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6 Turnaround Tactics for a Failing Team

Rick Conlow

3 Turnaround Tactics for a Failing Team. The following six proven turnaround tactics come from my consulting practice. The reasons for team difficulties are well – documented. If employees could operate as a well – oiled machine without training and coaching, you would not be in the mess you are in.

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6 Turnaround Tactics for a Failing Team

Rick Conlow

3 Turnaround Tactics for a Failing Team. The following six proven turnaround tactics come from my consulting practice. The reasons for team difficulties are well – documented. If employees could operate as a well – oiled machine without training and coaching, you would not be in the mess you are in.

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Rethinking Project Management Supply Chain Risks

PM Alliance

Turnaround times for procurement and shipping are in flux, creating challenges for project teams. Providing comprehensive specification documents during the order process can help avoid unwelcome surprises. Workforce risks are also evolving, and in some cases putting significant pressure on historically reliable supply chains.

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

Progressus

CSFs can literally be anything — whether it’s improving customer satisfaction, increasing revenue, reducing operating costs, or something specific to a particular project or deliverable – making them somewhat difficult to identify – let alone define in concrete terms. Are project operations, sales, customer service, etc.

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Getting Old, Getting Stagnant, and That’s Trouble

Martinka Consulting

German business-chamber association DIHK says 73% of senior managers, “haven’t assembled the basic documents needed for a handover, such as power of attorney, supplier and client information, bank-access data or a will.” When the son took over the business they shed operations that were half of their sales and staff.

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How to Turn Around a Failing School

Harvard Business

This provided us with the rare opportunity to look at a large number of organizations which all: Are regulated, documented, and measured in the same way. Operated in regions with different levels of competition and access to resources. Like any turnaround, there is no magic bullet — a series of remedial steps need to be taken.

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Great Corporate Strategies Thrive on the Right Amount of Tension

Harvard Business

A turnaround subsequently lowered strategic stress to a productive level by discontinuing many of their seemingly unrelated projects, re-focusing on their core business, as well as streamlining operational processes that improved coordination activities. Strategic Boredom (not enough strategic stress).