LSA Global

APRIL 20, 2022

This global high growth real estate services firm wanted to ensure their sales strategy was on track before investing the time and resources in business sales training to accelerate their ability to qualify, pitch to executives , negotiate, and close. Designed and Facilitated Sales Leadership Team Alignment Session.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

They faced a few challenges that had impeded them from collectively getting to where they wanted to go: The Global Leadership Team disagreed on the strategic vision for growth. Key leaders and teams worked independently in silos which caused frustration, a lack of communication, and inefficient resource allocation.

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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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LSA Global

JUNE 6, 2023

Redwood Shores, CA – LSA Global, the leading business consulting, coaching, and training firm that helps fast growth life science, technology, and service companies by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with strategy, today announced results for a Leading Teams Workshop at a leading Biotech company. Learn more about getting aligned.

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LSA Global

APRIL 20, 2018

How Important is Talent Management to Business Success? So how important is talent management to business success? The Definition of Talent Management. In a nutshell, talent management is all about planning your human resources strategically to build business value and support organizational goals. Not so fast.

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Rick Conlow

AUGUST 21, 2023

In the battle for talent in an increasingly complex, disruptive, and competitive world, organizations cannot afford to miss this point. ” Employees can give each other virtual “kudos” for demonstrating Amazon’s Leadership Principles. Employee recognition is an often-undervalued approach.

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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

JANUARY 10, 2022

Developing Top Talent Matters Our organizational alignment research found that talent accounts for 29 percent of the difference between high and low performing organizations in terms of revenue growth, profitability, customer loyalty, and employee engagement. Are your leaders modeling the importance of learning?

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LSA Global

MARCH 16, 2023

Sales leadership is about effectively leading, managing, and coaching, not doing more selling. Their job is to optimize their resources for maximum growth by focusing on enough ideal target clients with a unique value proposition that strongly resonates with what they care most about. Is your sales strategy good enough ?

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Organizational Talent Consulting

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Why self-awareness matters in leadership To know yourself means that you can see yourself objectively, you are aware of similarities and differences from others, and you understand the perspective from which you see others and the world. "To Socrates Leadership is a relationship, and it is vital to know what others think. Dodd, N., &

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2018

This neglect has hindered their ability to leverage data into talent strategies that can help transform their businesses. We base this claim about HR’s digital skills gap on the results of our latest global leadership survey. Only 11% of business leaders trust HR to use data to anticipate and help them fill their talent needs.

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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.

Leadership 52

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JULY 17, 2023

Sadly, evidence suggests that 50% to 85% of mergers fail to deliver on shareholder returns despite leadership's best intentions. The leadership challenge is to figure out the best way to manage the formation of a blended new shared culture. Influence the leaders’ leadership style. Human Resource Management, 50(6), 859-877.

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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

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

To do this, we examined how 49 enterprise leadership teams spend their time and also looked at their perceived effectiveness on critical behaviors of a senior team. That time is spent establishing financial and operational metrics, aligning goals with overarching strategy, allocating resources, and reviewing key metrics.

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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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Data Culture Deloitte Survey 52

LSA Global

MAY 27, 2022

Feeling leaders value people as their most important resource. Whether it’s due to leadership failings, a toxic work culture , or simply a more competitive job offer, team turnover is bad for business. The Bottom Line High turnover of top talent presents a challenge to the engagement and productivity of any team.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 17, 2017

And talented Millennial employees are voting with their feet by leaving laggard companies behind. Many of them responded by including quality metrics in their compensation incentives. As any compensation consultant will tell you, comp plans can address only so many metrics.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Whereas once L&D was an often a neglected and underfunded arm of Human Resources, the L&D function plays a much broader role today as it adapts to meet the changing needs of their organizations. Is your L&D function aligned, engaged, focused, and resourced?

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Is the strategy not clear enough, not perceived to be equal to the challenge, or not supported by adequate resources to truly succeed? Here are some tips on how to coalesce your leadership team so that everyone is pulling in the same direction: Keep Everyone’s Eye on the Prize. Consider the Context. Include a Caveat.

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QEmploy

JUNE 28, 2019

Policies that contribute to workforce equity and inclusion create equal opportunity for all employees and a diverse talent acquisition as a result. These include LGBT metrics, evaluation mechanisms, diversity training programs, as well as gender transition guidelines. Why is it beneficial for the workplace? McKinsey & Company.

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Consulting Boston Consulting Group Policies Accenture 71

LSA Global

MARCH 20, 2020

Talent: Attract, develop, engage and retain the top talent required execute against priorities in a way that makes sense to both the overall strategy and the desired corporate culture. Provide the context for them to prioritize, make smart trade-offs, and make difficult decisions across teams, projects, and resources.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Senior leadership teams that embrace agile do a few things differently. See your leadership team as an agile Scrum that prioritizes the backlog based on importance, then tackles them in sequence until completed. Create small, talent-rich teams working outside the hierarchy to address your most important priorities.

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Kates Kesler

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

Despite large-scale, well-funded change initiatives, sophisticated communication programs, and countless worldwide leadership summits, the hard work of bringing these complex organization designs to life often lacks focus or is not sustained over the three or more years that it typically takes to fully embed new ways of working.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Any standing meeting, whether it’s of a departmental leadership team, a cross-functional group owning a process like innovation or talent management, or a task force managing a six-month transition to a new technology, should be designed and linked to a broader governance plan. The right composition and metrics.

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Harvard Business

MAY 26, 2016

The latter is unrealistic for many organizations because, for one thing, there aren’t many bosses like Billy Beane , and, for another, major league teams enjoy resources that most companies don’t. Getting people to consistently and reliably act upon real data is a real leadership challenge.

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Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

He wanted to challenge his team, as part of the strategic talent review process, to think about whether or not the company’s organizational architecture was suited to its growth plan to double in size. As senior leadership peeled back the organizational onion, a clear case for change emerged in 2013. Learning from Big Companies.

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Apparel Healthcare Enterprise Chemicals 82

Harvard Business

AUGUST 17, 2017

Yet progress within organizations has been slow – there is still a lack of women and minorities in leadership positions, and certain industries like tech and finance are lacking diversity at all levels. created a program called Women and Opportunity that aims to develop women for future leadership roles at Gap.

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LSA Global

JUNE 18, 2020

It is almost impossible to use selling as a competitive advantage if the very essence of your sales strategy is not clear enough, not believable enough, or not implementable enough in the eyes of your leadership or sales team. It is hard enough to change sales skills and behaviors.

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CaseInterview.com

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

What resources can consultants expect to access? Semi-annual evaluations focus on areas likethought leadership, client leadership, and people leadership. It was founded in 1963 and was one of the first enterprises to focus on thought leadership. Career progression is linear, with a focus on developing young talent.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

But surveys undertaken with the will and resources to follow through upon what is learned can, by the initial effort itself, strengthen employee faith in their company’s leaders. Ensure your leadership team has the capability and willingness to follow through on employee engagement survey results before you worry about survey design.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Unfortunately, there is likely no other leadership habit as rare in the workplace. The following short video from leadership guru Ken Blanchard provides some thoughts on the power of servant leadership in today's workplace. A servant leadership style aligns well with selfless love. Take this free quiz to find out.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

An “operating model” — how a company organizes and manages its resources to achieve its strategic ambitions — is the bridge between strategy and execution. That means choosing the right dashboards, defining which metrics matter most and mapping out how long-range planning, resource allocation, and budgeting will work.

Strategy 28

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 3, 2019

Typically, they feature perks like rotations on various teams, face-time with leadership at the company, and strong alumni communities with robust networks. The increased 1:1 time with leadership could be instrumental in generating increased career growth and learning. What kind of involvement does leadership have with the APM program?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Our Climate Commitment is one way we help solve the unsustainable demand for energy resources and its impact on the environment. They are often the first to recognize and raise up areas of improvement, and it’s important that leadership is ready to listen.

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Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2018

One of the most important and challenging decisions faced by corporate directors is whether to promote a new CEO from within or to hire new talent when a CEO leaves the company. Lee Powers/Getty Images. Both have advantages. The first challenge was to find a valid measure to compare firm performance.

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Harvard Business

MAY 5, 2016

” That clean-sheet perspective emboldened Intel’s leadership to abandon memory and focus on microprocessors. Quality of talent matters far more than quantity of employees. Preemptive self-disruption is becoming a new normal for the serious leadership. ” The bigger the enterprise, the more jobs at risk.

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