In my ProVisors ODAM (Ontario-hosted Distributors and Manufacturers group – don’t you love the play on words?) meeting this month, we discussed business best practices we’ve seen with our manufacturing and distribution clients.
Are you thinking about apprenticeships? It doesn't have to be as dramatic as an untimely death; there are many reasons you should be thinking many years down-the-line with your apprenticeship programs.
Empowering your teams can lead to improved customer service and business success. These strategies will help foster empowerment.
A disengaged workforce can cost you in productivity, profitability and lost customers. Engaging employees can be as simple as listening, giving feedback and removing obstacles to success.
Motivating and engaging a project team is almost exactly the same as motivating and engaging employees. People want to be treated well, informed and appreciated
Turn your employee performance assessment around by focusing on how to support and motivate your high performers rather that slow progress by trying to bring non-performers up-to-speed.
What are you doing to make your employees, peers, managers, trusted advisors and the like feel important?
The great news about open door policies is that it is easy to implement in a week, let alone 2 minutes. Just open your door.
As project managers, the 80/20 of success is in leading, coordinating and facilitating among people.
SAP CEO Bill McDermott talked much more than just about data. One of his most compelling stories related to turning around Xerox's lowest performing division and ending the year as #1. Who says success isn't derived from leadership has his/her head buried in the sand. The keys Bill described [...]
