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Make This the Year of Boosting Coaching Skills

The Practical Leader

It’s also very clear that leaders with strong coaching skills have dramatically higher levels of employee engagement, productivity, safety, and customer service. We’ve been networking, exchanging best practices, and learning about ZF’s leadership research and development.

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Stop Noise from Ruining Your Open Office

Harvard Business Review

Studies of people with and without views of nature – as opposed to either no views, or views of built environments – have found that a view of nature makes workers less frustrated, more patient, more productive, and physically healthier. Workspaces Productivity' But an open office has downsides. Provide loud spaces, too.

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Applying Deming Principles at Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

Deming Institute

I was also invited to attend to the Deming Institute Annual Fall conference in Los Angeles. That is because owners of small and medium size businesses focus mostly on the product and how to sell it. In any case, this is an indicator of wasted resources, and wasted dreams. Even myself, by 2013 I was still working for a Company.

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