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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.

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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. For example, one of our clients wanted to increase sales results with existing customers. Management set a fifteen percent goal for improvement. The company may have a toxic culture and employee praise is not a priority.

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7 Employee Comments that Destroy a Team

Rick Conlow

3 Employee Comments that Contributes to a Toxic Culture “Management said we’d get fired if I said anything but…” Gossip spreads and often becomes worse. A few people were hurt, team cooperation suffered and so did sales. Remind everyone that you win or lose as a team. Guess what? “They can’t do that.”

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Are You Ready for a Storm Surge?

Martinka Consulting

Then, there’s a royalty on sales, which is a great way to buy something but means less margin until it’s paid off. Watch out when large opportunities appear in your sales pipeline. What is really common is when the process is mostly in the owner’s head and there’s a bottleneck because there’s only so much one person can do.

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7 Critical Success Factors for Project Based Firms to Consider in 2024

Progressus

The Power of Unity Firms need real-time insights into the entire business – finance, project accounting, sales, everything – otherwise multiple versions of the truth will start showing up in budgets, estimates, and forecasts. Are project operations, sales, customer service, etc. Do process improvements support strategic objectives?

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Why I'm Cynical about the Consulting Profession | Consulting and.

Consulting and Organizational Management

Years ago, I remember going out on sales calls with one of the partners in our consulting firm, Marv Weisbord. team building, coaching, a visioning conference, a process improvement project, etc. Business Ethics, Culture and Performance. Guest Writer Submissions. To Subscribe to a Blog. A solution in search of a problem.

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How to Motivate Frontline Employees

Harvard Business

Productivity (revenue divided by expense) increased by 20% year over year (far more than the 9% increase in revenue that the control group stores averaged); customer satisfaction increased by 11% (the control group saw it decrease by 4%); and sales increased by 8% (the control group saw only a 2% increase).

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