Brimstone Consulting

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

While there are many reasons for this high rate of failure, in our work, we have found that the bridge from strategy to execution tends to fail due to one or more of the following reasons: The leadership team is not aligned. Whereas many companies were forced to shift to agile methods, this was already the company’s mindset.

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LSA Global

JUNE 13, 2024

Building a Culture of Change Agility When it disrupts established routines and comfort zones, organizational change typically faces stiff resistance. Leaders play a critical role in fostering a culture of change agility that views change as an opportunity rather than a threat.

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Brimstone Consulting

APRIL 15, 2020

Working with the technology organization leadership, Brimstone designed a comprehensive, integrated approach to create context-specific solutions for the organization. The solutions were tailored to incorporate Agile principles, methods, and tools.

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LSA Global

JULY 14, 2020

Agile Change Management – What Is It? Agile change management is an approach to managing the people side of change that works in concert with the agile project management methodology. Done right, the agile approach to project management enables teams to adapt to change quickly and deliver work faster.

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LSA Global

JUNE 16, 2022

Agile Organizations In general, agility is the ability to move quickly and easily. In a business setting, we define organizational agility as the ability of an entire organization (especially its leadership team) to adapt quickly to market changes. We need more agile mindsets at work. What are its trademarks?

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Strategic Leadership Competencies – Strategic vs. Operational Leadership. Does your organization foster the kind of strategic leadership required to thrive during chaos? To learn more about strategic leadership competencies to thrive during chaos, download A New Way to Think About Change Agility: The Agile Organization.

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LSA Global

MAY 16, 2024

Mastering Change: 8 Steps for Aligning Top Leadership for Change Orchestrating successful organizational change requires more than just a compelling strategic plan or a shift in business practices. Top leadership must be unified in their understanding of why change is necessary and what the desired outcome looks like.

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Harvard Business

JULY 26, 2018

In this episode of HBR’s advice podcast, Dear HBR: , cohosts Alison Beard and Dan McGinn answer your questions with the help of Susan David , a psychologist, lecturer at Harvard Medical School, and the author of Emotional Agility. Download this podcast. It’s an act by its leadership when no other routes can be pursued.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

In today’s rapidly changing business environment, companies that rely solely on full-time employees are finding they have neither the skills nor the agility to sustain success. With the right approach and leadership, the world of on-demand talent promises to bring these aspirations much closer to reality.

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LSA Global

JULY 8, 2023

Maybe It’s Time to Improve Leadership Mindsets at Work. Ineffective executive teams tend to operate in silos , micromanage their teams , or make misaligned leadership decisions. Leadership Mindsets versus Leadership Skills Can’t top tier leaders just focus on improving certain leadership knowledge, skills, and behaviors?

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LSA Global

JUNE 9, 2023

Unfortunately, Leadership Succession Planning Often Fails to Meet Expectations While most leaders know that they should develop a leadership pipeline, leadership succession planning often fails to make a measurable impact. Are your leaders willing and able to support leadership succession planning? Why is that?

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LSA Global

AUGUST 25, 2023

The CEO’s Best Tool for Success – A High Performing Leadership Team To thrive, organizations must be agile enough to meet everchanging market conditions. A CEO’s best tool for success is a high performing leadership team. The speed and scope of change can be daunting. A stagnant executive team is a less effective executive team.

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Brimstone Consulting

JUNE 7, 2022

Strategy and Leadership Team Alignment energizes an organization and increases the stock price by 170%. Brimstone led the executive leadership team through our Strategy and Leadership Team Alignment process. Further, Brimstone partnered with the organization to hold two leadership summits. CASE STUDY.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Once change objectives are defined and roles are clarified, change leadership should actively involve key stakeholders to create a shared change roadmap. Change at work is a dynamic process, and successful change partnerships at work recognize this by remaining agile and open to course corrections.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 28, 2020

Download the HiringGeeksThatFitTemplates for yourself.). Mark and I wrote about agile and remote buddies in From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams. I made them open in a new tab so you can see and download them easily. See Hiring Geeks That Fit for all the new employee checklists and how to use them.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Because of this, our leadership simulation assessments calculate learning aptitude and learning orientation. High Learning Aptitude Those with high learning aptitude are generally more agile and capable of keeping pace with changing demands.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Are your leaders agile and willing enough to adjust strategies to seize emerging opportunities even if it means shifting focus from what has been historically successful? Leadership should not ignore feedback from staff who are closest to day-to-day operations. Often, they can provide valuable insights into what is not working.

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LSA Global

JULY 18, 2024

A common mistake during action learning leadership development programs , team members may seek to suppress dissenting opinions rather than conduct a critical evaluation of the decision at hand. Tips to Mitigate Status Quo Bias Cultivate a mindset of agility and adaptability.

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LSA Global

MARCH 3, 2025

The Importance of Leaders Being One Team with One Plan High performing leadership teams act and speak as one team that is committed to one plan and one way of working. to-1 Leadership Effectiveness 8.71-to-1 The ability of leaders to function as “one team with one plan” is a hallmark of high-performing leadership teams.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

I’ve spent years thinking and writing about one of the great mysteries of leadership and change: Why is it that the people and organizations with the most experience, knowledge, and resources in a particular field are often the last ones to see and seize opportunities for something dramatically new?

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

To better engage your team when faced with unrealistic targets requires a blend of leadership vulnerability, trust , and practicality. Understand the Impact on the Business It’s tempting to blame company leadership for creating insurmountable targets. Is your team agile enough? Are you clear about the true impact on your team?

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LSA Global

JANUARY 27, 2025

The Impact of Clear Team Roles and Responsibilities We know from action learning leadership development programs that even the best teams can fall victim to role-related mistakes. Encourage open communication and change agility to ensure seamless coordination between different roles and functions.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Challenging Times Often Require a More Proactive Corporate Strategy Does your leadership team tend to focus on the immediate issues in front of them (a reactive corporate strategy) or do they pause and look for new opportunities (a proactive corporate strategy)? Our leadership simulation assessment data tells us that leaders need to do both.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

By simulating real-world scenarios and using multiple assessors to evaluate participants across research-backed competencies , management assessment centers offer a relevant and targeted day-in-the-life approach to identifying leadership potential and readiness. businesses in the 1950s. Is your evaluation process objective and fair enough?

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Brimstone Consulting

JULY 6, 2021

How a leadership laboratory improved employee engagement, increased international promotions for leadership roles, and decreased turnover. The leaders at these levels had had little to no exposure to personal and leadership development opportunities, and they lacked a shared understanding of leadership. CASE STUDY.

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LSA Global

APRIL 1, 2024

In fact, strategic clarity accounts for 31% of the difference between high and low levels of revenue growth, profitability, customer loyalty, leadership effectiveness , and employee engagement. You will know that you have more work to do if leaders or teams worry more about their self-interest or shirk accountability for results.

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LSA Global

JULY 1, 2017

Lack of agility. When it comes to strategy execution, change agility. Lack of distributed leadership. When strategy implementation resides in a more distributed leadership model, execution is more likely to succeed for the long-term. Conflicts between departments inevitably occur and gum up the works.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Because of this, properly assessing executive capabilities of the CEO and the entire leadership team is an important, yet underutilized, leverage point to directly improve organizational performance. Combined, these leadership skills collectively define an executive’s capacity to lead effectively – especially when the stakes are high.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

But a lucky few react with a degree of strategic clarity and mental agility that allows them to adapt with relative ease. According to recent McKinsey research, successful agile transformations deliver almost 30% improvements in efficiency, customer satisfaction, employee engagement, and operational performance.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 1, 2024

We also know from leadership simulation assessment data that leaders struggle to adjust strategies fast enough. Take a Collaborative Approach to Strategy Development Too many leadership teams craft a strategic plan in the boardroom and then mistake strategy communication with strategy implementation.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

We know from our organizational alignment research that strategic clarity accounts for 31% of the difference between high and low performing companies in terms of revenue growth, profitability, customer loyalty, leadership effectiveness, and employee engagement. That is why strategies for executive teams to stay aligned are paramount.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

They can introduce agile methodologies, flatten hierarchies, and foster cross-functional collaboration to break down silos. They can also model and reward a culture of experimentation and learning to increase change resilience and agility. Is the way work gets done helping or hindering your desired changes?

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LSA Global

AUGUST 6, 2021

Lack of Agility Not even the most well researched and well-designed strategies can predict all the events that could hinder strategy execution. But there seems to be little recognition for other factors such as agility and teamwork. How can we expect employees to commit to a strategic direction if they cannot fully articulate it?

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Mergers and Acquisitions The goal of most mergers and acquisitions is to expand market leadership, leverage competencies, or gain specific capabilities to drive growth. Do We Have the Right Talent and Leadership in Place to Execute Our Growth Strategy? Are strategic alliances part of your growth plan?

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LSA Global

MAY 10, 2023

This means that you need to (1) define the critical roles and positions that matter most, (2) agree upon the skills and leadership qualities needed to succeed in those roles, and (3) identify and assess high potential leadership candidates best qualified for those positions. Is your leadership pipeline evaluation future focused enough?

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Here are some tips on how to coalesce your leadership team so that everyone is pulling in the same direction: Keep Everyone’s Eye on the Prize. Explicitly measure commitment levels and do what it takes to align your leadership team. The caveat is that there must be some agility as you execute the plan. Include a Caveat.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 28, 2022

When we ask participants in our new manager training workshops to list the attributes of great leaders, the most common are: self-awareness, learning agility , communication , and influence. Being a compassionate leader may not be separately listed, but compassion is certainly part of all four foundational aspects of great leadership.

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