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How to Build Your Business on the Best of Your Career with Lori Smith

Consulting Matters

She had created a unique role for herself as an initiative and project integrator that combined her finance background, six-sigma process improvement and project management training, and natural relationship-building skills. She found herself at crossroads, wondering what was next for her career.

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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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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. Do you provide hands-on skills training? What kind of impact has that training had on client outcomes?

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Business consulting services

Asamby Consulting

A good business consulting company can offer help in the recruiting process, which includes taking part in screening the job description, recruiting channels, analyzing the turnover rate, etc. It is crucial for business owners to understand where they stand, what they want to achieve, and how to execute their strategies.

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How to Beat Mid-Career Malaise

Harvard Business

This made me more people-focused than process-focused, but it allowed for process improvements in the best way possible, by enabling people to excel.” A trained lawyer, James spent more than 20 years working in the legal industry in various capacities. Finances were a consideration.

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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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How the U.S. Can Rebuild Its Capacity to Innovate

Harvard Business

While America has continued leading the world in terms of investment in basic science research, it has lost the ability to do the kinds of process improvements that are essential for innovation. When it comes to manufacturing, the country has lost the capacity for “learning by doing.” simply couldn’t provide.