LSA Global

APRIL 1, 2024

You will know that you have more work to do if people are uncertain about shared goals or feel pulled in different directions by conflicting priorities or misaligned cultural expectations and metrics for success. Strong strategic alignment creates constructive collaboration for a company to perform at its peak.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 6, 2023

Our strategic planning services offer guidance on how a strategic planning facilitator can provide support in constructing an effective strategic plan that ensures your strategy is communicated and implemented across your entire organization.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Because diverse perspectives and constructive debates are required to thoughtfully and fully flush out the pros and cons required to make well-rounded decisions. Weak decision making cultures play workplace politics , do not share information, and have unclear or unfair success metrics.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

If team members are afraid to ask challenging questions, you will not gain the buy-in required to unlock full team commitment to your decisions. Actively Facilitate the Discussion Many teams choose to hire an expert facilitator to help with complex, important, but difficult decisions.

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Martinka Consulting

DECEMBER 12, 2019

I’m working with a private equity firm to find add-on HVAC, plumbing, electrical, or refrigeration companies for their plumbing construction firm in the Seattle area (so if you know of any doing at least $5 million in sales who want an investor let me know). Not to mention no management reports, no metrics, KPIs, etc.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 3, 2018

I delivered a webinar called Agile Metrics for Team and Product Progress last week, thanks to the nice folks at Innovation Roots. One person gave me a new saying about metrics (at the end, during the Q&A): Are you data-driven or data-informed? For example, construction folks have specifications at a specific cost per square foot.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2017

However, higher accruals can reflect either innocuous aspects of certain business models, such as in the construction industry, where the time lag between earning income and realizing cash is long, or that growing firms retain higher working capital to meet greater current and future customer demand.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Typically, performance management includes how to: define performance and behavioral expectations set individual and team goals provide constructive feedback have difficult performance conversations guide career development conversations review performance. Leaders need to pay attention to performance management warning signs.

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Comatch

MARCH 22, 2022

However, there are very few metrics to really measure this. And the available metrics, at least on a company level, are not very forward-looking for decision-makers or people who want to invest. Today, there’s a need for making better-informed decisions to rebuild the economy and achieve a sustained reduction in carbon emissions.

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LSA Global

MAY 25, 2022

People Team goals , roles, success metrics, and interdependencies were unclear and misaligned. Having constructive debate in a safe environment. New strategies, competitive pressures, leaders, products, and approaches. The highly customized executive strategy session focused on: People feeling heard, understood, and appreciated.

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Rick Conlow

MAY 17, 2023

TDIndustries: TDIndustries is a construction and facilities services company that has embraced servant leadership. Set goals and metrics: After your assessment, with an open mind review your strengths and weaknesse. It is important to also set goals and metrics for implementing servant leadership.

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LSA Global

APRIL 15, 2024

Let’s delve into the intricacies of constructing an effective sales strategy that makes sense to your people, your customers, and your business as a whole. Define Clear Sales Objectives and Success Metrics An effective sales strategy begins with clearly defined sales objectives that serve as guiding beacons throughout the journey.

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LSA Global

APRIL 15, 2024

Let’s delve into the intricacies of constructing an effective sales strategy that makes sense to your people, your customers, and your business as a whole. Define Clear Sales Objectives and Success Metrics An effective sales strategy begins with clearly defined sales objectives that serve as guiding beacons throughout the journey.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

By integrating these dimensions, organizations can construct a comprehensive framework that captures an accurate picture executive potential. Personality Traits, Motivation, Learning Agility, and Potential Done right, the proper assessment of leadership competencies and related micro-behaviors tells you about current capabilities.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Leading and lagging metrics should be relevant, fair, accurate, trusted, meaningful, and timely. The Bottom Line If designing a meaningful strategy is the foundation, execution is the actual construction of the building and the greatest challenge. Are change mindsets where they need to be? How are you measuring success and failure?

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Martinka Consulting

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

The sub-headline was about how transportation officials see obstacles, mainly all the existing construction downtown. A friend doesn’t believe in business plans, strategy, metrics, job descriptions, etc. This was confirmed by the headline in the July 19 Seattle Times about how the city wants to push forward with more bike lanes.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

You will know that you are headed in the right direction in terms of strategic clarity facilitation when everyone shares a collective understanding and commitment to the strategic priorities, success metrics, and plans to make it happen. Trust and Accountability Trust forms the cornerstone of effective leadership teams.

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Nash Consulting

MAY 21, 2024

From Idea to Action: Rethink your performance metrics to reflect new priorities. If providing team members with more constructive feedback is a new priority, include this in performance reviews, screen for job applicants who are willing and able to do this, and find ways to promote or reward those who exemplify the behaviors.

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Seth Godin Blog

JULY 25, 2018

Social media might offer metrics that tell you if you’re moving toward what you hope to produce, but don’t confuse the map with the territory. As soon as you try to make a temporary metric go up at the expense of the real goal, you’re on your way to mere busyness. Imagine two buildings under construction.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 14, 2023

Before you begin to do the work, make sure that you define and agree upon a team charter that includes team goals, structure, roles, success metrics, and norms. This enables team members to build the trust required to collectively perform within a common construct and decision making process for success.

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LSA Global

JUNE 30, 2021

Without open, honest, and transparent alignment and commitment to goals, roles, success metrics, and interdependencies, teams struggle to perform at their peak. To Have More Constructive Conversations. And the more complex the situation, the more that back-channeling impedes performance.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Whether you are an organization with a traditional reporting hierarchy or one that works with a flatter structure, make sure that roles, responsibilities, scope, success metrics, and interdependencies are crystal clear. Another critical aspect of a well-constructed corporate strategy is defining how resources will be allocated.

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NeoAcademic

DECEMBER 1, 2020

By the way, I’m defining “trustworthy” as based upon empirical data, reporting a transparent ranking methodology, and where a reasonable argument could be made for construct validity of “program quality.” Most of these are based on nonsensical metrics (e.g., ” Without further ado, here is the list.

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Martinka Consulting

JANUARY 18, 2019

The industries most conducive to a management buy-out (construction and professional services top the list. The use of metrics, management reports, etc. What the bank is looking for in both the buying team and the company moving forward. What’s the bank’s relationship with the buyers and will the buyers agree to guarantees.

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Epicflow

MARCH 22, 2024

At the same time, cyber risks are peculiar not only to the defense industry, they’re common within medical, IT, construction, and other sectors. EVA encompasses three key indicators: Planned Value: This metric outlines the expected amount of work scheduled to be completed by a specific stage of the project timeline.

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Consulting Matters

DECEMBER 16, 2022

It includes: HR practices such as training, staffing and communication, performance metrics and rewards, and performance management and coaching. Political savvy is understanding the reasons for the meetings before the meetings and using those constructs to get your message across. The people strategy is about the WHO.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 23, 2017

Then be sure you have clear, accurate, fair, meaningful, aligned, timely and achievable success metrics. Show that you are ready to invest in their development by providing constructive feedback and targeted learning plans tied to their career development aspirations. High performing employees expect to be held accountable.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2018

And finally, we coupled this with information on how difficult the skills are to learn — using time to competence as a metric and assessing the depth and breadth of each skill. We then prioritized them for impact based on how frequently they appear in job postings, press reports, and our own learner feedback. Insight Center.

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Women in Consulting

MARCH 4, 2016

The following tips will help you construct a distinct presence in this digital age. Strengthen your relationship with your followers by validating them, then use metrics to measure the impact and reach of your interactions. Thought leaders are inspirational, empowering, visionary. Find your ideal platform.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 23, 2017

Then be sure you have clear, accurate, fair, meaningful, aligned, timely and achievable success metrics. Show that you are ready to invest in their development by providing constructive feedback and targeted learning plans tied to their career development aspirations. High performing employees expect to be held accountable.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2016

Instead of infrequent, subjective evaluations based largely on “time on task,” Ryan now has managers, employees, and teams develop a set of agreed-upon performance metrics that are consistently tracked. A fitness wristband can track how long you sit in your desk chair.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Constructing a narrative of power and capability can be more difficult for women, especially when the achievements are team-based. Yet when it comes to promotion, trust is replaced by metrics and measures that focus on proof of merit, leaving women and other minorities at a disadvantage, due to factors like unconscious bias.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 18, 2018

” Eric Reynolds, CMO of Clorox, also sees purpose enhancing planning as a construct for decision-making. “We start with purpose, to transform healthcare, then we map that purpose to goals and metrics. ” Metrics can help ensure you maintain transparency, accountability and focus.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

But I don’t believe that purpose is a meaningless construct. Look at the statement again, carefully, and you’ll realize that one part of the statement deals with the benefits of one stakeholder group, customers; the other part deals with a metric for the other stakeholder group, shareholders. And heart wins.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Some eschew metrics altogether, gambling they will learn as they go when it comes to measuring what’s important. Many prefer the soft metrics, such as satisfaction and engagement mentioned above, and still others defer measurement into the future, minimizing expenses while awaiting a business case to emerge.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

The dynamic nature of agile initiatives also requires that executives devise new ways of keeping everything aligned and maintaining enterprise-level visibility, for example, via widely accessible dashboards that connect metrics across the company and link individual team metrics to aggregated company-level metrics.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 30, 2016

Mechanical Engineering is the most operationally focused, in contrast to say Civil Engineering, where you are more focused on ideas such as land use instead of metrics and modeling. Now granted, not all engineering degrees are created equal. This emphasis on practicality will serve you well in consulting. The knock on engineering?

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