LSA Global

MARCH 11, 2024

For example, spending more time or effort on training measurement than the value of the measurement itself rarely makes sense. The Good News: Most Companies Think People Development Matters If you follow the money, most companies think that investing in the development of their people matters. There is a better way.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Leadership and Management Development Matters According to recent research by McKinsey and the Corporate Executive Board, more than 500 executives ranked leadership development among the top three human capital priorities, and two thirds of leaders rated developing effective leaders as their top concern.

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LSA Global

APRIL 19, 2018

Support Your Desired Culture. More leaders are looking for ways support their desired culture in the wake of the recent high profile cultural derailments of companies like VW, Wells Fargo, Uber and the Veteran’s Administration. What Happened Culturally? Their culture went toxic.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 6, 2023

McKinsey & Company discovered that data-driven firms are 23 times more likely to acquire customers , six times more likely to retain them, and 19 times more likely to be profitable than their counterparts without a data-driven culture. For example, let's say your organization's goal is to increase revenue.

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Rick Conlow

AUGUST 21, 2023

Culturally engrained employee recognition and appreciation matters in today’s workplace. For example, one of our clients wanted to increase sales results with existing customers. Tanner Institute’s 2020 Global Culture Report showed that 87% of organizations with a strong recognition culture reported a positive employer brand.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Creating an aligned and high performance culture that sets the stage for peak performance is about a lot more than just designing a corporate strategy and deploying the resources to deliver on it. For example, a leadership competency we measure is the ability to Formulate a Concrete Strategic Vision.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Different Strategies and Cultures Matter. Our organizational alignment research found that the combination of different strategies and cultures at work accounts for 71% of the difference between high and low performing companies in terms of revenue growth, profitability, customer loyalty, and employee engagement.

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Women in Consulting

MARCH 4, 2016

She presented on how relationships are formed in this digital era, how to become a thought leader, and offered tips on developing a communication strategy, setting goals, and increasing engagement. Strengthen your relationship with your followers by validating them, then use metrics to measure the impact and reach of your interactions.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JANUARY 16, 2023

While most companies are investing significantly in building analytics capability, the benefits can't be fully realized until the company culture supports data-driven decision-making. Here are the seven characteristics of a data-driven culture and practical steps any leader can take to architect culture. Upadhyay & Kumar.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 14, 2023

Each stage of team development has its own noticeable feelings and behaviors and provides a helpful framework for recognizing a team’s behavioral patterns, needs, and next steps. Describe the Team Culture We know from assessing organizational cultures that every team has its unwritten rules — the way work truly gets done day-by-day.

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Consulting Success

JANUARY 29, 2018

Ron and his partners at Navalent help companies that are in pursuit of a substantial transformational change, whether it be strategic formulation, organizational design, cultural shifts, or executive leadership behaviors. Positioning Yourself As The Expert — How To Develop A Consulting Voice That Clients Will Listen To with Ron Carucci.

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Consulting Matters

DECEMBER 16, 2022

It includes: HR practices such as training, staffing and communication, performance metrics and rewards, and performance management and coaching. All three create the culture and work environment. And they don't see the impact on culture and environment, especially if leaders are not thoughtful in their decisions and communication.

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Rick Conlow

AUGUST 19, 2021

For example, one manager declared that customer service was his #1 priority. Former CEO of Medtronic, Bill George , led by example. In fact, research shows that purpose-driven businesses excel in a variety of business metrics better than others. Does the leader follow-through on commitments? It is a result.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2020

Successful software product development is about how well the team learns together. As a manager, while you might have a bunch of metrics, most of those measures don't help you manage. ( Here are some examples: Demos, even of partially working product. You don't need too many metrics if you can see visible progress.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Chief topics central to the job description of HR consultants are, among others, organizational changes, change management, terms of employment, learning & development, talent management and retirement. HR consultants may also be brought in by organizations to help transform the business culture or transform the HR department.

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Successful Independent Consulting

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

For example, a coach or public speaker probably can use a one-page bio because their expertise is fairly narrow and relevant only in a certain context. Moreover, some people prefer to review documents like résumés away from their desk, for example while eating lunch or in the evening. (I Click on the PDF image for an example.)

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 17, 2018

It does not come as a surprise that AI is mainly a focus of CIOs and CTOs who are concerned with developing AI strategies, which often entail building advanced IT infrastructures and investing in relevant talent. Finally, strategic planning culminates with developing a roadmap for achieving its vision and objectives.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Investments in traditional leadership development are often misguided and a waste of money. It’s not that development itself isn’t important. So they’re looking for ways to cultivate those competencies and, in the process, feeding the fad-driven leadership development market. Paul Garbett for HBR.

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Kates Kesler

APRIL 7, 2022

Translating content into local languages or adhering to local regulations are some classic examples. The network is connected through lateral integrators such as communities of practice, shared metrics, or formal integrator roles. An Example. And where they need to let go of decisions to create speed but also to develop talent.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 25, 2020

First, pull a cross-functional team together from sales, marketing, pricing, finance, legal, product development, and service to identify how to best stabilize, forecast, and optimize strategic accounts and the sales pipeline in the next 30 days. Is your sales strategy, sales culture , and sales talent aligned enough to navigate a crisis?

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2020

Successful software product development is about how well the team learns together. As a manager, while you might have a bunch of metrics, most of those measures don't help you manage. ( Here are some examples: Demos, even of partially working product. You don't need too many metrics if you can see visible progress.

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LSA Global

APRIL 20, 2018

We define talent management as the proactive and thoughtful attraction, development, engagement, and retention of the talent required to execute your strategic plan in a way that aligns with your corporate culture. Culture (how things truly get done) accounts for 40% of the difference between high and low organizations.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 6, 2024

In Effective Agility Requires Cultural Changes: Part 1 , I said that real agile approaches require cultural change to focus on flow efficiency , where we watch the flow of the work , not the people doing tasks. What about those cultural changes? Long ago, I wrote When Requirements Spawn Requirements as one example of that.)

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

In Brooklyn, for example, MINI, where one of us works, runs A/D/O, a combination coworking space, café, concept store, and fabrication lab. Orange’s VBN is one example; another belongs to a large telco in Silicon Valley, where its teams huddle alongside those from customers to prototype products and services.

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Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2017

” Take, as an example, the world’s largest mining company by market capitalization, BHP Billiton. Corporations are now taking a further step beyond objective metrics, which can be financial and nonfinancial, to include subjective measures — tagged as “soft.”

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LSA Global

JULY 3, 2020

This is especially true if psychological biases, cultural norms, or leadership styles at your organization tend to stifle alternative points of view. A Messy Example. Some years ago, Snapple developed a new flavor they called kiwi-strawberry on ice. A Client Example. Most executives feel tremendous pressure to act.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Before you invest the time and effort to upskill your sales team, ensure that leadership agrees upon your ideal target clients, unique value proposition, success metrics, and key strategies for success. Confirm Your Sales Culture is Aligned with Your Sales Strategy. Is your sales culture aligned enough with your sales strategy?

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

A core challenge of management is to ensure that the organization’s priorities, strategies, and metrics are consistently embraced and that any impediments are identified and addressed quickly. Metrics that are reported daily, such as “units at capacity.” CAPTION TEXT HERE/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2018

” In today’s tightening labor market, HR leaders must work relentlessly to develop and recruit people who advance digital transformation across their organizations. HR leaders can start by upskilling their teams in areas that impact two critical business outcomes: building bench strength and tying HR metrics to financial success.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 6, 2017

We live in a culture of “yes.” But here’s the trouble with having a corporate culture built around likability: When people are afraid to turn down noncritical projects, good ideas get smothered. I worked with a software development company in which the CEO came up with a new product feature on a weekly basis.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 11, 2019

And because every sales team has a unique sales strategy, culture, solution, and definition of winning, the best sales playbooks are unique to each organization and target buyer persona. Sales Culture. Do not underestimate the need for the right sales culture to meet your targets. Sales Talent.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

These data scientists design, define, and implement metrics, run and interpret experiments, create dashboards, draw causal inferences, and generate recommendations from modeling and measurement. Modeling scientist: Direct improvements in the product or business from the code developed and shipped. What are some examples?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2018

” WebMD Health Services has developed a measurement system that addresses this deficiency. The impact went beyond the one specific metric. I contend that what lies at the heart of the inconsistent results is not the programs per se but rather how we define and ultimately measure “well-being.”

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Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

Organizational Development Book. Take Tom, a website developer whom I met on a consulting assignment at an accounting firm. “He was more concerned with protocol than personal development. It’s not often possible to ignore performance metrics or overcome policies and bureaucratic red-tape. We feel more alive.

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LSA Global

JUNE 26, 2017

For example, my old employer, Accenture , is replacing annual evaluations and rankings with more timely and personalized feedback for all employees. Develop skills and careers. To get it right, make sure that the success metrics are relevant, consistent, fair, just possible, accurate and timely. Create accountability.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 8, 2018

We need to build an intentional, human-centered culture and approach burnout and well-being comprehensively — aligning them with other organizational priorities. We need a metric for humanity to evaluate the human capacity and connection among caregivers and patients. In another example, Ronald A.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Every step of the process was measured, and real-time metrics were easily accessible. But Bernstein and his team observed that when managers were not watching, employees secretly developed and shared better ways of doing the work. Building Balanced Cultures. Metrics emphasized speed.

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