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Is Your Staff Cross-Trained?

Peter Stark

Through our employee surveys, team assessments and coaching, we hear from clients frequently that their organization has silos. With the pandemic, it brought out a need more than ever for employees to be cross trained with employees working in remote, in office, in quarantine, or out sick. Increased cross-departmental teamwork.

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Learning From Each Other

Women in Consulting

A few years ago, the Women In Consulting Annual Best Practices Survey unveiled some tricks by top consultants that helped improved my business’ profitability and my work/life balance. As solo practitioners and entrepreneurs, often we have limited access to relevant benchmarking resources. You can take the survey here: [link].

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Does your opinion matter? Should it?

Peter Stark

Companies in our Best of the Best Benchmark from our Employee Opinion Surveys rate almost 20 points higher than organizations in our Overall Benchmark regarding their ideas and opinions counting at work. Provide training to accomplish development goals. Does your opinion matter?

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That’s Not My Job!

Peter Stark

What is amazing is that most DMV employees are seasoned veterans capable of being cross-trained to handle every possible transaction a customer may need to accomplish. Over the years, we have conducted Employee Engagement Surveys with over 300 organizations and have over 100,000 opinions in our Peter Barron Stark Companies benchmarks.

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3 Steps to Cultivate an Innovation Culture

Organizational Talent Consulting

Mindfulness: Mindfulness-based stress-reduction meditation training has been shown to have a positive outcome in overcoming the fear of failure. Benchmarking in the process of creating a culture of innovation in hotel companies. 2021) Global innovation survey. Organizational Talent Consulting. Gierczak-Korzeniowska, B., &

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Increasing Workplace Culture and Morale Isn’t HR’s Job

Peter Stark

After companies conduct an Employee opinion survey, they are faced with the challenge of taking action to create real change. Create Benchmarks. The CEO and VP or HR will approve the budget that will enable the company to administer an Employee Opinion Survey, Customer Satisfaction Survey, or a 360 Leadership Development Assessment.

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5 Steps to Disrupt and Improve Your Talent Pipeline

Organizational Talent Consulting

A survey of leaders by McKinsey & Co. found that only 25% of thought that training actually improved employee performance. Environmental scanning is a strategic workforce planning process to systematically survey and interpret relevant talent data to identify external opportunities and threats that could influence future decisions.

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