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How to Ignite and Sustain Organizational Growth

Skip Prichard

The right culture makes it easy for employees to create the connections needed to foster collaboration and unite teams as they work toward common goals. As time passes, the trend is for companies to decrease their attention and awareness of their goals. Leaders must lead by example and continue to demonstrate company values.

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What Top Sales Teams Have in Common, in 5 Charts

Harvard Business Review

Forty-eight percent of the participants from underperforming sales organizations indicated they had nonexistent or informal structured sales processes compared to only 29% from high performing sales organizations. High-performing sales organizations hold their team members to a higher level of accountability.

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3 Ways to Make Less Biased Decisions

Harvard Business Review

For example, structured interviewing processes, in which the questions are consistent across candidates, have been found to reduce bias relative to unstructured or free-form interviews. Finally, you can put new forms of accountability in place so that it becomes clear when bias is occurring.

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The 7 Attributes of the Most Effective Sales Leaders

Harvard Business Review

As a result, they have the natural disposition to fixate their team on achieving their revenue goals at the exclusion of all else. Forty-four percent of underperforming sales managers indicated they had a nonexistent or an informal structured sales process. Coaching adaptability.

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5 Ways Leadership Can’t Be “Normal” Anymore

Ron Edmondson

Great leaders think beyond themselves – even beyond their own team or the vision, goals and objectives of the organization. We can’t sit back, make a profit or fulfill our individual goals (even as churches) and ignore the myriad of social needs all around us. Team members need to help shape the course of action.

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5 Ways Leaders Can’t Be “Normal” Today

Ron Edmondson

Great leaders think beyond themselves – even beyond their own team or the vision, goals and objectives of the organization. We can’t sit back, make a profit or fulfill our individual goals (even as churches) and ignore the myriad of social needs all around us.