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. Leadership development ranked among the top three and almost half of all business leaders listed developing effective leaders as their top concern. Where’s the disconnect?

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Clear direction sets the foundation for individuals and teams to make good decisions , collaborate across functions, and act cohesively to move the business strategy forward. It’s no wonder — the number of possible leadership actions and the ways in which to go about implementing and measuring their impact can be daunting.

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LSA Global

APRIL 1, 2024

In fact, strategic clarity accounts for 31% of the difference between high and low levels of revenue growth, profitability, customer loyalty, leadership effectiveness , and employee engagement. Strategic Vision , Company Mission , Corporate Values , and Optimizing Strategies) serve as an organization’s North Star.

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LSA Global

JULY 2, 2021

Total Leadership Team Alignment The essence of leadership team success is having all leadership team members working cooperatively toward a common goal. When you align your leadership team, everyone can tell. Leadership team alignment is about creating synergy, leverage, and higher performance.

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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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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

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

MARCH 11, 2024

While most companies believe in the need to upskill their employees to execute their strategies and retain top talent, leaders are frustrated with the return on their training investments. Level 3 Training Measurement is typically determined through performance metrics, supervisor evaluations, and peer feedback.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Because of this, properly assessing executive capabilities of the CEO and the entire leadership team is an important, yet underutilized, leverage point to directly improve organizational performance. Combined, these leadership skills collectively define an executive’s capacity to lead effectively – especially when the stakes are high.

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LSA Global

APRIL 4, 2024

An HR Guide to Company Culture and Your Organizational DNA When it comes to people and organizational dynamics, the concept of company culture can seem nebulous and less vital when compared company strategies, systems, people, or finances. The truth is that different companies do things and present themselves differently.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 3, 2019

A Common Problem When Leaders Disagree on Strategy. After massive investments of time and money, too many companies report failing at strategy execution. What’s Causing the Disconnect between Strategic Planning and Strategy Implementation? Six Tips on Moving Forward When Top Leaders Disagree on Strategy.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 16, 2023

A Look at What High Performing Sales Managers Do Our sales leader simulation assessment has identified twenty-one core leadership competencies and seventy-three associated and measurable micro-behaviors that roll up into the core competencies. Simply put, high performing sales managers build high performing sales teams.

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LSA Global

MAY 20, 2018

Successful Strategy Implementation is Far from Easy. Closing the strategy execution gap is hard work. Not many organizations naturally combine strategy and strategy execution. Research by IBM found that only 10% of strategies are deemed to be successfully executed. Being OK with Misalignment.

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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.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Align Teams Around Goals to Better Execute Strategies According to research by IBM, 9 out of 10 business plans fail to achieve strategic goals. When leaders do not align teams around goals, our own organizational alignment research found that business strategies are 50% less clear to employees than to leaders.

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Brimstone Consulting

MARCH 1, 2022

When employees were asked to download software that tracked keystrokes and mouse movement, some employees started to message each other more to attain the metrics required, others left the organization. Unclear expectations, lack of trust, metrics that make no sense. This is not a recipe for success. So, what is?

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Below is an executive summary of the sales keynote: Executive Summary: Best of Sales Conference Keynote Speakers Go to Market Sales Strategy Our organizational alignment research found that strategic sales clarity accounts for 31% of the difference between high and low performing sales teams.

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Brimstone Consulting

MARCH 1, 2022

When employees were asked to download software that tracked keystrokes and mouse movement, some employees started to message each other more to attain the metrics required, others left the organization. Unclear expectations, lack of trust, metrics that make no sense. This is not a recipe for success. So, what is?

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

We know from leadership simulation assessment data that many work decisions are relatively straightforward and easy to make. To learn more about how to improve team decision making, download 3 Steps to Set Your Team Up to Make Better Decisions The post How to Unstick Team Decision Making appeared first on LSA Global.

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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. Strategic Clarity – The “What”.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

In effect, strategic alignment occurs when every part of the organization is working together to implement the “intentions” that define the strategy in a way that makes sense to leaders, teams, and customers. to-1 Leadership Effectiveness 8.71-to-1 Read on for 3 steps to strategic alignment. What Difference Does It Make?

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

A Corporate Growth Strategy that Works. What is the secret to actually emerging from your growth strategy better, bigger, and stronger? Far more growth strategies, however, fall short. In fact, IBM found that less than 10% of well formulated strategies are effectively executed. The Corporate Growth Strategy Failures.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Effective Leadership Decision Making. Leadership teams and organizations that can follow clear, structured, and healthy decision-making strategies move more surely and swiftly in the direction that makes the most sense. Three Leadership Decision Making Categories. High Stakes Leadership Decision Making.

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LSA Global

JUNE 19, 2019

Do You Know How to Conduct Effective Leadership Team Meetings? While most work meetings are considered a waste of valuable time and energy, your ability to conduct effective leadership team meetings is essential to moving a team forward and carving out time for strategic, complex, systemic, and cross-team issues. Identify Clear Roles.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 2, 2018

How to Develop the Right Strategy. When you can develop the right strategy…one that is clear, agreed-upon and achievable…you are set up to win the game and outperform your competition. Top 10 Signs of a Bad Strategy. Let’s start with the most common signs of a bad strategy. Decreased confidence in leadership.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

How to Better Cascade Your Corporate Strategy. In business we use the verb “cascading” when we talk about communicating and embedding a corporate strategy throughout the organization. Effective Strategy Cascading Creates Alignment, Accountability and Meaning. Success Metrics: How you will measure success and failure.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Have you built effective employee learning journeys that build upon each other for your various stakeholders as part of your talent management strategy ? Are you effectively assessing what matters most at the individual, team, and organizational levels to move your people AND business strategies forward?

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LSA Global

MARCH 16, 2023

Sales leadership is about effectively leading, managing, and coaching, not doing more selling. While a background in selling is important, selling skills alone will not help to build an effective sales strategy , sales culture , or sales team. Is your sales strategy good enough ?

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LSA Global

APRIL 12, 2023

This requires leaders to effectively manage both day-to-day needs and to invest time, money, and effort into future workforce planning and strategy. Assuming your corporate strategy is clear , you need to know where you stand from a culture and talent perspective. This “reality” sets the foundation to maximize employee potential.

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Consulting Matters

DECEMBER 16, 2022

One thing I have learned over my almost 30-plus years of consulting – while there are executive unicorns who will share your idealistic visions of a balanced approach to leadership, like Mark Johnson (in episode 42) or former Disney COO Jim MacPhee (in episode 40), the majority won't. The people strategy is about the WHO.

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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

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Alignment at Work Research Our organizational alignment research found that highly aligned companies grow revenue 58% faster and are 72% more profitable while significantly outperforming their unaligned peers in terms of customer satisfaction, leadership effectiveness, and employee engagement. What’s your celebration strategy?

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LSA Global

JULY 21, 2017

Are you neglecting worrisome Strategy Warning Signs? Too many companies become slaves to short-term quarterly targets and neglect to simultaneously focus on the long-term winning strategy. We maintain that a strategy that lives only on paper is worthless. Do any of those strategy warning signs sound familiar to you?

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Successful organizations have learned how to design the right L&D strategy. 4 Factors to Design the Right L&D Strategy for Your Company Because of the competitive war for talent, people expect to be invested in and developed. We know that the same is true with training strategies.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 10, 2022

Here are some tips on what your leadership needs to do to not only keep up with but also stay ahead of the learning game. Start with Strategy Effective learning solutions directly support both business and people strategies. Unfortunately, too many learning leaders make too many training strategy mistakes.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Culture’s Role in Performance Your strategy (the WHAT) must go through your people and your workplace culture (THE HOW) to be executed successfully. Strategic clarity across all levels of the organization, starting with leadership, is a prerequisite for any successful and lasting culture change. Do not underestimate where you stand.

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