LSA Global

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Strategy Design is Only the Beginning. Designing a clear and compelling company strategy is only the first step. Unfortunately, there is a measurable gap between strategy design and implementation in too many organizations. Closing the Gap between Strategy Design and Implementation. Cultural Alignment – The “How”.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

The strategy-to-execution gap is an enduring problem with no easy solution. ” In their seminal HBR piece , Paul Leinwand, Cesare Mainardi, and Art Kleiner outlined what senior leaders must do to close the strategy-to-execution gap. Translate strategy into everyday processes and capabilities. Hulton Archive/Getty Images.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Sales leaders are uniquely accountable for leading, managing, and coaching their teams (just like all other new managers ) PLUS meeting revenue targets, perhaps the most important and pressure-filled success metric of any organization. The pressure to deliver against ever-increasing revenue goals is unrelenting.

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Rick Conlow

JANUARY 2, 2023

Yet, their work cultures produce 85% disengaged employees. These means they are not good at one-on-one conversations, cultural sensitivity, listening, team building, managing their emotions, managing conflict, or communicating vision and strategy clearly. CEOs focus on data, facts, figures, and metrics.

Emotional Intelligence 88

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 27, 2019

Why Build a High Trust Work Culture? When you as a leader build a high trust work culture in your organization, it is simply good for people and good for business. In addition, employees at companies with a high trust work culture report less stress (by 74%) and more happiness (29%) with their lives. 106% more energetic.

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LSA Global

JULY 2, 2019

Is Your Strategy Set Up to Be Operationalized? Are you ready to operationalize your strategy? A strategy without people consistently implementing it together is useless. And yet IBM found that less than 1 out of 10 strategies are effectively executed. What moves should a leader make to bring their strategy to life?

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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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LSA Global

JULY 15, 2023

And if promoted based upon a fair assessment of sales leadership skills , a Great Place to Work survey of over 400,000 people found that when employees believe promotions are managed effectively, they are more than: Twice as likely to give extra effort at work. Twice as likely to plan for having a long-term future with their company.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 27, 2017

In a recent survey , Bain & Company found that just 2% of companies are successful in achieving their sustainability goals. However, like many of the companies surveyed by Bain, we were unsure how to connect our strategic vision around sustainability with meaningful operational changes. The Gap Between Strategy and Execution.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

The cardinal rule of employee engagement surveys: don’t ask for employee feedback unless you are determined to follow through with meaningful actions and answers. Curiosity vs. Action Driven Surveys. Surveys driven simply by curiosity only raise employee hopes that things will improve. Focus on Implementation First.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 17, 2018

Survey findings indicate that corporate leaders mostly view AI as a transformative tool to improve processes and offerings. 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.

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LSA Global

JUNE 18, 2020

A recent Selling Power survey found that only: 6% of sales teams achieved or exceeded quota in the last 24 months. It is almost impossible to use selling as a competitive advantage if the very essence of your sales strategy is not clear enough, not believable enough, or not implementable enough in the eyes of your leadership or sales team.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Already a large domestic market, Frontier Strategy Group’s estimates suggest the country will average growth rates between 7.4% Cultural variations are important. These cultural differences have a significant impact on multinationals’ talent and organizational decisions. Linda Coussement/eyeem/Getty Images.

Strategy 28

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LSA Global

JULY 28, 2022

Leadership Development Matters McKinsey and the Corporate Executive Board surveyed more than 500 executives to learn their top human capital priorities. Define the Value with Those Who Matter Most Before launching the program, actively involve key stakeholders with the business case, success metrics, target audience, and high level plan.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

While team reorganizations sound like a relatively fast and concrete way to solve complex problems, a recent McKinsey survey found that over eighty percent fail to deliver the desired benefits on schedule. Aligning confusing or contradictory goals, roles, scope and success metrics. Contradictory cultural norms.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 3, 2020

The stakes are high for strategy retreats; people need clear, compelling, and meaningful results that move the needle. Recognize at the outset that your strategy retreat is not just another executive leadership team meeting. Strategy retreats are broad in scope and implication. Tips to Get Strategy Retreat Facilitation Right.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2018

This neglect has hindered their ability to leverage data into talent strategies that can help transform their businesses. We base this claim about HR’s digital skills gap on the results of our latest global leadership survey. Only 11% of business leaders trust HR to use data to anticipate and help them fill their talent needs.

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LSA Global

APRIL 21, 2017

But, after analyzing surveys and following up on exit interviews at clients, it seems that many do not understand how to really get work done day-to-day, how to build effective relationships within the unique cultural parameters, and how to effectively use the company’s business systems and processes. Train on systems. Monitor results.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Great leaders achieve great results and create great company cultures. While working with a large Forbes Top 25 Private Company, we quantified the value of leadership using internal key business metrics and various cognitive and behavioral leader assessments. Senior leadership is essential for driving innovation.

Leadership 52

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LSA Global

JUNE 26, 2017

Our annual Best Places to Work employee engagement surveys find that less than 50 percent of employees report their managers provide relevant and valuable input, and most managers we interview find the performance review process to be a monumental waste of time. To get this right, have people design their metrics with you.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Right now, for example, the hot topic is “digital leadership” — driving organizations to be more innovative, iterative, and collaborative as they develop digital strategies to disrupt or transform their current business. The culture at GE, for example, centers on execution, simplicity, and innovation.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2018

Understanding the brand strategy. ” This not only reinforced the company’s desired identity as an entertainment brand but also helped seed the “SHOW” acronym that summarized its desired brand-led culture: S for smile and greet the guest. H for hear their story. O for own the experience.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 31, 2018

They were employed in midlevel to upper-midlevel management positions in strategy, finance, marketing, legal, operations, and technology functions. Some women wanted to advance to senior leadership roles so they could influence business strategy, lead change, and advance the goals and values of the company.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 7, 2016

In a survey of 54 of the world’s leading brands, almost all of them reported that consumers are showing increasing care about sustainable lifestyles. At the same time, surveys on consumers in the US and UK show that they also care about minimizing energy use and reducing waste. Enormous opportunities also lie with e-waste.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Previous work has relied on surveys and self-reported assessments — methods of data collecting that are prone to bias. The metric we used for this is called weighted centrality. Most programs created to combat gender inequality are based on anecdotal evidence or cursory surveys.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 23, 2017

There is a new generation of real-time employee opinion tools that are starting to replace old-fashioned employee opinion surveys — tools that tell you far more than just what employees think every year. This is giving us the opportunity to experiment with different change strategies within chosen populations in the company.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

AUGUST 7, 2023

An Examination of the Importance of Leadership Behaviors and Attributes on Shaping Culture Executive Summary Organizational culture is a critical factor in financially successful companies. But culture change is often overwhelming and elusive. Section three focuses on proven approaches to architect organizational culture.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Employees of large companies just don’t go to those lengths, and often, the corporate strategy or leadership changes and doesn’t allow them to persist in perfecting a new concept. I once interviewed an entrepreneur who, instead of paying for an apartment in Cambridge, Mass.,

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

We performed pulse surveys quarterly after every town hall meeting at Saint Anthony Hospital. The questions were developed by Press Ganey, the healthcare survey company, and were related to employee engagement. This new group became the implementation team charged with executing on the strategy. There’s a better way.

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Tsavo Neal

JULY 10, 2020

How do you score in all the metrics that might be worth watching, and where specifically are you scoring in the eight most important ones. The second is positioning , marketing best practices, and lead generation strategies to find clients who need you and would find it difficult to locate a suitable substitute. The former.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

link] How you can love those you lead The answer for bringing selfless love into the workplace is not hiding in metrics or data within the business- but in your routine practices, you perform automatically in your daily life. How can you cultivate selfless love in the workplace? References Ferris, R. Organizational Dynamics, 16 (4), 41-51.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

The metrics also changed. For Equinix, surveys revealed that a third of employees were not confident explaining its company story. This program gives employees across all disciplines and levels tools to educate them on the company, its culture, products and services, and how they solve its customer’s needs. The results?

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Marketing Agile Fashion Sales 48

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits. Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

In November 2015 Geisinger Health System launched its ProvenExperience program – a wide-ranging cultural and process reengineering initiative whose long-term goal is not just to assure the best customer experience in healthcare, but to offer the best customer experience of any industry.

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CaseInterview.com

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

While it sometimes seems that everyone wants to get into the top 3 strategy consulting firms McKinsey, Boston Consulting Group (BCG), and Bain & Company (Bain), also known as MBB , it's worth noting that there are several other top consulting firms that can give a career a real boost. PricewaterhouseCoopers (Strategy&).

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Harvard Business

JULY 13, 2016

Identify the right metrics. In the digital membership economy, the metrics best apt to indicate success are more likely to be around member churn and engagement. Invest in building a culture of membership. No strategy is static. Inertia isn’t love, and feedback isn’t strategy. Membership is a mindset.

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Cash Flow Survey Metrics Accenture 28

Harvard Business

MAY 10, 2018

Bain & Company, in partnership with Google, surveyed marketing decision makers around the world to gain a deeper understanding of how marketers use audience insights and technology to drive growth. A key to that culture is near-real time information. more likely to prioritize integrating technology. Making Timely Connections.

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