LSA Global

AUGUST 25, 2023

The CEO’s Best Tool for Success – A High Performing Leadership Team To thrive, organizations must be agile enough to meet everchanging market conditions. A CEO’s best tool for success is a high performing leadership team. The speed and scope of change can be daunting. A stagnant executive team is a less effective executive team.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Strategic Leadership Competencies – Strategic vs. Operational Leadership. Does your organization foster the kind of strategic leadership required to thrive during chaos? To learn more about strategic leadership competencies to thrive during chaos, download A New Way to Think About Change Agility: The Agile Organization.

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LSA Global

APRIL 1, 2024

In fact, strategic clarity accounts for 31% of the difference between high and low levels of revenue growth, profitability, customer loyalty, leadership effectiveness , and employee engagement. You will know that you have more work to do if leaders or teams worry more about their self-interest or shirk accountability for results.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

To better engage your team when faced with unrealistic targets requires a blend of leadership vulnerability, trust , and practicality. Understand the Impact on the Business It’s tempting to blame company leadership for creating insurmountable targets. Is your team agile enough? Are you clear about the true impact on your team?

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 7, 2023

If you're trying to use an agile approach, what do you care about in terms of finishing: That the team finish the work, regardless of the personal or team cost? Agile teams always know who did what. See Performance Reviews Are Not Useful; Feedback Is for my original blog post and the myth about performance reviews.

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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.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Challenging Times Often Require a More Proactive Corporate Strategy Does your leadership team tend to focus on the immediate issues in front of them (a reactive corporate strategy) or do they pause and look for new opportunities (a proactive corporate strategy)? Our leadership simulation assessment data tells us that leaders need to do both.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

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. That is why strategies for executive teams to stay aligned are paramount.

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Kates Kesler

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Very large multi-national product companies need to find creative ways to enjoy the benefits of scale while remaining agile. Agility and scale rarely co-exist in the design of the organizational operating model. So why is it so hard to create networked, agile teams in large, global product companies? The global/local tension.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

They can introduce agile methodologies, flatten hierarchies, and foster cross-functional collaboration to break down silos. They can also model and reward a culture of experimentation and learning to increase change resilience and agility. Is the way work gets done helping or hindering your desired changes?

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LSA Global

MAY 13, 2024

Our organizational alignment research found that having the right talent to execute your business strategy accounts for 29% of the difference between high and low performing companies in terms of: Revenue growth Profitability Leadership effectiveness Customer loyalty Employee engagement The symbiotic relationship between talent and strategy matters.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 1, 2024

We also know from leadership simulation assessment data that leaders struggle to adjust strategies fast enough. Take a Collaborative Approach to Strategy Development Too many leadership teams craft a strategic plan in the boardroom and then mistake strategy communication with strategy implementation.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 30, 2024

This is confirmed by the recent PMI Pulse of the Profession report — they’ve found that companies that give particular importance to soft skills (or how they call them “power skills”) achieve better project outcomes and have higher levels of project management maturity and organizational agility [3].

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

But a lucky few react with a degree of strategic clarity and mental agility that allows them to adapt with relative ease. According to recent McKinsey research, successful agile transformations deliver almost 30% improvements in efficiency, customer satisfaction, employee engagement, and operational performance.

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LSA Global

MAY 10, 2023

This means that you need to (1) define the critical roles and positions that matter most, (2) agree upon the skills and leadership qualities needed to succeed in those roles, and (3) identify and assess high potential leadership candidates best qualified for those positions. Is your leadership pipeline evaluation future focused enough?

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Kates Kesler

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

While Netflix relies heavily on leadership behavioral expectations, the automotive company relies on documented protocols owned and overseen by a person or committee. What is most important is thoughtful, intentional, and consistent management routines that make new leadership behaviors and outcomes possible.

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LSA Global

MAY 2, 2024

Rigidity in processes can hinder organizational agility , making it challenging to respond swiftly to evolving market dynamics or capitalize on emergent opportunities. While a low process variation approach fosters efficiency and reliability, it may inadvertently stifle innovation and adaptability. What is the Right Balance?

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 24, 2021

In Part 1 and 2 of this series, I wrote about how an agile approach might offer strategic benefits. And because an agile approach changes your culture, I said the agile approach was part of your strategy. So let's ask this question: Can any tool—agile or otherwise—offer you a strategic advantage? (I

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Cheryl Cran

AUGUST 21, 2016

CEO’s and leaders want to know the number one secret to a leadership development programs success. A recent McKinsey report states that in the US $14 billion is spent on leadership programs annually. If you Google ‘leadership development programs’ there are over 11 million results.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 28, 2022

When we ask participants in our new manager training workshops to list the attributes of great leaders, the most common are: self-awareness, learning agility , communication , and influence. Being a compassionate leader may not be separately listed, but compassion is certainly part of all four foundational aspects of great leadership.

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LSA Global

MARCH 11, 2023

Effective change leadership translates into effective change. Healthy corporate cultures that are open to change have the agility to persevere. Leadership is responsible for framing and communicating the change at the outset in a way that resonates with all levels of stakeholders. Organizational change is rarely easy.

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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. How fair and balanced is your leadership succession process in calibrating leadership performance and potential?

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LSA Global

AUGUST 6, 2021

Lack of Agility Not even the most well researched and well-designed strategies can predict all the events that could hinder strategy execution. But there seems to be little recognition for other factors such as agility and teamwork. How can we expect employees to commit to a strategic direction if they cannot fully articulate it?

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Gil Broza and I are thrilled to announce the updated version of our flagship workshop, the Influential Agile Leader. If you have these kinds of challenges: Your business can’t “stop” to recreate itself as an agile organization. That will help everyone avoid bounce-back to non-agile approaches. Then do join us.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

The situational leadership approach asks leaders and managers to adapt their leadership style to the specific situation and readiness of their followers. Research has shown that most leaders use one leadership style — so they don’t know how to unleash the potential of the individuals on their team.

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Kates Kesler

MARCH 7, 2022

As companies and strategies become more complex, leaders often need to start collaborating and integrating more to achieve the benefits of both agility and scale. For some leaders, the shift toward more vigorous forms of teamwork across boundaries is challenging and unnatural.

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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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Cheryl Cran

JUNE 25, 2014

In my work as an evolutionary leadership and change expert I work with leaders ranging from new leaders to senior executive leaders and the one key factor that stands out with master leaders of change is: mindset. How do we shift our mindset?

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Kates Kesler

JULY 24, 2020

They start with a discussion of Talent and Leadership. When we take a methodical approach to organization design, talent and leadership is the fourth milestone we address. Too many diversity efforts are conceived independently of a broader organization design effort.

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Kates Kesler

JULY 22, 2020

They start with a discussion of Talent and Leadership. When we take a methodical approach to organization design, talent and leadership is the fourth milestone we address. Too many diversity efforts are conceived independently of a broader organization design effort.

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Epicflow

APRIL 19, 2024

Flexibility : Epicflow is applicable to any project management methodology you stick to, including Agile. Leadership support, collaboration, and openness to change can influence the speed of adoption and the ability to achieve expected results. We are also responsive to our customers’ needs and can create new features on their demand.

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LSA Global

APRIL 15, 2024

And sales leadership simulation assessment data tells us that too many sales leaders struggle with the ability to select strategic sales priorities that add significant value and create a competitive advantage. Stay agile and proactive, regularly reassess your approach, and incorporate feedback to maintain a competitive edge.

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LSA Global

APRIL 15, 2024

And sales leadership simulation assessment data tells us that too many sales leaders struggle with the ability to select strategic sales priorities that add significant value and create a competitive advantage. Stay agile and proactive, regularly reassess your approach, and incorporate feedback to maintain a competitive edge.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 2, 2022

No longer can leaders coast along the same old paths; you need to reimagine the journey forward and invest in the leadership capabilities required to create more innovative, agile , and resilient teams and organizations.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 6, 2023

Organizational Agility — Do You Have an Adaptable Enough Corporate Culture? It’s up to leadership to actively involve those affected by change in creating a compelling vision for change with an implementable plan for their unique situation. Certainly, one can admire an organization with a strong sense of direction and company purpose.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 4, 2021

See Leadership Tip #9: See & Stop Micromanagement—Learn to Trust Instead.). I don't strive for perfection on my blogs. While I try to make my blog posts understandable, I don't aim for perfection. When we allow our perfection rules to sabotage our writing, we stop publishing. We often stop writing. Absolutely. Thank you!).

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Here are some tips on how to coalesce your leadership team so that everyone is pulling in the same direction: Keep Everyone’s Eye on the Prize. Explicitly measure commitment levels and do what it takes to align your leadership team. The caveat is that there must be some agility as you execute the plan. Include a Caveat.

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