LSA Global

MARCH 7, 2024

The Importance of Culture for Mergers and Acquisitions Mergers and Acquisitions remain at the core of many executive team growth strategies. Because the importance of culture for mergers and acquisitions continues to be underestimated. Your strategies must go through your people AND your culture to be successfully implemented.

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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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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Do You Have a Broken Corporate Culture? If you think you have a broken corporate culture that is getting in the way of where you want to go, then this article is for you. Recent Gallup research found that only 20% of employees feel connected to their organization’s culture. The Impact of Corporate Culture Culture matters.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 7, 2023

How Unwritten Rules Shape Corporate Culture Corporate culture stands as the heartbeat of any organization. Corporate culture influences everything from employee engagement and retention to customer loyalty and profitability. These hidden forces represent how unwritten rules shape corporate culture.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 8, 2024

Do You Need More Effective Strategies to Maximize Employee Talent Development? Done right, strategies to maximize employee talent development should increase employee engagement, retention, and performance. Done right, strategies to maximize employee talent development should increase employee engagement, retention, and performance.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Do Your Leaders Know How to Build Leadership Team Trust? In a nut shell, you will know you have been able to build leadership team trust when team members feel psychologically safe to communicate openly and honestly , and comfortable enough to take reasonable risks to learn and grow. This holds doubly true for leadership teams.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The Ability to Align Strategy and People Sets Leaders Apart Organizational strategies must go through your people and your culture to be successfully implemented. The Key Steps to Align Strategy and People The good news is that organizational alignment is possible. Do you need to stress test your strategy ?

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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)? – Do enough key stakeholders have a growth mindset ?

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 21, 2023

High Functioning Leadership Teams Matter We know from our leadership simulation assessment data that high functioning leadership teams are crucial to an organization’s sustained success, resilience, and growth. They can ebb and flow in both directions with the rest of the leadership team.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 2, 2023

Different Strategy Perspectives to Consider to Get You Where You Want to Go Effective corporate strategies clearly plot how an organization translates its limited resources and initiatives into a corporate vision for success. This requires investing the time to consider different strategy perspectives.

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LSA Global

APRIL 20, 2023

Are You Leveraging Your Corporate Culture Mechanisms for Change? Organizational culture matters. And when Deloitte looked at culture through workers’ eyes, they reported that 94% of executives and 88% of employees believe that an aligned and clear company culture is key to a company’s success.

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LSA Global

JUNE 12, 2020

Time to Assess and Rethink How Work Gets Done – Is Your Culture Helping or Hindering Your Strategy? We are likely to have to change both our strategy and our culture. Culture in the Corporate World. We think of corporate culture as a company’s collective values, beliefs, and behaviors.

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LSA Global

MAY 6, 2023

Culture Defined and the Corporate Culture Questions to Get Aligned The Cambridge English Dictionary defines culture as “the way of life” of a particular group of people at a particular time. There is no doubt that organizational culture matters to people AND the business. Why are we here?

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LSA Global

MARCH 21, 2024

Strategies to Minimize Meetings in the Workplace Endless meetings at work can impede productivity, decrease employee engagement , and stifle innovation. By adopting strategies to minimize meetings in the workplace, leaders and their teams can better achieve individual and organizational objectives. However, there is hope.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

A Coherent Business Strategy Matters Our organizational alignment research found that a coherent business strategy 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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Consulting Matters

JULY 7, 2022

Do you want to know what executives in world-class companies think about leadership and why they hire consultants and coaches? Jim offers powerful insight into what created his leadership philosophies and practices. If you're an org looking for leadership, culture, experience, and transformation, connect with Jim.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 2, 2022

Leadership Team Alignment Matters Just as poorly aligned tires can cause your car to drift off course, poorly aligned leadership teams can send your organization in the wrong direction. Even with solid strategies, many companies fail to translate their well-designed business plan into desired results.

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LSA Global

APRIL 15, 2024

Developing an effective sales strategy requires a deep understanding of market dynamics and the ability to adapt to evolving trends. 5 Steps to Crafting an Effective Sales Strategy We know from our own organizational alignment research that strategic sales clarity accounts for 31% of the difference between high and low performing sales teams.

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LSA Global

APRIL 15, 2024

Developing an effective sales strategy requires a deep understanding of market dynamics and the ability to adapt to evolving trends. 5 Steps to Crafting an Effective Sales Strategy We know from our own organizational alignment research that strategic sales clarity accounts for 31% of the difference between high and low performing sales teams.

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LSA Global

MARCH 21, 2023

We know from assessing organizational cultures that the stronger the connection, the longer employees stay and the more discretionary effort they give. But what are the leadership behaviors that increase employee engagement? Leaders have the power to establish the purpose of the enterprise, the culture, and the strategic priorities.

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LSA Global

JUNE 6, 2022

Refresh or Reset Corporate Culture? Your culture can either help or hinder your business and people strategies. The combination of COVID, the great resignation, and high inflation has caused many leaders to focus on their organizational culture. and employee engagement. and employee engagement.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 9, 2021

Your Preferred Workplace Culture Most leaders, especially those with new teams or at early growth stages, work hard to create a meaningful organizational culture they want for their organization that makes sense to them and their teams. But they then ask, “How do you reinforce your preferred workplace culture?”

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Rick Conlow

MARCH 9, 2023

This is what contrasts Servant Leadership with traditional leadership. Resources to Accelerate Your Career Also, see our RealTime Learning & Training leadership and personal development website -over 250 resources. The 5 Dynamics of Servant Leadership: How to accelerate your career and inspire your team!

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LSA Global

MAY 7, 2021

Are you aiming for culture change and coming up short time after time? Any kind of organizational change is challenging; but culture change can be especially difficult because it requires changing employee mindsets and behaviors regarding how work gets done. You need to understand why culture change fails. You’re not alone.

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Nash Consulting

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

.” - Patrick Lencioni If you’ve engaged with us before today, you're familiar with one of our favorite soapboxes: Organizations can only be as healthy as their leadership team is healthy. Check out our Managing with Mind & Heart leadership development program.] We need to establish a clear and consistent leadership culture.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Strategy vs. Culture – Which Comes First? Most of our clients have a high growth strategy. But unless you are careful, you risk sacrificing the corporate culture that helped you succeed up until now. Do you have to make a choice between your corporate strategy and your corporate culture?

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Clear direction sets the foundation for individuals and teams to make good decisions , collaborate across functions, and act cohesively to move the business strategy forward. It’s no wonder — the number of possible leadership actions and the ways in which to go about implementing and measuring their impact can be daunting.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Where Do You Stand on These Strategy Execution Readiness Questions? Is your leadership team and their direct reports seriously “in it to win it”? Many leaders say the right things, but when push comes to shove, they rank low on fundamental strategy execution readiness questions. Is Your Strategy Clear Enough?

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LSA Global

AUGUST 5, 2022

Are You Confusing “Communicating Change” with “Leading Change” to Shift Cultures? Change management consultants know that corporate culture change is not easy and can be frustratingly slow ? Our organizational alignment research found that corporate culture accounts for 40% of the difference between high and low performance.

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Steve Shu Consulting

APRIL 26, 2010

It is atypical for me to write a book review for this blog, but Nilofer Merchant’s “ The New How: Creating Business Solutions Through Collaborative Strategy ” is very respectable contribution to both audiences of this blog and the process of strategy development in general.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 6, 2022

Where Corporate Culture Fits For some, workplace culture can be overwhelming. Savvy business leaders understand the importance of culture in terms of business performance and employee engagement. To create an effective foundation, you need to know how to shape your corporate culture.

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LSA Global

MARCH 4, 2023

Consistency of Your Corporate Culture We know from assessing organizational cultures that the way people think, behave, and work can either help or hurt your business and people strategies. In terms of business and people performance, the importance of workplace culture cannot be underestimated.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Leaders Need to Create a Culture of Constructive Debate to Get Aligned We steadfastly believe in the power of organizational alignment. Alignment occurs when every part of the organization is working to implement the “intentions” of the business strategy in a way that makes sense to the business AND to the people. The consequences?

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Rick Conlow

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Make their story of your leadership positive and encouraging. A true story that demonstrates cultures that are top down driven and intimidating. However, to ensure that this lasts, seven other leadership strategies make a significant difference. And please subscribe to our YouTube channel and Superstar Leadership blog.

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Harmonious Workplaces

JANUARY 25, 2024

Strong manager-employee relationships through great leadership leads to positive outcomes After hearing so many people talking about the Apple TV show Ted Lasso and using it in the context of business leadership, I had to see what caused all the buzz. The show has captured my attention and a little of my heart.

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LSA Global

JULY 6, 2022

Can a Corporate Culture Be Too Nice? At a recent HR Strategy Retreat , the Chief People Officer asked her team, “Is our corporate culture too nice to execute our growth strategy?” Certainly, treating your colleagues politely is a good thing but can you and your workplace culture take “niceness” too far?

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LSA Global

JANUARY 4, 2018

Culture Defines Your Company. When we ask experienced leaders what matters most, 7-out-of-10 say “Establish your culture.” Companies can be defined by their leaders, by their products, by their services, by their industry, or even by their performance, but culture touches everything. The Definition of Workplace Culture.

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