Ask Atma

JANUARY 2, 2011

People should be encouraged to work together as a team. It involves using technology to organize, automate, and synchronize business processes—principally sales activities, but also those for marketing, customer service, and technical support. Institute extensive on-the-job training. Improve supervision.

Management 40

Management CRM Objective Human Resources 40

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Business Improv: Experiential Learning Exercises to Train Employees to Handle Every Situation with Success by Val and Sarah Gee The secret to business growth is right before your eyes – it’s the creativity and innovation percolating in each one of your employees every minute of every day.

Strategy 70

Strategy Kotter RASCI Motivation 70

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

The key to identifying and addressing at-risk employees before a breach or incident occurs is to focus as much on understanding and anticipating human behavior as on shoring up technological defenses. Treating insiders as a technology problem ignores the human aspects of motivation and behavior.”

Forrester 8

Forrester Shaw Absenteeism Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2016

For many years, teams at Virgin Atlantic have been testing ways to motivate efficient decision-making in the cockpit. For comparison, the lowest-cost technology aimed at reducing carbon emissions—efficient residential lighting—saves the economy approximately $180 per metric ton of CO 2 abatement.

Hawthorne Effect 8

Hawthorne Effect Efficiency Metrics Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2016

Morgan Chase, and in my current work as co-founder of the learning solutions company Wisdom Labs, I’ve seen over and over again that the most resilient individuals and teams aren’t the ones that don’t fail, but rather the ones that fail, learn and thrive because of it. The result is at times a frenetic way of working.

Stress 14

Stress Agility Globalization Energy 14

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Then joining and remaining on Fortune’s Best Companies to Work For list, Zappos.com’s motto is “We’re a service company and we just happen to sell shoes”, achieved these results and more behind their successful servant leadership. Servant leadership has proven successful and has a positive impact for the long term, time and again.

Leadership 100

Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Then joining and remaining on Fortune’s Best Companies to Work For list, Zappos.com’s motto is “We’re a service company and we just happen to sell shoes”, achieved these results and more behind their successful servant leadership. Servant leadership has proven successful and has a positive impact for the long term, time and again.

Leadership 100

Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

While all of those certainly play a role, I'm guessing that what Elizabeth Scharpf stumbled across as a critical factor in absenteeism wasn't on your radar. Successful Social Entrepreneurship Combines Mind and Heart. To be a responsible human and to be a successful entrepreneur requires both, working in tandem.

Franchising 13

Franchising CEO GDP Entrepreneur 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

The goal should be to keep children on a trajectory to becoming productive, successful, healthy adults rather than just treating them when they are sick. We need new models of pediatric primary care with the following features: Comprehensive and team-based. Children and families need to be able to access their care team promptly.

Health Care 10

Health Care Metrics Efficiency Absenteeism 10