LSA Global

JUNE 6, 2020

Middle Management Needs to Be Deeply Engaged in Strategy Design and Planning. For strategic plans to succeed, companies need to align middle management with strategy. Make the inevitable strategic and tactical adjustments to keep the strategy on track. What Executives Need to Do to Align Middle Management with Strategy.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Misunderstood Corporate Strategies Undermine Success. Misunderstood corporate strategies threaten your success. A corporate strategy is the plan you create to achieve specific goals. If you want to perform at your peak, you need your strategy to be clear, believable, and implementable across the organization.

Strategy 36

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LSA Global

AUGUST 25, 2020

Is It Time to Pivot Your Sales Strategy? You will find out just how quickly you can pivot your sales strategy and your sales team when a crisis occurs. Do you need to pivot your sales strategy or sales approach? 3 Steps to Pivot Your Sales Strategy During a Crisis. But hope is not a strategy – especially during a crisis.

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Sales Strategy Strategy Strategy& 36

Kates Kesler

MARCH 7, 2021

Local (business unit and operational function) teams have embedded practitioners that know the work of the unit and can build local relationships. . METRICS/REWARDS . . What metrics should we track? . Local team leaders manage allocation of resources, performance , and outcomes. Christie Irizarry.

Management 65

Management Enterprise Metrics Change Management 65

Asamby Consulting

JANUARY 20, 2022

These goals can be tracked through metrics that gives continuous feedback such as OKR, MBO, etc. These metrics are like receiving a score in a video game, which allows everybody to know if they are going in the right direction. Though the metrics may not contain the same level of information.

Small Business 52

Small Business Metrics Video Sales 52

Kates Kesler

APRIL 7, 2022

Work and decisions often become centralized at a corporate level for a variety of good reasons – to drive common strategy and policy, to consolidate work for efficiency and scale, to leverage scarce talent through centers of expertise. A common strategy is created by representatives of the network and is broadly communicated.

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LSA Global

JUNE 4, 2018

It Is Important to Close the Strategy Execution Gap. To close the strategy execution gap in a meaningful way, leaders must agree upon and commit to a set of specific priorities focused on achieving clear goals. It Is Difficult to Close the Strategy Execution Gap. Strategy execution however is easier said than done.

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PM Alliance

OCTOBER 10, 2022

This could be due to new, money-hungry projects added to the pipeline, or a sponsor-led push to redirect funds to other operational areas inside the business. Try this: A strong project management methodology with a companion data platform that delivers on-demand access to metrics and other information is essential.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

What Is Business Strategy? In the military, it is the plan that sets up an operation for success. In the corporate world, business strategy design serves as the guide to win over the competition; it considers all the influencing factors of the business and outlines the way to secure future success.

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1 to 1

MARCH 28, 2022

However, in order to attract and retain gigCX workers, especially in a tight labor market, it’s essential to approach engagement and retention with strategies that are customized to fit their needs and interests. It behooves companies from across a wide range of industries to consider making gigCX a part of their regular operations.

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How To Metrics Talent Policies 52

LSA Global

JULY 30, 2022

What It Takes to Build a More Effective Work Team There are essentially three keys to building a highly effective team at work: The Strategy – Clarity and Agreement Our organizational alignment research found that strategic clarity accounts for 31% of the difference between high and low performing teams. Effective teams have high levels of:

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LSA Global

JULY 19, 2018

No matter what the goal and what the strategy to reach it, the better you and your team are aligned and working together, the more likely you will succeed. Indeed, IBM found that less than 10% of well formulated strategies are effectively executed. Can articulate how their work directly contributes to the strategy.

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LSA Global

JUNE 15, 2017

When roles and success metrics are unclear, it is difficult for teams to perform beyond the sum of their parts. It is also critical when internal operations must change to become more efficient or more satisfactory to external or internal customers.

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LSA Global

MAY 9, 2019

We believe that employees need to better understand the key factors that affect a company’s operations and financial strength to improve decision-making and strategy execution. How can you expect to pitch a new strategy or product if you are unable to articulate its potential revenue, costs, and return on investment? Cash flow.

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Balance Sheet Cash Flow Metrics Financial 28

Kates Kesler

AUGUST 11, 2014

So why is it that many organizations still struggle to build robust supply chains capable of delivering their strategies? Beyond the operational and financial exercises, supply chain design is a sophisticated organization design task. In part, they may not have an accurate understanding of the problem to be solved. Karen Duvall.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Do not underestimate the power of actively involving stakeholders in your team’s strategy and approach. Team’s Success Metrics What critical few 2-3 leading and lagging metrics best measure the team’s performance in the areas that matter most? Course correct? Track progress? Hold each other accountable ?

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Here is a primer on how to become a value-driven seller: Create a Clear, Compelling, and Implementable Sales Strategy. Sales strategy accounts for 31% of the difference between high and low performing sales teams. Sales force effectiveness starts with a sales strategy that is equipped to handle current and future marketplace realities.

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LSA Global

APRIL 19, 2018

Ruthlessly Align Culture with Strategy. Culture and strategy are inextricably entwined…one supports the other. Strategy must go through culture and people to get implemented. And conversely, you cannot espouse an intimate customer-centric culture if your strategy is to scale off-the-shelf solutions to the masses.

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LSA Global

JULY 9, 2021

Not only was much of the work force suddenly operating remotely and anxious about their health and the future of their employment; but also, their managers were challenged to keep employees on task, engaged, and connected without face-to-face interactions. First, make sure that success metrics are agreed upon and make sense.

Talent 36

Talent Management Metrics Training 36

Kates Kesler

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

After working closely with over twenty large US and European-based global companies during the past ten years, we have concluded the problem is not in the fundamental design of these operating models. The metrics and reward systems in the company make it clear that this kind of collaboration is expected. Amy Kates & Greg Kesler.

Enterprise 50

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Kates Kesler

JULY 2, 2015

Have conglomerates and diversified companies under-performed because of failures in enterprise strategy? Or, are these companies failing the acid test for organization effectiveness, stumbling on execution brought about by lumbering, layered, and siloed organizational models, unsuited to delivering on diverse, global strategies?

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

An aligned culture creates the environment to accelerate your strategy forward. Success metrics are confusing, conflicting, unfair or unbalanced. Prepare people leaders, cascade assessment results, agree upon workgroup level actions and metrics for success, and work with culture champions to sustain the cultural transformation.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Don’t obsess over metrics like inquiry volume or time to close tickets. Set up post-interaction NPS so you can tell if someone is still upset even after an issue is “solved,” start tracking the volume and quality of requests coming in along with metrics relating to revenue (i.e., Establish models, not just metrics.

Metrics 48

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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. What Organizations Expect from Managers. How to Set Up Your Player-Coaches for Success.

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LSA Global

MAY 26, 2017

They operate not by gut-feel but by facts, and are able to analyze the pros and cons objectively with the desired outcomes and relationships in mind. Each employee should know not only their own personal goals, roles and success metrics but also those for the company, their team and their boss. Faulty decision making.

Management 43

Management Metrics Training Training 43

Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

Our sports-apparel CEO had the right idea in challenging his team to think about the organization and ask: are we fit for growth, given our strategies going forward? At a glance, the study revealed these themes: There is no common pattern for a ‘best organization design’ regardless of size, strategy, or industry.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 24, 2017

The third, and often the least effectively used, cultural level is the alignment of your culture with your strategy. Identify the gaps between the current and needed culture, identify cultural areas which have the greatest strategic and performance impact, and establish metrics to track progress and the success of the transformation.

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Martinka Consulting

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

This was originally written for the blog on www.ibainc.com. This is not about ego; it is about building an exit strategy in order to get a higher selling price. It proves you have the team that can integrate one operation into another. It’s the few that do apply that are the reasons why this strategy may make sense.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 20, 2019

We define organizational complexity as a combination of excessive management tiers, inefficient systems, cumbersome procedures, misaligned performance metrics, confusing role definitions, and cloudy accountability. Clarify Strategy and Align Leadership. Is your strategy clear enough? Align Cultural Choices to Your Strategy.

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How To Culture Metrics Strategy 28

LSA Global

AUGUST 24, 2017

The third, and often the least effectively used, cultural level is the alignment of your culture with your strategy. Identify the gaps between the current and needed culture, identify cultural areas which have the greatest strategic and performance impact, and establish metrics to track progress and the success of the transformation.

Culture 31

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Not Focusing on Business Outcomes and Metrics First Too many instructional designers start with learning objectives, content, and training modalities. There is inevitably real discomfort as employees stretch to practice and embed new ways of operating. This is a common, but easily fixed, leadership and management development mistake.

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LSA Global

MAY 20, 2017

Because they operate at a high level, executives are often better positioned to see things that are more applicable to the entire company rather than to a specific functional area or project. They understand that they don’t operate in a vacuum and that one move leads to another. It is the whole, not the part. Read the annual report.

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Harvard Business

MAY 3, 2018

There was no need to make a telephone call to a distant operator; all the farmer needed to do was log in and order. Farmers, alone for hours on end in the fields driving their tractors, looked forward to calling the operator to place their orders. We call this the “100 lovers strategy.” They enjoyed the company.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 10, 2021

And yet far too many businesses invest in corporate training without meaningful or agreed-upon success metrics. Give learners an opportunity to review in their minds what they learned, what difference it could make in how they perform their job, and what changes they need to make in the way they operate.

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Kates Kesler

OCTOBER 15, 2015

After weeks of assessment, analysis, and discussion, your design team has arrived at a comprehensive solution that will create an organization with the right structure, roles, governance, process, and metrics to deliver on the business strategy. As the sponsor or project manager, you ask, “what could go wrong”? The team is silent.

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Kates Kesler

OCTOBER 3, 2015

After weeks of assessment, analysis, and discussion, your design team has arrived at a comprehensive solution that will create an organization with the right structure, roles, governance, process, and metrics to deliver on the business strategy. As the sponsor or project manager, you ask, “what could go wrong”? The team is silent.

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1 to 1

JUNE 11, 2013

Customer Strategy Trends. Customer Strategy. The 1to1 Blog. Strategy Speaks Blog. Customer Strategy. Hard Knox Life: A Brand Manager Blog. Marketing Blog. Strategy Speaks. Allegiance Blog. Eloqua Blog. FreshNetworks Blog. FreshNetworks Blog. Marketo Blog.

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