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Managing Meetings: How to Drive Productivity and Success

Tom Spencer

Meetings can either be a powerful catalyst for collaboration and decision-making or a drain on time and productivity. Whether you are in consulting, strategy, operations, or product management, the ability to manage meetings effectively is a crucial skill that can significantly impact the success of your endeavors.

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Does Your Team Hoard Information?

Harmonious Workplaces

When auditing a sales report, the CRM manager notices the report omits contact information for many company accounts. The sales manager states that he doesn’t trust the other salespeople to not “steal his contacts,” so he does not report contact information, communications, or other data pertaining to his deals.

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Governance: Transforming Organizational Culture

Tom Spencer

Effective governance can serve as the bedrock of organizational culture, which shapes perceptions, attitudes, and interactions throughout the organisational hierarchy, between departments, and within project teams. Foster an inclusive culture that values different perspectives.

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Striking the Ethical Balance: Navigating Corporate Learning for Productivity and Well-Being

Clarity Consultants

Organizations face a delicate ethical balancing act of maximizing productivity while ensuring the well-being of their employees. It involves considerations related to the ethics of corporate training and the complexities of achieving a balance between productivity and the well-being of employees.

Ethics 104
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Effective Agility: Three Ways to Change Your Team’s Project Culture, Part 3

Johanna Rothman

In Effective Agility Requires Cultural Changes: Part 1 , I said that real agile approaches require cultural change to focus on flow efficiency , where we watch the flow of the work , not the people doing tasks. What about those cultural changes? Use rolling wave planning to account for new information as the project proceeds.

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How a Collaborative Culture Can Attract Young Professionals

Tom Spencer

As a result of this generational shift in workplace culture, consulting firms are under pressure to adapt by improving work arrangements for employees. A change in the culture of the sector could help to enhance the work environment, encourage employee loyalty, and enable hiring managers to attract top talent.

Culture 78
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You Can’t Pizza Party Your Way to a Great Corporate Culture

Harmonious Workplaces

Earlier that month, the administrative assistant informed everyone that health insurance costs would rise without additional subsidies and no one would receive holiday bonuses this year. the office administrator sends a company-wide email informing everyone of a pizza lunch at noon as a thank-you for their hard work. Around 10:30 a.m.,

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