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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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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. Companies that achieve top-tier ratings for employee morale and engagement report the following gains. We thought they could do more. Positive Work Environment: The O.C.

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7 Employee Comments that Destroy a Team

Rick Conlow

The team leader did little upfront analysis or training. By the way, these managers made the time by delegating other responsibilities to their direct reports. If I hear rumors, I name it at the next team meeting, and address it. After reviewing goals, ground rules and doing some training, we started.

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7 Critical Success Factors for Project Based Firms to Consider in 2024

Progressus

Data Maturity When it comes to data, professional services firms need to move beyond basic analytics tools and generic client reports. Do you provide hands-on skills training? What kind of impact has that training had on client outcomes? Are upskilling/training efforts driven by customer feedback? The bottom line?

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2022 wage strategies: How contact centers can face the Great Resignation

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With several outsourcing contact centers in 2021 reporting training class rates as low as 20% and above average stress levels , it’s no longer a question of how does the industry recruit quality employees, but how does it retain them? Meeting employee needs and equipping them with the right tools with be critical in 2022.

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Leadership Development Should Focus on Experiments

Harvard Business

Industry research, for example, shows that companies spent more than $24 billion on leadership and management training worldwide in 2013, an increase of 15% from 2012. Underlying this notion was the lack of tangible results that could be attributed to management training. One experiment generated a 2.6%

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Higher Wages Aren’t Enough to Turn Mediocre Jobs into Good Ones

Harvard Business

For example: Constant display changes that take hours to set up and break down — hours that could have been spent on much-higher-value work like helping customers and trying out process improvements. Take-home pay. More than hourly wages, workers care about take-home pay.

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