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How to Be an Effective Player-Coach at Work

LSA Global

The origin of the term player-coach refers to a member of a sports team who simultaneously holds both playing and coaching duties. Although the practice is mostly extinct in sports, many companies today expect their managers – especially their first-level managers – to be an effective player-coach at work. Talent – Build Skills.

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Growth by Acquisition Isn’t for Everybody

Martinka Consulting

Acquire great talent. More customers over your expanded revenue base, more employees, deeper management, less product concentration, and most importantly, there’s more talent to take a load off the owner. It’s very much like sports, the more the team wins, the greater the number of fans it has. The icing – the top three.

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Is Your Company Actually Set Up to Support Your Strategy?

Harvard Business

For every company wrestling with evolutions in its strategy, success depends as much on matching the operating model to those evolutions as it does on the soundness of the strategy itself. But exactly how do today’s companies create or update an operating model to match adaptations or wholesale changes in strategy?

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There Are Two Types of Performance — but Most Organizations Only Focus on One

Harvard Business

Every step of the process was measured, and real-time metrics were easily accessible. In Precision’s case, good tactical performance required developing rules, checklists, and standard operating procedures and then following them closely. Metrics emphasized speed. We made a number of operational changes to the call center.

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How to Support Employees’ Learning Goals While Getting Day-to-Day Stuff Done

Harvard Business

Get top-level guidance and metrics. This new reality, in which developing talent is a key business imperative, requires real buy-in from top brass in your company, all the way up to the CEO. Nearly every manager who has reported to me has questioned the wisdom of spending time building talent when there are immediate business goals.

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Organizational Fitness for Growth: Five Insights for CEOs

Kates Kesler

We recently completed a study for the CEO of a very well known, global sports-apparel brand company. He wanted to challenge his team, as part of the strategic talent review process, to think about whether or not the company’s organizational architecture was suited to its growth plan to double in size. Learning from Big Companies.

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7 Top Ways to Grow Revenue

LSA Global

In fact, a study in the International Journal of Sport Physiology and Performance asked 93 U.S. Improve Salesforce Capabilities Sales talent accounts for 29% of the difference between high and low performing sales teams in terms of revenue growth, profitability, customer retention, and sales leader effectiveness.

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