LSA Global

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The 4 Steps to Create a Positive Work Climate as a Leader Our organizational alignment research found that workplace culture accounts for 40% of the difference between high and low performing companies in terms of revenue growth, profitability, leadership effectiveness, customer loyalty, and employee engagement.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 23, 2024

We know from Employee Engagement Action data that engagement is often influenced by company health, leadership, recognition, and opportunities for career growth and development. Isolated employee programs without aligned and agreed upon strategy success metrics will not garner enough value or support to move the needle over time.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Based upon People Manager Assessment Center data and Management Development Best Practices, the highly customized action learning leadership development program focused on: Creating Team Clarity and Alignment Managers learned how to step back and garner commitment from their teams by creating high levels of strategic clarity.

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Makarios Consulting

APRIL 6, 2022

Leadership is a lot like a ropes course – you are confronted with challenge after challenge, each one testing your skills and giving you an opportunity for personal development and team growth. In this series, we are looking at elements of “The Leadership Ropes Course” that all leaders need to face – and master! Connection.

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Makarios Consulting

APRIL 6, 2022

Leadership is a lot like a ropes course – you are confronted with challenge after challenge, each one testing your skills and giving you an opportunity for personal development and team growth. In this series, we are looking at elements of “The Leadership Ropes Course” that all leaders need to face – and master! Connection.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The same is true if the team does not trust management or leadership to fully support the shift to teams with the right structures , incentives, and reinforcement mechanisms. Lack Of Team Leadership Skills We know from leadership simulation assessment data that team leaders must be able to create an environment that promotes team cohesion.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Next, they learned how to co-create a team charter that aligned team goals, roles, and metrics with organizational needs. Next, they learned how to co-create a team charter that aligned team goals, roles, and metrics with organizational needs. Can your managers create enough strategic clarity and commitment?

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

By the time careers reach leadership levels, as few as 15% of those talented women remain, according to some estimates. But despite the billions in investments, the number of women in leadership continues to stagnate, and women continue dropping out of STEM at a fast rate. Set up women for success early on.

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Women in Consulting

MARCH 4, 2016

Charlene Li, WIC’s featured speaker for February, spoke on “Leadership in the Digital Age.” The following tips will help you construct a distinct presence in this digital age. Your published work will then be shared by others which further affirms and endorses your leadership position. LEADERSHIP. By: Olivia Dippon.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 6, 2023

Our strategic planning services offer guidance on how a strategic planning facilitator can provide support in constructing an effective strategic plan that ensures your strategy is communicated and implemented across your entire organization. Are you having a strategy meeting soon? Get our free 2-Day strategic planning agenda.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Senior leadership teams that embrace agile do a few things differently. See your leadership team as an agile Scrum that prioritizes the backlog based on importance, then tackles them in sequence until completed. The CEO and his leadership team share a joint table. Systematic Inc.,

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LSA Global

MAY 23, 2024

Coachees and feedback recipients must have a solid understanding of and commitment to what is expected of them in terms of desired outcomes, behavioral norms , and success metrics. While trust is a two-way process, leaders must create an environment of trust if they want to be able to provide constructive feedback.

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LSA Global

MARCH 17, 2025

The Top 10 Sales Management Skills to Master to Drive Sales Performance Here are the top sales management skills to master for sustained sales growth and leadership effectiveness. Effective sales leadership involves setting a clear sales strategy , creating a sales-driven culture , motivating sales team members, and leading by example.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 14, 2023

Have You ever Had to Acclimate Someone New to Your Leadership Team? Any time you add a new member to any team, but especially a senior leadership team , the interpersonal dynamics and team’s forward momentum can be affected. Ask about what they like to do both personally and professionally and share your own leadership story.

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Consulting Matters

DECEMBER 16, 2022

One thing I have learned over my almost 30-plus years of consulting – while there are executive unicorns who will share your idealistic visions of a balanced approach to leadership, like Mark Johnson (in episode 42) or former Disney COO Jim MacPhee (in episode 40), the majority won't. The people strategy is about the WHO.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 30, 2016

You’ll need a sexy minor, some unique leadership experience or a great summer internship to stand out. Mechanical Engineering is the most operationally focused, in contrast to say Civil Engineering, where you are more focused on ideas such as land use instead of metrics and modeling. The knock on engineering?

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

But I don’t believe that purpose is a meaningless construct. Look at the statement again, carefully, and you’ll realize that one part of the statement deals with the benefits of one stakeholder group, customers; the other part deals with a metric for the other stakeholder group, shareholders. And heart wins.

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Martinka Consulting

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

The sub-headline was about how transportation officials see obstacles, mainly all the existing construction downtown. Without effective leadership you have a dysfunctional organization, whether it’s a government, business, or non-profit. A friend doesn’t believe in business plans, strategy, metrics, job descriptions, etc.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

A new operating model also requires a governance structure and leadership model so leaders know how they will exercise operational control and inspire employees—and hold themselves accountable for doing both. Finally, we urge companies not to lose sight of an essential goal of good organizational design: constructive conflict.

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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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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Confusing or Misaligned Goals or Roles It is hard to expect teams to perform at their peak if goals, roles, processes, success metrics, interdependencies, and behavioral expectations are unclear, misaligned, or unfair. Agreed-upon goals should clarify what the team wants to achieve and why. Are you emphasizing team-based behaviors?

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Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

He reset collaborative P&L metrics and business review processes, shared by the region leaders and the global product leaders, to form tight “business handshakes,” that he regards as the center of a granular set of growth strategies. As senior leadership peeled back the organizational onion, a clear case for change emerged in 2013.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Generally, we saw that “male champions” have learned that gender inclusiveness means involving both men and women in advancing women’s leadership. practicing other-focused leadership, not self-focused leadership. For any position, we have leading and lagging metrics for diversity.

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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. What are the teams key objectives, desired outcomes, success metrics , and essential tasks required to deliver the necessary impact?

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Typically, performance management includes how to: define performance and behavioral expectations set individual and team goals provide constructive feedback have difficult performance conversations guide career development conversations review performance. Leaders need to pay attention to performance management warning signs.

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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. Strong strategic alignment creates constructive collaboration for a company to perform at its peak.

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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

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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Harvard Business

MARCH 27, 2017

Advanced materials and new construction methods were bringing far greater complexity to manufacturing processes. For magnitude, the metrics included size of capital investment or operational expenditure and time to expected benefits; the greater the investment or longer the time-to-benefit, the higher the point score.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

We know from leadership simulation assessment data that many work decisions are relatively straightforward and easy to make. Team Decision Making Decision making is the process of selecting between two or more courses of action. In team decision making, however, it’s far more likely that you face a more complicated set of issues.

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LSA Global

MARCH 6, 2025

The absence of constructive cross-functional interactions slows decision-making , stifles company-wide initiatives, and frustrates employees. When cultures are fragmented, employees experience inconsistencies in leadership approaches, company values , and workplace expectations that create confusion, disengagement , and attrition.

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Martinka Consulting

JANUARY 18, 2019

Tom and Kevin shared their experiences and feelings as part of Tom selling off ownership and giving up control and Kevin investing in the company and taking over its leadership. The industries most conducive to a management buy-out (construction and professional services top the list. The use of metrics, management reports, etc.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Our organizational alignment research found that strategic clarity accounts for 31% of the difference between high and low performance in terms of revenue growth, profitability, customer loyalty, leadership effectiveness, and employee engagement. Only then can you create an accountable culture and push for higher levels of performance.

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Nash Consulting

MAY 21, 2024

According to John Kotter, a top thought leader on leadership and change, a whopping 70% of change initiatives fail due to inadequate buy-in and insufficient communication. This isn’t exclusive to the most senior leader or the senior leadership team, although it absolutely needs to start with them. This all starts with a clear vision.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Because diverse perspectives and constructive debates are required to thoughtfully and fully flush out the pros and cons required to make well-rounded decisions. Weak decision making cultures play workplace politics , do not share information, and have unclear or unfair success metrics.

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LSA Global

APRIL 15, 2024

And sales leadership simulation assessment data tells us that too many sales leaders struggle with the ability to select strategic sales priorities that add significant value and create a competitive advantage. Developing an effective sales strategy requires a deep understanding of market dynamics and the ability to adapt to evolving trends.

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LSA Global

APRIL 15, 2024

And sales leadership simulation assessment data tells us that too many sales leaders struggle with the ability to select strategic sales priorities that add significant value and create a competitive advantage. Developing an effective sales strategy requires a deep understanding of market dynamics and the ability to adapt to evolving trends.

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