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How to Understand Key Metrics in a New Industry

Tom Spencer

All industries use numbers and metrics to describe performance, measure trends, and allocate status. Using the metrics for decision making. The first step to understanding a new set of metrics is to put them into context. By adding a reference point one can better understand the impact and significance of the metrics.

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How to Build a More Effective Work Team

LSA Global

Here’s how to build a more effective work team. How could you build an effective team without clear and agreed-upon team goals and accountabilities , roles, norms , success metrics, scope, and interdependencies? The post How to Build a More Effective Work Team appeared first on LSA Global.

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What High Performing Sales Managers Do

LSA Global

What We Know Works – High Performing Sales Managers Ask any savvy sales executive what drives high revenue growth other than having “the next iPhone,” and they will most likely tell you some version of skilled sales managers who know how to lead, manage, and coach their sales teams to higher performance.

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Why CEOs Can’t Dance Redux

Rick Conlow

CEOs focus on data, facts, figures, and metrics. Do you want to benchmark your career with the habits of extraordinarily successful people? This list goes on, but you get the picture. A global IBM study found that 33% of CEOs had engineering degrees and another 15% had finance degrees. Want to really advance your career?

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Project Management Maturity Models: A Basis for Reaching Your Organization’s Business Success

Epicflow

What is project management maturity exactly, and how to define its level? They usually describe levels indicating the current state of an organization in terms of project management efficiency and propose recommendations on how to proceed to more sophisticated levels. . An organization uses basic metrics to track project performance.

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Key Team Rituals to Improve Alignment at Work

LSA Global

Benchmark your new employee onboarding practices here. It is also a great time to use team rituals to improve alignment at work in the areas of project team goals, roles, success metrics, processes, interdependencies, communication, and decision making.The same is true for project close outs.

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When to Seek Help from a Coach for Case Interviews

Tom Spencer

Coaches can be very helpful and typically there are three main reasons to seek out a coach: You don’t know what to do or how to start. You need to benchmark your performance. Ask for unfiltered feedback with quantifiable metrics. When to seek out a coach. You have reached a plateau in your prep.