Next Level Blog

MARCH 24, 2020

The situation is too fast-moving, fluid and unprecedented for any of us to settle in for whatever the long haul is and keep on truckin’ with the same operating rhythm we’ve used up until now. That doesn’t mean, though, that we shouldn’t take a step back to assess our operating rhythm as leaders and professionals who still need to get stuff done. For years, I’ve been a big proponent of identifying and following through on your optimal operating rhythm.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 17, 2020

As a business, providing customers with value for money. However, you mustn’t forget to ensure that your spending generates the best results too. Making your capital work harder will lift a great weight from your shoulders while also enabling you to pass some of the savings onto your clients.

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Women on Business

JULY 26, 2019

We've Moved! Update your Reader Now. This feed has moved to: [link] If you haven't already done so, update your reader now with this changed subscription address to get your latest updates from us. link]. Women On Business Sponsors

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Leadership Freak

MARCH 16, 2017

Corporate teams love meetings. People who do the work can’t wait for meetings to end. Use a K.I.S.S. agenda to run meetings real people love to attend. #1. Keep: What do we need… Continue reading → Leading Meetings and agendas Meetings

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 13, 2020

In order to make your new employees comfortable and get operations running smoothly, you need to train them well. It’s the start of the year, which means you might be onboarding new employees soon.

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Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 5, 2017

Welcome to “Secret Sauce Sunday.” I invite leaders who I admire to share real world leadership principles they have learned on their journey. The insights that follow are born in Mike Bowker’s experience.… … Continue reading → Secret Sauce

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2016

I like to call this collection of systems the organization’s “ Human Operating System.” ” Your firm’s Human Operating System is, of course, informed by your vision , enabled by your strategic plans and is translated into company culture. Here are the key parts of every Human Operating System: 1. To close, what does your organization’s Human Operating System look like?

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Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

If promotion or advancement didn’t work out for you, the practical lessons in this post are for you. Welcome to “Secret Sauce Sunday.” I invite leaders who I admire to share real world… Continue reading → Failure Secret Sauce Success Leadership Development leadership journey

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Next Level Blog

APRIL 7, 2014

From the department of real life experience, here''s a quick post on how to optimize your operating rhythm. As I work on a new book while maintaining a pretty full plate of work with clients, I''ve found that tuning into my operating rhythm is vital to getting anything done. What, you might ask, is an operating rhythm? Mindful Mondays operating rhythm productivity

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Strategy Driven

JULY 7, 2020

This extra ‘shunting’ action helps the engine to tick over and ultimately resume its operation. With this advice, we hope you can learn to operate, even when consumer confidence is low.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 26, 2018

If you are spending more time encountering the same issues over and over again in your business operations, you are going to notice over time that they are festering into bigger issues. Choosing to implement an approach that solves problems in your business can help you to realise the root cause of what is going wrong in your operations, so that you can approach it the right way and find solutions to the problem.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 20, 2019

Effective business operations are key to the short and long-term success of any institution. That is why this article is here to shed some light on what you can do, as a business owner and entrepreneur, in order to improve these operations in the first place. Yet another consideration to keep in mind that will help improve your business operations is the type of employees that you will be hiring.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 27, 2020

Whether you’re looking to reopening or just need to cut down your current operating costs, there’s much a small business owner can do. Keeping your operating costs down is the number one thing any business can do to help ensure they can stay in the green and continue to grow. Read on and we’ll walk you through a few key suggestions on how to cut costs and run smoother as an operation. What area of your business operation is slowing you down?

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 31, 2015

On-duty operations personnel are responsible for a facility’s safe and reliable operation. You just finished reading Corrective Action Program Best Practice 16 - On-duty Operations Staff Notification of Operational Deficiencies ! The post Corrective Action Program Best Practice 16 – On-duty Operations Staff Notification of Operational Deficiencies appeared first on StrategyDriven.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 20, 2017

In essence, business processes need not be limited by reporting lines or geography in this kind of operating model. Rather, the internal operating model of a business must be re-thought as well. Today’s digital capabilities offer great promise for businesses big and small. But, in order to realize that promise, business leaders must be willing to drastically re-think their company’s business processes.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

As well as speed, you also need to consider the cost of your shipping operation. That’s why you need to make an effort to improve the efficiency of your shipping operation. Route planning software is absolutely essential if you want to increase efficiency in your shipping operation. However, if you’re doing well and you’re looking at expanding the business and reinvesting some of those profits, you should consider decentralizing your shipping operation.

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Chart Your Course

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

In particular, when it comes to improving the customer service experience and streamlining operations, today’s call center agents now have a wide array of tech solutions to resolve these matters. Here are three proven ways today’s call centers can better streamline operations and achieve greater success. Today, leading businesses are starting to see the upside of implementing cloud contact center solutions into their operations.

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David A Fields

DECEMBER 3, 2019

The post Signs Your Consulting Firm is Operating on Faulty Assumptions appeared first on David A. You throw your best efforts into delivering value for your consulting clients, improving your consulting firm’s marketing, and creating a rewarding consulting environment.

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Management Excellence

APRIL 10, 2020

Art of Managing Decision-Making High Performance Management Teams Leadership Leadership Caffeine Leading Change Management Innovation Crisis Management Information Sharing Micro-Managing Operating Routine Quarterly Business Review Reinventing ManagementWe've Moved! Update your Reader Now. This feed has moved to: [link] Update your reader now with this changed subscription address to get your latest updates from us.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

When you’re working on a large scale and you have products to manufacture, or an operation line to set up, things need to run like clockwork. You just finished reading Launching Your Business: How To Organize Your Operation !

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Here are some good tips for leading a successful business operation from the handy booklet, 144 Ways To Walk The Talk , by Eric Harvey and Al Lucia : Involve your team in setting standards that are achievable but also require everyone to stretch their knowledge and skills. Business Operation Eric Jacobson on Leadership and Management Leadership

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 20, 2018

As a business, providing customers with value for money. However, you mustn’t forget to ensure that your spending generates the best results too. Making your capital work harder will lift a great weight from your shoulders while also enabling you to pass some of the savings onto your clients. So, how exactly can you ensure that all decisions are made in the best interests of your customers? Here’s all you need to know. Assemble The Strongest Possible Team.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

APRIL 29, 2020

The post Executive Coaching Success Story: Senior Vice President Business Operations, Telecommunications appeared first on Situational Leadership® Management and Leadership Training. Success Stories

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The Center For Leadership Studies

APRIL 29, 2020

The post Executive Coaching Success Story: Chief Operating Officer, Healthcare appeared first on Situational Leadership® Management and Leadership Training. Success Stories

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The Center For Leadership Studies

APRIL 29, 2020

The post Executive Coaching Success Story: Executive Vice President Business Operations, Finance appeared first on Situational Leadership® Management and Leadership Training. Success Stories

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Women on Business

MARCH 15, 2016

We've Moved! Update your Reader Now. This feed has moved to: [link] If you haven't already done so, update your reader now with this changed subscription address to get your latest updates from us. link]. Women On Business Sponsors

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Next Level Blog

JULY 13, 2010

Operation Mincemeat is a true story that reads like a novel.

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Art Petty

APRIL 10, 2020

In talking with top executives, it’s no surprise that one of the biggest challenges they are facing is transferring their well-established operating routines into an online/virtual format. The post Rethinking Your Management Approach and Your Team’s Operating Routine in Real-Time appeared first on Management Excellence by Art Petty.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 12, 2016

Our Value of Evaluating Business Operational Performance video describes how to calculate the financial benefit of having a business performance assessment program that enables you to identify the actions needed to make your organization’s performance rise above the rest. You just finished reading Value of Evaluating Business Operational Performance ! The post Value of Evaluating Business Operational Performance appeared first on StrategyDriven.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 5, 2019

Ryan Buell, associate professor at Harvard Business School, says the never-ending quest for operational efficiency is having unintended consequences. Buell believes organizations should deliberately design windows into and out of operations. He says increasing operational transparency helps customers and employees alike appreciate the value being created. Buell is the author of the HBR article “Operational Transparency.”

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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 21, 2013

I have written about DTC Operator before here and here. Innovation Tool: DTC Operator from Michael Cardus. DTC operator continues to be one of my favorites for working with teams that feel stuck or just cannot move out of their own way to explore the system and problem in a different way. Try DTC Operator out and let me know what happens. Plus I just gave a talk about Innovation Tools and made the PowerPoint below.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 8, 2012

Operational Risk Management. You must proactively manage and reduce operational risk, but it requires discipline. This SAP Executive Insight Paper answers the following questions: What to do to ensure operational continuity? How to give people the skills and tools necessary to ensure safe operations? How to manage operational risks while delivering return on investment? Click here for more information on Operational Risk Management.

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HR Digest

JUNE 27, 2019

Production Operator - Johns Manville - Plattsburgh, NY. The post Production Operator – Johns Manville – Plattsburgh, NY appeared first on The HR Digest. HR Jobs. Johns Manville is a leading manufacturer and marketer of premium-quality insulation and commercial roofing, along with glass fibers and nonwovens for. $16 16 - $20 an hour From Johns Manville - Thu, 27 Jun 2019 16:54:08 GMT - View all Plattsburgh, NY jobs.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Here are some good tips for leading a successful business operation from the handy booklet, 144 Ways To Walk The Talk , by Eric Harvey and Al Lucia : Involve your team in setting standards that are achievable but also require everyone to stretch their knowledge and skills.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

In fact, this ubiquitous field of science seems to now be having an impact on almost every industry, as intelligent entrepreneurs and business managers recognize the need to make data-based decisions while conducting everyday operations and setting long-term goals. With that said, here are five ways businesses can incorporate data science into their operations to enhance functionality and improve strategic planning.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 10, 2013

StrategyDriven is proud to announce the launch of a risk management resource forum; providing innovative thought leadership and collaboration opportunities to help leaders effectively address their most pressing operational risks. “To help clients combat these risks, StrategyDriven advisors, applying decades of nuclear and high-risk industrial operations experience, authored a library of operational risk management tools easily accessible from our online risk management forum.”

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Six Disciplines

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

According to the McKinsey article " Brilliant Strategy, But Can You Execute? ", there were two basic kinds of strategies: transformational and operational. A strategies is operational if the company face relatively low uncertainty and are mostly attempting to play the same old game better than the competition does. For the operational strategy, a company must focus doggedly on conventional measures like capacity utilization or throughput, and on such basics as customer service.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 8, 2017

Of course, having a small amount of safety stock is always sensible, but you should reduce this to the bare minimum if you want to run a really smooth operation. It doesn’t matter how organized and efficient your warehouse is, you are always going to experience errors in picking and packing now and again, and if you want your operation to be as smooth as it can be, monitoring your error rates can give you the insights you need to implement better strategies for error reduction.

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Dimension Time Cost Operator. Dimension Time Cost Operator (DTC) – A TRIZ tool for for seeing problems differently exploring ideas of extremes in size, time and cost. The DTC Operator can work to release Psychological Inertia. The DTC Operator Algorithm. creativity innovation problem solving creative problem solving DTC Operator TRIZ triz tools

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 10, 2014

Here are some good tips for leading a successful business operation from the handy booklet, 144 Ways To Walk The Talk, by Eric Harvey and Al Lucia: Involve your team in setting standards that are achievable but also require everyone to stretch their knowledge and skills.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 21, 2018

These kinds of statements speak to a leader’s choice of values, and a failure to understand the relationships between a safe work environment and operational performance. The reality is that virtually all workplace injuries are preventable, and safety management and operational excellence are intimately linked. Improved operational performance will result in fewer injuries. But many OSHA inspections lead to substantial improvements in a firm’s operations.

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Management Excellence

JULY 11, 2016

We've Moved! Update your Reader Now. This feed has moved to: [link] Update your reader now with this changed subscription address to get your latest updates from us. Art of Managing Leadership Business Revitalization Turning Around a Business Visionaries and Managers

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Could your company’s operational performance cause the next Black Swan tragedy? Before we answer the question of whether or not your company’s operations could cause a Black Swan event, I need you to consider your organization’s risk tolerance as we’ll be defining the Black Swan event in those terms. Does your company’s operations involve significant amounts of hazardous or potentially hazardous materials?

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