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  • Empower Your People to Become Leaders When They’re Not

    • May 15, 2024
    • Posted by: David Marshall
    • Category: Business, Management
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    Empower your people to act as leaders even when they're not. Let them make their own decisions and come up with their own ideas.

    I think I’m going to upset a lot of people with this one, so let’s see what happens. One way to empower your people to become leaders when they’re not managers is to eliminate the concept of DEI. Before I get a lot of hate mail, hear me out on this. I don’t mean that

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  • How Can You Solve a Worker Shortage Right Now?

    • July 28, 2021
    • Posted by: David Marshall
    • Category: Business, Management, Manufacturing
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    A metal worker working on a hydraulic press. If you cross-train your employees, you can avoid a worker shortage

    There are worker shortages right now in all kinds of industries, from the restaurant industry to office workers to manufacturing. There are a variety of causes, like the fact that we’re paying people more not to work than what they were being paid to work. Or that some people don’t want to return to the

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  • The Importance of Cross-training and Succession Planning in the Days of COVID

    • May 5, 2021
    • Posted by: David Marshall
    • Category: Leadership, Management
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    Two workers discussing a building that's being built. It's an illustration for cross-training workers to create positive redundancies in the factory.

    When companies are running short of employees and can’t find people to fill the vacancies they do have, they run into all kinds of problems. In the everyday world, we can see it in fast food restaurants that can’t find enough people to fill their openings. They’re closing their stores an extra day per week

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