N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

This can be done through individual interviews or focus group discussions, where the facilitator encourages open and honest conversations. Understanding how well the board balances competing priorities, manages risk and ensures accountability in decision-making is essential to determining its effectiveness in this critical area.

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Compliance Risk Management Objective Process 418

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 7, 2020

What other changes can you implement in a post-COVID world to help you to manage your business better? However, you can also create a focus group, made up of your target audience, and ask them what they think you are doing well and where they think you could improve. Take feedback on board.

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Outsourcing Management Focus Group Audience 65

Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

In contrast, managers who haven’t learned this secret focus on the numbers and frantically swivel their team’s focus back and forth between twenty-seven different measurements – most of which don’t directly affect results. Sarah’s focus on the number ramped up pressure and stress. Sarah didn’t have to say a word.

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Metrics Balanced Scorecard Stress Long-term 266

Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 8, 2017

I’ve heard these words so frequently, in focus groups, in one-on-ones, and even behind closed doors with seasoned managers. Very few managers run meetings well. If you’ve been working in organizations for any period of time, you may have said them too. Everyone hates bad meetings.

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Consensus Reputation Focus Group Objective 412

HR Digest

JUNE 27, 2022

Focus Groups. Focus groups that are composed of employees across all levels and departments of your organization can be used to dive deeper into feedback you’ve collected from employee engagement surveys. Manager One-on-Ones. No one has a bigger impact on employee experience than your company’s managers.

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Metrics Survey Focus Group Proposal 84

Lead Change Blog

MARCH 26, 2021

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. Misaligned reward systems. Fear of failure.

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Resistance Restructuring Survey Agility 274

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. Conduct regular surveys and focus groups to gauge employee sentiment and identify areas for improvement.

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Team Workshop How To Mission Statement 194

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

AUGUST 30, 2023

Managers often hire consultants to help them solve major organizational problems. The consultant will interview key leaders and staff, run focus groups, and gather input from a variety of sources. Managers are hearing them for the first time. This often starts with surveys and third-party interviews or focus groups.

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Energy Power Focus Group Decentralization 52

HR Digest

AUGUST 17, 2023

There are 5 key elements to consider when making the change to a hybrid work environment: properly defining a foundation, leveraging your brand, cultivating a culture of inclusivity and collaboration, embracing change management, and harnessing the power of your team’s insights.

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Class Brand Team Environment 90

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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Management Team Building Human Resources Metrics 126

Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

I’ve been in enough focus groups across enough companies to tell you–when you promote the jerk, people assume it’s the jerk behavior that sealed the deal. Another shoulder shrug, and there you are defending his obnoxious moves, helping him to move on and get out of your hair. Everyone’s Taking Notes.

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Video Succession Short-term Resistance 322

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 3, 2022

They followed this up with focus groups involving owners and managers from the SMEs as well as customers, suppliers, and policymakers from each country. .” The researchers gathered data from approximately 100 SMEs from Spain, France, Greece, and the UK, to understand their current involvement with the circular economy.

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Proposal Focus Group Analysis Motivation 116

Chartered Management Institute

MAY 31, 2023

What managers are struggling with It’s hard to believe we’re already halfway through the year! Plus, data from our exclusive Management Diagnostics tool is also showing that managers at all levels are struggling the most with managing resource and risk. You can watch back the livestream here.

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Conference Absenteeism Newsletter Article 52

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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Team Workshop Team Building Mission Statement 162

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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Training Transportation Skills Guidelines 211

leaderCommunicator

MAY 27, 2015

I was moderating an employee focus group about change , and during the discussion an educator in the group shared this Buddhist quote: “When the student is ready the teacher will appear.”. It was a moment of brilliance. I could see the concept resonated with everyone.

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Skills Focus Group Management Education 60

Great Results Team Building

JUNE 3, 2024

Conduct surveys, assessments, or hold focus groups to identify your team’s specific needs and development areas. Action Tip: Gather data, not dust. What are their current challenges? What skills do they aspire to build?

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Training Leadership ROI Participative 193

HR Digest

APRIL 13, 2023

Managing employee benefits and compensation is an essential function for any organization that wants to attract, retain, and motivate top talent. In this article, we explore the importance of managing employee compensation and benefits and offer some tips on how organizations can promote pay equity effectively.

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Incentives Motivation Objective Trends 64

Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 6, 2018

The fact is, they still share many of the same traits as their older counterparts (First-Wave Millennials)—raised to feel special, high achieving, tech-savvy, but Second-Wavers (born 1995 – 2004) have some distinct differences that are making managers sit up and take notice. Companies would be well served by following PwC’s lead.

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Leadership Learning-by-Doing Brand Career 222

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. Good managers often empower.

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Hamel Power Absenteeism Compliance 130

Leading Blog

APRIL 3, 2020

Those who are driven by their ego, for example, will take center stage and proclaim to have the answers, ignoring or side-lining the experts who could give a more realistic assessment of a situation, managing people’s expectations. During a crisis, leaders must relinquish the belief that a top-down response will engender stability.”

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McKinsey Crisis Emotional Intelligence Self-aware 329

HR Digest

APRIL 12, 2023

This means that leaders and managers must be committed to engaging and empowering their employees , and that engagement must be embedded in the organization’s values and mission. One way to foster a culture of engagement is to prioritize employee feedback and participation.

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Survey Human Resources Motivation Career 111

The Horizons Tracker

MAY 20, 2020

The researchers devised a system, called Dovetail Digital, which provides a blockchain-based method of managing digital consent. They each completed a questionnaire, followed by a focus group discussion. It can also be difficult for patients to keep on top of, and they can easily feel they lack control over their own data.

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Focus Group Analysis Quality System 78

HR Digest

MAY 15, 2024

During this step, it’s crucial to engage with key stakeholders, including senior management, departmental leaders, and HR professionals, to gain a comprehensive understanding of the organization’s vision, mission, and the specific challenges it aims to address through employee training and development.

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Analysis Training Compliance Objective 132

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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Team Management Stress Resistance 84

Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 14, 2015

Every now and then managers must make exceptions, no doubt. 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 hear that 10 times more than “My manager is too hard on us.”

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Team Building System Focus Group Situational Leadership 180

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 11, 2021

Ask your team, a focus group , and even ask people online via a social media poll. Ask for opinions. When stuck between a few designs for a product or looking to create the final design – be sure to ask for opinions before you go ahead.

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Products Productivity Focus Group Audience 79

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Use surveys and focus groups to determine which forms of recognition are most effective with your employees. Clearly outline the appearance of success and make sure these measures are effectively communicated to all staff members. Professionals recommend that recognition programs are timely, specific, and inclusive to be effective.

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Metrics Morale How To Motivation 95

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). There’s too much friction to overcome: time away from their normal work, not knowing how their manager will respond, or not even realizing they have an idea to share. You have an open door.

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How To Wireless Policies System 251

Mike Cardus

MAY 24, 2011

Situation: Currently there is an authoritarian style of management creating a decrease in morale, satisfaction with work and innovation amongst employees. This is developing a feeling of strife, hopelessness and contempt amongst management and subordinates. Set-up plus facilitation of monthly internal customer focus group meetings.

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Case Study 360-Degree Feedback Execution TRIZ 116

The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Key findings include: Senior leaders of successful agile transformations “quadrupled the time spent on strategy (from 10% to 40%) and reduced the time spent on operations management by more than half (from 60% to 25%).” Meetings need be focus less on operating details and more on strategic issues. ” Further Reading.

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Agility Team Leadership Storytelling 110

HR Digest

APRIL 20, 2023

The current competitive marketplace has made it a necessity for organizations to discover steps in managing attrition rates. Employee Retention Strategies to Decrease Staff Turnover Rates Employers need to focus on fostering a positive work environment as a step in managing attrition.

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Attrition Innovation Strategy Training 59

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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Entrepreneur Storytelling Leadership Long-term 100

The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Some leaders feel that running organizational surveys and giving that aggregated data to managers will somehow get them to improve engagement. The data on employee engagement is overwhelming and very clear; the biggest factor — by far — is the immediate manager. That’s well documented, and most leaders strongly agree.

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Webinar Participative Quality Document 72

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. Each manager opened the folder and looked into a large mirror inside. Change begins here.

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Team Leadership Mission Statement Drucker 98

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. Stages three and four lean heavily on disciplined management systems and processes. It’s a big competitive edge.

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Innovation Agility Strategic Planning Core Competence 59