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3 Reasons for less than desired results with team building training for Manufacturing

Mike Cardus

Front line employees need hands-on real time concrete process training to improve their work in a day to day operations. Training is used or seen a punitive measure as opposed to improving a persons skilled knowledge. Managers find something wrong (i.e.

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NOISE Analysis, an alternative to SWOT. Strategic Planning

Mike Cardus

A method that uses solution-focused language and is able to build upon the teams existing knowledge and goals. Developing knowledge plus skills to navigate the plan, allows us to choose focus points and what to eliminate. When planning determining what we want to have happen and understanding the road-blocks are necessary.

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Help Employees Create Knowledge — Not Just Share It

Harvard Business Review

This view of learning was the key driver of “knowledge management systems” that came into vogue in the 1990’s. Without diminishing the value of knowledge sharing, we would suggest that the most valuable form of learning today is actually creating new knowledge. Skills versus capabilities.

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John Wooden: What the Obituaries Missed

Michael Lee Stallard

The character values, or blocks of the pyramid, were: industriousness, enthusiasm, friendship, loyalty, cooperation, self-control, alertness, initiative, intentness, condition, skill, and team spirit. Coach Wooden operated a meritocracy that treated every player fairly. why is everyone smiling?

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How to Create Remarkable Teams PART 2 – Collaboration

Ask Atma

An honest self-evaluation will tell you where you have to increase your emotional and interactive skills. In recreating your organization, the way you manage knowledge is crucial. In the past, knowledge management was given scant attention and was basically a default process that arose from other management and sales objectives.

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How to Prevent Experts from Hoarding Knowledge

Harvard Business Review

They may be technical, as in the engineering example, but they can also be managerial, as when an experienced manager has hard-earned skills in problem identification and solution, crucial relationships with customers, or a detailed understanding of how to innovate. If such knowledge leaves with retirees, it may be lost for good.

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How NASA Uses Telemedicine to Care for Astronauts in Space

Harvard Business Review

Astronauts, doctors, nurses, and Mission Control personnel learn to acquire good operational communication skills through classes, practice, and scenario-based simulations. Ultrasound imaging, for the time being, is the only medical visualization device that can be flown and operated on a spacecraft.