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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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The Top Eleven Things Employees Want From Their Leader

Rick Conlow

In a manufacturing company, we helped them set up process improvement teams in all areas of the business. In addition, on-going training is necessary to maintain current job skills, but even more importantly to add to them. We helped them design training, incentives, and team competitions. Have fun while working hard.

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7 Employee Comments that Destroy a Team

Rick Conlow

The team leader did little upfront analysis or training. A few people were hurt, team cooperation suffered and so did sales. Early in my career, I had a process improvement project that included service managers from various locations. After reviewing goals, ground rules and doing some training, we started.

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Why Employee Recognition Matters in Today’s Workplace

Rick Conlow

For example, one of our clients wanted to increase sales results with existing customers. Through planning meetings, training, and coaching we ramped up the initiative. Management set a fifteen percent goal for improvement. You can learn and train yourself through individual initiative. We thought they could do more.

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

Progressus

The Power of Unity Firms need real-time insights into the entire business – finance, project accounting, sales, everything – otherwise multiple versions of the truth will start showing up in budgets, estimates, and forecasts. Are project operations, sales, customer service, etc. Do you provide hands-on skills training?

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"Process Mining"? Sounds Like a Waste of Time.

Markovitz Consulting

Another great sales point for the software—the opportunity to anoint a class of high priests with specialized knowledge who take responsibility for improvement. Place responsibility for improvement in the hands of a few people who have the special skills and training to operate the software, and let them fix the problems.

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8 Reasons that May Cause You to Loose Customers

Tom Spencer

The customer service reps must not be trained enough or must be unhappy with their job to behave in this manner. A good example would be a sales person providing inaccurate information to the customer just to make that sale. Below are 3 steps that companies can take to improve on the issues mentioned above.

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