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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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7 Employee Comments that Destroy a Team

Rick Conlow

However, these comments are also a wakeup call for a manager to improve his or her team leadership skills. Team Content and Process The bottom line is that a team’s success largely depends on the content and the process. The team leader did little upfront analysis or training. I could do this faster myself.”

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The Top Eleven Things Employees Want From Their Leader

Rick Conlow

In most employee engagement surveys; leadership communication often has the poorest ratings and the most negative feedback. In a manufacturing company, we helped them set up process improvement teams in all areas of the business. We helped them design training, incentives, and team competitions. See the problem?

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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. You can learn and train yourself through individual initiative.

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6 Turnaround Tactics for a Failing Team

Rick Conlow

Over 80% of managers fail according to leadership derailment studies. Less than 25% of employees have attended a company sponsored training program in the last five years. The antidote to terrible teams is better leadership. Certainly, all team needs group dynamics training or they will stumble unneccesarily.

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6 Turnaround Tactics for a Failing Team

Rick Conlow

Over 80% of managers fail according to leadership derailment studies. Less than 25% of employees have attended a company sponsored training program in the last five years. The antidote to terrible teams is better leadership. Certainly, all team needs group dynamics training or they will stumble unneccesarily.

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10 Ways To Making Money And A Difference as a Consultant & Coach (Number 2 Is My Favorite)

Consulting Matters

Consultants and coaches exist to enhance leadership and organizational capacity. A client isn't the one who is responsible for leveraging our expertise and thought leadership in the ways that we want them to. Coaching, training, strategy, process improvement are all tactics that we use but it's not the essence of what we offer.