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Mindfulness and Focusing on What Matters

Lead Change Blog

It’s a form of meditation that businesses are beginning to embrace as a way to help employees become more efficient, productive and – most importantly – happy. It’s part and parcel of the job, and something you’ll simply have to accept when you follow this particular career path. You may have heard of mindfulness.

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Stereotypes Can Force Older Workers Into Retirement

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers conducted an ethnographic study at eight small and medium-sized companies within Denmark’s finance and production sectors, involving 92 interviews with senior staff, managers, union representatives, and HR personnel.

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How to Improve Your Managerial Skills

Strategy Driven

Put More Effort Into Effective Delegation It is absolutely accurate to state that intuitive delegation is part and parcel of the role of a leader, but if you can admit to yourself that you often hand out specific kinds of tasks and projects to the same people time and time again and without thinking, then this needs to change.

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5 Why's and a How

CEO Blog

Often the process discovers simple tools that can greatly increase productivity. EG - in analyzing a shipping line, the 5 why''s might determine that only 1,000 parcels per hour can be shipped per hour. But ask "How can we ship 1,500 parcels per hour" might elicit creative responses like add a new line or do things differently.

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5 Ways to Reduce Your Office Carbon Footprint

Lead Change Blog

That all adds up over time, and if you make it a regular, acceptable thing, you’ll be doing your bit for the environment and will most likely see a positive upturn in productivity as a nice side effect. That’s fine and is part and parcel of every day life. Recycle as you would at home. Turn stuff off.

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Keep Your Cost Per Customer Low

Strategy Driven

The overall customer management process could end up costing you more than you get paid for the product or service. it might not physically cost more to transport a parcel from A to B, but your team will be working around to clock to manage the logistics strategy. Customers have expectations on the quality of your services or product.

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Alaska, Bad Weather and Building an Oil Pipeline

Great Results Team Building

The difference in the native’s productivity was so significant that, eventually, the oil companies became curious to learn what made the natives so much better as workers. Bill Parcells is famous for sharing a similar message with his football teams. But Parcells’ point is that we need to focus on the pipeline.

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