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How Large Companies Prepare for Project Management Challenges

PM Alliance

And with the large number of individuals involved in coordinating resource usage, the project team’s ability to accurately forecast, track, and adjust resources and their allocation in a timely fashion is often a significant burden. The post How Large Companies Prepare for Project Management Challenges appeared first on PMAlliance, Inc.

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The appraisal is dead. Long live the appraisal.

The Management Centre

Old fashioned? On a recent training course, a participant explained to me that the annual process is not valued by his team of 20 gas safety engineers in a housing organisation. Appraisals are not about fashion. Getting it right means having a process and approach that suits your culture and your needs. I don’t think so.

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Why Follow When You Can Lead?

Organizational Talent Consulting

That's the nature of courage — not being unafraid but confronting fear and danger and performing in a selfless fashion. He showed his guts, he showed his training; how he would put it all on the line for his teammates.". Leadership goals need to go beyond driving individual performance "and" include the team.

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Small Steps or Big Steps: What’s the Right Way to Begin Improvement?

Markovitz Consulting

To be sure, there is some up front training, but the emphasis is on starting the lean journey with kaizen events. The roots of those failures are varied and deep, but I believe that one of the issues is the attempt to do too much too soon—the organizational equivalent of going out for a 20 mile run on the first day of training.

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9 Talent Management Questions to Test If You are On the Right Track

LSA Global

If you truly want to attract, develop, engage and retain a high performing workforce, you have to break through talent management barriers – outmoded ways of thinking about talent in old-fashioned and ineffective ways. Use Training Measurement to Improve Adoption and Accountability. The Goal of Talent Management. The Bottom Line.

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Customer intent is a treasure trove of actionable data hiding in plain sight

1 to 1

These insights can help companies better train their customer support teams and ensure they’re equipped with the right information to meet customer needs. Better insights = happy customers Luke Lee, CEO of PalaLeather , a fashion company and retailer, agrees that customer insights are essential. “Our

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Conflict: High-performing Teams Are Willing to Enter the Ring

Makarios Consulting

In practical terms, alignment is about: Being willing to give 100% of your effort and support, rather than undercutting the decision in a passive-aggressive fashion. It is about building a culture of mutual trust where people feel safe to express themselves.

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