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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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How to Discover and Own Your Consulting Superpower: Interview with Charles Browne

Consulting Matters

And through both of those processes, I served as an Operator, and then also as a Project Manager, and then a Master Black Belt Lead Sig Sigma process improvement black belt. Because it’s really focused so externally on how to get clients, or how they money, or what their earning potential is.

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7 Employee Comments that Destroy a Team

Rick Conlow

The team leader did little upfront analysis or training. Early in my career, I had a process improvement project that included service managers from various locations. After reviewing goals, ground rules and doing some training, we started. Some people feel overworked, threatened, or want to do as little as possible.

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Why you need a company wiki (and how to build it effectively)

Asamby Consulting

This articles outlines how to build a company wiki: Understand if and why you need a wiki Define the goals for your wiki Choose the best tool to house your wiki Define the structure Start creating and compiling content Keep your wiki used and up to date Why do I need a wiki for my company? You need a wiki.

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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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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.

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5 steps to boost process efficiency: A guide for businesses up to 100 employees

Asamby Consulting

Process Improvement In business, you need to use resources as efficiently as possible. So you need to make sure that your processes are set up well. This blog post outlines a simple 5-step methodology to improve any process. Identify the relevant process You need to figure out which processes need improvement.