Tom Spencer

APRIL 12, 2024

Meetings can either be a powerful catalyst for collaboration and decision-making or a drain on time and productivity. Whether you are in consulting, strategy, operations, or product management, the ability to manage meetings effectively is a crucial skill that can significantly impact the success of your endeavors.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

But I can offer ideas based on my experience as a time management coach and on the science of how our brains work that can give you the best possible odds of coming up with some decent new thoughts. This causes you to operate out of the primal, least creative part of your brain. Finally, give yourself time.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Regardless of approach, all groups operate in a context about their shared fate based upon how necessary, willing, able, and dependable they believe those around them to be. You are a Team If… A teaming approach is required when more than two members must exchange “things” to successfully achieve a common set of objectives.

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Harvard Business

JULY 25, 2017

But our research suggests that a better way to manage low-wage workers in developing economies is to invest in them, which is good for both worker welfare and the company’s bottom line. In July 2013 we implemented a randomized controlled trial in five factory units in Bangalore operated by Shahi Exports Pvt.

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Harvard Business

JULY 26, 2018

On March 25 mighty Uber bowed out of Southeast Asia by selling its operation in several countries to local rival Grab. In 2016 the company sold its China operation to Didi Chuxing because of the fierce competitiveness of the local player. A year later, Uber admitted defeat in another region, selling its operation in Russia to Yandex.

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Harvard Business

JULY 4, 2016

Namely, makers need large blocks of uninterrupted time in order to solve complex problems and imagine new solutions. Managers operate at the center of a complex web of customers, external partners, and internal stakeholders. For them, having a meeting at 9 AM and another at 1 PM could destroy the productivity of the entire day.

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Asamby Consulting

MARCH 24, 2022

Why do I need operations help? All this comes down to one thing: More work in managing the company. Additionally, improving your processes and building out your business systems becomes more important and more time-consuming at the same time. You can unsubscribe at any time. You run a successful business.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 13, 2021

Consultants in the rainbow nation have continued to operate efficiently and effectively during the Covid pandemic. They are temporary responses to the pandemic, rather than trends that will become part of normal operations after the COVID pandemic comes to an end. Lack of physical engagement with clients has added challenges.

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2017

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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Harvard Business

AUGUST 31, 2017

Missed medical appointments, or “no-shows,” often create several operational challenges as well, from difficulties rescheduling clinical staff to interference with patient care and treatment. Each year approximately 3.6 They would seek out patterns and aim to define the real problem at hand.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Does this stalled revolution play out in management positions, too? To explore this, I used data on full-time managers obtained from the U.S. Among the new positions to emerge since 1980, women make up less than 10% of architecture, engineer, and construction managers. And if so, how?

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Tom Spencer

JULY 21, 2018

At the same time, management consultants will generally be brought in to look at the viability of the business, from a strategic and operational perspective. Table 1 – Framework for validating an M&A deal from a strategic and operational perspective.

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 16, 2022

In terms of flexibility and autonomy, consultants who operate as contractors can decide what services to offer, when and how to offer those services, and what prices to charge. Contractors need to be highly disciplined, organised, and have excellent time management skills.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 11, 2018

The shorter workday forced the team to prioritize effectively, limit interruptions, and operate at a much more deliberate level for the first few hours of the day. Make it okay for employees to not be in a hyper-responsive state and schedule uninterrupted time to get into a state of flow. Set Realistic Expectations.

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Seth Godin Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2021

” “Why do I have to spend time managing people, I want to get back to creating.” If someone who cared as much as they did, but was focused and good at something like accounting or sales or management could just join in, life would be so much better.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 21, 2017

While there will still be high-stakes, time-sensitive issues like beating a competitor to market with a new product, acknowledge that endurance is the goal, and speed is not the best or only metric of long-term success. You can verbally communicate this with your team, role model it, and create organizational operating principles around it.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 26, 2016

It’s a common complaint among top executives: “I’m spending all my time managing trivial and tactical problems, and I don’t have time to get to the big-picture stuff.” Having risen through the supply chain ranks, she spent most of her time reacting to operational missteps and customer complaints.

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Women in Consulting

MARCH 5, 2018

But they operate very differently in that marketplace. It might be a course in time management or project management or a one-day team building retreat. So you teach your one-day course on time management and all the attendees complain bitterly about the always shifting priorities that come down from upper management.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 10, 2016

But the earlier arrivals were a bit bemused by their colleagues, who apparently operated in a different time zone. Although this may sound like a simple holiday anecdote, when different cultural definitions of “on time” spill over to professional projects, people’s reactions can be less than jovial.

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

It is the notion that, as a company gets bigger, it is able to achieve cost savings through its “scale” or the size of its operations. In economics, economists talk about “economies of scale.” For example, Amazon is able to process and deliver its customers’ orders very efficiently because of its “scale.”.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Commercial aircraft fly on autopilot for much of the time. For most pilots, automation usually ensures that operations stay well within safe, predictable limits. Pilots spend much of their time managing and monitoring, rather than actively flying, their aircraft. Automation on the Flight Deck.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 18, 2016

Here are some example objectives from different types of meetings we’ve run recently: Board meeting: Provide Board input as Management formulates the new five-year strategy. Finalize the operating model for strategic governance. Agree on the topics and timing for additional Board input into the current planning cycle.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 30, 2017

At the same time, managers need to continue to motivate employees who fear their jobs being replaced by robots. This creates a dilemma for leaders. Clearly, any enterprise that doesn’t embrace automation won’t be able to survive any better than a farmer with a horse-drawn plow. market share in online sales.

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Rick Conlow

JUNE 19, 2023

Time Mismanagement: Remote work requires effective time management skills. However, employees may struggle to prioritize tasks and allocate their time efficiently. Employees may become distracted by household chores, personal obligations, or the temptation to engage in non-work-related activities.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 29, 2018

In study after study for over a decade, operations researchers have found that retailers understaff during peak hours. Another hidden back-end cost of unstable schedules was the inordinate amount of time managers spent on the schedule: one manager of a large store decreased time spent from three days to four hours.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 27, 2017

Thanks to technological advancements, this is now very cost effective with companies like Process Street or SweetProcess specialising in standardising operating procedures. Document processes and repetitive tasks, whether they are back office or client facing. Every successful business is bigger than any staff member, even the owner.

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LSA Global

JUNE 15, 2017

Companies with lower levels of employee engagement report 12% lower profits, 19% lower operating income and 28% lower earnings per share. And those managers who held career development conversations on a monthly basis had 43.7% The Research. higher levels of employee engagement.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Sometimes it’s been across oceans and time zones (we are a military family), and sometimes it’s been across town (the office was short on space; I was a slave to my children’s schedules; the whole operation was virtual).

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

Can your managers co-create a compelling future vision and plan with their teams? Creating the Right Performance Environment High performing people managers create connections. High performing managers operate as an effective individual producer and people leader simultaneously.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 18, 2018

Your personal skills, such as confidence and time management and coping with stress, will likely be tested as you will find yourself in scenarios that stretch your capabilities in these areas. From this, you can identify any potential problems and use the experience to find a way to manage or solve these problems.

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Asamby Consulting

JANUARY 27, 2022

Methods to Build Team Cohesion Employees are crucial for a business to operate successfully. While soft skills are more of the personality and characteristics of a person in which refers to interpersonal skills, communication skills, listening skills, and time management, etc.

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LSA Global

APRIL 15, 2024

Before hiring more sales reps, pushing specific sales activities, or investing in sales enablement technology, smart sales leaders invest the time and resources to deeply understand the market in which they operate in. Only invest time and resources with clients that appreciate and need what you have to offer.

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LSA Global

APRIL 15, 2024

Before hiring more sales reps, pushing specific sales activities, or investing in sales enablement technology, smart sales leaders invest the time and resources to deeply understand the market in which they operate in. Only invest time and resources with clients that appreciate and need what you have to offer.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 23, 2017

It was meant to be a win-win: Patients and their families would get a better, more personalized hospital experience, and doctors could spend less time managing patients and more time practicing medicine. It was definitely the PCE and the family against me.”

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Harvard Business

JULY 29, 2016

If Richard was hired, he was going to work remotely at least part of the time, and several team members wanted to learn more about Richard’s time management and organizational skills. ” Richard got the job and he starts at InkHouse next month.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Just imagine the operational demand if primary care providers also had to actively monitor their patients’ health data between office visits. Less Time, Better Care. There is a large advice industry about time management, designed for busy executives seeking control over the relentless demands they face.

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1 to 1

MARCH 21, 2022

This enables employees to choose their own workhours, cutting out unnecessary time that has no effect on a day-to-day work schedule or conflicts with personal responsibilities. It also deployed a Virtual First Toolkit , which shared tips for collaboration, time management, inclusive language and team unity skills.

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