Lead Change Blog

JUNE 8, 2021

Run surveys and do focus groups and one-on-one interviews to get quantitative and qualitative data on the virtual work issues in your organization. A Strategic Approach to Defeating Work-From-Home Burnout and Zoom Fatigue. Develop metrics and determine a baseline.

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Bond Metrics Survey Video 356

leaderCommunicator

MAY 21, 2018

Through our quantitative research of more than 750,000 leaders and employees inside some of the world’s leading organizations, and in the many focus groups we conduct every year, we’ve identified 11 attributes that matter most. We’re often asked what qualities the most effective leaders have when it comes to communicating effectively.

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Focus Group Quality Organization Skills 146

Leading Blog

MARCH 25, 2011

At the same time, Jobs does not rely on focus groups. That might be good for incremental change, but to “make a dent in the universe,” you need people that focus on what the experience could be. “He understands the mindset of the people he wants to create products for because he is one of them.

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Entrepreneur Products Productivity Learning-by-Doing 284

Leading Blog

APRIL 3, 2020

Thus, the transpersonal leader can set the ‘future-focused’ group up with the autonomy to use their fully conscious decision-making processes to create a myriad of ‘what if’ options. From this diverse and open thinking comes an agility to take the best actions, as areas of clarity emerge.

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McKinsey Crisis Emotional Intelligence Self-aware 337

Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 31, 2017

I’ve worked with companies where the employees tell me the unspoken rule… “Never ever bring up the the truth in a focus group.” Nothing crushes morale faster than feeling you don’t have a voice.

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Focus Group Workshop Morale Survey 180

Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Use skip-level meetings, focus groups, or go for a walk-and-talk with your team. But, if employees don’t participate and share their ideas, they won’t have ownership and will be less invested. What to do instead: Ask for input early and often.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 26, 2021

Often follow-up will be needed to any quantitative data collection, such as a focus group or confidential interviews, to understand the reasons for the resistance. Baseline and follow-up surveys, along with well-timed pulse surveys, facilitate the collection of information about where resistance is occurring.

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Resistance Restructuring Survey Agility 274

Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Why leaders need to look beyond focus groups and market studies to find their next innovation. The four steps leaders can implement today to initiative innovation in their organizations. How employee recruitment and culture play a key role in fostering innovation in today’s organizations.

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Innovation Leadership Airlines Brand 189

Mike Cardus

MAY 24, 2011

Executive Coaching and peer coaching groups were established to highlight and sharpen existing great behaviors and actions. Set-up plus facilitation of monthly internal customer focus group meetings. Using the focus group for targeted and necessary areas of success and improvement. Resolution.

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Case Study 360-Degree Feedback Execution TRIZ 116

Modern Servant Leader

MAY 15, 2012

Domino's Pizza customer blasts the product in a focus group and praises the final result. Then the company captured reactions from the same customers as they tasted the company’s response – all new ingredients and recipes. The result was a hit, driven by authentically open response to customer concerns.

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Media Airlines Quality Focus Group 258

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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Seminar Focus Group Bond Participative 127

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. Diagnostics are your safety helmet and pickaxe , helping you identify these fault lines before they cause fissures.

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Team Workshop How To Mission Statement 194

leaderCommunicator

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

For more systematic listening, targeted practices such as focus groups, surveys, and meetings with teams offer unparalleled insight into the success of any communication. There’s no better way to know what employees heard than to ask them. Questions work as a means of gathering information, and help you know what’s resonating or not.

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Audience Follow-up Focus Group Survey 156

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Qualitative data, on the other hand, may involve conducting interviews, surveys, and focus groups to gather insights into the board directors’ experiences and the perceived impact of the coaching program.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 27, 2012

In fact, HR in high-risk industries should implement a variety of avenues/opportunities for employee feedback, such as phone hotlines, online and on-site suggestion boxes, employee surveys, focus groups, new hire surveys and exit interviews.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

These reviews are conducted through surveys, focus groups, or one-on-one interviews. This involves gathering feedback from employees, managers, and other stakeholders to understand their perception of the effectiveness and impact of various HR initiatives.

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CPO Human Resources Compliance Human Capital 416

Rich Gee Group

MARCH 5, 2024

Conduct research or focus groups to uncover real employee experiences that can be incorporated into the narrative. Additionally, incorporating the voices and perspectives of various stakeholders can add depth and authenticity to the narrative, fostering a sense of shared ownership.

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Organization Audience Storytelling Stakeholder Analysis 221

leaderCommunicator

MAY 27, 2020

Even in just two months, our team at The Grossman Group has learned a lot by listening to leaders and employers, surveying employees and conducting focus groups to really understand how various audiences are thinking about the workplace going forward.

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eBook Long-term Tips Focus Group 119

The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This often starts with surveys and/or third-party interviews or focus groups. Use focus groups (a cross-section of frontline staff) to test new management directions before making grand announcements to everyone. The facilitators then prepare a summary report.

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Focus Group Decentralization Objective Project 124

Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 28, 2015

I ask this question every time I go into a focus group. Start here with these 7 strategic questions, that won’t get you fired. 7 Strategic Questions Your Team Should Be Able to Answer. Why do we do what we do– note “to make money” is not the only answer. Dig deeper.​. Start here. Talk amongst yourselves.

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Team Short-term Download Open-book 180

Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 14, 2015

In every company I work with I hear a consistent theme in focus groups: “I wish our managers had tougher and more consistent standards. I trust that you will understand that so I can maintain the same flexibility when you have an extreme situation. In order to make this work, I need everyone staying true to our game plan.”

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Team Building System Focus Group Situational Leadership 180

Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 28, 2020

After conducting focus group discussions and assessments of current supervisors, we were able to identify eight core skills needed for the supervisory role compared to their former roles, along with some relevant knowledge. This HR Director then brought in Disaster Avoidance Experts to consult on creating the program.

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Training Transportation Skills Guidelines 211

Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 10, 2015

Nothing is more disconcerting that watching employees share relentless feedback in focus groups and having execs finally pay attention when the consultant comes in and says the same thing. Don’t discount their feedback as “noise” really listen to what they’re hearing from customers. Give Them Context.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Purpose After observing focus groups of Second-Wavers, one thing really stands out: They want to know not just what to do and how to do it, but why. Soft skills like critical thinking, communication, and social interaction—things we older generations take for granted, are simply not taught in college or acculturated at home.

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Leadership Learning-by-Doing Brand Career 222

LDRLB

MARCH 15, 2013

The study surveyed 18 focus groups, 4,000 college-degreed professionals, 50 personal interviews and 268 senior-level executives and concluded that leadership positions are most often given to those who look the part.

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Execution Survey Audience Active Listening 168

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

This can be done through individual interviews or focus group discussions, where the facilitator encourages open and honest conversations. By including their input and perspectives, board members will have a sense of ownership and engagement in the assessment.

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Compliance Risk Management Objective Process 418

QAspire

JANUARY 9, 2011

They create focus groups on process improvements, document the lessons, relentlessly train teams and incorporate preventive measures in their processes. You can form small focus group from your current team and improve in small iterations. Even they face similar challenges and problems, but only once.

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Learning Organization Organization Senge Blog 159

Rich Gee Group

MARCH 5, 2024

Conduct research or focus groups to uncover real employee experiences that can be incorporated into the narrative. Additionally, incorporating the voices and perspectives of various stakeholders can add depth and authenticity to the narrative, fostering a sense of shared ownership.

Organization 195

Organization Audience Storytelling Stakeholder Analysis 195

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Denied care The researchers conducted focus groups with a representative sample of physicians. The groups revealed that there was a clear bias towards people with disabilities, with a significant number of physicians saying that they had made a strategic choice to deny people with disabilities access to care.

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Sample Focus Group Education Quality 132

Mike Cardus

JANUARY 9, 2013

Focus groups to determine what is working well. Interviews of existing managers. Observation of managers and employees involved in the work. Reviewing job descriptions and determining time-span and complexity of the work.

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Leadership Development Skills Development Leadership 154

LDRLB

MAY 1, 2013

The last group was also interrupted, but instead of a related test, they were asked to complete the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, which was considered unrelated to the creativity test. When Ellwood’s team analyzed the results, they found that the continuously focused group actually scored the lowest, generating only an average of 6.9

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Creativity Incubator Organizational Behavior Innovation 149

Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 12, 2012

While preparing for a focus group meeting it came to me NOISE. I’ve led this with larger teams you can break the group into teams of 6 or less and they each work independently then get together and share ( or the facilitator finds commonalities and categorizes them) OR lead a series of focus groups with smaller team separately.

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Strategic Planning SWOT Analysis Planning 158

leaderCommunicator

JULY 3, 2012

This could include employee surveys, a suggestion box or website form, or even occasional focus groups. Employee input —Every organization needs multiple ways to gather employees’ input so they know their voices are heard.

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Tips Hotels Transportation Technology 146

Great Results Team Building

APRIL 10, 2024

Conduct focus groups where employees from both sides can share their concerns and aspirations. Diagnostics are your pickaxe , helping you identify fault lines before they cause fissures. Utilize management interviews, employee surveys, and even customer feedback , but don’t stop there. Go beyond surface-level responses.

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Team Workshop Team Building Mission Statement 162

Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 11, 2024

Oh, and here comes Over-Involved Ivan, who has taken the liberty of setting up a few extra focus groups (talking to the same people you did last week). Then Can’t Commit Carl texts with another curveball asking you to postpone the meeting another week to give him some more time to think this through.

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Stress Management Succession Contingency Plans 266

Mike Cardus

JANUARY 9, 2014

We, the agency and I, did surveys, interviews and focus-groups of their customers to learn what they thought and saw as the benefits and needs of the agency. We identified and prioritized the customer complaints, what they enjoyed most, and customers’ priorities (which types of services should take priority over others).

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Morale System Project Team Building 147

leaderCommunicator

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

It’s an informal focus group of sorts, where employees will periodically revisit the question and ideas, leading to great collaboration in real time (and without meeting!). Have something you want to get your employees’ input on? Post a question on a flip chart in your department or office, provide Post-its, and watch the ideas grow.

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