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How to Activate Team Creativity and Innovation

Organizational Talent Consulting

Evidence from a large-scale study revealed that training and development positively affected innovative performance by building employee competence and organizational commitment. According to US Department of Labor statistics from 2017, 47% of the workforce in the United States is women. Yet, only 22% are in c-suite positions.

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Servant Leadership: The Unstoppable Force for Greatness

Rick Conlow

Managers are poorly trained and disengaged from executive leadership. The negative bottom-line results equal lower customer service, quality, productivity, and sales. I wrote about this potential in 2017– The Foreshadowing of an Employee Apocalypse. I was interviewing a manager at one of my client’s offices.

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How to Stop Micro-Managing Your Team

Organizational Talent Consulting

Research suggests that mismatched management reduces morale, trust, and productivity and increases employee turnover. Partnering for performance is one way to develop self-reliant achievers and avoid micro-managing your team. What is mismatched management? Micro-management is a hard habit to break.

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Servant Leadership: The Unstoppable Force for Greatness

Rick Conlow

Managers are poorly trained and disengaged from executive leadership. The negative bottom-line results equal lower customer service, quality, productivity, and sales. I wrote about this potential in 2017– The Foreshadowing of an Employee Apocalypse. I was interviewing a manager at one of my client’s offices.

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Does Your Team Hoard Information?

Harmonious Workplaces

When auditing a sales report, the CRM manager notices the report omits contact information for many company accounts. The sales manager states that he doesn’t trust the other salespeople to not “steal his contacts,” so he does not report contact information, communications, or other data pertaining to his deals. Why allow stinginess?

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When Companies Should Invest in Training Their Employees — and When They Shouldn’t

Harvard Business

companies spent over $90 billion dollars on training and development activities in 2017, a year-over-year increase of 32.5 %. Training is useful at times but often fails, especially when it is used to address problems that it can’t actually solve. Worse, it could have backfired, making management look out of touch.

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3 Steps to Cultivate an Innovation Culture

Organizational Talent Consulting

The proven benefits of innovation include: increased competitive advantage improved operational productivity reduced costs and increased revenue improved commercial value enhanced problem-solving One modern innovation that is impressive to watch is SpaceX's reusable Falcon 9 (watch the video below). References: Beswick, C., Bishop, D., &

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