Vantage Circle

JANUARY 28, 2024

This blog will take you through a venture that will clarify your confusion about these two concepts. It is driven by an employee-centric approach encompassing every touchpoint of an employee’s interaction with the company. The company tries to attract top talent through job postings, employer branding, career fairs, etc.

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LSA Global

APRIL 1, 2024

Strategic Vision , Company Mission , Corporate Values , and Optimizing Strategies) serve as an organization’s North Star. We define strong strategic alignment as the cohesion between a company’s strategic direction and its organization’s capabilities, resources, and mindsets.

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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. This question encourages people to review critical decisions and ways of working and to consider how the company should act differently going forward. Resource allocation matters.

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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

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Perils of Neglecting Strategic Prioritization Our organizational alignment research found that strategic clarity and focus 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

AUGUST 2, 2023

During a strategy retreat , it helps to consider four different strategy perspectives: customer, process, finance, and growth. In fact, our organizational alignment research found that culture accounts for 40% of the difference between high and low performing companies.

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Get Lighthouse

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

To get this sent to your inbox every week, along with our latest long form essays on this blog, you can sign up here. That said, you can help a bit by making your away/present status clear in your company's chat. Retreats, and other intentional rituals can help. Sorry to say, but it's true.

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15Five

MAY 21, 2019

Today, thanks to modern technology, remote work has evolved and now offers more flexibility than ever, and companies are able to choose from various remote work models. In this post, we will discuss several remote work models to help you find one that fits best within your company culture. Try High Fives to increase peer recognition!

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Organizational Strategy and The First Steps to Strategic Action Just as with chess, the first moves after your strategy retreat are critical to set you and your team up for successful strategy execution. Many top players report spending years studying different chess openings to see how they can improve their game.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The Huge Disconnect between Active and Passive Corporate Values We define corporate values as the company-wide guidelines for desired workplace behaviors. Or the company promotes open dialogue but fires the employee who acts as a “ devil’s advocate ” by respectfully challenging the boss’ pet proposal. What behaviors get punished?

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 27, 2023

When compared to lower trust companies, the Center for Neuroeconomics Studies found that employees in high-trust companies are: 50% more productive 40% more likely to stay longer 76% more engaged 74% less stressed Leadership Teams With Low Levels of Trust Imagine a leadership team without trust. What is it and why does it matter?

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Vantage Circle

JANUARY 28, 2024

This blog will take you through a venture that will clarify your confusion about these two concepts. It is driven by an employee-centric approach encompassing every touchpoint of an employee’s interaction with the company. The company tries to attract top talent through job postings, employer branding, career fairs, etc.

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Walk Me

AUGUST 3, 2021

In some cases, organizations will have in-house specialists, but this can be costly, so many companies will outsource benefits. These can include a wide range of solutions, such as: Yoga classes Exercise classes Gym facilities Massage Corporate retreats Healthy eating options Solutions for the WFH workforce.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Design a Clear and Compelling Strategy First, you need to co-create a clear, believable, and implementable strategy with the entire executive team at a well-design strategy retreat. Actively Involve Key Stakeholders Many companies handle this step poorly. Do you need to stress test your strategy ?

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 2, 2022

For example, in a recent strategy retreat , one R&D leader who understood the big picture offered constructive suggestions that were best for the health of the company but may not be positive for him or his team. But your leadership mindset – how you think, learn, and behave – dictates how those around you perceive you.

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Mind Tools Leadership

OCTOBER 1, 2020

During times of elevated stress, it’s easy to retreat and communicate less while you’re working things out. When we discussed the company culture, I was getting two different snapshots, depending on who I was talking to. Don’t allow moody leaders to have a negative influence on pockets of your company culture.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Our organizational alignment research spanned eight industries, over 400 companies, the insights of academic experts, and our three decades worth of hands-on experience. What Difference Does It Make? to-1 Customer Satisfaction 3.2-to-1 to-1 Leadership Effectiveness 8.71-to-1 to-1 Employee Engagement 16.8-to-1. If only it were that easy.

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LSA Global

JULY 6, 2022

At a recent HR Strategy Retreat , the Chief People Officer asked her team, “Is our corporate culture too nice to execute our growth strategy?” To learn more about optimizing your company culture, download The 3 Levels of Culture that Leaders Must Get Right. Can a Corporate Culture Be Too Nice? appeared first on LSA Global.

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LSA Global

JUNE 16, 2023

Otherwise, you are just another company or sales rep among many and risk facing serious pricing pressure. If not, you need to conduct a sales strategy retreat to define your ideal target client profile and your unique value proposition.

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LSA Global

MARCH 1, 2022

The question is why do so many well thought-out corporate strategies from strategy retreat facilitation sessions fail in the interval between launch and successful execution? The bottom line is that a good strategy doesn’t count for much if it remains on the drawing board and never is consistently executed across the organization.

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LSA Global

JULY 2, 2022

Strategic Alignment vs. Strategic Agreement Smart leaders and those who facilitate strategy retreats know that strategic alignment does not mean agreement. . to-1 Customer Satisfaction 3.2-to-1 to-1 Leadership Effectiveness 8.71-to-1 to-1 Employee Engagement 16.8-to-1.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Start with one or two behaviors that are most critical to achieve your organization’s strategy – the critical few behavioral priorities that will allow your company to achieve the strategic objectives you have identified as fundamental to current and future desired business outcomes. Clear, Compelling and Urgent.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Done right, a successful strategic plan sets a company up to perform beyond just the sum of its parts. This effect is when a leader, division, or company thinks they are good at something that they actually are not. Dunning-Kruger Effect. The post Top 10 Cognitive Biases that Affect Strategic Planning appeared first on LSA Global.

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Know Your Team

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Watercooler members shared steps they’ve taken to ensure people feel safe in their job, on their teams, and in their company. It is the first step in ensuring you are fostering a safe environment by letting your employees know it is a company-wide priority. But what exactly does psychological safety mean at an individual level?

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Michael McKinney

DECEMBER 12, 2023

From Sun Tzu to Julius Caesar, the ancient Israelites to Zelensky, there’s a bold and highly effective tactic seen throughout history—when leaders want to motivate their troops for success, they destroy all opportunities for retreat, and go all-in on the mission.

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Vantage Circle

MAY 27, 2023

In this blog, we've compiled a list of creative and practical office breakroom ideas that will do wonders for your employee morale , team bonding, and overall productivity. Your employee break room should be a retreat for your staff, not a punishment. Companies like Google and Zappos are already on board with the nap pod trend.

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AIHR

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Imagine a father accompanying his son to a job interview at a well-known stock exchange company. As they pull into the company’s parking lot, the son’s cell phone rings. In this blog, we’ll explore how to reduce bias in the hiring process. What are the unique selling points of joining the company and team (e.g.,

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Chris LoCutro

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Because there's so many details of just trying to understand AI now, we just had you at our next Level Mastermind retreat a few weeks ago, and you freaking killed it with great information. And now since since we're at the retreat, now, you've actually got image stuff built into chat, GBT, it's all in one chat session.

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Get Lighthouse

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

While many thought the pandemic brought only a temporary shift to remote work, the data tells a different story now: According to a Gallup , only two in 10 companies appear to be fully on-site and only 6% of remote-capable workers even want to be working fully on-site going forward. Which companies do this well? Stripe comes to mind.

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