The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

I was interviewing a leadership team member to prepare for an offsite planning retreat. ’ …Second, organizations often reward leaders for additions; Kudos, cash, perks, and titles are heaped on those who implement new technologies, launch initiatives, or build bigger fiefdoms. The facilitators then prepare a summary report.

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Tony Mayo

MARCH 10, 2010

Top Executive Coaching with Tony Mayo About Tony Mayo Newsletter Sign-up Sections Client Comments For Executive Coaches For Executives For Fun For Salespeople Quotes and Aphorisms Recommended Books Technology Tips Videos & Podcasts Popular Posts Twitter Log IX About Tony Mayo Truth or Consequences? A focus group is not a survey.

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Mayo Execution Executive Coaching How To 158

Mills Scofield

DECEMBER 5, 2014

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. They then took it one step further and asked, "How would you find the technology and material to meet this need?" Technology + Methodology. Robust + Comprehensive Insights.

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In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Thanks to technology, we have access to an endless source of data at our fingertips, at any place and at any time we choose. Technology gives us more and more data, but analyzing and understanding ‘more and more’ is arduous and time consuming. Moving on your instincts is not seat-of-the-pants leadership.

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HR Digest

MAY 15, 2024

By regularly conducting training needs analyses, organizations can cultivate a culture of continuous learning and development, empowering employees to stay up-to-date with industry trends, technological advancements, and evolving business requirements. The Three Levels of Training Needs Analysis What is traning needs anaylsis?

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Analysis Training Compliance Objective 132

Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 6, 2011

But the years away reportedly helped him develop his leadership style and begin ceding more responsibilities to others. He was a focus group of one, the ideal Apple customer, two years out. Perhaps, Jobs was the greatest user of technology to ever live. He became less enamored of tech for tech's sake. As he told Inc.

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Micromanagement Leadership Styles Focus Group Magazine 77

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Elements that define your culture is leadership style, communication, the work environment – formal or informal – and how mistakes are handled. Focus groups and stay-interviews can reveal why people want to come to work every day. The following are nine essentials that must be in place to ensure success. Corporate culture.

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Succession Performance Review Benchmarking Handbook 137

HR Digest

APRIL 1, 2023

Focus on Culture and Values An effective onboarding program should include a focus on the company’s culture and values. This can be done through orientation sessions, team-building activities, and discussions with leadership. This can include job-specific training, soft skills development, and leadership development.

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Long-term Mentor Training Objective 69

Eric Jacobson

JULY 7, 2011

What is the digital company or the new technology that will force you to change your business model? Perhaps it won't be digital technology that will change or crush your business model. 93% of that age group send/read email. Or expand, or morph? Or, worse.that will cause you to close your doors?

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HR Digest

AUGUST 14, 2023

Embracing Technology: From Simulations to Virtual Reality In today’s digital age, technology offers endless possibilities for training. Embrace the power of technology by incorporating simulations, virtual reality, and gamified elements into your training materials. What did they find valuable? What could be improved?

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Training Succession Objective Learning-by-Doing 98

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. And remember that technology connects people in faster and more transparent ways than ever! Rule 6: Rely on Others for Growth and Innovation. Take Mountain Dew, for example.

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Media Learning-by-Doing Open-book Company 66

Miles Anthony Smith

DECEMBER 10, 2018

See if you can't put a small focus group together, preferably strangers. While a focus group can't fully represent how your idea will do in the wild, it will at least give you an idea of how it could be received by the public. No matter the type of business you run, leadership is always essential to success.

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Tips Learning-by-Doing Long-term Industry 95

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. Yes, set up a “focus group” of employees to serve as community leaders who will shepherd your company into the social networking world, but don’t put all of the power in their hands.

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Media Follow-up Software Learning-by-Doing 50

Experience to Lead

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

From management courses to leadership seminars, there is no shortage of opportunities to further your learning, gain new skills or master the ones you already have. Constantly changing industry trends and technological advances are why you must keep your finger on the pulse when it comes to evaluating training effectiveness.

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Metrics Training Benchmarking ROI 52

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. We hear, in interviews and focus groups, that women are consistently spoken over and even robbed of their ideas.

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Succession Reputation Focus Group Leadership Styles 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2012

In the spirit of reverse innovation, and reverse mentoring , I submit to you that the next trend to watch out for in leadership is, you guessed it — reverse leadership. You've likely seen reverse leadership in action. Reverse leadership doesn't replace regular leadership. Quite the contrary.

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Self-aware Competitive Advantage Follow-up Content 18

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

Seems like strategic management 101, but oftentimes companies are unable to ask this question due to turf battles or leadership blind spots. One professional service firm told us how a senior partner sold only technology implementation services &38212; an area he was personally passionate about — to his clients in South America.

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Supply Chain Sample Hedge Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Using our robust data archive system which captures electronic health record, medical and prescription claims, and other information, we create dashboard displays for use by leadership, operational teams, and clinicians to reveal population-level trends and identify patients and clinicians for targeted interventions.

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System Health Care Review Focus Group 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

While every CEO is forced to work through organizational change, many will tell you that of all their duties, change management scares them the most, because nearly every aspect of a company and its leadership is tested. What I did know was that I, and our leadership team, needed to solicit feedback — a lot of it.

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Management IPO Diversity Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

As one technology executive has explained to us, “We have some very capable women in the middle management and junior VP levels, but they leave our firm to advance their careers as they continually get passed over for promotion.” ” The same pattern happened for leadership skills. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders.

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Focus Group Skills Review Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

Developing a diverse leadership pipeline can benefit companies in all sectors. And yet black women’s advancement into leadership roles has remained stagnant , even as the number of them in professional and managerial roles has increased. Sixteen women were interviewed and seven others participated in a focus group.

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Management Tacit Knowledge Diversity Leadership Pipeline 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Yet a stark gap persists between recognizing the leadership behaviors that unlock this capability and actually practicing them. After all, one of their most valued employees is an indigenous Peruvian, a man who is respected, well-paid, and included in the leadership team’s decision-making discussions. Inclusive leaders.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2016

Better-quality feedback from customers and stakeholders, often because you’re asking them to actually buy something, rather than just spout opinions in a focus group. You want to get as close to perfection in some of these technologies as possible, but the goal also has to be progress, not just perfection.

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Company Airlines Ries Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2015

Zhou Qunfei, the world’s richest self-made woman and founder of Lens Technology, is emblematic of a new class of female entrepreneurs in China who have built their wealth from scratch. Based on interviews and focus groups we conducted across the region, cultural dynamics are playing a key role.

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Survey Telecommunications Diversity Focus Group 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

When your company is in trouble — a new competitor or technology threatens your business model, your cost structure changes, the economy tanks — you have one job as a leader: to get the company back on track. ” The process paid dividends for McKay’s leadership brand as well. Yet, so few do.

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Crisis Banking CEO Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

We also use the data to better identify the most effective channels and content to engage customers to better fit the stages of our new customer journey life cycle: Need – High-level messaging, including thought leadership strategies (articles, blog posts, etc.). Content at this phase explains the problem and provides a path forward.

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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. And 37 people would still be alive.

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Mentor Committee Trends Compliance 232

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Prototyping care models requires quick access to care locations, medical supplies, IT systems, new medical devices and technology, patients, and time with different providers. prior focus groups, surveys, and Press Ganey data). Prototyping involves testing different designs very quickly and is a critical component of innovation.

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Health Care Innovation Insurance P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2011

His legacy lives on in today's iCloud and iOS 5 availability, and in the new iPhone 4S being praised by several prominent technology reviewers. David Pogue , my favorite technology writer, is so enthusiastic as to call the new phone's features almost magical. I've long admired Apple products, too.

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Short-term Case Study Technology Marketing 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

But what these groups should be doing longer-term — what value they should be providing their members, how their leaders should steer and contribute to the effort, and what types of events and services they should offer — is frustratingly hard to see, or agree on. This if for you.”

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Organization How To Seminar Follow-up 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2012

Harris is the CEO of PRG, a leading supplier of production and event technology, and Cohl is arguably one of the most successful concert promoters in the world, having represented acts such as U2, The Rolling Stones, Michael Jackson and even Frank Sinatra. Any turnaround effort is a profound test of leadership. Work together.

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Audience Short-term Long-term Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

The first was the difficulty in creating a set of metrics that are aligned with what senior leadership actually cares about. ” Putting a number on that understanding of new markets and technologies — whether it makes sense for one’s employer to enter them, and how — is difficult. Alignment can take a while.

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Metrics Innovation Company Stage-Gate 8

Chartered Management Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

How to keep up with the fast-developing world of AI Unlike other technology revolutions in the past that impacted productivity such as ecommerce, smartphone integration or digitalisation workplace adoption of AI is mostly bottom-up, inspired by the people doing the work. Who can we trust?:

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