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Managing Meetings: How to Drive Productivity and Success

Tom Spencer

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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Effective Agility Requires Cultural Changes: Part 1

Johanna Rothman

When I work with these teams or their managers, I realize they're not demoing or retrospecting on a regular basis. That creates distrust and an anti-agile culture. Worse, these people and teams don't feel any satisfaction with their products. The managers worry that the teams can't finish “anything on time.”

Agile 87
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Governance: Transforming Organizational Culture

Tom Spencer

Effective governance can serve as the bedrock of organizational culture, which shapes perceptions, attitudes, and interactions throughout the organisational hierarchy, between departments, and within project teams. Foster an inclusive culture that values different perspectives.

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How a Collaborative Culture Can Attract Young Professionals

Tom Spencer

As a result of this generational shift in workplace culture, consulting firms are under pressure to adapt by improving work arrangements for employees. A change in the culture of the sector could help to enhance the work environment, encourage employee loyalty, and enable hiring managers to attract top talent.

Culture 78
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Striking the Ethical Balance: Navigating Corporate Learning for Productivity and Well-Being

Clarity Consultants

Organizations face a delicate ethical balancing act of maximizing productivity while ensuring the well-being of their employees. It involves considerations related to the ethics of corporate training and the complexities of achieving a balance between productivity and the well-being of employees.

Ethics 104
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You Can’t Pizza Party Your Way to a Great Corporate Culture

Harmonious Workplaces

Subsequently, stacks of uneaten pizza remained on the break room table for hours — a stale reminder of a stale culture. While a party or shared meal can provide a fun break from the norm, organizations cannot rely on one as a magic solution to deeper issues in your company’s culture. So, What’s Wrong with Pizza?

Culture 98
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Here’s How L&D Can Improve Employee Productivity

Clarity Consultants

In today’s fast-paced business environment, ensuring employees are as productive as possible is essential. Learning and Development (L&D) is becoming increasingly important to make reaching productivity goals possible. Here’s a closer look at how L&D improves employee productivity. Contact us today.