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Harris Whitesell Consulting Team Building Team Development Five Behaviors

14 Critical Components Of Successful Team-Building Activities

The idea behind team-building exercises is to help employees become more in-tune with each other’s strengths and weaknesses. By sharing experiences, members of a team should be able to operate like a well-oiled machine, specifically under pressure. Sadly, many team-building exercises don’t work that well because the teams feel as though they’re just going through […]

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Harris Whitesell Consulting Forbes Agile Workforce

Agile Organizations: Seven Steps For Excellence

“Everything has changed, except our way of thinking.”-Albert Einstein In a utopian state, organizations are able to accelerate, optimize and maximize each employee’s experience. They assess each employee’s individual aptitudes, preferences, personality, talents and competencies. They hire and assign each employee to a job that is perfectly suited to them. They have each employee make

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Harris Whitesell Consulting Financing Your Business

Financing Your First Business? 16 Expert-Recommended Funding Tips

You have a great idea for your first business. The next step is financing it—but where and how do you get the money? Many of the members of Forbes Coaches Council have extensive experience working with entrepreneurs who are just getting their businesses off the ground. Click through to read their advice for first-time business owners

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Harris Whitesell Consulting Forbes Strategy

How To Optimize Long-Term Strategy To Maximize Success

Long-term planning is sometimes seen as a waste of time or ineffective. Leading businesses and industries make use of five- to 10-year strategic plans as a key resource for sustaining a company’s vision, market-share growth, brand equity, employee and product/service effectiveness, profitability, and stakeholder satisfaction. They understand that the true value of long-term planning lies

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Harris Whitesell Consulting Team

14 Key Considerations When Choosing The Right Team Incentives

Incentives are one of the best ways to keep employees motivated. It plays into the value-based concept of a business—if you bring added value to the company, then you can expect value invested back into you. Determining what incentives to offer to a team, however, requires dissecting the things that the group considers vital. It’s

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Harris Whitesell Consulting Stakeholders

Keep Your Stakeholders In The Loop With These 14 Communication Tips

Managing a business is not a solo project. As a leader, it’s your responsibility to inform all relevant internal and external parties about what’s going on in the company. To keep things running smoothly, it’s important for your stakeholders to have a clear picture of what’s going on at all times. If you’re struggling with

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Harris Whitesell Consulting Delegating

7 Tips For Delegating Better

You have way too much to do, you’re buried in work, and it seems there’s no way out from under it all. But there is: delegation. Yes, you know it’s important to do and you know it will save you time and help others develop new skills. So, why aren’t you delegating? Click through to

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Harris Whitesell Consulting Promotion

15 Clear Signs Your Employee Deserves A Promotion

When you’re managing a team of employees, you’re responsible for identifying and promoting talented leaders at the right time. Not every high-performing employee is cut out for a management position, so you’ll need to carefully evaluate whether a particular person is ready to move up—and whether current business needs align with that timing. There are

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Harris Whitesell Consulting Management

Promoted to Management: 15 Ways To Navigate Workplace Relationship Changes

Receiving a promotion is always a reassuring and exciting reward for your hard work. However, as an employee moving up to your first leadership position, you might struggle adjusting to your role in the workplace. A common concern is managing workers that once were at your level, and finding ways to earn their respect as

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