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Management Tools For Leaders: The FADE Cycle

Rich Gee Group

Generate a list of problems (issues) — brainstorm with your team as many contributing areas you infer to be the dysfunction. Decide what you need to know — go through the team and collect as many questions you’ll need to answer with data and info. Select the solution — Multi-vote with the team and decide on one plan of attack.

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The Skills that Every Entrepreneur Must Have

Strategy Driven

Being able to inspire others and create a solid working team has got to be one of the top skills to have and to practice ensuring that you have the team and drive to power the business. One of the top skills required by all those starting a business is leadership and teamwork. Analytics and problem solving.

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Managing a Remote Team: 12 Best Practices for Better Productivity

Strategy Driven

To ascertain staff productivity in teams that are scattered across various locations, below are twelve best practices to effectively manage a mobile/remote workforce: 1. With different schedules, even different time zones, it’s easy to miss deadlines when you’re managing a remote and/or geographically dispersed team. Enforce policies.

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Adding Value: A Gentle Reminder

QAspire

Set expectations of your team on what “value” means to you and to the customer? Track value delivered, when you tracked through the Gantt Chart? Early in the project cycle? Glad you did that. But did you keep that in perspective constantly while executing? Critically evaluate “earned value” for the stakeholders?

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Your Strategy Has to Be Flexible — But So Does Your Execution

Harvard Business Review

Action plans and Gantt charts can span many pages in pursuit of precision and concreteness. In 1992, to free-up warehouse space, the UK team promised free airline tickets to customers who purchased more than £100 worth of its products. marketing team offered the same promotion to U.S. A little later, the U.S.