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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. 360-Degree Feedback : Ask managers, peers, and direct reports to evaluate how an employee communicates, leads, or collaborates. These indicators often correlate with stronger soft skills in action.

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Saving RadioShack

Tom Spencer

When the business landscape changes, how can you turnaround a failing company? RADIOSHACK , an American consumer electronics giant of yesteryear, faced chaotic trading on Wednesday as analysts predicted the company would report it’s 10th straight quarter of losses. Source: Flickr ). Why is the company failing?

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The Key to Campbell Soup’s Turnaround? Civility.

Harvard Business

In a worldwide poll of over 20,000 employees , Christine found that employees who felt respected by their leaders reported 56% better health and well-being, 89% greater enjoyment and satisfaction, 92% greater focus and prioritization, 26% more meaning and significance, and 55% more engagement. Most of all, it makes employees feel respected.

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When Is Teamwork Really Necessary?

Harvard Business

Most leaders assume that they need to foster teamwork among the people whom directly and indirectly report to them. Although his one-on-one meetings with these reports, which involved progress reviews, motivation, and coaching, were highly productive, his monthly team meetings weren’t. Caspar Benson/Getty Images.

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All Hail Medium-Term Planning

Harvard Business

The entire system of quarterly reporting has been regularly criticized but remains resolutely in place. There is, of course, nothing wrong with the openness and transparency that lies behind quarterly reporting. While the world of quarterly reports is the preserve of managers, the long term is the fiefdom of leaders.

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AlixPartners Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

AlixPartners is an international business advisory firm based in Southfield, MI known for its work in corporate turnarounds, bankruptcy assignments and restructuring. Generally regarded as turnaround market leaders, AlixPartners is doing a killer job at taking up more room in the consulting space by strategically hiring a plethora of gurus.

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What I Learned From 10 Years of Doing PR for Apple

Harvard Business

Steve Jobs had just returned to the company and the product line was a shamble of computers with confusing names, printers, scanners, and a curious, yet ill-conceived PDA called the Newton. ” Little did I know that over the next 10 years I’d be part of the biggest corporate turnaround in global history. Wesson Wang.