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Soft Skills Training in the Digital Age: Strategies and Best Practices

Clarity Consultants

Time Management and Accountability When employees know how to prioritize, manage deadlines, and stay focused, productivity increases. Good time managers often have a positive attitude and a willingness to take ownership. Are they managing meetings more effectively?

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Consultant Ninja: Signs of Crunch Time: Management Consulting Blog

Consultant Ninja

Countdown metric unit shrinking. ["96 Client timeline shortening. Lets shoot for a Wednesday draft"] Partner involvement growing. ["I I havent seen a deck in a while. Can you please send the most recent version over?"] 96 hours until were done."] Cursing off the chart. ["f**k." damn, why doesnt that add up?"] Car rental abuse appearing.

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Project Management: What an L&D Professional Needs to Know

Clarity Consultants

Along with identifying measurable targets and outlining core goals, L&D professionals must limit scope creep to ensure the project remains on time and on budget. Time Management. Breaking down large projects into smaller milestones helps support reliable time estimations at the outset of a project. Communication.

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What If Companies Managed People as Carefully as They Manage Money?

Harvard Business

Today’s executives spend a lot of time managing the balance sheet, despite the fact that it doesn’t represent their company’s scarcest resource. According to Bain’s Macro Trends Group, the global supply of capital stands at nearly 10 times global GDP. Vincent Tsui for HBR.

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Team Interdependence for Higher Performance

LSA Global

While each team has different needs, top teaming skills include communication , conflict resolution, change management, decision making , goal setting, planning, delegation, meeting facilitation , problem solving, and time management. Does the composition of your team make sense to get you where you want to go?

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Mental Energy Units

CaseInterview.com

When you’re an individual contributor, you focus mainly on time management. As you progress in your professional career (and as your personal life gets more complex, such as raising multiple children or caring for aging parents), it makes sense to optimize your life around a different kind of metric. There are 24 hours in a day.

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When Is the Best Time for Management Training: The Top 5 Scenarios

LSA Global

At the Onset of a Leadership Role One of the most opportune times for new manager training is when individuals transition into leadership roles. Do your strategy success metrics indicate the need to close key leadership skill gaps? Are you investing in HiPo’s to engage, retain, and prepare them for their next role?