LSA Global Insights Newsletter: November 2020

November 21, 2020

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Top leaders who create alignment consistently outperform their peers 8.71-to-1.

They do this by growing revenue 58% faster, attaining 72% greater margins, and engaging employees 16.8-to-1 as they navigate three big moves with their key stakeholders.

  • Strategy - First, top leaders ensure their strategy is clear, compelling, and believable.

  • Culture - Second, they invest the time and energy to ensure their culture (how work gets done) is healthy, high performing, and aligned to their strategic priorities.

  • Talent - Third, they conscientiously hire, develop, and retain top talent that will thrive in their culture to execute the strategy.

Are your leaders setting their teams up for success?

About LSA Global
Founded in 1995, LSA Global is a leading performance consulting and training firm that helps high growth technology, services, and life-science companies create a competitive advantage by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with their strategy. Learn more about getting aligned


Are The Best Company Cultures Internally Or Externally Focused?


Where Should You Focus Culturally to Accelerate Your Strategy?
The Covid crisis caused many companies to look inward to ensure the safety of their employees and forced other companies to look outward to change the way they serve clients. While both perspectives are important, should your culture look more inward or outward to succeed over the next 12-24 months?

Culture Definition
Let's start with defining culture. We define company culture as the way things get done in an organization on a day-to-day basis – especially when no one is looking. Culture is the way employees behave on the job and is based on intangibles such as the values, beliefs, and attitudes that characterize a company and guide its practices.

Culture Matters
Our organizational alignment research found that culture accounts for 40% of the difference between high and low performance in terms of revenue growth, profitability, customer loyalty, employee engagement, and leadership effectiveness. Culture acts as the glue that aligns a company’s business strategy with their people strategy

Cultures Vary
From one company to another and even across different regions and functions, there can be a variety of workplace cultures and subculturesIt depends upon your unique business and people strategies.

In terms of cultural focus, many companies who focus internally strongly believe in the service-profit-chain theory which links employee satisfaction directly to higher levels of customer loyalty and profitability. Conversely, externally focused companies put the customer at the center of everything that they do.

Both approaches have merit.

The real question is which approach is better for your unique situation so that you are aligned to get the right work done in the right way?
About LSA Global
Founded in 1995, LSA Global is a leading performance consulting and training firm that helps high growth technology, services, and life-science companies create a competitive advantage by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with their strategy. Learn more about getting aligned