Leading Blog

APRIL 3, 2020

Transpersonal Leadership is a concept that my colleagues and I at LeaderShape Global have been developing for over 10 years. The next area to consider is the crucial importance of distributed Leadership, which follows naturally from the transpersonal perspective. Anybody can travel the path to Transpersonal Leadership.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

APRIL 10, 2025

The Foundations of Effective Leadership Communication Communication is at the core of every leadership action. How can team and company leaders become visionaries for empowering and innovative leadership? How can team and company leaders become visionaries for empowering and innovative leadership?

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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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Great Results Team Building

JUNE 3, 2024

Leadership development training days aren’t optional; They are essential for great teams. Engaging and effective leadership development days are a critical necessity for sustaining your organizational success and growing your people. Effective leadership training days can deliver a return on investment of $4 for every $1 spent!

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

This executive role focuses on developing and implementing human resources strategies to manage the workforce and create a positive organizational culture. In today’s dynamic business environment, the CPO plays a pivotal role in talent management, recruitment, and retention.

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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. So we created a whole new level of management. Ensure that every person at every level knows what to do and that objective metrics exist and are shared with the person, their manager and their manager’s manager.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 26, 2021

Lack of trust in leadership. While change management is sometimes couched as being all about “winning hearts and minds,” the truth is more nuanced: change comes with a cost — and is not necessarily positive for all stakeholders. Use polarity management as an avenue to address resistance. Job insecurity. Fear of failure.

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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. Overtime increased by 30% in 3 years. The DTC Operator Algorithm.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 28, 2020

It is unfortunately common for employees in organizations to climb up the ladder to their “level of incompetence,” a concept in management known as the Peter Principle. Put another way, as soon as we gain a set of skills—for example, managing others—we have the tendency to forget what it feels like not to have these skills.

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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. “He understands the mindset of the people he wants to create products for because he is one of them. The perspective is valuable.

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The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Many leadership teams seem to think that talking about agility will magically transform their organizations. A department, division, or organization’s culture ripples out from its leadership team. Organizational behavior reflects leadership team behavior. Leadership Team Planning ( click for typical agenda).

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 14, 2015

Every now and then managers must make exceptions, no doubt. Explain Your Leadership Viewpoint. Try something like this: “I believe in situational leadership and doing the right thing for people in trying situations. ” I hear that 10 times more than “My manager is too hard on us.”

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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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QAspire

JANUARY 9, 2011

Dissatisfied customers, unhappy team members, disengaged middle management and difficulties in scaling the business. They create focus groups on process improvements, document the lessons, relentlessly train teams and incorporate preventive measures in their processes. Improvement may not always be expensive. Don’t Kill It!

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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 9, 2014

Management they told me morale was a big problem, and they had results from an employee survey that supported their beliefs. Management and employee teams agreed to wait to work on morale BUT they still wanted to see improvement in their employee survey. In the initial meeting with the Sr. I wasn’t interested in working on morale.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 20, 2020

You’re also committed to MBWA (or in today’s pandemic-constrained world, Management By Clicking Around- MBCA). In fact, most open-door policies are a passive leadership cop-out. They’re the founders of Let’s Grow Leaders, an international leadership development and training firm. Magazine’s list of great leadership speakers.

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The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

We did a series of focus groups, interviews, and surveys within a division of a large company to help Chris, the division manager, determine why their culture wasn’t performing at the level he wanted. Their individual and collective leadership was weak. And he realized it started with his own leadership behaviors.

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The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

I was interviewing a leadership team member to prepare for an offsite planning retreat. Symptoms include being managed by e-mail , meeting mismanagement , and many other signs of busyness addictions. He began a series of small group meetings throughout the organization. A facilitator helped to group the input into clusters.

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Great Results Team Building

APRIL 10, 2024

Utilize management interviews, employee surveys, and even customer feedback , but don’t stop there. Conduct focus groups where employees can delve deeper into their concerns and aspirations. Transparent and consistent communication from the CEO and leadership team is crucial. Go beyond surface-level responses.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 22, 2023

From analyzing the regulatory environment and building the right team to deciding which risks to take and managing and mitigating these risks by devising effective strategies, an entrepreneur is responsible for playing many roles all at once. However, the most important duty associated with entrepreneurship is leadership.

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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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Management Craft

JULY 25, 2011

I am asked to evaluate teams, departments, and managers quite often. This work is sometimes done in the form of focus groups, interviews, or team training sessions. As managers, this needs to be considered in the planning stages. Groups are important to us. For managers, this is both an opportunity and a challenge.

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Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 11, 2012

The work of managers and employees has increased in complexity due to globalization, a faster work and life pace, and instability in the world’s economy. Managers, when asked, tell you that employee engagement is a must for the survival of their company. Competent Manager. Competent Manager. By Michael Cardus.

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QAspire

OCTOBER 24, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Establishing Forums to Build a Quality Oriented Culture Total Quality Management (TQM) says that quality is everybody’s job. Establish quality circles or improvement/quality focus groups and rotate people to give everyone a chance to participate. Check it out if you haven’t already

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Next Level Blog

JULY 23, 2010

Thats Not Leadership. The Lloyds team was on board the rig about a month before it blew and conducted a safety survey and a number of focus groups with Transocean crew members over the course of several days. I have the feeling that the disaster in the Gulf will be fodder for leadership case studies for years to come.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 25, 2019

” Those words are printed on the back cover of Five Frequencies: Leadership Signals that Turn Culture into Competitive Advantage. I followed up with the authors to learn more about their leadership philosophy. But you should pick a longer time horizon for calculating ROI on your leadership choices.

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The Practical Leader

JUNE 30, 2020

To fix organizational problems or make major changes, managers often hire consultants to analyze what’s happening and provide improvement recommendations. The consulting firm usually interviews people, runs focus groups, and gathers input from a variety of sources. This is a big leadership failure.

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 25, 2011

As Tanveer writes about leadership and managing employees, I thought I’d share some of the questions I often get asked by business leaders about managing customer expectations, developing their employees and how to involve your team in the process of selling your business when the time comes to put it on the selling block.

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 25, 2011

As Tanveer writes about leadership and managing employees, I thought I’d share some of the questions I often get asked by business leaders about managing customer expectations, developing their employees and how to involve your team in the process of selling your business when the time comes to put it on the selling block.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 27, 2023

We delve into the pivotal milestones that define Dávila’s exceptional leadership journey, painting a vivid portrait of his strategic acumen and the collaborative spirit steering Aon EMEA toward unparalleled success. How does your leadership align with this vision? For me, leadership is all about teamwork.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Guest post from Cornelia Gamlem and Barbara Mitchell: Ask any manager and they’ll agree that people issues are some of the most important ones they face in their day-to-day routine. Elements that define your culture is leadership style, communication, the work environment – formal or informal – and how mistakes are handled.

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Great Results Team Building

APRIL 10, 2024

Utilize management interviews, employee surveys, and even customer feedback , but don’t stop there. 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. Go beyond surface-level responses.

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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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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

We led focus groups, created advisory and steering teams, and engaged our executives in workshops and feedback sessions. As we continue to bring our culture to life in our operating model and our HR practices, we continue to use surveys, crowdsourcing, focus groups and other tools to ensure our people are heard.

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Tony Mayo

MARCH 10, 2010

I hope your salespeople and customer service reps are gleaning more from customer interactions than orders–and are sharing that intelligence with management. A focus group is not a survey. There are many ways to do this. You may also have a blog open to comments. Prepare and test questions in advance.

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HR Digest

MARCH 13, 2025

From revamping hiring to rethinking leadership tracks, DEI at work isnt a quick fix. Johnson & Johnson nails this with its Womens Leadership & Inclusion initiative, pairing female and minority talent with top brass. By 2023, women held 51% of global management roles there; a win tied to DEI at work. New to DEI?

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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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