LSA Global

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Our organizational alignment research found that strategic clarity and cultural alignment by the CEO accounts for 71% of the difference between high and low performing organizations in terms of revenue growth, profitability, customer retention, leadership effectiveness, and employee engagement.

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Consulting Matters

AUGUST 6, 2018

Download Episode Transcript. People Strategy : What competencies are required; how individuals are recruited, selected, trained, recognized, compensated and rewarded; and how performance is measured, tracked and monitored. I have two children. When they were small, they used to go to daycare. budgeting, order fulfillment, etc.).

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LSA Global

JANUARY 6, 2025

Alignment with Ways of Working, Resources, and Capabilities We know from leadership simulation assessment data that too many leaders ignore cultural and operational realities. Strategies that clash with organizational culture or overlook operational constraints are unlikely to gain traction.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

How to Bridge the Capabilities Gap through the Strategic Alignment of Skills and Organizational Objectives We know from training needs assessment data that most organizations struggle to ensure that their workforce has the skills and motivation to achieve strategic objectives in a way that makes sense to the people AND the business.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 9, 2025

The Problem with Most Corporate Values Unfortunately, we know from organizational culture assessment data that the majority of corporate values are either toothless or disingenuous. Values are not a communications issue; they are a strategy, culture, and change management issue. Treat them accordingly.

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LSA Global

JUNE 17, 2024

How to Increase the ROI of Sales Training Even though $20 billion is spent on business sales training per year, more than a third of sales leaders admit that they do not have a clear idea of what measurable return they are looking for on sales training. That is a costly mistake if you want to increase the ROI of sales training.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Lack of Alignment Our organizational alignment research found that strategic clarity and cultural alignment account for 71% of the difference between high and low performing teams. Is the strategy and culture aligned enough for the team to succeed? Does being a team increase or decrease the perceived risk of individual failure?

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

When Is the Best Time for Management Training ? Done right, management training is a critical component of leadership development because it equips managers with the skills and insights necessary to lead, manage, and coach their teams to higher performance. So, when is the best time for management training?

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LSA Global

JULY 15, 2024

How to Deliver Better Sales Training We know from sales assessment data that far too many sales teams lack the proper business sales training , sales coaching, and sales support to consistently meet or exceed their sales targets. Do you have a sales driven culture required for high growth? achieved quota last year.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Download this podcast. From Alison and Dan’s reading list for this episode: HBR: The Three Pillars of a Teaming Culture by Amy Edmondson — “When you join an unfamiliar team or start a challenging new project, self-protection is a natural ins tinct. So it takes conscious work to shift the culture.”

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Melissa Agnes

AUGUST 1, 2016

Those of you who have followed me for a while know that I am dedicated to helping law enforcement agencies implement a 21st century crisis-ready culture. To download this episode to your computer or device: Click here. Check out Brian’s consulting agency: Winning Mind Training. Subscribe to the Crisis Intelligence Podcast!

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LSA Global

JUNE 29, 2017

We get asked by many learning and talent leaders about How to Build a Better Training Assessment. Getting training assessments right is an important topic because most training assessments are not only statistically invalid, but they are often implemented in a way that inhibits trust, decreases relevance, and wastes time.

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Nash Consulting

MAY 21, 2024

Mastering Post-Training Sustainability: Strategies to Maintain Organizational Change By Nash Consulting Successfully planning and implementing robust training in an organization isn’t a small feat. The conclusion of the training can feel like a major victory lap. And we become a culture of resistance.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 22, 2022

The Culture Toolkit containing research-backed workplace culture tools and insights for leaders to create a healthy, high performing, and strategically aligned culture. Our organizational alignment research found culture accounts for 40% of the difference between high and low performing organizations.

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Melissa Agnes

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

1) Provide social media training for everyone that operates as an admin on a brand account. If they are in any way responsible for content, customer service, monitoring or answering fan questions, they need to have a deeper level of training. Great news: It’s a free download! Every negative comment does not need an answer.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 27, 2018

Do You Need to Improve New Manager Training? It is not easy to find an organization that does not want to improve new manager training. Why are so many leaders disappointed in the impact of their new manager training? According to Deloitte, the number one area of training spending (35%) is management and leadership.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The Importance of Learning Aptitude and Learning Orientation: What Type of Learner Does Corporate Training Help the Most? One of the biggest training strategy mistakes a corporate training function can make is investing in trying to develop the wrong people.

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LSA Global

MAY 30, 2018

Training Does Not Always Makes Sense. Does training make sense” is an important question to ask. Let’s use sexual harassment training as an example to highlight Training Events versus Learning Solutions. Sexual Harassment Training. While training can be a vital component, it is not enough. The Bottom Line.

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Halo Psych

MARCH 10, 2025

Ive summarised this in the sketchnote below, which you can DOWNLOAD HERE Reflective practice might support our wellbeing A new study found daily reflective writing combined with cognitive reappraisal saw an increase in wellbeing and life satisfaction, and a decrease in psychological distress (Kam et al, 2024).

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LSA Global

AUGUST 12, 2024

We know from our organizational culture assessment data that teams outperform individuals when performance requires multiple skills, judgments, and experiences. Provide Support and Resources High performance cultures provide high levels of support. Are you promoting a culture of accountability ?

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LSA Global

JANUARY 13, 2025

From Mid-Level Manager to Senior Leader Senior leaders are expected to build cross functional commitment, role model company culture, and translate functional strategies into effective and collective action. A strong leadership pipeline requires a blend of formal and experiential custom training programs.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Sales Training Design Best Practices Matter. Sales training design best practices matter a great deal. Why go through the expense, effort, and time to provide business sales training for your sales force if it is does not improve sales performance? Follow the sales training design best practices below to make the training count.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 13, 2020

Corporate Training May Not Be the Answer. Far too many managers, all with good intentions regarding corporate training effectiveness, leap to the conclusion that corporate training will be the answer to their employees’ performance or behavioral problems. Where is the Corporate Training Disconnect?

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2018

times more likely to have a culture to support risk-taking. times more likely to provide training for continuous skill development and 2.9 Meanwhile, this culture of enhanced collaboration must be underpinned by meaningful, cross-functional communication at all levels of the company. They are 4.1

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LSA Global

JANUARY 8, 2021

Difficult but Achievable The challenge to adopt a new cultural norm across your organization is difficult but not impossible. In fact, it occurs frequently in multi-national companies when they stumble across gaps in culture due to vastly different communication and working styles from one country to another.

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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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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2018

For example, many managers still believe that the errors they make in evaluating their employees can be corrected by training them to recognize the potential errors and suggesting ways to avoid them, while the actual evidence shows that such training can actually increase the number of errors they make.

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LSA Global

JULY 17, 2020

Meaningful Sales Training Outcomes Require Meaningful Steps. If you are looking for real behavior change from your sales force (and you should), you need to change your view of sales training from a one-time event to an ongoing change process. Challenge for Sales Training – Live and Remote. How B2B Selling Has Changed.

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LSA Global

MAY 27, 2024

How to Make Better Performance Improvement Plans When implemented correctly, better Performance Improvement Plans (also called PIPs) can be essential tools for enhancing employee performance, supporting a high performance culture , and achieving organizational goals. Are your managers creating a culture of accountability ?

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Market Internal Corporate Training More Effectively How well do you market internal corporate training strategies, value propositions, offerings, and learning journeys to your target participants? We make this distinction because customized training programs designed for intact teams within companies do not usually require marketing.

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LSA Global

MARCH 11, 2024

Do You Know How to Measure the Effectiveness of Corporate Training? Although most believe that the ability to measure the effectiveness of corporate training is too challenging or too expensive, evaluating the impact and return on training investments can and should be done in the right situations. There is a better way.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 6, 2020

In some “win-at-all cost” cultures like Oracle or those climbing Mt. Does your workplace culture emphasize the “what” over the “how”? The Right Cultural Balance. You will know that you have struck the right balance when your culture helps and does not hinder your people and business strategies. It’s certainly tempting.

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Harvard Business

MAY 17, 2017

From the start, Southwest cofounder Herb Kelleher saw his competition not as other airlines but as alternative forms of transportation, whether cars, buses, or trains. ” Beyond the usual financial metrics, JetBlue also measures the strength of its culture and the quality of its experience. But the Model S gets faster and better.”

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LSA Global

JULY 5, 2017

Uber and its difficulties continue to dominate Silicon Valley business news as its corporate culture deteriorates despite former CEO Travis Kalanick’s recent ouster. The critical question is whether or not the needle on the culture dial can be moved significantly from the negative to the positive. First let’s see just how bad it is.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

Staffing refers to recruitment, selection, training, development, and management of talent. Style refers to the work culture, leadership style of upper management and the way things are done. For more information on the consulting interview, download “ The HUB’s Guide to the Consulting Interview “ ].

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LSA Global

JUNE 29, 2017

We get asked by many learning and talent leaders about How to Build a Better Training Assessment. Getting training assessments right is an important topic because most training assessments are not only statistically invalid, but they are often implemented in a way that inhibits trust, decreases relevance, and wastes time.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Changing Corporate Culture. Some things are easily changed; corporate culture is not one of them. A key competency of successful leaders is knowing how to lead employees through cultural change. But cultural change CAN be accomplished with thoughtful preparation, transparency, active involvement, and open dialogue.

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