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Why Employee Recognition Matters in Today’s Workplace

Rick Conlow

Through planning meetings, training, and coaching we ramped up the initiative. Management set a fifteen percent goal for improvement. ” Employees can give each other virtual “kudos” for demonstrating Amazon’s Leadership Principles. We thought they could do more.

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Keeping Human Stories at the Center of Health Care

Harvard Business

We need a metric for humanity to evaluate the human capacity and connection among caregivers and patients. And we must define new standards for humane technologies and implementation practices — an ecosystem of healing on par with quality, safety, and performance-improvement initiatives. Yet, we are all human.

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Scaling Customer Service as Your Startup Grows

Harvard Business

Don’t obsess over metrics like inquiry volume or time to close tickets. In later stages you’ll want people who think about how to scale through process, training, and systems. For support, add metrics like issue categorization and response/resolution time to your reporting. Establish models, not just metrics.

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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. In 2016 the leadership team of a national retail organization asked us to help boost their frontline performance. To show how it works, we’ll walk you through an example.

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