Brimstone Consulting

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

To further scale the company and increase performance and profitability, the private equity firm identified the need to address operational inefficiencies, optimize the organizational structure, and develop a high-performing and agile leadership team.

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Consulting Matters

DECEMBER 16, 2022

It includes: HR practices such as training, staffing and communication, performance metrics and rewards, and performance management and coaching. Understanding these stages helps you paint a picture of what's next for an organization and why and how they need to mature their leadership and operating practices.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Creates a palpable disconnect between the company’s strategic aspirations and its day-to-day operations. Incorporate Behavioral Alignment into Performance Metrics To reinforce the desired behaviors, integrate specific, measurable, and observable strategy-aligned behaviors into your performance management process.

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LSA Global

JULY 19, 2018

Our research found that team members are half as clear as their leaders about the team’s goals, roles, success metrics and operating norms. goals, roles, processes, relationships and success metrics). Indeed, IBM found that less than 10% of well formulated strategies are effectively executed.

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LSA Global

MAY 26, 2017

They operate not by gut-feel but by facts, and are able to analyze the pros and cons objectively with the desired outcomes and relationships in mind. Each employee should know not only their own personal goals, roles and success metrics but also those for the company, their team and their boss. Faulty decision making. Fuzzy priorities.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 7, 2024

For a strategy to work, goals and accountabilities, roles, interdependencies, and strategy success metrics must be deeply embedded in the company’s culture and aligned with its talent. Does everyone agree upon who makes what decisions and how tactical, operational, and strategic decisions will be made?

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LSA Global

JANUARY 27, 2025

Before you embark on improving team performance, it is important to consider the shared context in which people operate. What are the teams key objectives, desired outcomes, success metrics , and essential tasks required to deliver the necessary impact? What operating mechanisms will we use (e.g., 27% more effective.

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LSA Global

MARCH 6, 2025

Change management consulting experts know that when different teams or departments operate under varied cultural norms, implementing company-wide initiatives becomes almost impossible. Reduced Efficiency and Increased Costs Without cultural cohesion and aligned priorities, inefficiencies, team dysfunction, and operation costs grow.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Success metrics are confusing, conflicting, unfair or unbalanced. Identify the cultural aspects that matter most in terms of customers, market approach, brand positioning, risk tolerance, operational variances, decision making, work atmosphere, people and results. Review and share monthly dashboard metrics and adjust accordingly.

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Seth Godin Blog

JUNE 1, 2013

More than 3,000,000 copies downloaded, perhaps the most important book to read about creating ideas that spread. And nervous parents and competitive kids everywhere embraced the metric, and stick with it, even after seeing (again and again) that all the SAT measures is how well you do on the SAT. CEO READ (Bulk Orders). ONLINE: amazon.

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LSA Global

APRIL 19, 2018

Monitor Culture Metrics. If you are undergoing culture change, establish tracking metrics in areas such as: Key financial metrics: revenue, profit, expense, etc. If you are undergoing culture change, establish tracking metrics in areas such as: Key financial metrics: revenue, profit, expense, etc.

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LSA Global

MAY 20, 2017

Because they operate at a high level, executives are often better positioned to see things that are more applicable to the entire company rather than to a specific functional area or project. They understand that they don’t operate in a vacuum and that one move leads to another. It is the whole, not the part. Read the annual report.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 16, 2015

Relevant performance metrics might include profit margins, net income, and return on investment. This can be done by segmenting costs into value chain activities: inbound logistics, operations, outbound logistics, sales & marketing, customer service. What are the revenues and market shares of major competitors? Performance.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 24, 2017

Identify the gaps between the current and needed culture, identify cultural areas which have the greatest strategic and performance impact, and establish metrics to track progress and the success of the transformation. Assess the Current Culture. Create a Plan to Close the Key Culture Gaps.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Team’s Success Metrics What critical few 2-3 leading and lagging metrics best measure the team’s performance in the areas that matter most? Team Constraints Within what boundaries, assumptions, and constraints does the team need to operate to be successful? Course correct? Track progress? Hold each other accountable ?

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LSA Global

MAY 9, 2019

We believe that employees need to better understand the key factors that affect a company’s operations and financial strength to improve decision-making and strategy execution. Operating income. Operating Expenses. To understand how one metric affects another, understand some common scenarios. Cash flow.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 1, 2021

With a clear line of sight , each function, each team, and each individual employee understands exactly how they are to operate and where and when they will interact with others. Agility and a Learning Mindset The 90-day operational road map provides guidelines, but there will inevitably be unforeseen roadblocks.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Leaders must evaluate whether their current operational ways of working are designed to scale. Do we have efficient workflows in place to ensure operational excellence on a larger scale? Without clear growth metrics in place, leaders risk losing sight of what’s working and what needs improvement.

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Comatch

MAY 16, 2022

From an operational and supply chain perspective, many companies have focused on tracking their operations and assets (Scope 1) and their own purchased energy electricity, heating, cooling, etc. EU importers and non-EU producers of these inputs will be required to pay around 75 EUR per metric ton of CO2 emissions.

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Kates Kesler

AUGUST 29, 2012

This article highlights the operational challenges created by the most common organization design used by HR departments—the business partner model—and presents an emerging model— the solutions center—that is intended to address these flaws. Download entire pdf to continue reading this article.

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LSA Global

JULY 30, 2022

How could you build an effective team without clear and agreed-upon team goals and accountabilities , roles, norms , success metrics, scope, and interdependencies? Are you willing to take a close look at how your teams are operating and do the work required to improve their effectiveness?

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LSA Global

MARCH 3, 2025

to-1 When leaders operate as a unified team toward shared goals , organizations experience stronger strategy execution , greater employee engagement, and more loyal customers. Are able to better track and assess shared performance metrics tied to overall business strategies. to-1 Customer Satisfaction 3.2-to-1

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LSA Global

AUGUST 24, 2017

Identify the gaps between the current and needed culture, identify cultural areas which have the greatest strategic and performance impact, and establish metrics to track progress and the success of the transformation. Assess the Current Culture. Create a Plan to Close the Key Culture Gaps.

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LSA Global

APRIL 4, 2022

Done right, mapping the current customer experience assesses your current organizational culture and allows for a comparison between the experiences people have and the underlying operational processes and systems that substantiate those experiences. The post Steps to Redesign Your Customer Experience appeared first on LSA Global.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 25, 2020

Have the team monitor, discuss, and openly communicate key sales metrics, risks, boundaries, issues, and challenges related to sales strategies , target clients , unique value propositions , competitors, cultural misalignments , capabilities, technologies, and engagement levels. The Bottom Line.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Whether you are an organization with a traditional reporting hierarchy or one that works with a flatter structure, make sure that roles, responsibilities, scope, success metrics, and interdependencies are crystal clear. Only then can you create an accountable culture and push for higher levels of performance.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Not Focusing on Business Outcomes and Metrics First Too many instructional designers start with learning objectives, content, and training modalities. There is inevitably real discomfort as employees stretch to practice and embed new ways of operating. This is a common, but easily fixed, leadership and management development mistake.

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LSA Global

MARCH 20, 2020

While many pundits believe that people can’t perform both roles well, corporations continue to believe that high performing and high potential employees can, at the same time, operate as an effective individual producer and people leader simultaneously. If you expect more from your player-coaches, treat and support them accordingly.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 24, 2017

If corporate learning is on the right track, your learning initiatives should see an uptick in the employee, customer, operational and financial metrics that matter most. If you want to create a game plan to improve corporate learning, download The Top 10 Training Function Warning Signs to Pay Attention To. The Bottom Line.

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LSA Global

JULY 9, 2021

Not only was much of the work force suddenly operating remotely and anxious about their health and the future of their employment; but also, their managers were challenged to keep employees on task, engaged, and connected without face-to-face interactions. First, make sure that success metrics are agreed upon and make sense.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

That means agreement on target clients, value proposition, success metrics, sales processes and methodologies, barriers to success, and a realistic action plan to execute your sales strategy and overcome the key barriers. Then enjoy the difference in revenue and win rate from the way you operated before.

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LSA Global

JUNE 6, 2020

Serious strategic, cultural, and operational disconnects can occur when there are even the slightest of strategic gaps between leaders and middle management. You will know you are on the right path when metrics for success are transparently shared, discussed, and acted upon. The Consequences of Under Involvement. The Bottom Line.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 10, 2021

And yet far too many businesses invest in corporate training without meaningful or agreed-upon success metrics. Give learners an opportunity to review in their minds what they learned, what difference it could make in how they perform their job, and what changes they need to make in the way they operate.

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Nash Consulting

MAY 21, 2024

From Idea to Action: Rethink your performance metrics to reflect new priorities. If the initial training is the “download,” then all the follow up learning activities are the "updates" that ensure the software not only remains functional but improves and adapts over time.

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LSA Global

JUNE 4, 2018

The most frequently used method of communicating strategy is through cascading the strategic imperatives and deliverables from the C-Suite to Managers who then translate the strategy into day-to-day operations for their employee teams. Establishing success metrics. Influencing high-level stakeholders. Sticking to priorities.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Creates a palpable disconnect between the company’s strategic aspirations and its day-to-day operations. Incorporate Behavioral Alignment into Performance Metrics To reinforce the desired behaviors, integrate specific, measurable, and observable strategy-aligned behaviors into your performance management process.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

No matter how simple the business, every effective operation is based upon some kind of revenue-generating plan. The Disadvantage… Done wrong, the traditional strategic planning process can create a thick binder of data, research, plans, metrics and actions that no one is really going to use, cascade or follow to move the business forward. #4.

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