter approach. No one turned a head.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2013

You attitudes and behaviors are the biggest differentiators for leadership success. The four well researched core emotional intelligence metrics of: Self-Awareness, Self-Management, Social Awareness and Relationship Management are directly correlated with successful or failing leadership. Ask yourself, do I…?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

Sales management plays a crucial role in reaching that objective, but can sales performance really be managed? I mean, tactically managed? Vantage Point Performance and the Sales Education Foundation recently conducted a study on the measurement and management of sales forces. But which ones really mattered?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Precision made it easy for managers to oversee their employees. Every spot on every line was visible to managers. Every step of the process was measured, and real-time metrics were easily accessible. The first type is known as tactical performance. Overdoing Tactical Performance. Every high performer needs both.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Medicine involves leadership. Nearly all physicians take on significant leadership responsibilities over the course of their career, but unlike any other occupation where management skills are important, physicians are neither taught how to lead nor are they typically rewarded for good leadership. STOCK4B-RF/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Data science is becoming a reality for change management, and although it may not have arrived yet, it is time for organizations to get ready. Although predictive models for change management are still a ways off, organizations can get themselves on the right path by adopting the right tools and capturing the right data.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Let us give you our definition of what it means to be a founder: Playing a central role in starting and managing an initiative that will have impact (preferably visible and large) on an organization or the broader world. What better way to signal that you have leadership capabilities? ” Management Science 56.2

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2012

Sometimes, the measures managers use to guide their decisions stop making sense. Take television ratings—the metric by which TV shows live or die in an advertising-supported industry. For these firms to understand their baseline performance and know if they're making progress, their managers have to attend to new measures.

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HR Digest

MAY 6, 2024

An HRIS (Human Resources Information System) is a software solution that helps organizations manage and automate core HR processes like payroll, time tracking, and employee benefits administration. Payroll and Time Management Various types of HRIS systems automate payroll calculations and processing to reduce errors and time spent.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

To do this, we examined how 49 enterprise leadership teams spend their time and also looked at their perceived effectiveness on critical behaviors of a senior team. That time is spent establishing financial and operational metrics, aligning goals with overarching strategy, allocating resources, and reviewing key metrics.

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