LSA Global

APRIL 15, 2024

Developing an effective sales strategy requires a deep understanding of market dynamics and the ability to adapt to evolving trends. 5 Steps to Crafting an Effective Sales Strategy We know from our own organizational alignment research that strategic sales clarity accounts for 31% of the difference between high and low performing sales teams.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Best of Sales Conference Keynote Speakers: Sales 3.0 Las Vegas Nevada Last month, insights from Best of Sales Conference Keynote Speakers representing various industry groups, including CEOs, CROs, business analysts, best-selling authors, and experts in sales technology were shared at the Green Valley Ranch Resort Spa.

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LSA Global

JULY 15, 2023

3 New Sales Manager Tips for Success for Your First 90-Days We know from our sales management training that being a high performing solution seller often leads to a promotion to sales management. Unfortunately, experience as a high performing solution seller does not fully prepare sales reps to lead others.

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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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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 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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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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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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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

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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Rick Conlow

AUGUST 21, 2023

For example, one of our clients wanted to increase sales results with existing customers. Through planning meetings, training, and coaching we ramped up the initiative. ” Employees can give each other virtual “kudos” for demonstrating Amazon’s Leadership Principles. We thought they could do more.

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Makarios Consulting

JANUARY 19, 2021

The leadership team has taken care to address concerns such as “will my job disappear?” For our client, that translated to setting personal goals for everyone in the company – regardless of whether people held an administrative position in the back office or were on the front line of sales. and “is the business in jeopardy?”

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Makarios Consulting

JANUARY 19, 2021

The leadership team has taken care to address concerns such as “will my job disappear?” For our client, that translated to setting personal goals for everyone in the company – regardless of whether people held an administrative position in the back office or were on the front line of sales. and “is the business in jeopardy?”.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 1, 2016

What does digital leadership look like in this sense? Leadership is changing — fast. To promote innovation and local service, the company hires people with entrepreneurial backgrounds and gives them freedom to design promotions, sales programs, and marketing events however they like. And their CEOs are leading the charge.

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Management Consulted

APRIL 9, 2017

Even if you’ve done a masterful job of networking , you still have to jump through the hoops and meet the stringent criteria of consulting firms. You need to hear it from us first: y our metrics really matter. Your cover letter is meant to be a writing sample, NOT a sales pitch or love letter. Unfortunately, wrong again.

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LSA Global

JUNE 18, 2020

The even better news is that how you sell (your sales experience) is the one thing your company can still design, improve, measure, and control in a way that is difficult to replicate or replace. This creates a wonderful opportunity for sales driven companies to use selling as a formidable competitive advantage for growth and profitability.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2016

That, in brief, is the concept of a leadership circle. Lastly, this group may be more attuned to individual interests (including performance metrics and compensation incentives) rather than the collective and longer-term needs of the firm. Creating a leadership circle is a step toward addressing these shortfalls.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2017

One client I worked with recently — let’s call it Sales and Product Co. Leadership teams I’ve worked with have an almost primal urge to give their middle managers a list of activities. Left to their own devices, many leadership teams shortchange the questions of what they want the change to achieve, and why.

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LSA Global

JULY 21, 2017

Yes, we understand the performance pressure on CEOs and their teams to meet quarterly targets. They see anything else as a failure to meet ever-increasing expectations. Your Board pays more attention to short-term sales results and tactics than key strategies for success. If so, it’s time to change the conversation.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

To truly meet strategic targets, your plans must be understood, committed to and implemented by your employees. Our own organizational alignment research found that strategic understanding, buy-in and commitment decrease 50% outside of the executive leadership team. Or a sales-driven culture (i.e. Cultural Alignment – The “How”.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Nokia was able to transition from one business through others, transforming itself and growing to meet contemporary and future business needs. What constitutes the difference between a successful growth strategy that works and one that fails to meet expectations? Aligned Success Metrics and Motivators. The Bottom Line.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Every step of the process was measured, and real-time metrics were easily accessible. Metrics emphasized speed. We asked the management team if we could eliminate the narrow metrics and bonuses, which rewarded only tactical performance, and focus more on the adaptive. We implemented weekly problem-solving meetings.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

In many functional areas, such as plant maintenance, purchasing, sales calls, or accounting, more traditional structures and processes likely will deliver lower cost, more repeatable outcomes and more scalable organizations. Senior leadership teams that embrace agile do a few things differently.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Along the way, I’ve talked to hundreds of founders, sales and marketing leaders, customer success VPs, and front-line reps about how to build a customer-first SaaS organization. Meet regularly to review common customer issues and build fixes into your product roadmap. What to do. What not to do. Your goal is success. What to do.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Many know and use the nine-box model , for example, to map past performance against future leadership potential. New workplace metrics are needed to help leaders get a more complete picture of this. The list was matched with email and calendar behavioral data, and then anonymized and aggregated.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 30, 2018

In 2016 the leadership team of a national retail organization asked us to help boost their frontline performance. To ensure this front line could focus on learning, we eliminated high-pressure motivation tactics, including sales commissions, high-pressure conversations, sales-based promotion criteria, and public shaming.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2018

It failed to meet its revenue and subscriber growth targets. The level and trend of a company’s top-line metric is an advance indicator of the success of its business model. In a market like social media, a firm’s success can depend on the winner-take-all profits that come from market leadership.).

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Organizations often seem obsessed by measuring fractional shifts in operational performance, capturing data on sales, inventory turns, and manufacturing efficiency. What is the cause and effect of specific types of investment — for example, leadership development, large group events, and communications cascades?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2018

” The email contained a link to a 2017 article one of us wrote for HBR, and suggested the CMO read it before their meeting. She went into the meeting prepared for the worst. The CMO began by meeting with her direct reports. With trepidation, she answered honestly and indicated that she didn’t.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 24, 2017

Partly to blame was GSK’s compensation policy for its sales representatives, which linked bonuses to individual sales performance. Yet it resulted in a corporate mentality focused on making the sale at any cost. At first glance, this policy looks reasonable. His successor frequently berated poorly performing employees.

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Consulting Success

JANUARY 29, 2018

Ron and his partners at Navalent help companies that are in pursuit of a substantial transformational change, whether it be strategic formulation, organizational design, cultural shifts, or executive leadership behaviors. What kind of metric do you use to measure that in terms of compensation based on great client work?

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 29, 2018

“Asking for a promotion makes you feel vulnerable,” says Sabina Nawaz , the global CEO coach , leadership keynote speaker, and writer. “This not only showcases your leadership capabilities; it will also relieve your boss to know that there is someone who can fill your shoes.” What the Experts Say.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

APRIL 11, 2010

I rely on my business acumen as a former executive, my emotional intelligence training/certification, and my overall leadership experience to suit my client’s needs. Management consulting purist, might argue that improving performance and metrics should be the sole focus of my role. Leadership. Read more.]. Facilitation.

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Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2017

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. We then narrowed the list to 18 finalists using three sets of metrics: New growth.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Defining and tracking success metrics. PMs must understand customers’ emotions and concerns about their product as much as they understand the concerns of the sales team on how to sell that product, or the support team on how to support it, or the engineering on how to build it. Performing market assessments.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Since this is first and foremost the responsibility of leadership, early executive buy-in on becoming a more data-driven company is paramount. Take your weekly Monday morning all hands meeting — an opportunity to share important updates, clarify short-term goals, and motivate the team to keep pushing forward toward the main vision.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 21, 2018

I was pleased with our meeting, feeling like she had made a real commitment. At his first meeting with employees, however, he announced that he wasn’t going to begin by talking about the firm’s financial challenges. They are then reviewed by the company’s Manufacturing Leadership Council. ” It worked.

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