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

JULY 5, 2023

An Aligned Risk Culture – How Much Risk Makes Sense for Your Corporate Culture? It depends, a risky corporate culture is not necessarily bad. We know from our organizational culture assessment data that one risky corporate culture may work for some strategies and not work for others.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Pressures Faced by Sales Managers Are Unique to Their Role A sales leader’s average tenure is less than two years, which is far shorter than the tenure of most other managers. In fact, a recent survey by PayScale uncovered that 73% rated the role of sales account manager as “highly stressful.”Unlike Why is this?

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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

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

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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LSA Global

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The Challenge of Culture Change Organizational change is always challenging, but culture change is especially difficult because it requires changing employee mindsets and behaviors as to how work gets done. It requires changing business practices to change culture. Organizational culture matters.

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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. New manager training participants often complain about being trapped in a cycle of back-to-back meetings, leaving little time to lead, manage, or coach their teams.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 22, 2022

The Culture Toolkit containing research-backed workplace culture tools and insights for leaders to create a healthy, high performing, and strategically aligned culture. Our organizational alignment research found culture accounts for 40% of the difference between high and low performing organizations.

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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

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

APRIL 15, 2024

Developing an effective sales strategy requires a deep understanding of market dynamics and the ability to adapt to evolving trends. Let’s delve into the intricacies of constructing an effective sales strategy that makes sense to your people, your customers, and your business as a whole.

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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. Let’s delve into the intricacies of constructing an effective sales strategy that makes sense to your people, your customers, and your business as a whole.

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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

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)? But what is the right balance?

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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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LSA Global

JUNE 6, 2020

Middle Management Needs to Be Deeply Engaged in Strategy Design and Planning. It also found that middle management plays a powerful role in getting strategically aligned. For strategic plans to succeed, companies need to align middle management with strategy. Proactively Prepare Middle Managers for the Unexpected.

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LSA Global

APRIL 18, 2024

How to Influence Your Team as a Manager The ability to influence your team as a manager has a direct correlation to individual and team success. The ability to influence your team as a manager helps you and your team to mobilize resources, drive organizational change , and get results with others.

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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

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.

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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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Consulting Matters

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Her successful career journey, with diverse roles in operations and staff groups at Disney, have been instrumental in shaping her understanding of leadership, corporate culture, and organizational success. She is interested in mentoring roles for executives and consulting projects on change management initiatives.

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Consulting Matters

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Her successful career journey, with diverse roles in operations and staff groups at Disney, have been instrumental in shaping her understanding of leadership, corporate culture, and organizational success. She is interested in mentoring roles for executives and consulting projects on change management initiatives.

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LSA Global

MAY 2, 2023

Ready to Move from Strategy to Action? After a successful strategy retreat , smart leaders ensure that everyone is ready to fully accept and act upon the key strategic priorities in a way that makes sense to the people and the business. Are your leaders and their direct reports truly ready for the challenge ahead?

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LSA Global

AUGUST 25, 2022

The Impact of Great Sales Managers Companies that focus simply on the skills of their sales reps and neglect to provide targeted sales management training for sales leaders overlook a critical leverage point to increase sales performance. So, What Makes a Great Sales Manager?

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Performance Management Defined Simply put, performance management is a process to help managers and employees to know where they stand. Done right, performance management can lead individuals, leaders, and teams to higher levels of performance results and better alignment of behaviors with desired cultural values and norms.

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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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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Culture and Growth We know from our organizational alignment research that workplace culture – how work gets done – accounts for 40% of the difference between high and low performing companies. Workplace culture can hinder growth or support it. Workplace culture can hinder growth or support it.

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LSA Global

APRIL 4, 2023

Why Leaders Need to Create Faster Strategy Execution We think of strategic speed as the ability of an organization and its leaders to move quickly enough to take advantage of market opportunities and offset competitive threats. Most business leaders consider the speed of successful strategy execution to be paramount to sustainable growth.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Where Do You Stand on These Strategy Execution Readiness Questions? Many leaders say the right things, but when push comes to shove, they rank low on fundamental strategy execution readiness questions. Corporate Strategy Execution Readiness Research The data on corporate strategy execution readiness is pretty sobering.

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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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Successful Independent Consulting

APRIL 1, 2024

Working within the intersection between these disciplines, Jack emphasizes leadership development, inter-cultural business communication, employee engagement, and customer focus. Download a worksheet here.) Were you involved with the strategy, planning, implementation, or all of the above? What is his sweet spot?

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LSA Global

APRIL 5, 2021

Culture’s Role in Business Success We know from our organizational alignment research that workplace culture – how work gets done – accounts for 40% of the difference between high and low performing companies. But how to you make culture change stick because, simply put, culture matters.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Top 10 Key Sales Management Skills: Mastering the Art of Sales Leadership Sales leaders must routinely navigate high stakes internal and external relationships while meeting ever-increasing revenue targets and demands from their sales team. Do your sales managers anticipate and meet current and future customer needs?

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Changing Corporate Culture. Some things are easily changed; corporate culture is not one of them. A key competency of successful leaders is knowing how to lead employees through cultural change. But cultural change CAN be accomplished with thoughtful preparation, transparency, active involvement, and open dialogue.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 8, 2021

Difficult but Achievable The challenge to adopt a new cultural norm across your organization is difficult but not impossible. In fact, it occurs frequently in multi-national companies when they stumble across gaps in culture due to vastly different communication and working styles from one country to another.

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