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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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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Brimstone Consulting

APRIL 15, 2020

Working with the technology organization leadership, Brimstone designed a comprehensive, integrated approach to create context-specific solutions for the organization. The solutions were tailored to incorporate Agile principles, methods, and tools.

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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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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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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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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 28, 2020

Download the HiringGeeksThatFitTemplates for yourself.). Mark and I wrote about agile and remote buddies in From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams. I made them open in a new tab so you can see and download them easily. See Hiring Geeks That Fit for all the new employee checklists and how to use them.

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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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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 28, 2020

Download the HiringGeeksThatFitTemplates for yourself.). Mark and I wrote about agile and remote buddies in From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams. I made them open in a new tab so you can see and download them easily. See Hiring Geeks That Fit for all the new employee checklists and how to use them.

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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

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

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

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 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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Brimstone Consulting

JULY 6, 2021

How a leadership laboratory improved employee engagement, increased international promotions for leadership roles, and decreased turnover. The leaders at these levels had had little to no exposure to personal and leadership development opportunities, and they lacked a shared understanding of leadership. CASE STUDY.

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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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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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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. The post Steps to Upgrade Your Strategy appeared first on LSA Global.

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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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LSA Global

JUNE 8, 2022

And our organizational alignment research found that talent accounts for 29% of the difference between high and low performing companies in terms of revenue, profits, customer loyalty, leadership effectiveness, and employee engagement. The post Should You Build, Buy, or Rotate Workplace Talent appeared first on LSA Global.

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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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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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LSA Global

AUGUST 1, 2020

Setting the course for successful change means exploring the organization’s current capability to change by rigorously assessing the various levels of: Leadership engagement, agility , and commitment. Organizational communication, transparency , empowerment, and involvement.

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LSA Global

APRIL 2, 2021

If you are the CEO or a member of the executive leadership team, our research tells us that your answer is probably “yes.” It All Starts with Strategic Clarity If you want your strategy to be successfully implemented, it all starts with your executive leadership team getting aligned.

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LSA Global

JULY 1, 2017

Lack of agility. When it comes to strategy execution, change agility. Lack of distributed leadership. When strategy implementation resides in a more distributed leadership model, execution is more likely to succeed for the long-term. Conflicts between departments inevitably occur and gum up the works.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 23, 2019

With change a constant for most companies, flexible and agile organizations that can adapt to new challenges and new constraints will succeed in the long term. To learn about how to remove barriers to organizational change, download 5 Science-Backed Lenses of Change Leadership. The Challenge of Organizational Change.

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LSA Global

APRIL 4, 2022

Companies that succeed at this phase understand they need an approach that relies on involving cross-functional teams that are innovative, agile, and solution-oriented and that have a sense of ownership and pride in their project. This is where the leadership plays an absolutely fundamental role.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 17, 2018

But there is a lot of evidence that success can cause unwanted leadership complacency and strategic vulnerability. Beware of leadership and strategic complacency. Keep your strategy agile enough to address unexpected challenges. When Business Is Good. Many leaders are tempted to take growth for granted when business is good.

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LSA Global

JULY 1, 2017

Lack of agility. When it comes to strategy execution, change agility. Lack of distributed leadership. When strategy implementation resides in a more distributed leadership model, execution is more likely to succeed for the long-term. Conflicts between departments inevitably occur and gum up the works.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

All too often, policies, rules and processes that were initially created with good intentions, impede the agility that high performers need to succeed. Lack of Confidence in Leadership and Team. High performers need to believe leadership is trustworthy, capable and responsive to change. Lack of Career Development.

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Harvard Business

JULY 26, 2018

In this episode of HBR’s advice podcast, Dear HBR: , cohosts Alison Beard and Dan McGinn answer your questions with the help of Susan David , a psychologist, lecturer at Harvard Medical School, and the author of Emotional Agility. Download this podcast. It’s an act by its leadership when no other routes can be pursued.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Distraction and bandwidth may be the most underestimated strategic growth obstacles for most leadership teams. To learn more about how to get aligned for higher growth, download How Strategic Clarity Distinguishes High Performing Leaders – The Elite 6%. Strategic Ambiguity. The Bottom Line.

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LSA Global

MARCH 17, 2022

Savvy and agile leaders know corporate perceptions and reputations –– fair or unfair, accurate or not–– and how to consciously craft a plan to alter negative perceptions. To learn more about strategic influence to ethically and competently get results with others, download How to Build the Competency of Organizational Savvy.

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LSA Global

JULY 14, 2020

Agile Change Management – What Is It? Agile change management is an approach to managing the people side of change that works in concert with the agile project management methodology. Done right, the agile approach to project management enables teams to adapt to change quickly and deliver work faster.

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