LSA Global

JULY 1, 2024

The Top 3 Other Metrics for CEOs to Consider While financial, customer, and employee-based metrics typically cover most key strategic plans, we know from strategy retreat facilitation that other areas frequently come up.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 26, 2017

A Strong Culture of Accountability Matters. If you desire a healthy, strong culture of accountability (and who doesn’t), leaders need to cascade accountability throughout your organization. Without accountability, you risk a culture where people do not consistently do what they say they will do. Compelling Mission.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

A Coherent Business Strategy Matters Our organizational alignment research found that a coherent business strategy 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.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Organizations that see strategy as an active, ongoing endeavor invest significant resources in translating strategies into clear goals and accountabilities , cascading those goals across the organization , communicating and measuring progress, holding people accountable , and rewarding execution performance.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 2, 2022

Similar to unsuccessful change initiatives , unsuccessful strategies usually fail to create strategic initiatives that make sense within the overall market, competitor, culture, and talent realities that the strategies must be implemented within. The Bottom Line Strategic plans should be living and evolving documents.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

To keep change on track, organizations need to actively involve those most affected by change, transparently monitor progress, fairly hold people accountable, and thoughtfully make adjustments. Do the rank and file really understand the business case for the planned change and what success would look like?

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Focus on The First Steps to Strategic Action 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.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

These strategic assumptions are then used to design a relevant and realistic strategic plan for success. They actively involve employees in the strategy design and planning phases to increase ownership, accountability, and buy in. Can your leaders and their teams clearly articulate your strategic plan for success?

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LSA Global

MAY 4, 2021

Our organizational alignment research found strategic clarity accounts for 31% of the difference between high and low performance in terms of revenue, profitability, customer loyalty, and employee engagement. Will your corporate culture help or sabotage your strategic plan? Strategy matters.

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LSA Global

APRIL 12, 2023

Know Where You Want to Go: Build a Talent Management Strategy In order to ensure your talent strategy is forward-looking enough to meet future needs, you need a thoughtful people plan with clear and specific goals. Where do you stand?

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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. formally summarize results, and agree upon next steps.

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AIHR

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Having a professional development plan template streamlines the process of employee development, ensures fairness and consistency, and aligns individual goals with organizational objectives. DOWNLOAD PDP TEMPLATE (WORD DOC) Contents What is a professional development plan?

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LSA Global

JUNE 2, 2023

Most companies run annual corporate strategy retreats to agree upon the key strategic priorities for the next twelve to thirty six months. Getting leaders on the same strategic page makes sense. To stay current and competitive, we recommend challenging your current strategic direction as often as every quarter.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The most common corporate strategy execution readiness mistakes leaders make relate to an overreliance on strategy communication vs. active stakeholder involvement and overestimating the amount of strategic alignment from their peers. Strategic clarity accounts for 31% of the difference between high and low performing organizations.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 23, 2023

A Better Leadership Transition Preparation Plan We know from action learning leadership development participants that to take on any new challenge, it’s best to spend time investigating the current situation and determining future, realistic, and attainable-but-challenging goals.

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LSA Global

MAY 13, 2024

Our organizational alignment research found that having the right talent to execute your business strategy accounts for 29% of the difference between high and low performing companies in terms of: Revenue growth Profitability Leadership effectiveness Customer loyalty Employee engagement The symbiotic relationship between talent and strategy matters.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The goal is to have each individual employee from the C-suite to the frontline perform their job with the skills, abilities, and behaviors that are in accordance with the overall strategic plan. Is your strategy being consistently implemented across the organization?

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

Healthy growth depends upon an overall strategic plan that keeps a business, and the leaders, on a big picture track. Lacking Clarity in Direction Our organizational alignment research found that strategic clarity accounts for 31% of the difference between high and low performing teams.

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LSA Global

MARCH 5, 2021

Done right, a successful strategic plan sets a company up to perform beyond the sum of its parts. Our organizational alignment research found that culture accounts for 40% of the difference between high and low performance. Have you invested the time to ensure that your culture is helping, not hindering, your strategy execution?

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AIHR

OCTOBER 10, 2024

HR tip A decision matrix helps to promote transparency and accountability. You can also make the most of decision matrix templates’ data-centric approach to demonstrate a methodical, evidence-based decision-making process that’s also transparent and accountable. Below is an overview of these decision matrix template types: 1.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

High performing leaders know that strategic clarity accounts for 31% of the performance difference between companies. They start by actively involving key stakeholders in creating a clear game plan that outlines compelling choices about where to play and what specific actions to take. Consistent Monitoring – The Accountability.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 4, 2021

Fortune magazine reports that 70-90% of corporate strategies fail to achieve their goals because their organizations do not carry the plans through to successful completion. Our own organizational alignment research found that employees perceive strategic plans to be half as clear to them as to their leadership team.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Strategic alignment is also a prerequisite for creating an aligned culture and a high performing workforce. Strategic Alignment Accounts for 31% of the Difference. Our organizational alignment research found that strategic alignment accounts for 31% of the difference between high and low performing companies and teams.

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LSA Global

JUNE 6, 2020

Middle Management Needs to Be Deeply Engaged in Strategy Design and Planning. Our organizational alignment research found that strategic clarity accounts for 31% of the difference between high and low performance. It also found that middle management plays a powerful role in getting strategically aligned.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

To us, the real work starts with transparency and accountability from leaders. Leaders should make strategic plans, progress, and challenges visible to all key stakeholders. The Bottom Line Are you doing all you can to mobilize your workforce to all pull in the same strategic direction? If not, it is time to get aligned.

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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. Changing habits or creating new ones is one of the toughest parts of making change stick. How does your top leadership team stack up?

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LSA Global

AUGUST 6, 2021

Here’s the list and our recommendations on how to overcome the top strategy execution risks: Lack of Clarity and Understanding Our organizational alignment research found strategic clarity accounts for 31% of the difference between high and low performance in terms of revenue, profitability, customer loyalty, and employee engagement.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 7, 2017

Our organizational alignment research found that clear business strategies account for 31% of the difference between high and low performing companies. Before you even start to craft your strategic plan, you should have clear answers to the following questions related to creating clear business strategies: Growth.

Strategic Planning 29

Strategic Planning Implementation Employee Engagement Accounts 29

LSA Global

AUGUST 7, 2017

Our organizational alignment research found that clear business strategies account for 31% of the difference between high and low performing companies. Before you even start to craft your strategic plan, you should have clear answers to the following questions related to creating clear business strategies: Growth.

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Strategic Planning Implementation Employee Engagement Accounts 28

LSA Global

JULY 2, 2022

In fact, strategic clarity accounts for 31% of the difference between high and low performing leadership teams. Strategic Alignment Does Not Mean Agreement But don’t make the common mistake of thinking that strategic alignment means that all stakeholders must agree. to-1 Customer Satisfaction 3.2-to-1

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LSA Global

AUGUST 6, 2019

Our organizational alignment research found 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. Do you know what that ideal culture looks like? Strategy Comes First.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 6, 2019

Our organizational alignment research found 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. Do you know what that ideal culture looks like? Strategy Comes First.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Effective Strategy Cascading Creates Alignment, Accountability and Meaning. This communication and implementation process occurs in a series of reactions in which one causes another…in which every division, department and individual are aligned around the overall strategic plan and the important part they play in making it a success.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

While leaders often spend massive amounts of time and energy crafting strategic plans to help their company get to the next level, they rarely invest the same amount of effort to ensure that everyone is on the same page. Don’t underinvest in the communication piece of strategic planning and execution.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Strategic buy-in accounts for 31% of the difference between high and low performing strategies. If employees aren’t actively involved in creating the strategy or if they don’t have a clear understanding of the organization’s plan for success and what it means for them, how can they help support it? Lack of Accountability.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

A Better Way to Set Strategic Priorities. Here is a better way to set strategic priorities that keeps limited resources strategically focused on what matters most while taking into account the day-to-day realities of running the business. The post A Better Way to Set Strategic Priorities appeared first on LSA Global.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 2, 2018

Too many of us know what can happen with a strategic plan that is fuzzy, ill-conceived or non-implementable. This may be the most vulnerable stage of the strategic planning process… strategy implementation. Top 10 Signs of a Bad Strategy. Let’s start with the most common signs of a bad strategy. Increased finger pointing.

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