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How to Choose Your Management Role for Most Effective and Efficient Work

Johanna Rothman

What if it's most efficient to do the work for a person or a team? Reducing management delays and increasing management throughput allows everyone to be efficient and effective. Throughput Creates Efficiency and Effectiveness Higher throughput is much more efficient for the organization than higher individual efficiency.

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What Does Your Culture Value: People “Efficiency” or Work Throughput?

Johanna Rothman

Resource Efficiency. ” I asked, “How many projects are they working on?” ” “Each resource has at least two projects so they stay productive and efficient.” ” These managers have created a resource efficiency culture, not a flow efficiency culture, as in the image above. .”

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Effective Agility Requires Cultural Changes: Part 1

Johanna Rothman

That creates distrust and an anti-agile culture. And all those ways require we change the culture from that of resource-efficiency thinking to flow-efficiency thinking. And all those ways require we change the culture from that of resource-efficiency thinking to flow-efficiency thinking.

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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 not only ensures accountability but also contributes to a culture of responsibility and ownership within the team. This not only provides structure but also ensures that the meeting stays focused and on track.

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How to Create Partnerships Instead of Using Stakeholders

Johanna Rothman

See Modern Management: Three Tips To Create A Congruent Culture.) That does mean your organization needs to use the idea of flow efficiency over resource efficiency. The post How to Create Partnerships Instead of Using Stakeholders appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant.

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How to Activate Team Creativity and Innovation

Organizational Talent Consulting

Evidence suggests creativity is activated by both and your company culture. Leaders need to consider the desired knowledge, skills, and abilities of the employee, the desired organizational culture, and the workplace climate. According to US Department of Labor statistics from 2017, 47% of the workforce in the United States is women.

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How To Recognize Effective Project and Program Management

Johanna Rothman

Each person works in resource efficiency, focused on their deliverables. Until schools teach collaboration, most of the people in our industry need to learn how to collaborate. However, some smart people need to learn how to work with others. Assuming they work with the team, they already started a culture of collaboration.