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How to Get Your Side Hustle Off the Ground

Harvard Business

The first step, as articulated in the Lean Startup methodology, should always be to run a small, inexpensive test to see if there’s preliminary interest (a “ minimum viable product ”). Time management issues. Instead, it’s more commonly a problem of managing the time we do have.

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Your Sales Training Is Probably Lackluster. Here’s How to Fix It

Harvard Business

Although curriculum-based training — classroom-type courses typically focused on a selling methodology and activities like time management — has its place, it should only be treated as a foundation. Salespeople must learn about strategy and sales tasks at your firm, not only a generic sales methodology.

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Until You Have Productivity Skills, Productivity Tools Are Useless

Harvard Business

But the truth is, it wasn’t the tools alone, it was also the workflow management process —or methodology—I applied to the tools. The same is true for individuals who go in search of the latest and greatest app or the fancy new software, hoping it will be the magic bullet to solve their time management challenges.

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Managers Think They’re Good at Coaching. They’re Not.

Harvard Business

Recently, my colleagues and I conducted a study that shows that most managers don’t understand what coaching really is — and that also sheds light on how to fix the problem. This research project is still in progress, but we wanted to offer a glimpse into our methodology and initial findings.

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Automotive Industry 2022: Overcoming Project Challenges

Epicflow

At the same time, managing large projects with globally distributed teams and material resources is rather challenging – they are miles away, but a project/resource manager has to keep track of all of them and make sure they are allocated to the right tasks. Read more: Agile Product Development: Agile Methodology Explained.

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Solve Your Project Problems in Less Time

PM Alliance

Your controls process must be working well, and your team needs a unified methodology to ensure everyone knows how to translate the metrics and other data coming in from stakeholders. We’ve put together a handful of strategies to help speed up your problem-solving process and keep your team ahead of project-ending trouble.

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Most Managers Don’t Know How to Coach People. But They Can Learn.

Harvard Business

The good news is that managers can improve their coaching skills in a short amount of time (15 hours), but they do have to invest in learning how to coach in the first place. This research project is still in progress, but we wanted to offer a glimpse into our methodology and initial findings.