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Integrating Customers, Culture and Capability
Learning executives are often faced with CEOs asking, “Now that we have defined the strategy, how will we execute?” How do we bring business strategy to life and yield outstanding business results? As Peter Senge stated, “Many leaders have personal vision
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ServiceMaster: Communication Fuels Six Sigma Results
The ServiceMaster Company provides various services to residential and commercial customers in the United States, where it serves 10.5 million homes and businesses each year. Core service capabilities include lawn care and landscape maintenance, termite a
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Communications Training: Making Six Sigma Work
What could be missing from your Six Sigma training strategy? Chances are you’ve missed one of the most critical success factors for any quality or productivity initiative: communication skills training. Six Sigma, like ISO 9000 and total quality managemen
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City of Naperville: Building Teams Through Accountable Learning
In December 2003, the City of Naperville, a Chicago suburb with a population of nearly 140,000, was named by Money Magazine as the most desirable place to live in the central United States, among cities with populations greater than 100,000. Approximately
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Analytics: The CLO’s Case in the CEO’s Language
One measures, of course, to impact decision-making. The purpose of any measurement is to provide meaningful, objective and accurate information to facilitate that decision-making. The context and type of decision drives the measurement effort. This is why
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Courage Is Caged in the Workplace
Breakdowns and disruptions that hinder an organization’s advancement rarely have to do with unskilled employees or employees missing �hard skills.� Why? Most people are hired based on their technical, theoretical and strategic hard skills. During the
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Capturing the Intellectual Capital of Baby-Boomers
The number of baby-boomers reaching retirement age is staggering. Currently, 32.8 million Americans are between 55 and 69 years old, and this number will increase to 39.7 million by 2005. With the largest-growing segment of the American workforce being th
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Why Does Learning Matter?
Today, executive management understands that organizational learning enables organizational performance. It enables agility, change and growth. Because it is the centerpiece of the strategy to recruit, retain and leverage the most talented people, learnin