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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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Working with a team of 5 Executive Directors from a company that employs ~2000 people we identified a gap in the Managerial Leadership Training , Mentoring and coaching of employees prior to being promoted to a Manager Level within the company. With this team we used it to explore the challenge of Developing a Managerial Leadership Process.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

This entails assessing the workforce requirements and identifying key talent needs to drive innovation and growth. The CPO works closely with executive leadership, department heads, and HR teams to align these strategies with the organization’s goals and objectives.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Regular board evaluations and leadership assessments provide valuable insights into the board’s dynamics, functioning, and overall effectiveness. This can be done through individual interviews or focus group discussions, where the facilitator encourages open and honest conversations.

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Mike Cardus

MAY 24, 2011

Below is an actual Executive Coaching and Managerial Leadership Training + Development process I facilitated. Situation: Currently there is an authoritarian style of management creating a decrease in morale, satisfaction with work and innovation amongst employees. The methods and processes worked! Resolution.

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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. What is that one leadership practice you wish to start as we buckle up for the ‘new normal?’.

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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. To cultivate human connection and a sense of trust, you need to replace bonding activities from office culture with innovative virtual bonding activities.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 20, 2020

In fact, most open-door policies are a passive leadership cop-out. 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. Karin is a top leadership consultant and CEO of Let’s Grow Leaders. I’m approachable.

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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. Cheryl’s decision to lead Popeyes in a direction of servant leadership was born early on in her tenure. Cheryl emphasizes that our results focus is not once a year, it is every day.

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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. Timeless Leadership Principles.

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Mike Cardus

JULY 11, 2011

To read more success stories check out Team Building Stories and the Exponent Leadership Stories. Team Building & Leadership Success Stories. Financial Services Group. Developing a leadership training program and increased trust in the competence of leadership. Below are two short success stories.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

The evidence is clear that more diverse and inclusive organizations are more creative, innovative, and higher performing. We host focus groups with employees to understand their thoughts and concerns and actively listen to their feedback on how and where we can improve our efforts. What DE&I strategies have helped C.

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Mills Scofield

DECEMBER 5, 2014

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. Back then, they would run focus groups to see what customers liked/didn''t like about the product and would check competitors that began to do well. Fast forward to today.

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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. But what exactly is executive presence? Appearance.

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Center for Creative Leadership

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

While their individual cultures should be celebrated (a critical part of inclusive leadership and boundary spanning ), it’s important to shape a cohesive and constructive atmosphere for everyone involved. creating focus groups if necessary ? Learn our best practices for managing virtual teams and meetings.).

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Mike Cardus

JUNE 28, 2013

My interviews and focus groups with employees it was obvious they have too many levels and people are confused. In our first meeting we began to tackle the challenge of ‘Determining the Levels of Work Within the Company’. I shared the chart Consequences of Too Many Level of Organization below. What other solutions can you think of?

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

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.

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HR Digest

MAY 15, 2024

Interviews and Focus Groups Conducting one-on-one interviews with managers, supervisors, and subject matter experts can help uncover the training needs and performance gaps from a leadership perspective. This approach can help identify any discrepancies between the observed performance and the expected standards.

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HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

The HR Digest: Under your leadership, Kellogg Company has taken great strides in the field of diversity and inclusion (D&I). Some of the other initiatives revolve around work-life flexibility, recruiting veteran talent and building a more diverse talent pipeline – all of which support the company’s long-term growth and innovation.

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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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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 18, 2016

Create an on-going virtual customer focus group focused on policies, procedures and practices. Leadership has had its history of being characterized by a role of control. Leadership today is about fostering the illogic of innovation, the irrationality of passion and purpose, and the instability of change.

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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. Innovation is a group activity at Apple. The perspective is valuable.

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 18, 2014

Hewlett is the founding president of the Center for Talent Innovation. Eric Jacobson on Leadership and Management Executive Presence Leadership Books Sylvia Ann Hewlett' Her book, Forget a Mentor: Find a Sponsor , was named one of the ten best business books of 2013 and won the Axiom Book Award.

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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”. I wrote a post on innovative ways to develop people , as an example. With good leadership desperation can often lead to innovation. . New people always bring new capacity.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

When Karl Ronn recently said, "Companies that think they have an innovation problem don't have an innovation problem. They have a leadership problem," I listened carefully. Large companies like IBM, Syngenta, Procter & Gamble, 3M, and Unilever show that innovation can be a repeatable discipline.

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

ABOUT Contact Us Create-Learning.com Get Connected Facebook LinkedIn RSS Feed Log in Join and Receive 9 Team-Building & Leadership Activities:That work and allow people to learn from the experience. Tuesday, November 02nd, 2010 Posted by: mike Met some friends for a focus group at a local coffee place. Challenges of leadership.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Hewlett is the founding president of the Center for Talent Innovation. Because sponsors have a vested interest in how you turn out (your reputation now being linked with their own), they will give you the kind of feedback that mentors can't or won't," says Hewlett.

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In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Moving on your instincts is not seat-of-the-pants leadership. At Apple, Steve Jobs never wanted research from focus groups or quantitative usage and attitude studies. Less is better, strategically and managerially. Too much information ruins instincts. It is experience that improves a person’s ability to take action.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

The culture required to drive a strategy of innovation is different from the culture required to develop efficiency or operational excellence. Many leaders are uncomfortable with the emotional side of leadership, but without that connection, their organization will not thrive. Culture needs to vary depending on your business strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

The fear of getting Netflix-ed or Uber-ized is spurring big companies to dial up their investment in innovation. But as investment increases, many companies are struggling with a challenging question: how do you know whether your chosen innovation strategy is actually bearing fruit? Number of projects in the innovation pipeline.

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Management Excellence

MAY 18, 2011

For those who’ve lived and thrived on a high-performance team, the memory of what it was like to work with a motivated, caring, challenging (but respectful), accomplishment-focused group of individuals provides sustenance for the lonely, near-death experiences that characterize so many other team and project experiences in the workplace.

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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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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2018

In prior research , we at the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI) found that women leave STEM fields in droves: 52% of highly qualified women working for science, technology, or engineering companies leave their jobs. In STEM fields, the ideas that spark innovation are currency, markers of exceptional colleagues. Be authentic.

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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. In 2016, former American Express CEO Ken Chenault tasked chief human resource officer Kevin Cox with finding new opportunities that would drive innovation and revenue growth. American Express.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

Essentially, these statistics tell us that companies need to embrace and capture the voices of their employees and customers if they want to innovate and thrive. Rule 6: Rely on Others for Growth and Innovation. What’s more, these constituencies are driving advertisers to spend an expected $2.6 billion on these social sites by 2012.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Yet a stark gap persists between recognizing the leadership behaviors that unlock this capability and actually practicing them. Without inclusion, however, the crucial connections that attract diverse talent, encourage their participation, foster innovation, and lead to business growth won’t happen. Inclusive leaders.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

It's the right way to discover how the innovation will go over in real market conditions, without the risk of a national or global rollout. Corporate business model innovators can learn a lot by observing successful serial entrepreneurs. It goes to test markets. Anyone can map out new business model ideas on paper.

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