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. Do You Need to Implement Strategies for Executive Teams to Stay Aligned?

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LSA Global

APRIL 15, 2019

Manager as Talent Magnet. The most effective managers know how to attract, engage and retain the talent required to be successful. They think of talent as the key asset that they need to nurture. You will know your managers are headed in the right direction from a talent perspective when they: Retain most of their team.

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1 to 1

MARCH 28, 2022

According to a Pew Research Center report, “The State of Gig Work in 2021,” 9% of U.S. As an on-demand model, it offers greater staffing flexibility; during periods of high-demand, companies can activate a talent pool of gig workers and scale back when the volume decreases. adults are current or recent gig workers. workforce by 2023.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Sadly, our organizational culture assessment data found that most employees do not understand or appreciate what their talent development organizations have to offer to build their skills, knowledge, and careers. A key ingredient to effective change management is meeting people where they are. That is a shame because learning matters.

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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. Does your talent management strategy make it clear who is ultimately responsible for leadership succession planning?

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The ability to improve company direction and purpose is also at the heart of creating organizational alignment where the three pillars of an organization (strategy, culture, and talent) come together to create higher individual, team, and organizational performance. The good news is that alignment is worth it. to-1, and engage employees 16.8-to-1.

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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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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

At most companies, more time and energy is spent investing and analyzing the financial end of things rather than looking closely at the human capital side of your company – how you attract, develop, engage and retain the talent required to execute your strategy. Apply people metrics. Financial Health Matters. Don’t get us wrong.

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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. Unfortunately, our research finds that less than half of L&D functions are aligned with key business priorities.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Talk with them individually and in team meetings about what is working and what is not working. Your next step is to define WITH your team clear, believable, and implementable team goals, roles, and success metrics that are aligned to the overall strategy and expectations. Get to know your team both personally and professionally.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Over time, those talented women with their PhD in STEM start to drop out of technical and industrial careers. By the time careers reach leadership levels, as few as 15% of those talented women remain, according to some estimates. How talent management is changing. But what happens as people’s career trajectories progress?

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

9-out-of-10 strategies fail to meet expectations. According to research by IBM, only 10 percent of organizations manage to successfully implement their strategies on a consistent basis. There are a number of reasons that corporate strategy execution fails to meet the mark. Culture or Talent Misalignment. Too Complex.

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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. Strategy Design is Only the Beginning. Cultural Alignment – The “How”.

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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. Research also adds that consistent recognition and praise can have significant positive effects on employee performance and loyalty. When executed well it elevates engagement and retention.

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LSA Global

JUNE 18, 2020

For those struggling with how to stand apart from the pack, the encouraging news is that Gartner Research reports that over 50 percent of customer loyalty is driven by how you sell – more than the impact of your brand, product, service, and price combined. Is your sales strategy clear enough ?

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Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2018

They believe that they can always raise financial capital to meet their funding shortfall or use company stock or options to pay for acquisitions and employee wages. CFOs of these companies themselves admit that they cannot justify their market capitalizations based on traditional metrics.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

We built on this research by going beyond the lens of the individual leader to investigate how the most successful teams bridge the gap. That time is spent establishing financial and operational metrics, aligning goals with overarching strategy, allocating resources, and reviewing key metrics. Spent less time fighting fires.

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LSA Global

JULY 20, 2017

Other leaders believe success metrics must be set low enough so that people can consistently exceed expectations without setting themselves up to fail. Make sure you have the money, the time, the raw materials and the talent to make your numbers. If we push too much (or even too little), we may not meet our goals.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

The people the model identifies as those with the most promise are often the ones a company will invest in through additional training and talent development programs. New workplace metrics are needed to help leaders get a more complete picture of this. But are these measurement methods still valid?

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Organizational Talent Consulting

APRIL 18, 2022

A couple of the biggest challenges leaders will continue to face in the future are retaining top talent and creating inclusive workplaces that bring out the best in all employees. According to outcome-based research, a coach's timely and appropriate use of executive assessment leads to improved personal and organizational outcomes.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

The group started by meeting every Monday for an hour or two, but found the pace of decision making too slow. Create small, talent-rich teams working outside the hierarchy to address your most important priorities. Amazon makes extensive use of well-researched white papers to help focus the management team on critical decisions.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Our organizational alignment research found that sales strategy accounts for 31% of the difference between high and low performing sales teams. Do not underestimate the need for the right sales culture to meet your targets. Sales Talent. Otherwise your desire for a better sales playbook to drive better sales results will falter.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Every step of the process was measured, and real-time metrics were easily accessible. Our research into over 20,000 workers of all skill levels across U.S. Metrics emphasized speed. We rebuilt performance metrics to track impact, not to apply pressure. We implemented weekly problem-solving meetings.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 10, 2018

That means planning multiple supply chains that meet the needs of specific customer micro-segments as well as managing business relationships and exceptions. According to Accenture Strategy research , 90% of executives believe this workforce will become adept at digital technologies such as augmented reality, 3D printing, and automation.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JULY 17, 2023

Employees from the announcement start to wonder how this change will impact them personally, such as redundancy of their position, changes in reporting structure, changes in responsibilities and their capabilities to meet the changes, and many more factors. Ultimately every organizational result is the direct contribution of an employee.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 28, 2017

Preparing for the Future of Talent Acquisition. To understand what digital leaders do differently, Korn Ferry not only drew on broad research into business change but also interviewed leaders who are driving transformation at some of the world’s most successful organizations. Openness and Transparency.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Before meeting someone new — whether it’s a potential employer or a new client — do your homework. Know who you’re meeting, what he cares about, and what he might need from you. When meeting someone new, it’s normal to be nervous but you don’t want your anxiety to show. Prepare talking points.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Our research indicates that these two types of bias are only a fraction of the challenges present in engineering. People who have been hired for their technical expertise can’t assert themselves freely, and get stuck doing things like taking notes for a meeting. Does that sound like a good use of expensive talent?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 23, 2017

We collected email communication and meeting schedule data for 500 employees in one office, across all five levels of seniority, over the course of four months. The metric we used for this is called weighted centrality. Significant research suggests that mandating a diverse slate of candidates helps companies make better decisions.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 23, 2018

Nearly every business leader I meet fears being overcome by tech-savvy upstarts. This model is most common in software development teams, where UX designers may be involved in both early user research and long-term management of the product. D-BASE/Getty Images. But a sickening number of those investments fail.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Based on our research on organization change, our involvement in health care leadership training, and our conversations with over a hundred health care executives, we offer three key ways managers can engage providers in change and connect innovation efforts to their core motivations, passions, and values.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 3, 2019

Do you feel like it’s easy to meet with people at the company, regardless of their level? An understated metric for assessing whether you want to work on a team is determining the level of investment the company is making in that team. Do your research, make an informed and level-headed decision, then go all in.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2016

In some ways, managing managers is similar to managing anyone else — you need to align their goals with yours, provide feedback, and help them advance their careers, says Sydney Finkelstein, professor at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business and author of Superbosses: How Exceptional Leaders Manage the Flow of Talent.

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2017

In contrast, today’s scarcest resource is your human capital, as measured by the time, talent and energy of your workforce. Difference-making talent is also scarce. Finding, developing, and retaining this talent is hard — so much so that the business press refers to a “war” for talent.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

The organization had a strong community tradition and over 4,500 talented employees. We performed pulse surveys quarterly after every town hall meeting at Saint Anthony Hospital. Through Phil’s research and our experience, we knew that it was best engendered within the close environment of a cohesive team.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

AUGUST 7, 2023

Scholarly research directly linked the effects of an organization's culture on customer satisfaction, employee teamwork, cohesion, employee involvement, and innovation (Gregory et al., Examples could include speaking up in meetings, holding a door for someone, smiling, or greeting someone by name when walking down the hall.

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LSA Global

APRIL 16, 2021

Our organizational alignment research found that strategic clarity accounts for 31% of the difference between high and low performing sales teams in terms of revenue growth, profitability, customer retention, and sales leader effectiveness. Then align your sales and service teams to meet their needs while never taking them for granted.

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