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12 Easy Ways to Improve Workplace Teamwork
By: Damon Leiataua Being part of a great team at work is a great feeling. You know that feeling? When your team is ‘in the zone’? It’s a sweet set of emotions – excited, challenged, safe, successful. You’re excited to get out of bed in the morning and energized throughout the day. For me –…
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Maximizing Team Cohesiveness: The 5 Stages of Team Development You Need to Know
By: Javier Camarillo We’ve all experienced being part of a team as early as during our academic school years. We’re assigned to a team for a class project. Someone in the group will eventually take charge while another student might challenge their authority. Then you have one or two slackers who don’t do anything. As…
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Great Leaders Know Their People: How Understanding Leadership and Individual Personalities Builds Stronger Teams
By: Chase Harris When you think of great leadership, you may envision someone like Winston Churchill uplifting a country during a war or Jeff Bezos making Amazon the world’s largest online retailer. These leaders had vision, charisma, and innovation, but their success was not a one-man show. What sets apart a good leader from a…
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The History of Management: Why It Still Matters Today
By: Alexis Penaloza When we think about management today, we usually picture managers running meetings, checking emails, and setting deadlines. Management did not always look like this. In fact, the way companies are managed today comes from over a hundred years of trial and error. People have been figuring out the best ways to manage work and employees…
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The Motivational and Powerful Journey of Planning and Business Mission
By: Cristin Hernandez Before beginning this blog, I went back to my Chapter 3 module in canvas for more knowledge on the basics of business planning and the importance of the mission within it. What I gathered is that you have to have a clear plan in this dynamic business world where opportunities meet daily challenges. In order to…
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The Impact of Environmental Factors on Strategic Management Decision Making
By: Maryam Zamani What are some of Strategic Management’s responsibilities? Imagine you have the Strategic Management role in a company. Since business industry continuously evolves and changes, Strategic Management must face many internal and external challenges and opportunities. Strategic Management is one of the backbone roles in any growing and successful business and is needed to make…
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8 Hacks to Get the Best Out of Your Workers!
By: Daniel Wideman Did you know that highly motivated employees can lead to a 20% or more improvement in performance? With some companies seeing a 21% increase in profits due to a motivated workforce. Doesn’t that sound amazing? In this blog you will find a guide on how to transform your management team into motivational,…
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Simple Steps for Boosting Motivation
By: Larry Castro How often have you finally had a chance to look up from your desk only to realize that you’re still at work and its almost 8pm? You look around and think to yourself, where did the day go? You got up early, arrived at work on time, went through the hundreds of emails that…