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How to Build Your Business on the Best of Your Career with Lori Smith

Consulting Matters

She had created a unique role for herself as an initiative and project integrator that combined her finance background, six-sigma process improvement and project management training, and natural relationship-building skills. She found herself at crossroads, wondering what was next for her career.

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How to Motivate Frontline Employees

Harvard Business

One question that has long plagued organizations is how to improve performance among frontline workers, the people who actually drive customer experience. To show how it works, we’ll walk you through an example. For example, in one store, a challenge was how to get more walk-in customers. Shana Novak/Getty Images.

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Engineering Project Management: The Essential Guide

Epicflow

Also, Epicflow’s What-if analysis allows you to forecast the impact of changes on the workflow and make the most reasonable decisions in terms of how to address these changes (e.g., The priorities are adjusted every time changes occur in the workflow. moving milestones, reallocating resources, etc.).

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How to Discover and Own Your Consulting Superpower: Interview with Charles Browne

Consulting Matters

And through both of those processes, I served as an Operator, and then also as a Project Manager, and then a Master Black Belt Lead Sig Sigma process improvement black belt. Because it’s really focused so externally on how to get clients, or how they money, or what their earning potential is.

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How to Beat Mid-Career Malaise

Harvard Business

This made me more people-focused than process-focused, but it allowed for process improvements in the best way possible, by enabling people to excel.” ” The results were successful. “After I expanded the boundaries of my job, I was much more engaged in my work,” he says.

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Overcoming Entrepreneurial Burnout with Rachelle Stone and Lori Smith

Consulting Matters

She combines her financial expertise with operations, project management, and process improvement to help clients achieve their growth goals faster and harmoniously among stakeholders.

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10 Ways To Making Money And A Difference as a Consultant & Coach (Number 2 Is My Favorite)

Consulting Matters

Related: How to Position Yourself as a Peer (and Stay out of the Dreaded "Pair of Hands" Trap). Coaching, training, strategy, process improvement are all tactics that we use but it's not the essence of what we offer. Here's 10 ways to perceive the significance of your role and why consultants and coaches matter.