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Team Building That Works
By Tony Alessandra, PhD
Ever wondered why so many of the teams you have experienced seem to do everything but work? It has everything to do with how a team is built. Unfortunately the activity of assembling a team usually looks more like this. “Round up the usual suspects,” the gendarme ordered in [...]
Participative Management Design Improves a Multi-Production Facility
The Situation
QuietFlex Manufacturing had a problem. Production and self-confidence needed to be enhanced, and one sector was in conflict between themselves and with the business managment. Meetings were disintegrating into arguments over emotional issues, rather than yielding constructive discussions toward solving production problems and improving the workplace. Workers tended [...]
You would have had to have been on another planet not to know what a state the business world is in. Costs have increased, competition is ruthless and customers have stopped buying. Many businesses have been looking to cut their overheads and stop any activities that are not strictly necessary.Staff expenses have been slashed in [...]
