LSA Global Insights Newsletter

July 1, 2007

5 Key Succession Planning Trends

Did you know that "talent mobility" is increasing as fast, if not faster than the performance management expectations of most companies?

While the majority of companies with more than 500 employees have already taken some steps to begin a succession planning process for senior management positions, most agree that they do not have the right "talent ready at the right time.

One of the key goals of any succession planning effort should be that there is no "hiccup" in seamlessly executing the business plan, at least from a talent and employee retention perspective.

To ensure success, we recommend implementing 5 key lessons learned from the field.




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


June 1, 2007

Channel Objectives, Metrics, and Dashboards

More and more organizations are finding that their Channels are not living up to their original performance expectations.

Channels are a complicated business, filled with nuance, complications, and outright complexity. What works in one situation might be counterproductive in another.

As a result, an important job for a channel leader or manager is to evaluate, adapt, and execute within a flexible framework that allows alignment across multiple objectives and metrics.




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


May 1, 2007

5 Project Success Factors

While almost every industry and profession continue to commit a greater proportion of their time and resources to key projects, up to 75% of their mission critical projects continue to fail to meet original expectations.

Few projects are easy. Even when the technology is proven, the requirements are clear, and the budget is sufficient, for various reasons, problems arise and project risk factors are not properly managed.

While many projects fail, others exceed or meet expectations.

If you have led or been involved with projects, you know that you must start with agreed upon goals and key stakeholders.


Read about the 5 Keys to Project 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

Project Management Tools & Templates

Are you looking to save time, reduce costs or improve project quality?

Best Practice templates, applied correctly, can greatly increase your chances for success by providing guidance, a common language, and proven concepts to integrate into your project.

With over 15 years of project management experience with leading organizations around the world, these templates were created by PMI certified PMP experts to help project teams improve the project skills needed to succeed.




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


April 1, 2007

Does Your Interviewing Process Work?

In a previous issue of the Harvard Business Review, Larry Bossidy, the past CEO of AlliedSignal, describes interviewing as "the most flawed process in American business."

Based on over 25 years of experience helping organizations improve competency-based behavioral interviewing training and practices, we couldn't agree more.

More and more of our clients have increased hiring. More and more of our clients utilize an inconsistent and unproven interviewing process that takes too much time and does not produce the desired results.

While we know that hiring the right people significantly decreases costs and increases productivity, fewer and fewer organizations have the skills to interview effectively-they don't have a clear picture of the ideal candidate nor how to ask the questions that will predict performance once hired.

We think the problem is obvious.




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



Management Tools for Hiring Top Talent

If you are working long hours while trying to add important members to your team, you should be asking yourself lots of questions.

Based on over 25 years of experience helping organizations improve competency-based behavioral interviewing training and practices, we suspected you might be wondering how best to accomplish this objective.

Despite the best intentions, 90% of all terminations are due to performance factors that never appeared on a resume. Most companies exert 2-4 times more time and effort to interview and select new employees than is required.

It is possible to hire "A" players faster with less effort.




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