LSA Global

AUGUST 9, 2023

Why do HR Business Partners continue to struggle when business leaders know that their ability to attract, develop, engage, and retain top talent is a vital ingredient for their success? Lack of Business Acumen In order to add business value, HR Business Partners need to understand how their business operates, competes, and makes money.

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LSA Global

MARCH 22, 2017

The research around talent management has uncovered some surprises. We had thought that the best performing companies had the most star talent. Instead of spreading them equally across the organization, Bain found they focused them in the most critical business operations…the functions most crucial to business success.

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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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LSA Global

MARCH 7, 2024

The Importance of Culture for Mergers and Acquisitions Mergers and Acquisitions remain at the core of many executive team growth strategies. Smart acquisitions can provide immediate access to valuable new products, technologies, talent, intellectual property, clients, and geographies. The appeal is quite clear. That makes sense to us.

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Brimstone Consulting

MARCH 12, 2020

Brimstone worked side-by-side with an early-stage consumer goods organization to pursue its vision, build a strategic plan, develop roles and operating mechanisms, and to drive sustainable growth at a challenging inflection point. Revenue increased by 34 times. During the engagement, the organization increased revenue by 34 times.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Are Leadership Gaps Threatening Your Strategy? Are you willing to let leadership gaps threaten the success of your strategy? Business strategies are driven by leaders. If you have inadequate leaders, both in numbers and in capabilities, even the best strategies are apt to fail or underperform. The Bottom Line.

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LSA Global

JUNE 2, 2023

Most companies run annual corporate strategy retreats to agree upon the key strategic priorities for the next twelve to thirty six months. Whether you face an unexpected threat from competition, a disruption in technology, economic headwinds, or talent drain, your strategy needs to be regularly evaluated.

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LSA Global

JULY 30, 2022

When leaders build a more effective work team, they harness the talent, enthusiasm, and commitment of their people and enable everyone to row in the same direction in a way that makes sense. The Culture – Health, Performance, and Alignment Smart leaders know that overall team strategy and objectives are just the first step.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 22, 2018

Growth is Limited When Strategy and Culture Are at Odds. When strategy and culture are at odds, it is nearly impossible to reach your business potential. Because your strategy must go through your people and your culture to be implemented. Examples of Misaligned Strategies and Cultures. Agree Upon Your Current Culture.

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LSA Global

JULY 19, 2018

No matter what the goal and what the strategy to reach it, the better you and your team are aligned and working together, the more likely you will succeed. Indeed, IBM found that less than 10% of well formulated strategies are effectively executed. Can articulate how their work directly contributes to the strategy.

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LSA Global

APRIL 20, 2023

The Ideal Workplace Culture Smart companies regularly assess their current organizational culture to identify the gaps between the current state and the culture they strive for to best execute their business and people strategies. Are you explicitly linking your talent management strategy with your business strategy and culture?

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

While you may not directly use the 7 S Model in the consulting case interview, it will give you a deeper understanding of how to examine the inner workings of an organisation, identify strengths and sources of competitive advantage, as well as weaknesses and reasons why an organisation may not be operating effectively.

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LSA Global

MAY 11, 2023

Done wrong, organization structures stifle innovation, collaboration, and strategy execution. To us, it feels like leadership malpractice to create an organizational structure that negatively impacts the loyalty, discretionary effort, or intent to stay of your top talent.

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LSA Global

JULY 5, 2023

We know from our organizational culture assessment data that one risky corporate culture may work for some strategies and not work for others. To get it right, business leaders must decide how much to culturally embrace risk versus mitigate risk in their quest to execute their strategy in a way that makes sense to the people AND the business.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 25, 2022

Our over three decades of sales strategy, sales culture, and sales talent experience across multiple industries and geographies leads us to conclude that there are five characteristics of great sales managers that make the biggest impact on revenue growth, profitability, win-rate, cycle time, client satisfaction, and sales team engagement.

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LSA Global

MARCH 20, 2020

While many pundits believe that people can’t perform both roles well, corporations continue to believe that high performing and high potential employees can, at the same time, operate as an effective individual producer and people leader simultaneously. Talent – Build Skills. How to Set Up Your Player-Coaches for Success.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Most companies take it for granted that their top leaders can operationally handle the day-to-day leadership pressures required to meet short-term targets, establish a high performance culture to engage and retain top talent, and simultaneously be masters of their area of expertise.

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 2, 2017

Areas of expertise that a consulting firm might provide include: Industry specific knowledge; Strategy; Marketing; Supply chain optimization; Distribution; Organisational change; Information technology; Tax structuring; Risk management; Human resources; and. Turnarounds. Consultants can assist management by implementing recommendations.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

Instead, identify the critical three to five scenarios and skills that will have the greatest impact on your new manager, their boss, and their team in a way that aligns with the organization’s strategic priorities and talent management plans. Then invest the time and resources to train, coach, and reinforce them.

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LSA Global

JUNE 15, 2017

In our twenty-five years of culture change and change management consulting we have learned that a clear business strategy must come first. But your workforce growth strategy will likely not survive or succeed if you do not have your talent and your corporate culture aligned with your overall talent management plan for the future.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 24, 2017

Organizations that strive to stay successful and competitive into the future must carefully consider how they manage top talent in a world that is increasingly dependent on technology. Companies need to recognize that their competitive edge will depend on the quality of their human talent. Fifty Percent of Jobs Will Be Automated.

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LSA Global

JUNE 2, 2017

Uber is a prime example of an initially phenomenal business success that may soon implode as a result of its failed corporate culture that appears not only unhealthy, but also unaligned with its overall business strategy. If you keep up with the news, the company’s problems just seem to grow as Uber tries to contain the damage.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

They mistakenly think that providing more employee benefits will help them win the war for attracting and retaining top talent. Their huge success is due in no small part to customer centric strategy, culture, and brand. The way you are perceived in the marketplace should inform how you operate on the inside.

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LSA Global

MAY 5, 2020

Is Our Sales Strategy Clear Enough? To assess your sales strategy, take our free sales health check. While it all starts with sales strategy, sales culture accounts for a whopping 40% of the difference between high and low performing sales teams. Do they align with and support the strategy and culture that you want?

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LSA Global

AUGUST 21, 2018

High growth helps set the stage to dominate market segments, to win big clients, to make strategic investments and to provide opportunities to attract and retain top talent. How can we keep our top talent engaged and reduce the stress as greater demands are made of them? Culture and strategy are inextricably linked.

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LSA Global

MARCH 16, 2018

During change, operational approaches, decision making boundaries, social norms, risk tolerance levels, go-to-market approaches and beliefs about customer and employee centricity can weaken or become misaligned. Based upon almost thirty years of client work, we have found culture can become a crisis when: The business strategy shifts.

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LSA Global

APRIL 2, 2019

To improve business performance and retain top talent, it is critical to make it easier to get the right work done in the right way. Leaders are apt to consider complexity from a broader point of view – the number of employees, the number of divisions, the number of facilities, the number of countries they operate in, etc.

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Kates Kesler

AUGUST 29, 2012

People & Strategy, 2010. One of the most difficult challenges for new general managers, who have been promoted after leading functional teams in marketing, sales or operations, is to make their leadership impact scalable across and multi-dimensional organization. Greg Kesler and Amy Kates. The New, Complex Work of Leaders.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 30, 2019

19% lower operating income. Learn about what would cause employees to look elsewhere for a job and identify specifically what matters most in terms of engaging and retaining your top talent. To learn more about how to engage and retain your top talent, download The Only 16-Step Employee Retention Strategy You Need.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Flexible talent-access platforms are enabling many of these companies, making it easier than ever before to bring in the right skills for the right project at the right time. But making the most of flexible talent-access platforms is not as simple as adding a solution into an existing organization.

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LSA Global

MARCH 8, 2023

workers, Gallup reported that almost two-thirds of employees operate on matrixed teams. Ensure Leaders are Aligned Leaders need to communicate often with each other to ensure their projects are aligned with each other and with the company’s strategy for growth. In a recent study of over 14,000 U.S.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Culture’s Impact on a Company’s Success A healthy, high performing, and aligned corporate culture is an emotional energizer and makes talent and business strategy execution easier; an unhealthy and misaligned culture is a drag on performance. But it is not enough to define, you must live your desired workplace culture.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 20, 2018

Most business leaders talk a good game about wanting to create a high performance culture , but few fully understand how to create the environment to get the most out of their people in a way that accelerates their strategy. They don’t know why or how they should create a competitive advantage through culture. The Bottom Line.

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LSA Global

APRIL 15, 2019

In short, the best managers create the right environment – the strategy and the culture – to set their team up for success. By operating in the following manager roles to master: 1. How work gets done ( your workplace culture ) can either help or hinder the implementation of your strategy. Manager as Talent Magnet.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Our advice is to do what you can that makes sense for your unique workplace culture and talent management strategy. Here are eight ideas from a recent client who asked their employees to identify “free employee engagement activities” to help make their company a great place to work without negatively impacting operating income.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Whether it is learning new sales skills faster to sell new solutions to executive buyers or learning new management skills to lead a team for the first time, the ability to learn and apply new skills quickly can make or break a strategy. How You Practice Matters. The Bottom Line.

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Brimstone Consulting

MARCH 29, 2022

Agile strategy leads to 220% increase in revenue. Following the assessment, Brimstone began by working with the leadership team to develop a comprehensive strategy. The STAP helped the leadership team increase trust, establish operating mechanisms, and to unify the group around a single strategic view of the division and its future.

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