In the quest for machine productivity and efficiency, what can get lost is how well you are doing at completing projects. After all, we can’t invoice the project until it is shipped or in the mail. We see company KPIs with all types of metrics on speeds and feeds and...
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Grow Your Sales by Leveraging Your CSR Team
Companies are reporting record year over year sales increases for the most recent year. We’ve seen many that have recorded increases greater than 20% from the prior year. Congratulations to them all. Yet these same companies are frustrated with the overall composition...
Become the Leader Your Company Deserves: Part 2
Coming into a new year with the tailwinds of success at your back, you’re feeling pretty good about the business. And you should. What you should also do is not take anything for granted. When runners coast across the finish line, that’s when they are apt to roll an...
Company Goals Can Create a Sense of Urgency and Focus
Just as a ship relies on a compass and navigation tools to get from here to there, a business needs those same tools. A business relies on the goals to get from the current state to their future state – getting from here to there. Once the goals are established, the...
Change the Tempo of Your Business by Empowering Your Managers
Finding ways to help your managers be more effective can drive multi-level results for your business. Business leaders are always searching for ways to improve their reliability, dependability, and trust in all they do with their customers. One way to do this is to...
Keep Your Employees Engaged
Jim was the general manager of a large printing company. I worked there early in my career as a customer service rep along with 10 other CSRs. The work we did was all critical color and ran on sheetfed and heat set web offset presses. Jim was a big guy and had hands...