LSA Global

AUGUST 9, 2023

Why do HR Business Partners continue to struggle when business leaders know that their ability to attract, develop, engage, and retain top talent is a vital ingredient for their success? Lack of Business Acumen In order to add business value, HR Business Partners need to understand how their business operates, competes, and makes money.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 29, 2020

In the past you operated in a compensation model where you do work and then get paid. Now you're operating in a return on investment model where you invest your money, time and talents in your business with the expectation of a return. Sure they may ask for a training program to develop their leadership talent.

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LSA Global

MARCH 22, 2017

The research around talent management has uncovered some surprises. We had thought that the best performing companies had the most star talent. Instead of spreading them equally across the organization, Bain found they focused them in the most critical business operations…the functions most crucial to business success.

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Brimstone Consulting

MARCH 29, 2022

The STAP helped the leadership team increase trust, establish operating mechanisms, and to unify the group around a single strategic view of the division and its future. The outcome of the engagement was a strategy that included investment in leadership development and upscaling talent to support and accelerate growth.

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Brimstone Consulting

JUNE 7, 2022

A multinational biopharmaceutical company brought in a new CEO to improve operational efficiencies and accelerate growth. Strategy and Leadership Team Alignment helped the executive leadership team increase trust, establish operating mechanisms, and unify the group around a single strategic view of the business and its future.

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Brimstone Consulting

MARCH 12, 2020

Brimstone worked side-by-side with an early-stage consumer goods organization to pursue its vision, build a strategic plan, develop roles and operating mechanisms, and to drive sustainable growth at a challenging inflection point. Revenue increased by 34 times. During the engagement, the organization increased revenue by 34 times.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 2, 2022

Technology disruption, the war for talent, inflation, and recessionary pressures are creating the perfect storm for many businesses. Empower your teams to operate more efficiently and effectively and break down silos that impede open communication and collaboration. Do You Need to Upgrade Your Strategy?

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LSA Global

MARCH 7, 2024

Smart acquisitions can provide immediate access to valuable new products, technologies, talent, intellectual property, clients, and geographies. Successful culture integration requires the same thoughtful due diligence that is applied to the legal, financial, technological, and operational aspects of the deal.

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Brimstone Consulting

MARCH 27, 2023

One of the leaders, the head of the organization’s US-based Operations Group, had been identified as a candidate for coaching by his manager. Empowered by this learning, Bob attended internal DEI programs sponsored by his company and requested his HR support team to push them all hard throughout Talent Reviews and hiring practices.

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LSA Global

JULY 30, 2022

When leaders build a more effective work team, they harness the talent, enthusiasm, and commitment of their people and enable everyone to row in the same direction in a way that makes sense. The Talent – The Right People in the Right Seats In the final analysis, a well-functioning team is made up of individuals.

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Nash Consulting

MAY 21, 2024

Whether it’s how you evaluate performance, reward effort, or promote talent, every system should reinforce the change. If the initial training is the “download,” then all the follow up learning activities are the "updates" that ensure the software not only remains functional but improves and adapts over time.

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Brimstone Consulting

APRIL 4, 2023

The coachee was the head of the US Operations group; we will call him “Bob.” Having partnered with Brimstone in the past on creating a strategy for the Operations group in Europe, Bob’s manager reached out to us, and Bob agreed to enter into a 6-month coaching relationship with one of our executive coaches.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

While you may not directly use the 7 S Model in the consulting case interview, it will give you a deeper understanding of how to examine the inner workings of an organisation, identify strengths and sources of competitive advantage, as well as weaknesses and reasons why an organisation may not be operating effectively.

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LSA Global

JUNE 2, 2023

Whether you face an unexpected threat from competition, a disruption in technology, economic headwinds, or talent drain, your strategy needs to be regularly evaluated. To succeed, leadership teams need to test their strategy to ensure it makes sense within the overall market, culture, competitor, and talent realities.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 14, 2020

Finding top talent, even when the job market is not tight, is not easy. Even though companies count on new hires to make their growth plans happen, there never seems to be a deep enough or wide enough talent pipeline. And leadership teams may not be operating in an easily detectable aligned or healthy manner.

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LSA Global

APRIL 20, 2023

Your Operations Research by Gartner uncovered that the processes, budgets, policies, and organizational structures that leaders set up to run the business have a three times greater impact on what employees do and think than what leaders say and do. While they may feel daunting, their impact will be deep and lasting.

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LSA Global

JULY 19, 2018

Our research found that team members are half as clear as their leaders about the team’s goals, roles, success metrics and operating norms. Once you have harnessed the power of strategic alignment, you can then focus on lining up your culture and your talent to perform at your peak. The Organizational Alignment Research.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

Instead, identify the critical three to five scenarios and skills that will have the greatest impact on your new manager, their boss, and their team in a way that aligns with the organization’s strategic priorities and talent management plans. Then invest the time and resources to train, coach, and reinforce them.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Most companies take it for granted that their top leaders can operationally handle the day-to-day leadership pressures required to meet short-term targets, establish a high performance culture to engage and retain top talent, and simultaneously be masters of their area of expertise.

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LSA Global

MARCH 20, 2020

While many pundits believe that people can’t perform both roles well, corporations continue to believe that high performing and high potential employees can, at the same time, operate as an effective individual producer and people leader simultaneously. Talent – Build Skills. How to Set Up Your Player-Coaches for Success.

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LSA Global

MAY 11, 2023

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. Just remember that each organization has a unique mix of strategies, cultures, and talent that must be treated accordingly.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 24, 2017

Organizations that strive to stay successful and competitive into the future must carefully consider how they manage top talent in a world that is increasingly dependent on technology. Companies need to recognize that their competitive edge will depend on the quality of their human talent. Fifty Percent of Jobs Will Be Automated.

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 2, 2017

In an apparent attempt to stop McKinsey poaching key talent, AlixPartners sued its former employees (Eric Thompson, managing director of AlixPartners’ Hong Kong office, and Ivo Naumann, head of its Shanghai branch) on claims that they misappropriated trade secrets before they left the firm’s Asian operations. Image: Pexels.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 25, 2022

Our over three decades of sales strategy, sales culture, and sales talent experience across multiple industries and geographies leads us to conclude that there are five characteristics of great sales managers that make the biggest impact on revenue growth, profitability, win-rate, cycle time, client satisfaction, and sales team engagement.

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LSA Global

JULY 5, 2023

Establishes Aligned Controls Once the desired level of organizational risk is defined and agreed upon, aligned risk cultures consider and adjust risk across the organization in key areas from strategic planning to day-to-day operations. Have you spent the time and effort to determine how much risk makes sense in your unique situation?

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 30, 2019

19% lower operating income. Learn about what would cause employees to look elsewhere for a job and identify specifically what matters most in terms of engaging and retaining your top talent. To learn more about how to engage and retain your top talent, download The Only 16-Step Employee Retention Strategy You Need.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

These questions plague all of us who are in talent management. HR/People Operations employees are 37% more likely to leave than average. Do what you can to engage your employees so you can retain your top talent. Who Is Leaving? We need answers to who is leaving and why. What Does This Mean?

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

While it can be helpful in certain situations to take immediate and concrete action, double-loop learning strives to address the underlying causes by incorporating feedback and thinking about actions and operating assumptions. In general, the more complex or systemic the problem, the more valuable experiential learning becomes.

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LSA Global

APRIL 9, 2021

Do Not Underestimate the Power of Simulation-Based Learning Simulation-based learning operates on the principle that you cannot learn to swim by just reading a book. Victims, passengers, and patients are protected from unnecessary risks while learners build the knowledge, skills, and attitudes they will need to operate successfully.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

They mistakenly think that providing more employee benefits will help them win the war for attracting and retaining top talent. The way you are perceived in the marketplace should inform how you operate on the inside. When brand and culture are aligned and integrated, the path to success becomes far smoother.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 25, 2020

How can you take advantage of the techniques you employed during the pandemic to acquire new customers, streamline your operations, and leverage new sales processes and models? Is your sales strategy, sales culture , and sales talent aligned enough to navigate a crisis? The Bottom Line.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Flexible talent-access platforms are enabling many of these companies, making it easier than ever before to bring in the right skills for the right project at the right time. But making the most of flexible talent-access platforms is not as simple as adding a solution into an existing organization.

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LSA Global

JUNE 15, 2017

But your workforce growth strategy will likely not survive or succeed if you do not have your talent and your corporate culture aligned with your overall talent management plan for the future. It involves adding talent. Download The 4 Do’s and 3 Don’ts of Culture Change Now. Hierarchical or flat?

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LSA Global

JUNE 2, 2017

The only effective way to maintain a work environment where workers feel safe and supported is to hold those who operate outside of stated cultural goals fully accountable. To learn more about creating a high performance and purposeful culture, download The 3 “C’s” that Create High Performance Culture Whitepaper.

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Brimstone Consulting

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

What’s your framework around people and leadership –how do you identify, motivate, assess and develop talent? How do you fix operational problems, political conflicts, interpersonal issues? Download Now. Ask yourself the following questions: What’s your leadership model – how you think, how you lead, what processes do you use?

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Bold strategies require bold leaders who operate at many levels, deliver on challenging goals and inspire the best from their colleagues. If you stretch your current leadership too thin, you risk missing your targets and minimizing their talents. We are not talking about leaders narrowly defined. The Bottom Line.

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LSA Global

MARCH 16, 2018

During change, operational approaches, decision making boundaries, social norms, risk tolerance levels, go-to-market approaches and beliefs about customer and employee centricity can weaken or become misaligned. Employee attrition of top talent increases. Top companies know that different talent contributes different levels of value.

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