LSA Global

MAY 24, 2019

Upgrade Your Strategic Planning Process. Whether you know it or not, you probably need to upgrade your strategic planning process. Our own organizational alignment research found that employees have 50% less faith in their company’s strategic plan than their leadership team. Scrap the Annual Ordeal.

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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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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

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

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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Implementation Strategic Planning Accounts Metrics 37

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 34

Strategic Planning Implementation Employee Engagement Accounts 34

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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Strategic Planning Implementation Organizational Change Employee Engagement 36

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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Strategic Planning Operations Accounts Implementation 36

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 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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Strategic Planning Implementation Employee Engagement Revenue 36

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 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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Strategic Planning Implementation Metrics Benchmarking 34

LSA Global

AUGUST 10, 2017

Strategic focus can make or break a company when the stakes are high. Settle or stretch…that may be the dilemma you face as you begin the critical strategic planning process. Is your business strategy planning process similar to the way most organizations run theirs? Don’t create the strategic plan in a bubble.

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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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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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Strategic Planning Accounts Implementation 36

LSA Global

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Our organizational alignment research found that the best company cultures account for 40% of the difference between high and low performance in terms of revenue growth, profitability, customer loyalty, employee engagement and leadership performance. What the Best Company Cultures Deliver. The Bottom Line. appeared first on LSA Global.

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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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Strategic Planning Employee Engagement Operations Accounts 36

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 3, 2025

Strategic planning has traditionally been the domain of a small group of executive leaders who get together in a strategy retreat to set the vision , priorities , and execution plans for an organization. Strategic clarity requires decisiveness excessive crowdsourcing can blur strategic priorities and hinder strategy execution.

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Strategic Planning Employee Engagement Diversity Implementation 36

LSA Global

JANUARY 19, 2018

If You Want Strategic Growth, Your Leadership Team Must Think Bigger. If you want strategic growth, you must start with strategic clarity. Our organizational alignment research found strategic clarity accounts for 31% of the difference between high and low growth companies. How To Beat the Odds.

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Strategic Planning Implementation Marketing Accounts 38

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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Organizational Change Strategic Planning Change Management Employee Engagement 36

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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Succession Planning Strategic Planning Implementation Metrics 36

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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Implementation Strategic Planning Accounts Manager 36

LSA Global

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

The change committee comes back with a 3-year strategic plan which is passed on to another committee charged with implementation that is passed on to the normal day-to-day business. Straightforward Accountability. In effect, the senior team tells frontline managers and employees what to do. Transparency.

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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.

Strategic Planning 36

Strategic Planning Employee Engagement Revenue Accounts 36

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 28

Strategic Planning Implementation Employee Engagement Accounts 28

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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Strategic Planning Metrics Accounts Implementation 28

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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Strategic Planning Compensation Operations Accounts 36

LSA Global

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Our organizational alignment research found Strategic Clarity accounts for 31% of the difference between high performing teams and organizations. Underperforming companies persist, despite major shifts in their predictions, in following their strategic plan step-by-step, year-by-year without sharing concerns, plans and alternatives.

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Strategic Planning Implementation Banking Retention 34

LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

As part of your strategic plan for the business, evaluate what skills and what competencies will be most critical for future growth. Be sure that your team managers know how to coach for improved performance and that they are held accountable for the results of their team. #4. Invest for the future. Recognize and reward success.

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Strategic Planning Energy Compensation Retention 39

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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Implementation Accounts Strategic Planning Change Management 36

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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Strategic Planning Inclusion Employee Engagement Accounts 36

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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Implementation Metrics Strategic Planning Retention 36

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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Strategic Planning Implementation Employee Engagement Accounts 36

LSA Global

JULY 6, 2018

We define a talent-centric culture as the proactive and thoughtful attraction, development, engagement, and retention of the talent required to execute your strategic plan in a way that aligns with your corporate culture. Talent Management Research. No longer can talent management be kept on the back burner.

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Strategic Planning Retention Employee Engagement Revenue 34

LSA Global

AUGUST 1, 2018

Our organizational alignment research found that strategic clarity, believability and implementability account for 31% of the difference between high and low performing teams and organizations. 49% of leaders surveyed by Booz & Company said their companies had no strategic priorities. Strategy Implementation Success.

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LSA Global

JUNE 4, 2018

Create Unquestionable Strategic Clarity. For example, if your executive team spent one month designing the strategy and held a two-day strategic planning offsite , plan on spending two months and four days with their direct reports to get the same level of commitment and ownership.

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