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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. On-the-Job Performance Metrics : Look for changes in measurable outcomes: improved customer satisfaction scores, reduced internal conflict, faster project turnaround times, or higher engagement survey results.

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Saving RadioShack

Tom Spencer

When the business landscape changes, how can you turnaround a failing company? Assuming this leads to successful refinancing, what should the strategy be to turnaround and save this iconic company? When faced with a broad turnaround question, it is important to ask a variety of questions to determine the source of the problem.

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The Perils of Internal Disruption (Part 2)

Markovitz Consulting

Volume discounts have the same effect, by encouraging customers to order more product than they need in order to get a larger discount. It read the increased sales as a sign that consumers had started to like green cars, and ramped up production. Both these practices wreak havoc on the supply chain through the “ bullwhip effect.”

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The Key to Campbell Soup’s Turnaround? Civility.

Harvard Business

” Working with his close friend and ultimate co-author, Mette Norgaard, he developed a four-step process for dealing with them in the most respectful and productive way: Listen, Frame, Advance, Help. At Campbell, Doug began calling the daily interactions he had with employees, “touchpoints.”

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6 Turnaround Tactics for a Failing Team

Rick Conlow

Team failures, which sit at about 60% , demoralize employees, reduce productivity, cost companies billions of dollars, and inhibit innovation. 3 Turnaround Tactics for a Failing Team. The following six proven turnaround tactics come from my consulting practice. With the same product, policies, and people).

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6 Turnaround Tactics for a Failing Team

Rick Conlow

Team failures, which sit at about 60% , demoralize employees, reduce productivity, cost companies billions of dollars, and inhibit innovation. 3 Turnaround Tactics for a Failing Team. The following six proven turnaround tactics come from my consulting practice. With the same product, policies, and people).

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When Is Teamwork Really Necessary?

Harvard Business

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. Catherine, a senior marketing director leading a cross-functional product development team at the same company, provides a contrasting case study.