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How to Make Your Organization Goal-Aligned

Posted by Alex Raymond
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on 05.17.2013
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As a CEO, manager, or supervisor you discuss goal alignment with your employees. You explain the vision for the company, and you have noticed little or no change. You are probably scratching your head questioning this lack of change, but have yo...

Strategic alignment is all about the carrot approach

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on 05.09.2013
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  An old BBC sitcom called “The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin” had one character, C.J., who was a stereotypical pompous company manager whose favorite line was, “I didn’t get where I am today by…” Then he would add a hilarious non-sequitur l...

Effective strategic alignment corrects the slip between the swamp and the alligators

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  The terms "strategic alignment" are buzz words that conjure up abstract visions of everything working perfectly in a business where everything is, well, perfect. That perfection (again, ideally) is a result of enlightened leadership at the to...

Developing an Employee Alignment Process to build up Profit

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on 04.25.2013
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Businesses trying to find a capable solution of improving productivity should consider an employee alignment process. This can help businesses to identify what factors or changes are needed to give employees that extra incentive to perform a bet...

Use Strategic Alignment to Help Your Company Grow Faster

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on 04.18.2013
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There are literally dozens of reasons why companies fail to grow – lack of desire, insufficient capital, poor marketing plan, and more. However, one of the biggest roadblocks to company growth is the lack of strategic alignment. Lack of Strategic Al...

Align Goals in Three Simple Steps

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on 04.12.2013
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Businesses usually have revenue and profit objectives. It is important to align goals, and write them down. Writing specific goals down help to set a clear path. This is your road map to success. There are three simple steps you can follow to align y...

Organizational Psychologist Adam Grant's Tips on Employee Alignment

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on 04.04.2013
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Adam Grant is an organizational psychologist who believes employee alignment starts with a positive attitude. The thirty-one year old is the youngest professor at Wharton. He also happens to be an esteemed academic in the study of workplace dynamics....

The Importance of Strategic Alignment in Big Data

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on 03.29.2013
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There is a major interest in the use of business analytics to identify functional patterns within ‘big data.' An event on the topic of business analytics was recently held at the Deakin University/IBM Centre of Excellence. The purpose of the occasion...

UK Companies Gain the Advantage with Goal Alignment

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on 03.21.2013
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A recent global survey conducted by The Project Management Institute revealed that UK organizations are taking higher risks than other companies worldwide. However, these high-risk companies are also improving their project and program outcomes to pr...

Aspects of Group Development to Align Goals

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on 03.14.2013
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  There are strategies for getting everybody on board or on the same page, so to speak, within the business environment. Therefore, the strategies should have a solid theoretical base to begin with. This means that in order to align goals ...

Align Goals and Projects for Maximum Productivity and Profit

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on 03.08.2013
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Projects can stray wide of the mark of business goals. This is a major challenge especially within small businesses. There are a few steps businesses can implement to align goals and projects for maximum productivity and profit. "A company with empl...

What is Employee Alignment and Why is it Important?

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This is an interesting subject and one that constantly needs monitoring. If we begin with the mission statement of a company and look at it closely, we will find the goals and aspirations of the company here. This then gives purpose to the business a...
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Goal Alignment: Do You Demonstrate What You Expect?

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The adage, “A picture is worth a thousand words” has tremendous meaning when you apply it to getting your employees and your company in harmony by goal alignment.  People who tout vision boards that became popular with the book The Secret, ...

How to Monitor the Results of your Corporate Strategy

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on 02.19.2013
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This post in an excerpt from our brand new ebook, The Kick-Ass CEO, Part 1: How to Create Inspiring Objectives that Driveyour Company Forward.Download the 29-page ebook in PDF format here.   Potential Pitfalls If your employees aren’t committ...

Plugging in to Strategic Alignment

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on 02.15.2013
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Even utility companies are seeing the light when it comes to strategic alignment now — though you might think their mission would’ve seemed fairly straightforward anyway: keeping customers’ power on. There’s more to it than that, though. And most ut...

Getting and Staying on the Good Side of Your CEO

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I was reminiscing with a colleague of mine about my days as head of HR for one of the 100 largest publically-traded commercial banks, and she asked me what it was like reporting to the CEO and the inherent responsibility/liability that came with that...

How Feedback can help you Achieve Your Goals

Posted by Alex Raymond
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on 02.12.2013
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This post in an excerpt from our brand new ebook, The Kick-Ass CEO, Part 1: How to Create Inspiring Objectives that Driveyour Company Forward. Download the 29-page ebook in PDF format here. Reporting/Measuring Performance Against Goals When ...

Goal Alignment: Connect the Message from the Top with the Actions at the Bottom

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There are clearly business benefits to setting and aligning company goals throughout your organization. First, you can increase operating margins when employees connect their individual goals to the company’s goals. Employees who understand how they...

Four Ways to Turn your Employees into Brand Ambassadors

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on 02.04.2013
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Let’s say you have an employee who doesn’t ‘get’ it, we’ll call him Homer.  Homer isn’t in a ‘customer-facing’ role, and he’s an average worker performing an important but unglamorous role.  He’s not on anyone’s radar one way or another.&nb...

Setting New Company Objectives

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When we think of objectives, we often think of goals. That stated, every fiscal year it is always prudent to set new standards of operations and objectives along with milestones for tracking purposes. Additionally, the use of a milestone is part of t...

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