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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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Overcoming Entrepreneurial Burnout with Rachelle Stone and Lori Smith

Consulting Matters

She combines her financial expertise with operations, project management, and process improvement to help clients achieve their growth goals faster and harmoniously among stakeholders.

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Team Improvement: Management Desires vs Team Reality

Johanna Rothman

I asked this question, “How much pressure do they feel? People under pressure don't want to learn because all they can do is what they know how to do, to finish the work. I asked if that was a team problem or a management problem. I'm not positive, but I think it's more of a management problem. ” Ah.

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7 Employee Comments that Destroy a Team

Rick Conlow

One way to determine how a team is doing involves listening to their comments to one another or others. If spoken often then there are days when the manager wonders, “Why bother? However, these comments are also a wakeup call for a manager to improve his or her team leadership skills. I could do this faster myself.”

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Consulting Tip #7: Beware of Other People Using Your Intellectual Property for Their Exposure

Johanna Rothman

See Project Lifecycle Workshop: How to Manage Project Risks to Release Successful Products.) So the people in the learning/process improvement/agile center of excellence ask me for a free talk. I understand how people feel caught in a bind. However, I expect payment in money when people ask me to create new IP.

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Evaluating Your Current Performance Management Process – Part I

Gina Abudi

In our last article we discussed the fear of having performance management conversations and provided a few options to address managers’ concerns.

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Why Employee Recognition Matters in Today’s Workplace

Rick Conlow

Management set a fifteen percent goal for improvement. So, we implemented a recognition program for customer reps and management. Link to Employee Well-Being: A survey conducted by Globoforce in 2021 found that 84% of employees felt recognized by their manager reported lower stress levels. We thought they could do more.