Harmonious Workplaces

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Earlier in the week, three people quit, the company terminated four others due to downsizing to eliminate an entire department, and payroll came a day late. the office administrator sends a company-wide email informing everyone of a pizza lunch at noon as a thank-you for their hard work. Around 10:30 a.m., So, What’s Wrong with Pizza?

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Rick Conlow

JANUARY 24, 2023

Servant Leadership is the antidote to toxic workplaces. Too often companies take advantage of employees and treat them as lower class citizens. Companies lose $22 trillion dollars a year globally in poor productivity and performance because of toxic workplaces. Now, it helps if a company elevates its culture.

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Rick Conlow

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Leadership is about people-first. Isn’t it time leadership understands this? Aren’t you weary of the steady stream of leadership nonsense you hear from politics, Washington, or the corporate office? Leadership derailment studies show that 82% of managers fail. Do not accept stupid and greedy leadership.

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Makarios Consulting

APRIL 12, 2023

Fifteen years have passed, but I (Tim) still remember the meeting as if it was yesterday. Posner explain the nature of values in their classic work The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations. These values anchored the CFO’s organization and quickly became the hallmark of the team’s culture.

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LSA Global

MAY 8, 2023

About LSA Global Founded in 1995, LSA Global is the leading performance consulting, coaching, and training firm that helps high growth technology, services, and life-science companies create a competitive advantage by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with their strategy. Learn more about getting aligned.

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Rick Conlow

MAY 22, 2023

The quote “ The art of communication is the language of leadership” is often attributed to James Humes. This quote punctuates the critical nature of communication to effective and successful leadership. He was a an author, and speechwriter for several U.S. presidents, including Ronald Reagan.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

100% Job Relevance 100% Satisfaction 50% Knowledge Gain 100% Net Promoter Score After putting their entire APAC sales team through customized solution selling training , this high growth technology client wanted to design and deliver a customized sales management training program for sales leaders to help meet aggressive growth targets.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The leaders in the Facilitative Leadership Workshop faced the following challenges: High expectations to take, promote, and encourage a cross-functional and program focus vs. the predominant product and function focus that most of their internal customers follow and are rewarded for. Learn more about getting aligned.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Best Practices to Improve Company Direction and Purpose It is difficult to lead people effectively if they are unclear or misaligned with where they are headed and why getting there matters. Our organizational alignment research found that aligned companies grow revenue 58% faster, drive 72% greater profitability, satisfy customers 3.2-to-1,

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Rick Conlow

MARCH 29, 2021

The greatest leadership principle of all-time is elusive even though it is common sense. Managers often miss the greatest leadership principle of all-time. Let’s get to where the rubber meets the road. 5 Clues about the Greatest Leadership Principle. A Sirota Study outlines that high morale companies grow 19.4%

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MAY 8, 2023

Have you ever wondered what servant leadership is? Maybe you already understand the basic concepts but have questions about how servant leadership differs from other leadership styles or if a servant leadership approach is appropriate for your team. For example, consider two employees walking down a hall.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JULY 17, 2023

Culture is acutely critical during notable changes, such as M&As, which offer an opportunity for a renewed start on culture. When two organizations combine through mergers and acquisitions for economic reasons, it is doubtful that the two cultures will remain precisely the same.

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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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Organizational Talent Consulting

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Unfortunately, many organizations keep strategic plans a secret and don't involve leaders outside the executive leadership team. Evidence suggests only 5% of employees understand their company's strategy. A business strategy aims to align followers and teams toward achieving a shared goal from the company's vision.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 4, 2024

Shaping a Culture of Strategy Execution Excellence Our leadership simulation assessment data tells us that top leaders cultivate a culture of strategy execution excellence by ensuring that workplace culture harmoniously aligns with key strategic objectives. Corporate Culture Research Corporate culture matters.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 21, 2023

About LSA Global Founded in 1995, LSA Global is the leading performance consulting, coaching, and training firm that helps high growth technology, services, and life-science companies create a competitive advantage by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with their strategy. Learn more about getting aligned.

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Asamby Consulting

MAY 4, 2022

Reform your team’s meeting habits to boost productivity and business impact as a CEO (a post-pandemic approach). If you work at a small business or growing company, you'll eventually face the problem of too many meetings. Once fun and collaborative workplace cultures can easily become a drag of meetings.

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Markovitz Consulting

MAY 19, 2021

But many companies have long subscribed to this more holistic—and I’d argue, healthier—mantra. As Jim Collins wrote about visionary firms such as Merck, 3M, General Electric, Boeing, and Disney in Built to Last , Profit maximization does not rule, but the visionary companies pursue their aims profitably. They do both.

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Markovitz Consulting

MAY 29, 2018

I doubt Netflix was thinking how Jim Womack would apply lean to their board meetings. But in a new article , the Harvard Business Review describes how the company reinvented board meetings by creating a better way to share information with its board of directors. Senior management responds to the questions prior to the meeting.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

They know that leadership commitment is about concentrating on the long-term goal versus short-term personal survival. This type of leadership commitment requires courage, intentionality, and decisiveness. The Compassion Factor The Compassion Factor is the intersection of people, leadership, and results. 100% Job Relevance.

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Makarios Consulting

JUNE 22, 2022

In this five-part series, we will be looking at “Great Leadership from the Inside Out” … because what is within you as a leader determines what comes out of your leadership. We believe that this approach and attitude is particularly critical at this moment in time as companies face the ongoing challenges of the Great Resignation.

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Brimstone Consulting

AUGUST 16, 2021

Why we need to stop believing that culture and collaboration sit within the four walls of an office. While they recognize that the great work-from-home experiment was surprisingly effective they also believe that it hurt organizational culture and belonging and that it does not support collaboration and innovation. The reason?

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Harmonious Workplaces

JANUARY 11, 2024

I attended a meeting led by the VP of construction for a company for which I was the VP of marketing. I joined the meeting virtually from another part of the building via Microsoft Teams. The president of the company sat beside the VP in the same room. After the meeting, he called me back into the conference room.

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Business Consulting Agency

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Medium-sized companies in the United States are the backbone of the economy, contributing significantly to job creation and economic growth. These companies often face unique challenges as they strive to scale and compete in a dynamic business environment. Through business consulting services , better results can be achieved.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

net promoter score This global and growing Integrated Technology Company wanted a customized sales management training program to meet the unique needs of their marketplace. The leadership workshops were customized to align with the current business sales training workshops being rolled out across the globe.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 28, 2022

Effective leadership is communication. From being vulnerable to saying what others don't want to hear to endless Zoom meetings. A few things about effective leadership communication are proven based on several studies over the past two decades. Why Leadership Communication Matters. It can be exhausting.

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Rick Conlow

MAY 31, 2023

Our assessment identified a silo mentality throughout the organization and minimal leadership development or training. This cost the company significant business. As a result, business results increased, and the company won the Malcolm Baldrige award for quality service. Can you relate to that? Here are the top ten.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Leadership Transitions Matter The pace of change affects shifts in leadership. Leadership transitions are important because they have an outsized influence on the success or failure of the entire organization. We know from our leadership simulation assessment data that most leaders are ill-prepared to take on their new role.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

APRIL 11, 2022

A lot of businesses are experiencing a leadership shortage. CEOs need a strong leadership pipeline to thrive, but it's not easy to build. In fact, perceptions of leadership effectiveness and readiness often differ between executives and the frontline. Leadership development investments don't have to be a big gamble.

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Makarios Consulting

MAY 2, 2023

Inspire a Shared Vision “Inspire a Shared Vision” is the second in our blog series about The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership® that James M. Posner define in their classic work, The Leadership Challenge. To reach that goal, he didn’t call a meeting, announce the objective, and encourage the team to get behind it.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JANUARY 2, 2023

You might be entirely on board and curious about how work and leadership will be different in the future. No leader sets out to become obsolete, and developing leadership habits is a competitive advantage. Why develop future-proof leadership skills? Harnessing the potential of company growth takes well-equipped leaders. "If

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Clarity Consultants

JULY 28, 2023

After all, things are going to get tough from time to time, and having that shoulder to lean on can genuinely make or break how well a company survives when things become challenging. That’s where leadership development programs come in. Why is Leadership Development Important? Those numbers are unfortunate, to say the least.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

When lacking, company performance and culture suffer. Holding others accountable isn't easy, but it significantly impacts your leadership and business results. An organizational culture of accountability is architected. In a toxic culture without accountability, employees ignore, deny, blame and play the victim.

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Business Consulting Agency

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Here, we explore the diverse areas in which business consultants assist companies and the myriad of benefits that companies can expect when partnering with these invaluable experts. Find out here how companies reap benefits when working with experts. Power of business consulting is hard to ignore.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MAY 16, 2022

Many businesses are trying to build coaching skills, but leadership habits take time to change. Does being a leader and leadership coach have to be that hard? Leadership is a relationship. 86% of companies report that they recouped their investment in coaching and more. Maybe leaders don’t make good coaches.

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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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Rick Conlow

JUNE 19, 2023

The number of companies adopting and managers leading remote work teams has increased significantly. According to Gitnux blog 56% of companies actively use remote workers. According to Gitnux blog 56% of companies actively use remote workers. Forty-four percent of companies do not hire remote workers.

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