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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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Determine the ROI of hiring a small business operations consultant

Asamby Consulting

What is small business operations consulting Small business operations consultants are experts in how to run a company. Here are some examples for the field of process improvement. If you pay a consultant the same 5,000 USD for that process improvement, you'd have a 400% ROI right away. Provided you have the leads.

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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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How to Motivate Frontline Employees

Harvard Business

One question that has long plagued organizations is how to improve performance among frontline workers, the people who actually drive customer experience. To show how it works, we’ll walk you through an example. For example, in one store, a challenge was how to get more walk-in customers. Shana Novak/Getty Images.

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7 Employee Comments that Destroy a Team

Rick Conlow

Early in my career, I had a process improvement project that included service managers from various locations. I provide added focus on the process in that post, which involves tacky team members, this does include the leadership. Managers tend not know how to work within a team, and their people skills are lacking.

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The key to becoming a learning organization

Asamby Consulting

This article explains what a learning organization is, why it is beneficial and how to become one. What is a learning organization A learning organization is any organization that has a structured process in place to constantly make knowledge in people's heads available to the organization. Every CEO wants a learning organization.