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Why Your Productivity Hacks Don’t Hack It

Markovitz Consulting

You can read that version, with more links to related articles, here.) ———————————————————————————————————————————————————— Leaders in organizations are always seeking to improve employee productivity (including their own). All too often, that quest goes no further than time management training provided by the HR department.

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An Experiment in India Shows How Much Companies Have to Gain by Investing in Their Employees

Harvard Business

For many low-wage workers in India, basic skills training can be the difference between economic empowerment and persistent poverty. PACE teaches communication, time management, decision making, problem solving, and financial literacy through weekly group sessions in the workplace.

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Where I Think “Agile” is Headed, Part 2: Where Does Management Fit?

Johanna Rothman

In Part 1 , I wrote about how “Agile” is not a silver bullet and is not right for every team and every product. This post is about how management fits into agile approaches. Too often, managers think “agile” is for others, specifically teams of people. What might happen to the various cycle times?

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How to Get Your Side Hustle Off the Ground

Harvard Business

Looking at the distance between your idea and the finished product — whether it’s a podcast, a coaching practice, an app, or anything else — can seem overwhelming. Being Engaged at Work Is Not the Same as Being Productive. Time management issues. Here are targeted strategies to overcome each one.

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Transforming from a Good to Great Coach

Rick Conlow

years which is significantly lower than other age groups Have you noticed? Unfortunately, research shows 82% of managers fail and are poor coaches. Effective coaching requires a distinct set of skills that managers often lack. Personnel Management: A study compared training alone to coaching and training.

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Evidence That Minorities Perform Worse Under Biased Managers

Harvard Business

But we know considerably less about how bias plays out when minorities are hired, especially when it comes to on-the-job performance and productivity. We find that when managers hold negative beliefs, even unconscious ones, about minority workers, minority employees perform much worse than they do with unbiased bosses.

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Don’t Wait Until After the Meeting to Start Your Action Items

Harvard Business

He would no doubt want input on the draft memo he’d sent yesterday—only she’d hadn’t found time to read it yet. She knew he also wanted to discuss partnering with a new research group that colleagues had already used, but their requests for reviews on the work had so far gone unanswered.

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