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Why Employee Recognition Matters in Today’s Workplace

Rick Conlow

Culturally engrained employee recognition and appreciation matters in today’s workplace. Management set a fifteen percent goal for improvement. So, we implemented a recognition program for customer reps and management. When executed well it elevates engagement and retention. We thought they could do more.

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The key to becoming a learning organization

Asamby Consulting

If know-how is constantly added to the organization's collective memory, it can improve effortlessly over time High autonomy. If the organization is self-learning, there's no external driver necessary to push trough process improvements etc. A good examples is really every process improvement. Nobody likes to fail.

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7 Employee Comments that Destroy a Team

Rick Conlow

If spoken often then there are days when the manager wonders, “Why bother? However, these comments are also a wakeup call for a manager to improve his or her team leadership skills. Team Content and Process The bottom line is that a team’s success largely depends on the content and the process.

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Synergy Unleashed: The Power of Great Teamwork

Rick Conlow

Negative organizational culture: The overall culture within an organization can impact teamwork. If the organizational culture promotes competition, silos, or a lack of collaboration, it can trickle down to the team level and hinder cooperation. Resolving conflicts and addressing the underlying issues require time and resources.

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Texas Energy Screw-up and Small Business Impairments

Martinka Consulting

Perform a mock due diligence (self-promotion here: as in our book If They Can Sell Pet Rocks Why Can’t You Sell Your Business (For What You Want?). Have a list of tactics, whether it’s for growth, margin improvement, expense reduction, process improvement, an improved culture, or something else.

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How to Get Your Team to Use Their Vacation Time

Harvard Business

In one study, researchers found that employees fear that their manager will think less of them for taking vacation. As with anything that matters in the workplace, the key to vacation compliance is to measure it and manage it. So if vacation has such a good ROI, why are people taking less and less of it?

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How to Motivate Frontline Employees

Harvard Business

They wanted to improve revenue, cost, risk, and customer satisfaction all at the same time. They reached out to us because we wrote a book describing how these performance outcomes would be improved with an operating model that increases motivation.). Systematically manage apprenticeship.

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