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4 Reasons Why Professional Weeds impede Client Outcomes

July 25, 2018 by Babette Ten Haken Leave a Comment

If you let them, professional weeds stifle the quality of workplace productivity and client outcomes. This year, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the climate is absolutely perfect for growing gargantuan weeds! I am talking about nettles which start out small and grow 4-5 feet tall over a two week time period. You read that right, friends…. [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Professional Development Tagged With: client outcomes, clients, colleagues, customer experience, engineering, Industry 4.0, IoT, IT, productivity, professional weeds, quality, sales, workplace, workplace disruption, worktrends

What to do when a Small Business Leader is a Productivity Impeder

April 11, 2018 by Babette Ten Haken Leave a Comment

My client, a small business leader, consistently wrestled with inconsistent execution of strategy. Over time, this inconsistency cost him business. And he no longer could afford to overlook the issue. As a small business leader in the manufacturing space, he employed less than 20 people on his team. Consequently, each team member wore wear many… [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Customer Experience, Success, Loyalty, Retention, Professional Development Tagged With: leadership, management, productivity, small business, social media, strategy, workplace

Why chasing Busy Work impedes pursuing Solid Business Opportunities

April 2, 2018 by Babette Ten Haken Leave a Comment

Busy work gives the false illusion of excitement! And who does not love excitement? You have an overture from a new client who seems ready to sign a contract. Or, your engineering contact seems ready to accept even the most edgy design solution you have to offer. Then again, you are targeting marketing, selling or… [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Customer Experience, Success, Loyalty, Retention, Professional Development Tagged With: business development, business opportunities, business strategy, collaboration, customer acquisition, customer experience, customer retention, Industry 4.0 human capital strategy, productivity, profitability, STEM Professional Development, STEM STorytelling keynote speaker

How to Move People Past an ‘Us Versus Them’ Workplace Mindset

March 5, 2018 by Babette Ten Haken Leave a Comment

The “us versus them” mindset is alive and well in organizations of all sizes, both domestic and global. Often, this type of mindset and bias results from command-and-control leadership and legacy business models, according to the recently-published 2017 Gallup Global Workforce Study (opt-in required). Among other findings, the study reinforces that only one in three… [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Collaboration And Convergence, Human Capital & Industrial IoT Workforce, Professional Development Tagged With: collaboration, diversity and inclusion, HR, human capital strategy, management, productivity, profitability, STEM Professional Development, STEM storytelling, TalentCulture, Us versus Them mindset

Hassle Factors impede team productivity – 6 tips

December 21, 2015 by Babette Ten Haken Leave a Comment

Hassle Factors impede your team’s productivity and profitability. Hassle factors include all of the elephants in the room, 800-lb gorillas and cans of worms that you and your team wrestle with each day. Hassle factors are cultural and procedural. They are found in your own company and your customers’ companies. How does your team ever… [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Collaboration And Convergence, Customer Experience, Success, Loyalty, Retention, Human Capital & Industrial IoT Workforce, Professional Development Tagged With: billable hours, hassle factors, productivity, profitability, team

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