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Creating a Learning Organization: Fostering Continuous Improvement and Innovation

N2Growth Blog

Implementing Lean Principles: Lean methodologies, like Six Sigma, can optimize processes and minimize inefficiencies. According to LinkedIn’s Workplace Learning Report, 94% of employees would stay at a company longer if it invested in their career development.

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Management Tools For Leaders: The FADE Cycle

Rich Gee Group

I use it often with clients to help them grow their business or initiate a major change in their career. A part of QI (quality improvement) and Six Sigma, the FADE Cycle is used by many prominent organizations globally. Summary: FADE is a quality performance model and a simple methodology for business improvement.

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Mind the (Skills) Gap

Harvard Business Review

A bachelor's degree used to provide enough basic training to last a career. And it's not only white-collar, college-driven careers that will suffer rapid skills obsolescence. This will shorten the educational time commitment, thereby lengthening the time an individual has to actually master the skill on the job.

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What Cincinnati Could Teach New York about Hurricane Readiness

Harvard Business Review

Knowing the challenges they had in hiring a qualified workforce locally, P&G helped launch a broad effort to fix education, from cradle to career. P&G committed corporate leadership, foundation grants and a modification of Six Sigma so nonprofits could more effectively manage to agreed-upon results.

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Don’t Let Your Career Cause Regrets in Your Personal Life

Harvard Business Review

What I would offer, instead, are some ways to think about the problem, some guiding principles to keep in mind over the long haul of a career: Be realistic about work. At Quest Diagnostics, we turned things around, in part, by adopting Six Sigma, which aims at a standard of perfection. Expect to fall short some of the time.

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