LSA Global

APRIL 16, 2021

Better Develop Managers Because managers are the hub of most organizations, you’d think that building management capabilities would be an essential pillar of an executive’s plan for business success. Agree upon and invest in what matters most for your unique strategy and culture. But the research says otherwise.

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LSA Global

JULY 9, 2021

Some of those forced innovations can now help us identify and forge improved ways of doing business, like achieving more strategic talent management. Think of the multiple changes in the world of finding, retaining, and managing talent. First, make sure that success metrics are agreed upon and make sense.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Strategy without Action Is Just Wishful Thinking Despite the time and effort leaders put into crafting a clear business strategy , one of the most distressing statistics, is that, according to a recent IBM survey, 90% of strategies fail to meet expectations. Where did things go wrong from strategy to action?

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 16, 2020

The 3 Most Critical Things Managers Should Do in Their First 90 Days. New managers are eager to make their mark and, as a result, are apt to try to do too much too fast. What managers should do in their first 90 days is just the opposite: slow down, take stock, and focus on what matters most.

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LSA Global

MARCH 10, 2019

Are corporate training metrics simply an exercise in futility that pleases training experts and HR but otherwise has no meaningful value to the business? Successful companies have learned that corporate training metrics have tremendous value in three areas: Helping to evaluate what matters (where to focus your efforts).

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LSA Global

MAY 16, 2024

The data on successful organizational change management is pretty bleak – by most accounts 70% of all organizational change efforts fail to deliver expected results. We know from change management simulation data that most leaders do not have the skills needed to successfully lead change. That is a shame.

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LSA Global

MAY 21, 2021

How to Communicate Better as a People Manager High performing leaders keenly understand the consequences of taking a lax approach to communication. And, whereas 53% of respondents from poorly aligned companies did not know their company’s key financial metrics, only 26% of high alignment companies did not know.

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LSA Global

MARCH 5, 2018

Simple, Clear Strategies Work Best. Complex businesses like the one diagrammed on the board above require complex strategies, right? To effectively cascade corporate strategies throughout an organization, they must be easily understood, clearly stated, and embraced by all employees. What Is the Difference?

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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. Does your performance management process strengthen or weaken your corporate culture?

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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

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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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. According to a Forrester report, about 40% of employees and managers are unsatisfied with their current on-the-job training.

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LSA Global

APRIL 12, 2023

Can Your Approach to Talent Management Maximize Employee Potential? This requires leaders to effectively manage both day-to-day needs and to invest time, money, and effort into future workforce planning and strategy. This “reality” sets the foundation to maximize employee potential.

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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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Melissa Agnes

MAY 31, 2015

Jeff Reeb is the Director of the Office of Emergency Management for the County of Los Angeles. In this week’s episode of The Crisis Intelligence Podcast, Jeff and I discuss challenging areas of emergency management and crisis preparedness that pertain to counties, cities, municipalities and organizations around the world.

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LSA Global

MARCH 16, 2023

What Top Leaders Do Better We have seen many companies promote top salespeople into sales management roles that have failed miserably. Sales leadership is about effectively leading, managing, and coaching, not doing more selling. Is your sales strategy good enough ? Circumstantial excuses carry little weight.

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LSA Global

JUNE 26, 2017

Unfortunately, too many managers struggle to follow the management basics of effective performance management. To add to the challenge, old school performance management processes and performance reviews are struggling to align with today’s more fast moving organizations and employees who have different expectations.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Do You Know Why Your Strategy May Fail? Not all strategies lead to results…even the best laid plans may not yield the outcomes you hope for. Only 10 Percent of Strategies Get Fully Executed. 9-out-of-10 strategies fail to meet expectations. 9-out-of-10 strategies fail to meet expectations. Too Complex.

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LSA Global

MAY 26, 2017

New manager training programs exist by the hundreds. They teach all kinds of leadership skills necessary for new managers (or experienced managers for that matter) to succeed. The best managers are effective decision makers. Inaction is a trap many new managers fall into. Ineffective performance management.

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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

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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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

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Manage their time effectively by focusing on high priority client items. Top sales managers understand the value of each role and structure their sales force in alignment with their unique value proposition , ideal target client profile, and sales plan. What makes sense for your unique sales strategy and culture?

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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

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

JUNE 5, 2017

If you are in charge of talent management at your organization, wouldn’t you welcome better, more effective ways of learning? Measure impact by correlating high and low skill adoption to your key performance metrics and providing individual coaching scorecards for participants and their manager.

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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. Because successfully implemented strategies require an unwavering focus, deep commitment, and sufficient resources.

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LSA Global

APRIL 20, 2018

How Important is Talent Management to Business Success? So how important is talent management to business success? The Definition of Talent Management. In a nutshell, talent management is all about planning your human resources strategically to build business value and support organizational goals. It depends.

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Harvard Business

MAY 17, 2017

” Beyond the usual financial metrics, JetBlue also measures the strength of its culture and the quality of its experience. But that was the outcome, not the strategy. By contrast, Tesla’s technology mindset has it thinking in terms of software releases and downloads rather than model years and shipments.

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LSA Global

MAY 10, 2021

What plans have you made as a talent manager to upskill your people? Recognize Needs The first step to upskill your workforce is to understand the key skills your company will need to compete successfully in the post-COVID environment to best execute your business and talent strategies. Three Steps to Upskill Your Workforce.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

A Manager’s Role – Creating a Clear Line of Sight The best managers know that creating a clear line of sight from each person’s role and individual set of tasks to what the team and company is trying to accomplish sets the stage for high performance. This helps everyone stay focused on what matters most.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Truly Great Managers Ask Great Questions. The best managers encourage their employees to reflect, learn, and grow. They do this by asking great new manager questions that show their interest, their support, and their confidence in the employee’s ability to find solutions. A Proven Method. What Difficulties Are You Facing?

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Brimstone Consulting

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

It is designed to align the senior team by clarifying strategy and setting the stage for strategy execution by engaging and aligning the organization and driving the senior team to high performance. A realistic set of operating mechanism to help the senior leadership team manage the business.

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LSA Global

APRIL 25, 2017

We know from decades of designing and delivering customized new manager training programs that new managers and leaders are especially apt to shy away from difficult conversations or tough situations. Establish that your guiding principle (your “anchor”) as a manager is to build a healthy, dynamic team. Reframe the problem.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

What Is Business Strategy? In the corporate world, business strategy design serves as the guide to win over the competition; it considers all the influencing factors of the business and outlines the way to secure future success. It encompasses the strategy answers that employees must have. Designing a Business Strategy.

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Consulting Matters

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The overall organizational system includes three primary systems: The business strategy is all about WHAT the organization wants to accomplish. The organization strategy is about HOW the organization will achieve its business strategy. The people strategy is about the WHO. Political savvy. Proactive advocacy.

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