Remove Process Improvement Remove Productivity Remove Retail Remove Training
article thumbnail

7 Employee Comments that Destroy a Team

Rick Conlow

Team Content and Process The bottom line is that a team’s success largely depends on the content and the process. The content involves the task for the team, for example: improving a work process, preparing for product presentation, or creating a marketing campaign. Sabotage is what happens next. Guess what?

article thumbnail

6 Turnaround Tactics for a Failing Team

Rick Conlow

Team failures, which sit at about 60% , demoralize employees, reduce productivity, cost companies billions of dollars, and inhibit innovation. Less than 25% of employees have attended a company sponsored training program in the last five years. With the same product, policies, and people). A few people were fired as a result.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

6 Turnaround Tactics for a Failing Team

Rick Conlow

Team failures, which sit at about 60% , demoralize employees, reduce productivity, cost companies billions of dollars, and inhibit innovation. Less than 25% of employees have attended a company sponsored training program in the last five years. With the same product, policies, and people). A few people were fired as a result.

article thumbnail

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

Harvard Business

Facing a tight labor market as the holiday shopping season approaches, many retail companies will undoubtedly consider following the lead of Amazon, which recently announced that it is raising its minimum hourly wage for all of its U.S. Higher wages are good for retail and other low-wage service workers.

Retail 34
article thumbnail

How to Motivate Frontline Employees

Harvard Business

In 2016 the leadership team of a national retail organization asked us to help boost their frontline performance. They wanted to improve revenue, cost, risk, and customer satisfaction all at the same time. The retail organization wanted to see how this applied to its stores. This playbook is the norm in most organizations.

How To 39