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SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

29 and the chief operating officer (COO) meets with the production manager about a major shipment of product to a customer. The COO tells the production manager to ship the product within the next two days to ensure it is counted as revenue in the current year. What should the production manager do? It is 5 p.m.

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JANUARY 18, 2018

Leaders must have a workable product or service and a sustainable operation. You see many people have great ideas but cannot attain a sustainable product and business operation. Only when company a can produce a product or service with a solid core business model will a vision be realized.

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MAY 28, 2020

Autopilot It’s well accepted that you can extend the product lifecycle of a brand and return to growth through innovation. 1) The Target – Who are your target users, and what needs does your product solve for them? 5) Pricing – Should you position your brand as a premium or everyday product?

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JULY 2, 2019

My organization, Booher Research Institute, recently commissioned a survey of email habits and productivity from the Social Research Lab at the University of Northern Colorado. An email cannot be both a productivity tool and a weapon. Productivity studies show there’s no such thing as multitasking – just rapid attention-switching.

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OCTOBER 30, 2020

Guest post from Grace Pacie: We’ve all heard the story that lateness costs the country billions in lost productivity - it’s claimed that lateness costs American businesses more than $3 billion dollars a year, but can that figure be trusted? Are late people a liability or an asset in the business world? Is Time Management the Answer?

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JULY 31, 2018

Intention and attention from leaders can have a beneficial impact on employees feelings of contribution, value, and worth, which can boost productivity and service. The purpose of the study was to analyze the effects of workplace conditions on individual productivity. Productivity was carefully monitored following each change.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Employees who feel understood and appreciated are often more productive and willing go that extra mile on behalf of a client. By showing your team that you care about their well-being, it will result in increased job satisfaction and productivity. Production glue has seen a double-digit revenue increase for over a decade.

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DECEMBER 24, 2020

Google and many other firms have officially recognized this entrepreneurial type with a 20 percent or 10 percent rule, allowing staffers to pursue their own project ideas on company time (this has led to Gmail, Google Maps, and Google AdSense, among other G-Suite products). The Accidental infuses a project or company with authenticity.

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MARCH 9, 2017

Our culture has long viewed happiness in the workplace as a sign of lower productivity. This can and does translate into workplace productivity and overall company success. Our research has found that a positive brain is connected with increasing sales by 37%, productivity by 31%, and decreasing the negative effects of stress by 23%.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Maybe the question could be, “How can we hire for unique skills that make our products differentiating?” Of course, it might lead you to ask the question, “What differentiates our products from the competition?” What does “right” mean? This now focuses your efforts on a specific skillset.

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MARCH 16, 2017

My team spent a decade running experiments that measured brain activity while people worked to find out why some teams are productive and others engage in "presenteeism." Our studies show that when companies invest in colleague development, it increases engagement and productivity. This is a marathon, not a sprint.”

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JUNE 11, 2019

Give it a go and see how the process boosts productivity, loyalty and performance throughout the company. For example, a company mission may be to boost productivity for individuals and teams worldwide. Once your purpose is defined, be sure to put it into action. What are your strengths as a team/company?

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NOVEMBER 19, 2014

When leaving a leadership legacy, you should think more about the people you leave behind, rather than the products and services you leave behind. After all, products and services come and go. It is the people that will keep the company moving forward toward its vision.

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DECEMBER 31, 2020

For example, a team was stuck in the process of making a fundamental product development decision for six months. Clearly, their inferior dimension was Courage—in this case, courage to make a product decision, get the product out, and determine its viability.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Companies have to be consistent in their behaviour, from top to bottom, and right along the supply chain, from the ‘first hand of production to the final hand of the consumer’. And this genuinely has to go all the way.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2019

And while most brands market their products exclusively to women (who still make about 80 percent of the purchase decisions), they started advertising to men also. They started innovating with their product as well: Self-dosing lids, designer boxes, and packaging so soft you could curl up with it in bed when you’re sick.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2018

After all, when employees are well informed and feel included in company strategies and activities, they are more productive and engaged – and all of your stakeholders (especially your customers) benefit. At its core, transparency is a pretty simple concept: You commit to employees that you will share what you can, when you can.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

What is most important about the services or products you provide? Every brand that is driven by purpose has the capacity to connect directly to a customer need. As a leader, it’s your job to bring people back to why they are working in the first place. What is important about each and every team member’s contribution?

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FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Do you balance an insistence on accountability and productivity with your response to the human condition? These are examples of how transparency builds trust and benefits productivity. Your impact as leader spills over into the daily lives of your team. Do you handle the interpersonal details as well as you do policy nuts and bolts?

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DECEMBER 20, 2018

And, it’s the enemy to efficiency, productivity, and a healthy bottom line. Achieving clarity is hard work—but it can be liberating, productive, efficient—and lucrative. Guest post from Karen Martin: Ambiguity has become the status quo in most of our organizations. Achieving clarity is the only way to defeat this enemy.

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MAY 25, 2017

Chris Edmonds: Two key indicators of a healthy team are that they are productive (getting tasks done to standards, on budget and on time) and effective (working together with a minimum of drama.) I believe many of us have been blessed to have served on a productive and effective team at least once in our lives. Don’t tolerate it.

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JUNE 8, 2017

Distraction in the digital era has become an epidemic, robbing us of our focus, decreasing our productivity and hindering our overall life satisfaction. This small gesture communicates to others that you value them, but you also value your work (of course this only works if you are actually using your time productively).

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JANUARY 26, 2017

Most innovative and technologically superior products have the potential to become global if they are needed, are better than what exists, and will improve people’s lives. Most companies spend years perfecting product features, go global in a handful of countries and then go global in a larger set. Map a plan for 1-2-3 year growth. ·

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JULY 24, 2014

In Nadella’s case, within his first few months, in line with the future destination he had plotted for the business and his new focus on certain product classes, he adjusted staff within the marketing team and mixed up the leadership in the device and cloud divisions of the company.

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AUGUST 12, 2014

Managing up means establishing and maintaining a positive and productive relationship with you manager so that your managers needs are met and you get what you need from your manager. What is managing up and why is it so important? Read my latest post over at About.com Management and Leadership to find out how to manage up.

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APRIL 11, 2019

Ignoring it will only make matters worse, and will eventually impact team productivity, results, employee satisfaction, and the leader’s reputation. Destructive conflict is when it gets personal, gets in the way of working effectively, and has a negative impact on productivity, innovation, and ultimately, results.

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JUNE 22, 2017

Research is clear that happy, playful work environments are more productive than those that are drab and dreary. When someone feels slighted (whether real or imagined) does the resulting animosity fester and destroy productivity, communication, and efficiency? Employees respond far better to the carrot than the stick.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Numerous research studies since then highlight compelling evidence of a number of other important—and non-monetary—levers available for motivating workers and improving generally low productivity levels. In tandem, the new leadership styles are also able to generate much-needed boosts to productivity levels yielding better corporate results.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Withholding information from peers to make oneself look better/smarter/more productive ? The bottom line: Do the right thing for your sanity, productivity, and spirit. Day-to-Day Decisions and Behavior Reveal a Person’s Values You likely have seen these behaviors in the workplace during your career: ? Engaging in gossip ?

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AUGUST 22, 2019

Millennials scour the internet to learn about a brand or product before making a purchase. In fact, 60 percent of Millennials say they almost always stick to brands they currently purchase. Information is essential. They check websites, blogs, or peer reviews that they trust. Instant gratification is paramount.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2018

I first became aware of the need for soft skills when I was a Tupperware Executive Manager, teaching members of my team about the products, how to best present the line and explaining how effective use could make customers’ lives more efficient. The takeaway here is that it’s a lot easier to lead a team when everyone is on the same page.

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MAY 7, 2013

When it comes to understanding how to balance the need to keep a sharp eye on the bottom line and keep a workforce fully satisfied and productive, some managers and companies seem to get it while others don’t have a clue. No matter how hard Marty fought, at the end of the day, he had to tell Bob his raise would be 20 cents less.

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JANUARY 30, 2014

To be the organization of choice, for example, suggests that we offer the right products, at the right price, through the right distribution channels while providing the right customer experience. It does not automatically imply that we offer the lowest price or the best product in order to be "of choice".

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FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Instead I assign that job to a specific production person. Discrete task assignment creates accountability, which in turn increases motivation and drives harder work, which ultimately maximizes productivity on a film set just like it does with the kids in the kitchen on cleanup duty. I don't say, “Someone go lock up that street corner.”

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APRIL 1, 2014

“Today’s workers and organizations are under unprecedented pressure to maintain high productivity,” said RLI Research Director Walter P. So we asked ourselves, ‘How can we help organizations deliver effective training without negatively impacting productivity?’” And yet without ongoing training, organizations fall behind.

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DECEMBER 15, 2016

Or, from a more Scrooge-like perspective, a time when team members slack off, the company throws expensive parties where certain people drink too much and do things everyone wants to forget, team members gather to exchange awkward Secret Santa gifts that no one wants, and very little productive activity takes place.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Ignoring it will only make matters worse, and will eventually impact team productivity, results, employee satisfaction, and the manager’s reputation. Destructive conflict is when it gets personal, gets in the way of working effectively, and has a negative impact on productivity, innovation, and ultimately, results.

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