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Synergy Unleashed: The Power of Great Teamwork

Rick Conlow

Our assessment identified a silo mentality throughout the organization and minimal leadership development or training. We addressed the issues with new communication channels, customer service and quality initiatives, on-going quality leadership training for all leaders (executives, too), and team development applications.

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Why Employee Recognition Matters in Today’s Workplace

Rick Conlow

Through planning meetings, training, and coaching we ramped up the initiative. Management set a fifteen percent goal for improvement. Employee Appreciation Events: Organizing events dedicated to showing appreciation for employees can be impactful. You can learn and train yourself through individual initiative.

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The Top Eleven Things Employees Want From Their Leader

Rick Conlow

Always remember, this is not a one-time event. In a manufacturing company, we helped them set up process improvement teams in all areas of the business. In addition, on-going training is necessary to maintain current job skills, but even more importantly to add to them. Clear Expectations and Goals. How about your team?

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6 Turnaround Tactics for a Failing Team

Rick Conlow

Less than 25% of employees have attended a company sponsored training program in the last five years. If you are the leader you will need to know how to do this or need to engage a trained facilitator to help you. Certainly, all team needs group dynamics training or they will stumble unneccesarily. Professionalize Your Team.

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6 Turnaround Tactics for a Failing Team

Rick Conlow

Less than 25% of employees have attended a company sponsored training program in the last five years. If you are the leader you will need to know how to do this or need to engage a trained facilitator to help you. Certainly, all team needs group dynamics training or they will stumble unneccesarily. Professionalize Your Team.

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Keeping Human Stories at the Center of Health Care

Harvard Business

”) This allows leaders to focus on their team members’ well-being and to measure the impact of new processes, technologies, and care models on the well-being of physicians, nurses, and staff. .”) In medical school and nursing school, clinicians are taught to “tough it out” and not show signs of weakness.

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Scaling Customer Service as Your Startup Grows

Harvard Business

In later stages you’ll want people who think about how to scale through process, training, and systems. There are three very common shiny objects that derail customer success efforts in the early stage: Process improvements to issue routing, issue classification, and automated responses seem reasonable.

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