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Managing Meetings: How to Drive Productivity and Success

Tom Spencer

Keeping participant numbers limited to those who are essential to the discussion is crucial for efficiency. This is especially relevant in product management, where decisions often involve cross-functional collaboration. For longer meetings, consider incorporating breaks to maintain focus and energy levels.

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How to Win with Automation (Hint: It’s Not Chasing Efficiency)

Harvard Business

At the same time, managers need to continue to motivate employees who fear their jobs being replaced by robots. That allows the sales associates to focus on serving customers rather than wasting time and energy managing transactions. This creates a dilemma for leaders. Redesign Jobs. ” she continues.

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Consulting in South Africa – what to expect

Tom Spencer

Consultants in the rainbow nation have continued to operate efficiently and effectively during the Covid pandemic. Kearney and other firms have operations in the country and a variety of services are offered in strategy, management, digital, HR, financial services, public sector, energy, and healthcare. BCG, McKinsey, Bain, A.T.

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Why doesn’t my team learn from training? What can I do about it?

The Management Centre

These new skills allow for a more confident approach, better interactions with others, utilising tools or techniques with more efficiency and / or effectiveness, new ways of working or even enabling learning in others. For example, if your colleague is late to every meeting, sending them on a time management course might not cut it.

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Stop Scheduling Conference Calls and Finally Commit to Videoconferencing

Harvard Business

The power of focused attention to craft a strategy or discuss an especially challenging issue with videoconference is much more efficient for everyone involved. Watch this very amusing “ conference call in real life ” video to see how ineffective these calls can be. Engagement and Understanding Improve.