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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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

APRIL 1, 2024

Strategic Vision , Company Mission , Corporate Values , and Optimizing Strategies) serve as an organization’s North Star. You will know that you have more work to do if people are uncertain about shared goals or feel pulled in different directions by conflicting priorities or misaligned cultural expectations and metrics for success.

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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

AUGUST 25, 2020

Is It Time to Pivot Your Sales Strategy? You will find out just how quickly you can pivot your sales strategy and your sales team when a crisis occurs. Do you need to pivot your sales strategy or sales approach? 3 Steps to Pivot Your Sales Strategy During a Crisis. But hope is not a strategy – especially during a crisis.

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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

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? The Bottom Line.

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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

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 9, 2018

Why a Winning Sales Strategy Matters|. A winning sales strategy clearly outlines where you should win the majority of the time, what sets you apart from your competition, how sales success will be measured and the critical few sales scenarios that matter most in terms of meeting your sales targets. Where Do You Begin? The Bottom Line.

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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. What’s Going Wrong with Strategy Execution? Too Complex. Varied Buy-In.

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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

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

AUGUST 16, 2023

High performing sales managers ensure that each and every team member understands, embraces, and is intrinsically motivated by the sales strategy and plan for success. They ensure that team members are accountable to the agreed-upon processes and critical productivity metrics. Can your sales leaders lead enough to create high growth?

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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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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

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

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. Conflicted success metrics. Get to Work.

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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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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

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

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

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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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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Harvard Business

JULY 27, 2017

To get there, companies should take the time to level-set their efforts with three strategic exercises: Reexamine your goals and strategy. With more and more options for mobile interactions, businesses all too often get their digital strategy wrong — or don’t reassess it often enough. Insight Center.

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LSA Global

MARCH 18, 2019

Successful Strategy Execution Is Not the Norm. Sadly, IBM found that less than 10% of well formulated strategies are successfully executed. When it comes to successful strategy execution, how can you beat the odds? Why is Successful Strategy Execution So Hard? Is implemented consistently across an organization.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Overcome the Team Decision Making Deadlock When the decision making process bogs down and competing viewpoints lead to misunderstanding, a lack of patience and, ultimately, frustration with the whole effort, it’s time to implement a decision making strategy to help move the team toward a mutually acceptable, appropriate, and sound decision.

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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

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

MARCH 16, 2023

While a background in selling is important, selling skills alone will not help to build an effective sales strategy , sales culture , or sales team. Effective sales leaders know how to deploy their team according to a sales strategy that allows them to outperform and win over the competition. Is your sales strategy good enough ?

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 5, 2023

4 Team Rituals to Improve Alignment at Work Of course, it makes sense to reinforce current team rituals that are already in sync with your existing strategy and culture. Celebrate Wins, Both Big and Small Most teams admit that they do not have an explicit strategy for celebrating big or small wins. What’s your celebration strategy?

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Buzzsprout

MARCH 28, 2024

Podcasts are a versatile advertising channel that can work for anyone with a clear message and a strong marketing strategy (more on this later). This structure works best for bigger shows (5,000 + downloads per episode). But according to NPR, 75% of listeners take action after hearing their sponsored content.

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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 second level of leaders was developed to support the company’s growth strategy. Two senior team members were onboarded.

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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

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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