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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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Prepare Your Facility Relocation Project Team for a Productive Site Assessment

PM Alliance

Below are some steps project teams can take to understand what goes into a site assessment and prepare for a productive location visit. Mobilize internal subject matter experts, from production line supervisors to maintenance personnel and engineers.

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What's Servant Leadership?

Organizational Talent Consulting

Have you ever wondered what servant leadership is? Maybe you already understand the basic concepts but have questions about how servant leadership differs from other leadership styles or if a servant leadership approach is appropriate for your team. For example, consider two employees walking down a hall.

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The Lockdown Unlocks Real Work

Markovitz Consulting

According to BCG’s analysis , productivity at companies that have shifted to remote work has increased between 15% and 40%. Elaborately defined, documented, and monitored processes and procedures? As they put it, “the lockdown has unlocked real work” by reducing or eliminating the complicatedness of the traditional work environment.

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Leadership Tip #13: For Innovation, Remove at Least One Policy or Procedure a Week

Johanna Rothman

As the organization changes (both products and tooling), people might not make those mistakes again. About a decade ago, an organization suffered three consecutive bad deployments to production. Finally, one large change broke the production server. This is a part of the series of intermittent leadership tips.

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Mastering the Art of Leading Remote Work Teams

Rick Conlow

Now however, controversy about the productivity challenges of leading remote work teams confront organizational assumptions about its effectiveness. The Council on Foreign Relations shares global research on how productivity increases in remote work settings. Owl Labs date says they are 47% more productive. hours a week.

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Navigating Employee Conflicts: A Manager’s Guide to Restoring Harmony and Productivity

Peter Stark

When managers find themselves with employee conflicts on their teams, they often find that the morale and productivity of their team has been impacted as well. Below are 9 ways to make a positive difference and restore harmony and productivity to your team. When you take sides, you quickly undermine your leadership credibility.