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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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Is a COO-as-a-service solution right for me?

Asamby Consulting

Why do I need operations help? All this comes down to one thing: More work in managing the company. Additionally, improving your processes and building out your business systems becomes more important and more time-consuming at the same time. What are the options to improve operations? Check out our privacy policy.

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Why Reducing Stress Stabilises Your Profits

Tom Spencer

If you want to have less stress, you need to have more planning, which should encourage you to schedule your activities, track the time taken to complete these activities and then follow up on them to see how it could be done better in the future. Document processes and repetitive tasks, whether they are back office or client facing.

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Mastering the Art of Leading Remote Work Teams

Rick Conlow

Time Mismanagement: Remote work requires effective time management skills. However, employees may struggle to prioritize tasks and allocate their time efficiently. This includes project management software, communication tools, document sharing platforms, and virtual collaboration tools.

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4 Ways to Manage Deadlines on Cross-Cultural Teams

Harvard Business

But the earlier arrivals were a bit bemused by their colleagues, who apparently operated in a different time zone. Although this may sound like a simple holiday anecdote, when different cultural definitions of “on time” spill over to professional projects, people’s reactions can be less than jovial.

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Research: When Retail Workers Have Stable Schedules, Sales and Productivity Go Up

Harvard Business

In study after study for over a decade, operations researchers have found that retailers understaff during peak hours. Thirty years of studies have documented poor execution in retail, and we found ample evidence linking poor execution to unstable scheduling. Increasing staffing, they found, could increase sales and profits.

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