Stop Overlooking the Leadership Potential of Asian Employees
Harvard Business
JUNE 3, 2024
When companies leverage the diverse talents of their Asian workforce, they can evolve into more global, agile, and powerful hubs of innovation and growth.
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Do You Have the Right Talent to Execute Your Business Strategy?
LSA Global
MAY 13, 2024
Do You Have the Right Talent to Execute Your Business Strategy? Companies that have a tight match between their strategy and the capabilities of their people outperform their peers. Crafting an amazing strategy that your people cannot execute is a waste of time. Our strategic clarity research tells us very few.
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How to Solve 3 Modern Cross-Cultural Leadership Challenges
Organizational Talent Consulting
JUNE 5, 2023
A competitive talent landscape, technological advances, and global population shifts are rapidly increasing cultural diversity in the workplace. This article explores these challenges and, more importantly, five practical strategies you can take to solve them. Cross-cultural differences require leaders with cultural agility.
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Agile Strategy: Stability and Opportunity During Disruption
Brimstone Consulting
JUNE 23, 2020
Agile strategy can transform your organization. When Andy Frawley took on the roles of Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors in July 2018, V12 faced several challenges, including business inefficiencies stemming from a recent merger and inapt product and go-to-market strategies. Agile Strategy.
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Agile Strategy: Stability and Opportunity During Disruption
Brimstone Consulting
JUNE 23, 2020
important;}”] Agile strategy can transform your organization. When Andy Frawley took on the roles of Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors in July 2018, V12 faced several challenges, including business inefficiencies stemming from a recent merger and inapt product and go-to-market strategies.
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Why Your Employees Aren't Committed to Your Company Strategy
Organizational Talent Consulting
OCTOBER 2, 2023
To turn those dreams into workplace realities, leaders set strategies. Unfortunately, many organizations keep strategic plans a secret and don't involve leaders outside the executive leadership team. Evidence suggests only 5% of employees understand their company's strategy.
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Strategies for Executive Teams to Stay Aligned
LSA Global
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
Do You Need to Implement Strategies for Executive Teams to Stay Aligned? We know from our organizational alignment research that strategic clarity accounts for 31% of the difference between high and low performing companies in terms of revenue growth, profitability, customer loyalty, leadership effectiveness, and employee engagement.
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Here’s Why Succession Planning Matters
Brimstone Consulting
MARCH 7, 2023
Here are five reasons why organizations need to focus on succession planning: Avoid leadership gaps Succession planning helps to avoid leadership gaps that may arise when key leaders retire, resign, or leave the organization. This can help to retain top talent and ensure that the organization has a strong leadership pipeline.
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How to Create More Agile Mindsets at Work
LSA Global
JUNE 16, 2022
Agile Organizations In general, agility is the ability to move quickly and easily. In a business setting, we define organizational agility as the ability of an entire organization (especially its leadership team) to adapt quickly to market changes. We need more agile mindsets at work. What are its trademarks?
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Should You Build, Buy, or Rotate Workplace Talent
LSA Global
JUNE 8, 2022
Managing Talent – Build, Buy, or Rotate Workplace Talent? Talent management is all about attracting, developing, engaging, and retaining top talent in a way that makes sense to the business AND the people. And the research proves that better talent management matters. The question is how?
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4 Ways to Improve Your Leadership Communication Effectiveness
Organizational Talent Consulting
MARCH 28, 2022
Effective leadership is communication. A few things about effective leadership communication are proven based on several studies over the past two decades. With these recommendations, you can focus on the critical few proven leadership communication solutions that create business results. Why Leadership Communication Matters.
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LSA Global Delivers Facilitative Leadership Workshop for Biotech Company
LSA Global
FEBRUARY 6, 2023
The leaders in the Facilitative Leadership Workshop faced the following challenges: High expectations to take, promote, and encourage a cross-functional and program focus vs. the predominant product and function focus that most of their internal customers follow and are rewarded for.
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Why Leadership Succession Planning Often Fails
LSA Global
JUNE 9, 2023
Unfortunately, Leadership Succession Planning Often Fails to Meet Expectations While most leaders know that they should develop a leadership pipeline, leadership succession planning often fails to make a measurable impact. Are your leaders willing and able to support leadership succession planning? Why is that?
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Steps to Upgrade Your Strategy
LSA Global
AUGUST 2, 2022
Do You Need to Upgrade Your Strategy? Technology disruption, the war for talent, inflation, and recessionary pressures are creating the perfect storm for many businesses. To succeed, we believe that it’s time to rethink and upgrade your strategy to meet the current and future challenges. 3 Steps to Upgrade Your Strategy.
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Are You Assessing Executive Capabilities to Close Key Gaps?
LSA Global
FEBRUARY 12, 2024
Because of this, properly assessing executive capabilities of the CEO and the entire leadership team is an important, yet underutilized, leverage point to directly improve organizational performance. Combined, these leadership skills collectively define an executive’s capacity to lead effectively – especially when the stakes are high.
LSA Global Delivers Action Learning Leadership Program for Senior Executives at High Growth Market Leader
LSA Global
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
Redwood Shores, CA – LSA Global, the leading business consulting, coaching, and training firm that helps fast growth life science, technology, and service companies by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with strategy, today announced results for an action learning program entitled Leading Leaders for Senior Executives.
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How to Create an Effective L&D Strategy
Clarity Consultants
MAY 10, 2023
Here’s a look at how to create an effective L&D strategy that aligns with your goals. Identify Core Goals and Priorities Before you focus on developing an L&D strategy, it’s critical to determine what the program needs to accomplish. When developing your L&D strategy, recognize that a one-size-fits-all approach isn’t ideal.
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LSA Global Delivers Leading Leaders Workshop for Technology Group
LSA Global
DECEMBER 22, 2022
Redwood Shores, CA – LSA Global, the leading business consulting, coaching, and training firm that helps fast growth life science, technology, and service companies by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with strategy, today announced results for a customized Leading Leaders Workshop. Learn more about getting aligned.
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Driving Growth and Success: How Medium-Sized Companies Succeed
Business Consulting Agency
SEPTEMBER 22, 2023
They help identify growth opportunities, assess market dynamics, and craft strategies that align with the company’s objectives. Strategic planning ensures that the business remains agile and responsive to changing market conditions. Human Resources and Talent Management Managing talent effectively is crucial for growth.
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How are organizations deciding where and how people work? CHROs share their strategies.
Brimstone Consulting
AUGUST 26, 2021
With no time for planning, we were forced to innovate, to be agile , and be more human. We are competing for talent and the ability for people to work remotely is a differentiator.” CHROs share their strategies. While challenging, we have, individually and collectively, accomplished the previously unimaginable.
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Strategic Planning During Uncertainty
LSA Global
JANUARY 1, 2024
Yet, the traditional approach to strategy typically assumes modest shifts in markets, competitors, partners, strategies, cultures, and talent. If executive teams want to craft a winning strategy , they should consider best practices for strategic planning during uncertainty. But we all know that things change.
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LSA Global Delivers Action Learning Program for Healthcare Leaders
LSA Global
MARCH 15, 2022
Redwood Shores, CA – LSA Global, the leading business consulting, coaching, and training firm that helps fast growth life science, technology, and service companies by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with strategy, today announced results for a highly customized 6-month Action Learning Program for Healthcare Leaders.
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LSA Global Delivers Action Learning for Leading Leaders
LSA Global
SEPTEMBER 30, 2022
Redwood Shores, CA – LSA Global, the leading business consulting, coaching, and training firm that helps fast growth life science, technology, and service companies by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with strategy, today announced results for a leadership action learning program called Action Learning for Leading Leaders.
7 Critical Success Factors for Project Based Firms to Consider in 2024
Progressus
NOVEMBER 10, 2023
In today’s data-centric digital landscape, intelligence is central to any business strategy, especially as we look towards 2024. According to PWC , talent, technology and data will set winning professional services firms apart from the competition. Retain talent? Read on to learn more. Can you automate manual processes?
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What to Do When Leaders Disagree on Strategy
LSA Global
DECEMBER 3, 2019
A Common Problem When Leaders Disagree on Strategy. After massive investments of time and money, too many companies report failing at strategy execution. What’s Causing the Disconnect between Strategic Planning and Strategy Implementation? Six Tips on Moving Forward When Top Leaders Disagree on Strategy.
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To Little, Too Late: Why many Diversity and Inclusion efforts fall short
Kates Kesler
JULY 24, 2020
When thinking about diversity and inclusion, organizations need to take a more holistic view of the organization; many organizations focus their efforts too narrowly on talent practices and do not consider the broader organization design. The focus on “fixing” a talent problem comes too late. Capabilities. Metrics and Rewards.
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To Little, Too Late: Why many Diversity and Inclusion efforts fall short
Kates Kesler
JULY 22, 2020
When thinking about diversity and inclusion, organizations need to take a more holistic view of the organization; many organizations focus their efforts too narrowly on talent practices and do not consider the broader organization design. The focus on “fixing” a talent problem comes too late. Capabilities. Metrics and Rewards.
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LSA Global Delivers Emerging Leader Training for High Growth Global Company
LSA Global
APRIL 13, 2022
Redwood Shores, CA – LSA Global, the leading business consulting, coaching, and training firm that helps fast growth life science, technology, and service companies by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with strategy, today announced results for an Emerging Leader Training. Net Promoter Score.
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Developing next-generation leaders
Brimstone Consulting
JULY 1, 2021
A leading health services organization identified leadership development as one of its biggest challenges. The organization had grown quickly through acquisitions which placed leaders in positions larger and broader than their leadership training and experience equipped them for. I’m incredibly grateful for your insight and coaching.
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How to Make Agile Work for the C-Suite
Harvard Business
JULY 19, 2017
Many companies are attempting a radical — and often rapid — shift from hierarchical structures to more agile environments, in order to operate at the speed required by today’s competitive marketplace. At Bain & Company, we do not believe that companies should try to use agile methods everywhere. This takes time.
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LSA Global Delivers Action Learning for New Managers for Fast Growing Biotech Company
LSA Global
JANUARY 29, 2022
Execution Excellence Effectively prioritize your time and talent to the highest value work while taking responsibility for how well you are performing AND the impact of your contributions individually and through others. 100% Job Relevance 100% Satisfaction 175% Knowledge Gain 90% Net Promoter Score. Learn more about getting aligned.
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A 5-Part Process for Using Technology to Improve Your Talent Management
Harvard Business
JULY 24, 2018
And because organizational change tends to be driven by those who most acutely feel the pain, it’s often line managers who are the strongest champions for “talent tech”: innovations in how firms hire people, staff projects, evaluate performance, and develop talent. Insight Center. Adopting AI. Sponsored by SAS.
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The Big Disconnect in Your Talent Strategy and How to Fix It
Harvard Business
DECEMBER 23, 2016
Talent can move into and out of an organization, through a growing array of options such as freelance platforms , crowdsourcing efforts, and temporary, contract, or part-time work. As the talent ecosystem evolves to offer more options, talent systems have not kept pace. Why are typical work systems uncoordinated?
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How the Most Successful Teams Bridge the Strategy-Execution Gap
Harvard Business
NOVEMBER 23, 2017
The strategy-to-execution gap is an enduring problem with no easy solution. ” In their seminal HBR piece , Paul Leinwand, Cesare Mainardi, and Art Kleiner outlined what senior leaders must do to close the strategy-to-execution gap. Translate strategy into everyday processes and capabilities. Hulton Archive/Getty Images.
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Traits of an Organizational Structure Designed to Promote Employee Engagement
LSA Global
MAY 11, 2023
Done wrong, organization structures stifle innovation, collaboration, and strategy execution. To us, it feels like leadership malpractice to create an organizational structure that negatively impacts the loyalty, discretionary effort, or intent to stay of your top talent.
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How to Stop Micro-Managing Your Team
Organizational Talent Consulting
MARCH 13, 2023
This leadership style often stems from believing that the leader knows best and the stakes are high. This style of leadership is described as laissez-faire. The "your way or the highway" leadership style does not work to build or restore trust in relationships. Strategy & Leadership, 48(6), 27-33.
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Embracing Healthy Tensions in a Matrixed Organization
Kates Kesler
NOVEMBER 4, 2021
As a company strategy becomes more dynamic and ambitious, leaders will often shift to a matrixed organization model to help the business excel at doing more than one thing simultaneously. What is most important is thoughtful, intentional, and consistent management routines that make new leadership behaviors and outcomes possible.
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Agile Strategy Enables Significant Growth
Brimstone Consulting
MARCH 29, 2022
Agile strategy leads to 220% increase in revenue. Further, the organization had not invested in leadership development nor was there a common leadership language. Following the assessment, Brimstone began by working with the leadership team to develop a comprehensive strategy. CASE STUDY.
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Is Your Company Actually Set Up to Support Your Strategy?
Harvard Business
NOVEMBER 22, 2017
Why is one insurance company deep into an agile transformation while another is experimenting with it only at the edges of its business? For every company wrestling with evolutions in its strategy, success depends as much on matching the operating model to those evolutions as it does on the soundness of the strategy itself.
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The next six months will define you as a leader
Brimstone Consulting
MAY 17, 2021
Now is not the time to put the innovation and agility of this past year aside and return to the status quo. Now is the time to focus on your team and on your team’s team ; engaging and retaining your top talent is crucial. At the same time, you have had to guide your organization through uncertainty and constant change.
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Top Team Leader Mistakes to Avoid
LSA Global
NOVEMBER 26, 2022
Top Team Leader Mistakes to Avoid at All Costs We know from our action learning leadership development programs that all leaders make mistakes. Even the most subtle leadership behaviors (e.g., Insular leaders lack humility, inclusiveness, openness, agility. We also know that what matters is how they handle them.
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Making Your Digital Transformation Journey Successful: An Overview of Its Essential Components
Epicflow
JUNE 16, 2022
This category embraces employees, customers, and leadership and consists of the following components. . Developing talent and skills . ?ompanies ompanies that invest enough in digital talent have three times higher chances for efficient transformation. Let’s explore them in detail. . People: The Most Valuable Asset .
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How to Become a Future-Ready Business - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM ACCENTURE STRATEGY
Harvard Business
MAY 18, 2018
Market leadership requires companies to create distinctive insight about the consumers they serve, insight drawn from data that only consumers themselves can provide. Read more from Accenture Strategy: How Technology Is Changing M&A in the U.S. Changing operating models now is essential to claiming leadership in the digital age.
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Is Executive Coaching Really Worth it?
Organizational Talent Consulting
AUGUST 1, 2022
Like most leadership development opportunities, you will get the most significant return when you do the work. And it might not always be focused on traditional leadership growth. Frequently leaders look for a coach to help adapt their leadership style, deal effectively with change, or build high-quality trust-based relationships.
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