LSA Global

MAY 8, 2023

How to Manage Sales Teams to Greater Accountability Ensure all sales team members are accountable for high performance sales metrics and understand the “why” behind how their success is measured, monitored, and rewarded. Learn more about getting aligned.

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Steve Shu Consulting

JANUARY 27, 2011

In any case, I thought I’d share some answers I’ve provided to several management consulting and leadership questions posed on the site: What will be the most important skill for business during the next decade? What metrics should be used to track the performance of a professional services organization?

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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.

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LSA Global

JUNE 9, 2023

Unfortunately, Leadership Succession Planning Often Fails to Meet Expectations While most leaders know that they should develop a leadership pipeline, leadership succession planning often fails to make a measurable impact. Are your leaders willing and able to support leadership succession planning? Why is that?

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LSA Global

APRIL 4, 2023

But our organizational alignment research found that the majority of companies do not demonstrate enough strategic speed to meet their own growth goals. What did surprise us was the difference in how fast some companies move from leadership strategy discussions to collective strategic actions in a way that people agree with.

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Brimstone Consulting

JUNE 17, 2020

Aligning your senior leadership team will help drive the results needed to move your organization forward through recovery. The alignment of the senior leadership team impacts growth, performance, profitability, and the ability of an organization to navigate change and disruption. Ownership ensures accountability and execution.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 14, 2023

Have You ever Had to Acclimate Someone New to Your Leadership Team? Any time you add a new member to any team, but especially a senior leadership team , the interpersonal dynamics and team’s forward momentum can be affected. Ask about what they like to do both personally and professionally and share your own leadership story.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Top Leadership Actions to Improve Company Direction and Purpose The best leaders get the theory, but many stumble when they try to figure out what specific actions to take to improve company direction and purpose on the path to organizational alignment. Open meetings with progress updates on team goals to keep them top-of-mind and relevant.

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LSA Global

APRIL 15, 2024

Sales Accountability From a sales leadership and management perspective, sales accountability is all about ensuring that sales team members are accountable for key leading and lagging sales metrics and understand the “why” behind each one of them. That takes consistent and frequent sales coaching.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 18, 2024

Agree Upon Rollout Strategy Agree upon the most effective training rollout strategy to meet business and people objectives.

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Brimstone Consulting

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

How a private equity-backed artisanal food manufacturer stemmed losses, rebuilt the leadership team, and positioned the company for growth. Brimstone worked with the CEO, the senior leadership team, and the private equity firm to put in place the conditions for success. CASE STUDY. Two senior team members were onboarded.

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LSA Global

APRIL 4, 2024

In fact, our organizational alignment research found that culture accounts for almost half of the difference between high and low performing companies in terms of: Revenue growth Profitability Leadership effectiveness Customer loyalty Employee engagement Strategies must go through culture to be successfully implemented.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 30, 2024

This growing healthcare client wanted to create senior team alignment to meet aggressive growth targets while fending off increased competition and regulations. Current Situation With over 1,500 physicians, the executive leadership team recognized the importance of innovating and evolving to remain at the forefront of their specialty areas.

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Brimstone Consulting

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The board, leadership team, employees, shareholders – they all are at once excited and anxious about the impact a new leader will have on the organization, the bottom line, and what the change in leadership means for them as individuals. The pressure on leaders to execute and deliver results has arguably never been greater.

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LSA Global

MARCH 11, 2024

The inconsistencies related to training measurement leave most L&D professionals scrambling to reactively prove the impact of training to justify their training investments before budget and executive team meetings. This is where theory meets practice and KNOWING meets DOING. There is a better way.

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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 6, 2023

net promoter score This global and growing Integrated Technology Company wanted a customized sales management training program to meet the unique needs of their marketplace. The leadership workshops were customized to align with the current business sales training workshops being rolled out across the globe.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Meetings are notoriously one of organizational life’s most insufferable realities. In a meticulous inventory, we calculated the hours spent in meetings by directors and above across the enterprise (a population of about 500). They collectively spent more than 57,000 hours per year in recurring meetings.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

We know from our organizational alignment research that strategic clarity accounts for 31% of the difference between high and low performing companies in terms of revenue growth, profitability, customer loyalty, leadership effectiveness, and employee engagement. That is why strategies for executive teams to stay aligned are paramount.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

62% increase in strategic clarity 75% increase in strategic alignment and commitment 29% increase in executive team norms and role acceptance This global and growing Digital Marketing Firm wanted to create senior team alignment to meet aggressive growth, EBIT, and hiring targets.

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Makarios Consulting

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

We were therefore able to meet our customer obligations on time and on budget.”. Where did I demonstrate great leadership skills over the past year? But usually, such meetings contain both reinforcing and redirecting feedback. Your team undoubtedly has had many meetings focused on dealing with issues. Start with yourself.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 23, 2018

The engagement of its drivers, who deliver milk and bread to millions of customers each day, was dipping while management was becoming increasingly metric-driven in an effort to reduce costs and improve delivery times. This type of top-down leadership is outdated, and, more importantly, counterproductive. Adapted from. Alive at Work.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 4, 2024

Talent Strategy Step #1: Identify the right analytical skill sets After establishing your data-analytics strategy that is tightly aligned with the mission and culture of the ogranization you need to determine the roles and the knowledge, skills and abilities of the talent most critical to meeting the needs. Doolittle, J. Grossman, R.

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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

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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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 6, 2023

This requires effective communication and collaboration across all levels of the organization, from your senior leadership team to front-line workers. With software, it's easier to see where you stand in meeting or exceeding goals and where adjustments need to be made to maximize what's working and address areas of weakness.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Confusing or Misaligned Goals or Roles It is hard to expect teams to perform at their peak if goals, roles, processes, success metrics, interdependencies, and behavioral expectations are unclear, misaligned, or unfair. Agreed-upon goals should clarify what the team wants to achieve and why.

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Business Consulting Agency

MARCH 20, 2024

Consultants also assist in identifying market trends, conducting product testing, and optimizing product portfolios to meet evolving consumer preferences and industry standards. By leveraging data analytics, consumer insights, and performance metrics, consultants optimize marketing initiatives for maximum impact and ROI.

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LSA Global

MARCH 1, 2022

This services client wanted to create senior team alignment to meet 40% revenue growth targets. Executive team goals , roles, success metrics, and interdependencies were unclear and misaligned. Designed and administered online leadership assessment. High growth success metrics. 54% increase in new business.

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Makarios Consulting

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

We were therefore able to meet our customer obligations on time and on budget.” Where did I demonstrate great leadership skills over the past year? But usually, such meetings contain both reinforcing and redirecting feedback. Your team undoubtedly has had many meetings focused on dealing with issues. Start with yourself.

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Women in Consulting

MARCH 4, 2016

Charlene Li, WIC’s featured speaker for February, spoke on “Leadership in the Digital Age.” Your published work will then be shared by others which further affirms and endorses your leadership position. LEADERSHIP. Your followers want to know what’s on your mind, who you’re meeting with, and what you’re working on.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Do you always begin meetings a certain way, celebrate wins with a traditional team lunch, or give bonuses at each five-year work anniversary? Team Meetings Our employee engagement survey data tells us that most employees think that meetings are a waste of time because they lack proper meeting planning and facilitation.

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PM Alliance

JULY 14, 2023

With data on how thought leadership is evolving, your team can partner with providers that have already developed processes to avoid wasteful or redundant activities. Timely data can give your team an edge on controlling costs by ensuring that resources are used efficiently. What’s the latest insight into best practices?

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LSA Global

JANUARY 6, 2018

One-on-One Employee Meetings Can Increase Employee Engagement. One-on-one employee meetings with direct reports can be a powerful tool to increase employee engagement and productivity. What is Wrong with One-on-One Employee Meetings. Why One-on-One Employee Meetings Matter.

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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

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

We know from leadership simulation assessment data that many work decisions are relatively straightforward and easy to make. Borrow from meeting facilitation best practices and ensure that team members listen to one another with respect and without interruption, encourage follow-up questions to help clarify thinking, and value open debate.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2016

I am frequently flummoxed by the complete misalignment between a team’s mandate and the agenda for their meetings. content, frequency, and duration) of their meetings with the job that needs to be accomplished in those meetings. A one-size-fits-all team meeting rarely works. From The New York Public Library.

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