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The key to becoming a learning organization

Asamby Consulting

This article explains what a learning organization is, why it is beneficial and how to become one. What is a learning organization A learning organization is any organization that has a structured process in place to constantly make knowledge in people's heads available to the organization. Every CEO wants a learning organization.

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Leadership Development Should Focus on Experiments

Harvard Business

Leadership development represents a huge and growing investment for most organizations. Industry research, for example, shows that companies spent more than $24 billion on leadership and management training worldwide in 2013, an increase of 15% from 2012. Reversing this means that companies start at the end — with results.

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8 Reasons that May Cause You to Loose Customers

Tom Spencer

The customer service reps must not be trained enough or must be unhappy with their job to behave in this manner. This requires hiring the right employees, training them fully, and treating them well. Improve your processes and invest in technology. Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are those of the author.

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8 Issues that May Cause You to Lose Customers

Tom Spencer

The customer service reps must not be trained enough or must be unhappy with their job to behave in this manner. This requires hiring the right employees, training them fully, and treating them well. Improve your processes and invest in technology. Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are those of the author.

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7 Critical Success Factors for Project Based Firms to Consider in 2024

Progressus

Can you automate manual processes? How would that help employees improve client experiences – directly or indirectly? Do you provide hands-on skills training? What kind of impact has that training had on client outcomes? Are upskilling/training efforts driven by customer feedback? fusion development)?

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Keeping Human Stories at the Center of Health Care

Harvard Business

The tradeoff, however, is that we’ve become so focused on using the technology (as this HBR article points out) that we spend far less time listening to individual human stories. Let’s develop an up-front “technology ROI” that measures workflow impact, inefficiency, hassle and impact on physician and nurse well-being.

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Higher Wages Aren’t Enough to Turn Mediocre Jobs into Good Ones

Harvard Business

For example: Constant display changes that take hours to set up and break down — hours that could have been spent on much-higher-value work like helping customers and trying out process improvements. Career paths. Today’s take-home is important to workers — but so is tomorrow’s.

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