RapidStart Leadership

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

So before getting out the big hammer, think about what you really want to achieve. Alternate positions, cross-train, change the daily pattern, there are even plenty of ways to add some variety to that meeting everyone loves to hate. And that’s OK, so long as we are willing to try again, hopefully a little wiser the next time around.

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The Recovering Engineer

MARCH 12, 2010

He is an engineer by nature, by training, and experience. For example, I can use a hammer to build a house or to attack my neighbor. In both cases, the hammer is just a hammer. 3, 2010 by recoveringengineer One common question that comes up in my training classes on the DISC model of human behavior [.]

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Joseph Lalonde

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Great leaders know when to hold their tongue: As part of the Orion training, Stan stormed into the room of sleeping recruits. Stan had trained Ghost. You may even train a successor only to have him fail miserably. Know great leaders can still make mistakes in hiring and training people. She leveled the truth hammer.

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Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (1978) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Walk The Talk The Dash, The Race, and Management, Training and Development Resources Workforce Management: information on employment law, human resource development and human resource management.

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Lead by Adventure

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Who can hammer out the details? This will not only increase your understanding of the DISC personality test but allow you to train others within your company or organization (including managers, team members, etc.). Who can get everyone at the meeting or function? Who can make sure all feel valued and cared for?

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 4, 2019

If you’re going to start a company, your focus needs to be trained on multiple areas all at once. And if you can hammer home the use of your business in the current economy in only 30 seconds or less, the more’s the better! Even just an hour longer in bed than usual means you can miss catching the worm.

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Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Morning Train (Nine to Five) by Sheena Easton (1981) 25. Hard Hat and a Hammer by Alan Jackson (2010) While this song was originally performed by Harry Chapin, Ugly Kid Joe recorded it in the early 1990s. Career Opportunities by The Clash (1977) I hope you have many career opportunities throughout your life. ​ 29. ​ 30.

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Steve Farber

MAY 31, 2017

As a motivational speaker, my mentors (and I’ve had several including Jim Kouzes, Tom Peters, and Terry Pearce) had more confidence in my abilities than I did, and always looked for opportunities to shove me into the training and speaking spotlight. Try building a tree fort with no hammer or nails (not that I’ve done that).

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Steve Farber

MAY 31, 2017

As a motivational speaker, my mentors (and I’ve had several including Jim Kouzes, Tom Peters, and Terry Pearce) had more confidence in my abilities than I did, and always looked for opportunities to shove me into the training and speaking spotlight. Try building a tree fort with no hammer or nails (not that I’ve done that).

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Deming Institute

APRIL 7, 2016

If when an employee was thinking what should I do now, kept that idea in mind and decided what to do based on that thought and management provided training to help employees understand how to take action based on that aim that would be wonderful. If the organization used that to focus their vision. In this case it wasn’t at all.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 25, 2012

First, it’s a heavy dose of product training. for all product training. Trainers and training departments will scoff at this because it will mean a huge reduction in what they do and how they do it. MAJOR CLUE: All product training should be given at a customer’s place of business. Outside training.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2018

You also have to train employees to understand and respect them. If your employees aren’t behaving well, and you’ve already gone through the trouble of hammering home the organization’s civility message, ask yourself, “Have I also equipped them to succeed?” We acknowledge the contributions of others.

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Team Franchising Hammer Training 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2018

It happens all the time: A group of managers get together at a resort for two days to hammer out a “strategic plan.” You can envision the high-level actions that might follow such as: Design a training program for all staff in made-to-order food handling procedures. Busá Photography/Getty Images.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Getting executives into a room and hammering out a contract doesn''t make a deal. Besides, watching peers make money is far more motivating than a month of training and pep talks. There is no substitute for grass roots research. Don''t figure it out. Get out there and find out by talking to your partner''s customers and sales force.

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Succession Early Adopters Hammer Price 284

Strategy Driven

MARCH 25, 2020

One of the perks of working in a large company, with several senior responsibilities, is that it’s often left to you to travel to different destinations in order to hammer out contracts, seal deals, check up on suppliers, or help with your distribution network.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2020

However, with the best business equipment available, such training is often minimal. Profit margins, budgets, and return on investments are all things that are hammered into business owners’ heads daily. Retraining requires extra time they often don’t have,m and it can grind productivity to a halt. Best Benefits.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2011

The company put 10% of its service center employees through a very practical, low-cost " green belt " training program. The firm then tasked each employee with a specific project to cut costs, armed with their tools and training. can often have a superior attitude and be zealots with a hammer, so that everything looks like a nail.

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Six Sigma Bottom-up Cost Project 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2012

Evidence in derivatives suit trials years earlier featured videotapes of investment bank training sessions explaining how to rip off unsuspecting customers with derivative products that they really didn't understand. NFL fans collectively gasped when the hammer came down. How about Commissioner Goodell on 'bounty-gate'?

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The system was trained on a range of tasks in the medical field, including chest X-ray analysis, where the system was tasked with identifying conditions such as cardiomegaly and atelectasis. “In

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

And yet when the volunteers find out that there is a ton of red tape, or that you have to be 16-years-old to swing a hammer, or that there’s a scarcity of resources, or that they’re not licensed to make certain changes, many get frustrated and quit. As a result, these individuals will remain with the organization for decades.

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Bond Stress Team Hammer 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

Sales-training programs rightly focus on finding clients' "pain points." As the old saying goes, "When you sell hammers, every problem looks like a nail." Help clients see opportunities they'd missed. But great salespeople also know there's value in pointing out successes waiting to be exploited.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

He partnered with HR to start an associate program that put new college and experienced professionals through an intensive three-week training, later pairing them with a mentor for ongoing counsel. ” In his family’s living room, his proud parents give him his “grandpappy’s” giant hammer.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

“There were catchphrases that had to be hammered into the head of the employees, just like advertising does to the general public.” .” Industrial musicals weren’t merely about camaraderie and a few chuckles. “There was a lot of minutia that had to be crammed into the shows,” says Murphy.

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Morale Conference Hammer Film 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

But because we failed to hammer out exactly how we would operate (including our respective roles and responsibilities), infighting distracted from operating, cash became a concern, and the business slowly, then quickly, imploded. As I reflect on this venture, it would be disingenuous to say I have no regrets. This failure was dearly bought.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Here are the most prominent examples : Provide positive attitude training for everyone in the company. Provide specific and customized empowerment service training for everyone in the company (what is EACH employee allowed to do and say to a customer?). Many Happy Returns : Return on training. Especially for front line people.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

But if your employees take a risk and fail, and you come down on them like a hammer, guess what? .’ Great organizations encourage risk-taking. Because innovation requires it. There can be no reward without risk. They’ll never risk anything again. cultures of trust—where people don’t live in fear of the consequences of failure.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2015

Concerned about the company’s lack of focus, Wall Street hammered the Starbucks stock, resulting in a drop in share price of 28% in one day – a $2 billion loss in the company’s market capitalization. stores in February 2008 for three hours to re-train baristas.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

That sounds a lot like Philip Tetlock’s hedgehogs and foxes , where the people who keep hammering at it and don’t care if their forecasts are wrong are more likely to be wrong. He tells these stories about going on the train and putting his prospectus on every open seat. Moody succeeds because he’s very aggressive at selling.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Then the markets hammer their companies for low top-line growth, telling executives that they won’t be able to maintain profit growth without revenue growth. You reap what you sow — except for the hedge funds, which will just swarm like locusts onto the next company to destroy it, too.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2011

We call this the Values Blueprint method of changing culture and we recommend you engage in a two-day retreat with a group of your best players to hammer out what your values should be and what behaviors best exemplify those values. But neither should you let financial concerns derail the project in its infancy.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

They trained experts in improvement projects (" Black Belts ") who then drove initiatives that achieved large financial results. Six Sigma zealots say "Belts," lots of training, and performance measures are what matter. Six Sigma zealots argue that if you train enough people, you get a cultural transformation.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Many have read articles and books — and have even been trained in productivity methods — but still find staying focused to be an uphill battle. If one approach isn’t working, try another rather than continuing to hammer away fruitlessly. ” I hear sentences like these repeatedly from coaching clients.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2017

Twenty-four medical teams from four neonatal intensive care units in Israel were invited to a training workshop designed to improve quality of care. Half the teams received messages from a neutral expert who spoke about the importance of training and practice using simulations but did not comment on their work quality.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Without a hammer, we’re more likely to think of a shoe as a good tool to get a nail pounded into the wall. Ethan talked about all the times he’d been told no in his career: on plans to merchandise products, sophisticated inventory control systems, and basic training handbooks.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Many have read articles and books — and have even been trained in productivity methods — but still find staying focused to be an uphill battle. If one approach isn’t working, try another rather than continuing to hammer away fruitlessly. ” I hear sentences like these repeatedly from coaching clients.

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Productivity Products Tips Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2014

Lots of people shared their thoughts and we riffed on each of the comments, which ranged from “We’ve been trained from our first days in school to do what we’re told without question,” to “We have so many things to do, we’re overwhelmed.”. Basically, I asked one question: “Why are otherwise intelligent people tricked by the trivial?”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

” What we’ve observed is that in most organizations, the innovation power­train is missing several critical components. With a bit of training, and some opportunities for real-world practice, just about anyone can sig­nificantly upgrade their innovation skills.

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