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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Organizational Talent Consulting

AUGUST 7, 2023

An Examination of the Importance of Leadership Behaviors and Attributes on Shaping Culture Executive Summary Organizational culture is a critical factor in financially successful companies. Leaders with dynamic transformational leadership attributes and behaviors are effective culture change agents.

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Business Consulting Agency

OCTOBER 17, 2023

These services offer a comprehensive approach to aligning business strategies with defined objectives, leveraging industry expertise, and fostering a culture of innovation and adaptability. Market Expansion and Growth Strategies Achieving business goals often involves market expansion and growth initiatives.

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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 outcome is an actionable three-year strategy. Our process drives results.

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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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Kates Kesler

MARCH 7, 2021

Where do we need leadership and management? . Local (business unit and operational function) teams have embedded practitioners that know the work of the unit and can build local relationships. . METRICS/REWARDS . . What metrics should we track? . What incentives will drive the right behaviors? .

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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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Markovitz Consulting

OCTOBER 29, 2019

As the WSJ explains: " Hoshin Kanri holds that all workers should understand the company’s strategy and how their role can contribute to it, enabling feedback and improvement to come up from lower levels." Culp has also shifted focus away from earnings per share, which was once the most important metric at GE. Consider hoshin kanri.

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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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Rick Conlow

JANUARY 2, 2023

They operate in a bubble and do not attend the party. These means they are not good at one-on-one conversations, cultural sensitivity, listening, team building, managing their emotions, managing conflict, or communicating vision and strategy clearly. CEOs focus on data, facts, figures, and metrics.

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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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Asamby Consulting

MAY 12, 2022

There comes the time where you as the CEO need to step back from operative work and become more strategic. But without a doubt, having a COO in your startup will help to build a stable operational basis for future growth. Harvard Business Review) However, for many of our clients, the CEO and founder plans to get out of operations.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

” When leaders “execute a strategy,” they usually mean the former — putting an idea into action. Execution is often where strategies go to die. So what determines whether execution brings life or death to your strategy? .” On the other, it means, “the carrying out of a death sentence.”

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LSA Global

JUNE 5, 2022

Execution Excellence Designing and evaluating the operating processes, procedures, and agreements that drive accountability , collaboration , and commitment across the team. Job Relevance. Satisfaction. 117% Knowledge Gain. Net Promoter Score. Learn more about getting aligned.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

The strategy-to-execution gap is an enduring problem with no easy solution. ” In their seminal HBR piece , Paul Leinwand, Cesare Mainardi, and Art Kleiner outlined what senior leaders must do to close the strategy-to-execution gap. Translate strategy into everyday processes and capabilities. Hulton Archive/Getty Images.

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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. Identify Clear Roles.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

For every company wrestling with evolutions in its strategy, success depends as much on matching the operating model to those evolutions as it does on the soundness of the strategy itself. But exactly how do today’s companies create or update an operating model to match adaptations or wholesale changes in strategy?

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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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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Investments in traditional leadership development are often misguided and a waste of money. In a Deloitte study of 7,000 organizations this year, 89% of executives rated “ strengthening the leadership pipeline ” an urgent issue. Paul Garbett for HBR. It’s not that development itself isn’t important.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

A core challenge of management is to ensure that the organization’s priorities, strategies, and metrics are consistently embraced and that any impediments are identified and addressed quickly. Metrics that are reported daily, such as “units at capacity.” CAPTION TEXT HERE/Getty Images.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JANUARY 16, 2023

Decision-making is a significant part of leadership; many depend on the decisions. A good working definition of what it means to embrace data-driven decision-making is: Using facts extracted from data and metrics to guide business decisions that support business goals rather than relying on experience, intuition, and stories alone.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 27, 2017

The company I lead, Ingersoll Rand, is a 146-year-old organization that over the past few years integrated sustainability and business strategy to anticipate and address major global trends, most prominently climate change. The Gap Between Strategy and Execution. While this can be disheartening, it doesn’t have to be this way.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2016

So the chiefs of strategy and technology formed a unique circle of peers — 18 diverse members from across the organization whose task over the next six months was to ask and answer what they felt were the most pressing strategic questions facing the company. That, in brief, is the concept of a leadership circle.

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Makarios Consulting

JANUARY 5, 2021

Establishing a Vision Establishing a vision for your business is the first step in developing a solid strategy. To establish an engaging vision for your company, we recommend using eight key questions delineated in the Entrepreneurial Operating System ® (EOS®): What are your Core Values ? What is your (high level) marketing strategy?

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Makarios Consulting

JANUARY 5, 2021

Establishing a vision for your business is the first step in developing a solid strategy. To establish an engaging vision for your company, we recommend using eight key questions delineated in the Entrepreneurial Operating System ® (EOS®): What are your Core Values ? What is your (high level) marketing strategy?

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LSA Global

APRIL 19, 2018

Ruthlessly Align Culture with Strategy. Culture and strategy are inextricably entwined…one supports the other. Strategy must go through culture and people to get implemented. And conversely, you cannot espouse an intimate customer-centric culture if your strategy is to scale off-the-shelf solutions to the masses.

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LSA Global

JULY 9, 2021

Not only was much of the work force suddenly operating remotely and anxious about their health and the future of their employment; but also, their managers were challenged to keep employees on task, engaged, and connected without face-to-face interactions. First, make sure that success metrics are agreed upon and make sense.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

APRIL 18, 2022

And a huge knowledge and skill shift that is looming will serve as a leadership validation test. Here are three future smart leadership qualities, two steps for rethinking the future of leadership, and one good leadership habit for keeping you moving in the best direction. Effective leaders are good learners.

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Kates Kesler

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

After working closely with over twenty large US and European-based global companies during the past ten years, we have concluded the problem is not in the fundamental design of these operating models. The metrics and reward systems in the company make it clear that this kind of collaboration is expected.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

An aligned culture creates the environment to accelerate your strategy forward. Success metrics are confusing, conflicting, unfair or unbalanced. Trust in leadership or the company is weak. Review and share monthly dashboard metrics and adjust accordingly. Weak links in your corporate culture can derail performance.

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LSA Global

JUNE 15, 2017

When roles and success metrics are unclear, it is difficult for teams to perform beyond the sum of their parts. It is also critical when internal operations must change to become more efficient or more satisfactory to external or internal customers.

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1 to 1

JUNE 29, 2022

She explained that every large company was already operating with a “virtual” culture before the pandemic, even if all employees were physically in the office. Operational distance – How hard is it to get decisions made, get access to resources, get to people who have knowledge, etc. Send-off in style.

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Kates Kesler

JULY 2, 2015

Have conglomerates and diversified companies under-performed because of failures in enterprise strategy? Or, are these companies failing the acid test for organization effectiveness, stumbling on execution brought about by lumbering, layered, and siloed organizational models, unsuited to delivering on diverse, global strategies?

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JULY 17, 2023

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are key growth strategies for many organizations: entering new markets, acquiring new technologies, or leveraging scale and size. Sadly, evidence suggests that 50% to 85% of mergers fail to deliver on shareholder returns despite leadership's best intentions.

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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. What Organizations Expect from Managers. How to Set Up Your Player-Coaches for Success.

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Effective Managers

JUNE 9, 2021

I think of these organizational systems in three buckets: the structural elements such as business models, strategy and organization design. the outcome measures, which are culture, performance metrics and ultimately profit, the people measures – how well we use our people to execute our strategy and achieve our outcomes.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 16, 2016

A strategy execution and implementation firm based in Sweden, today the firm counts 59 of the U.S. BTS Group specializes in digital technology, leadership development, sales training, and assessments. In 2013, BTS acquired Wizer A/S, a leadership development group and in 2014, Fenestra Inc an assessment and development company.

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