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Fit to Role: Aligning Skills and Job Requirements for Optimal Performance

Effective Managers

The Benefits of Optimal Fit to Role Increased Productivity : Employees whose skills and interests align with their job roles tend to be more productive and efficient. Skill Assessments and Interviews : Utilize skill assessments and structured interviews to evaluate the capabilities of potential and current employees.

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How One Major Healthcare Firm Became the Leader in Innovative AI Use

Harvard Business

Blue Cross, Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM) has gone on a journey from being the least efficient user of technology in the Blue Cross system to the most efficient as measured on a technology cost per employee basis. Interviews with the BCBSM management team identified seven principles that guided their actions.

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How to Make Sure Agile Teams Can Work Together

Harvard Business

Increasing volatility, uncertainty, growing complexity, and ambiguous information (VUCA) has created a business environment in which agile collaboration is more critical than ever. Intuitively, we know that the collaborative intensity of work has skyrocketed, and that collaborations are central to agility. This story is not unique.

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Bureaucracy Can Drain Your Company’s Energy. Agile Can Restore It.

Harvard Business

The German sociologist Max Weber famously praised bureaucracy’s rationality and efficiencies. I know it is critical for the leadership to embrace agile, but the sad reality is that I’m not sure our leadership team will start before it’s too late. Learn and experience how agile works. What can I do?”

Agile 138
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How Interview Questions Reveal the True Organizational Assumptions & Culture, Part 5

Johanna Rothman

I started this series with many specific concerns about a particular interview question: “The product owner and dev team cannot decide on a sprint goal, even after hours of discussion. Note: This is a terrible interview question because it's hypothetical. Individual work does not encourage flow efficiency thinking.

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Measuring the Long-Term Impact of L&D Initiatives on Business Performance

Clarity Consultants

Productivity metrics: Assess changes in output per employee or team efficiency. These tools enable organizations to deliver training programs efficiently, track learner progress, and measure the impact of L&D initiatives. Cost savings: Measure reductions in operational costs due to increased efficiency or reduced errors.

Metrics 147
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Reflecting on Agile Thinking with Roy Osherove

Johanna Rothman

Years ago, Roy Osherove interviewed me about project management, agile thinking, hiring, and management. See Roy's Archived Interviews page for my interviews with him.) If you are not sure about effective management, listen to the interviews. See Johanna Rothman InterviewAgile, a Decade Later.

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