Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 11, 2012

And when they handle the complexity of factors thrown at them, engaged employees by default will innovate, and improve ways of doing the work. Creating a system that drives needed innovation and allows people to make progress on their work, creates a reinforcing loop of innovation and progress. 5 Levers of Employee Engagement.

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LDRLB

MARCH 15, 2013

In a recent study conducted by Sylvia Ann Hewlett and a team of researchers at the Center for Talent Innovation , the senior leaders surveyed listed executive presence – being perceived as leadership material – as the essential factor in determining who gets ahead in an organization. Is your appearance polished and put together?

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Mills Scofield

DECEMBER 5, 2014

This guest post by Amir Golan , VP of Business Development at Signals , shows how important it is to look for the small signals and patterns in big data that are easily lost. In the case of the former, they typically would want to know why and how could they innovate their current product to regain their position as number one.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 24, 2015

Lead Change Instigator Bill Benoist wrote in his Bold, Innovative Leadership article: “This is what bold, innovative leaders do. The original focus group of leaders who she asked about what needed to change all answered that they wanted to be leaders different from them. They lead you to a better place.”

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 27, 2019

Steve Jobs famously eschewed focus groups in favor of telling customers what they should like, and it encapsulates the classic Henry Ford’ism that if you ask customers what they want you’ll simply develop a faster horse. As such, it’s business model innovation that is the big change we should focus on.

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Mike Cardus

JUNE 28, 2013

We are working to develop present and future organizational capacity to grow and be change ready for the next 5 years. My interviews and focus groups with employees it was obvious they have too many levels and people are confused. Develop and lead a Talent Pool Assessment. Coaching and consulting a CEO named Chris.

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Great Results Team Building

APRIL 10, 2024

Conduct focus groups where employees can delve deeper into their concerns and aspirations. Conduct regular surveys and focus groups to gauge employee sentiment and identify areas for improvement. Develops collaborative behaviors through facilitated exercises and challenges, fostering trust and open communication.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

To what extent is that down to a successful ‘Culture of Innovation?’ ’ Kristen Ludgate: 3M’s culture of innovation definitely comes through in the experience and approach of 3Mers during their day-to-day work. The HR Digest: 3M is said to have a passionate work culture fit for the industry’s most driven workers.

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Tuesday, November 02nd, 2010 Posted by: mike Met some friends for a focus group at a local coffee place. Make the counter space one so that I cannot place my dishes on the counter Alright…you get the point; Creating problem statements are important and if you want to change peoples behavior you have to develop solution statements.

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The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Like the weather, many leaders talk about agility and innovation, but few managers do much about it. Unlike the weather, there’s a great deal managers can do about building agile and innovative cultures. These four innovation stages aren’t neat and orderly. These four innovation stages aren’t neat and orderly.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 20, 2020

Action-Focused We’ve sat through strategic planning sessions and focus groups where leaders asked questions and everyone in the room knew that the answers didn’t matter. They’re the founders of Let’s Grow Leaders, an international leadership development and training firm. What’s one thing that’s ticking off our customers?”

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HR Digest

APRIL 20, 2023

Moreover, attracting and training new employees is time-consuming and expensive, making it crucial for employers to find innovative ways to decrease staff turnover rates and keep their workforce engaged and motivated. In this article, we’ll explore some innovative and effective employee retention techniques.

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Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 12, 2012

Working with companies and developing strategic plans everyone seems to feel that the default method is a SWOT analysis strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats. While preparing for a focus group meeting it came to me NOISE. He will create and develop customized activities and simulations for what you need.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The findings emerged from a number of focus groups involving both managers and non-managers from a wide range of different sectors. Things were not all bad, of course, and a number of positives emerged from the focus group. The paper explores some ways people who have continued to work remotely can do so effectively.

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Mike Cardus

JULY 11, 2011

Organizational Development Work. Developing a leadership training program and increased trust in the competence of leadership. Since 2004 I have developed a focused expertise on team building , leadership and organizational change issues, working with a variety of businesses and organizations. michael cardus is create-learning.

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HR Digest

MAY 15, 2024

Whether you’re a seasoned HR professional or a business leader seeking to optimize your training programs, this article will provide you with the insights and strategies necessary to elevate your organization’s learning and development initiatives as you learn how to conduct a training need analysis assessment correctly.

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Great Results Team Building

APRIL 10, 2024

Conduct focus groups where employees from both sides can share their concerns and aspirations. Develops collaborative behaviors through facilitated exercises and challenges, fostering trust and open communication. Diagnostics are your pickaxe , helping you identify fault lines before they cause fissures.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 18, 2023

From offering unique customized services to continuously innovating, these actionable tactics will assist entrepreneurs in staying ahead of the competition. Try surveying your current customers or conducting focus groups. You can create new services that set you apart from the competition by continuously innovating.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 19, 2023

” They strongly believe that using virtual reality could be a positive and creative way for empathy with disabled people to be developed among carers and even the wider public. Nine participants took part in the study by completing surveys and participating in a video-conferenced focus group.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 1, 2020

A recent report from the innovation group Nesta suggests that there are six million people in the UK who are in such a precarious position, and they caution that without assistance, these people will be stuck in a cycle of either low-pay and insecure employment or forced out of the workforce entirely. Treading water.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 18, 2016

Create an on-going virtual customer focus group focused on policies, procedures and practices. Leadership today is about fostering the illogic of innovation, the irrationality of passion and purpose, and the instability of change. A Board of Customers might provide keen insight into stupid rules that employees take for granted.

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The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 11, 2019

There’s a direct line between levels of employee engagement and service/quality, productivity, innovation, safety, revenue, profitability, and other key results. It’s become a truism in the organization/leadership development field — people join an organization, but quit their boss. Some people quit and leave.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Alas, attitudes towards retraining are far from uniform, and indeed those who are most vulnerable often have the least aptitude for developing the new skills they need to successfully transition to a new career. ” Views from the frontline. This resulted in confidence in the new ways of working being undermined.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

We have taken an intentional approach to develop a vision and strategy that takes all our stakeholders’ perspectives into account – one that our customers, carriers and employees can stand behind. The evidence is clear that more diverse and inclusive organizations are more creative, innovative, and higher performing.

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Center for Creative Leadership

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

creating focus groups if necessary ? To provide more insights to those leading multicultural teams, we interviewed Soon Ang, author of several books on Cultural Intelligence (CQ) and an alumna of our Leadership Development Program (LDP) ®. ” How Can You Develop Cultural Intelligence? Applied Research Award.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

AI Assistance The researchers developed a two-part machine-learning model that could revolutionize the way automobile designers and marketers approach vehicle development. Instead, “theme clinics,” involving large focus groups of highly-targeted consumers evaluating designs on paper, are relied upon.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

With the ever-changing dynamics of the workforce, the stewardship of organizational culture is just as important as strategy, talent, product development, or customer service. He helps companies build strong sustained revenue growth through by developing energizing office cultures. 6 Culture Myths. Would you briefly touch on them?

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

To start with, companies need to develop a clear sense of purpose in all that they do. They are more likely to speak up and share their ideas, take initiative and make active decisions, innovate and go beyond their basic job roles, and commit more effectively to their work overall. How Do We Create It?

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 27, 2023

In addition to our classic engagement surveys that we used to run every year, we also do focus groups on topics that most matter to our colleagues to better understand employees’ preferences, as well as incorporate best practices from other organizations. The HR Digest: Aon is known for its commitment to diversity and inclusion.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

This informal process is complemented by formal approaches, such as intern-based focus groups and low-stakes assignments that allow interns to share their cultural knowledge. Interns play a crucial role in this informal process by simply being present in the office.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 2, 2024

We have identified several key priorities that policymakers and support organizations can focus on in order to work more effectively with them.” ” The authors investigated the concerns of disadvantaged entrepreneurs through six focus groups involving participants from the Urban Poverty and Business Initiative program.

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Ron Edmondson

MARCH 5, 2020

This may need to be the subject of another post, but one example of how I have tried to address this lid is with what I call “focus groups”. Whenever we are stalled in an area of ministry, I like to invite different voices to brainstorm and develop new ideas. I wrote a post on innovative ways to develop people , as an example.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

Instead of a monolithic one-way interaction, business is now being conducted through constant and meaningful two-way conversations between organizations and constituents – at every stage of organizational development. Rule 6: Rely on Others for Growth and Innovation. And it’s a good thing, too. Still skeptical?

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 16, 2023

” These are a bit extreme, but we’ve heard variations of these thoughts over the years in focus groups to survey a Client’s organizational culture. One morning, I asked a group of very quiet participants a series of questions about their organization’s climate and leadership effectiveness.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The researchers conducted focus groups with members of the public across the UK to understand how we feel about data, and especially how much control and ownership of our personal data we want. As part of these sessions, a graphic was developed to help inform participants about the various types of data that exist.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

workforce — and companies will increasingly grapple with how to accelerate the development of those individuals for leadership positions. The study examined the management and development preferences of America’s young and rising corporate leaders. What does being an entrepreneur mean and what does that look like?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Whether you’re a digital start-up or an institutional entrepreneur, three simple heuristics offer an excellent way to determine whether a fledgling innovation initiative should be put out of its misery (and yours). Almost all innovation efforts have the hiccoughs and bumps in the road. 1) No Pleasant Surprises. That is fuel.

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