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Three Ways the D-MAPP™ Program Can Help Your Organization Survive and Thrive in a Challenging Environment

Uncertainty and challenges can arise at any minute, so businesses need to prioritize diagnosing and fixing underperformance—because while underperformance hurts in good economic times, it’s absolutely devastating during a downturn. Survival—and the potential to thrive...

5 Keys to Sustainable Performance Improvement

Outperform competitors, outperform yourself Too many companies struggle to achieve high levels of performance. Many more struggle to sustain them. While they set organizational goals or attempt to implement new processes or initiatives that improve their...

The Affordable Way to Boost Productivity in Your Business That Nestlé Uses to Remain a Market Leader

Eliminating hidden waste is a cost-effective way to step up productivity. Examples of waste that go undetected include poor utilization of resources. Labor and equipment workarounds that require extra effort no one has time to fix. Excessive material handling. The...

These Least Likely Suspects Could Be Restricting Your Profitability From Innovation

Effective innovation will help you improve products and find more efficient ways to produce them. It fuels discoveries. All of which give you a competitive advantage and higher profitability. The innovation award winners in this study saw a 32% increase in return on...

Safety and High-Performance Work Teams

Imagine you are in a lab. You have an unmarked bottle of chemicals you know are harmless, so you set the bottle down on a table, intending to get back to it later. Before you can, a co-worker stumbles onto the unmarked bottle. How will they know what to do? You know...

Strategic Alignment: What Is It and What Does It Mean?

When a car’s tire alignment is off, the vehicle may pull to one side or experience uneven tire wear. Bumpy roads, pot holes, or even hitting a curb can affect your car’s alignment, and a car with alignment issues won’t drive as well. Alignment enables peak...

How Happy Are You In Your Job?

In the daily grind and constant pressure to get your work done, you may not have taken a step back to examine your overall satisfaction with your job, your department and your company. So, here’s a quiz to help you make that assessment. Please mark the answer that...

Need Savings? … Don’t Just Cut Costs

It’s an all-too familiar scenario: Company leaders, alarmed at a sudden decrease in profits, issue a decree to curb business trips, count paper clips, or trim headcounts. They’re clearly thinking that the quickest way to boost profits is to cut costs. But, they’re...

Dumb Data? Why So Many Organizations Fail to Get Results

Let’s face it. For all of our talk about the importance of data, we’re still “data dumb,” meaning we collect the wrong data, let our data collect dust, or fail to interpret it correctly. Many companies gather data only to share it with a few people instead of using it...

South Florida Manufacturer Paves Road to Sustainable Growth

The story of how SurfaceLogix became a high performance work team SurfaceLogix, a Pompano Beach-based manufacturer and distributor of concrete brick paver sealers, stains, and coatings, was a small South Florida business when John Daly took over for his father in...

Communications Infrastructure: Why Accountability Matters

How is inadequate communication affecting your company? There are many elements that are necessary in order for an organization to elevate themselves to world-class status. Among them, building an effective infrastructure for communication is key. Without a set...

Create Your Own Dream Team: How to Win With the Hand You’re Dealt

The secret to your success—transforming your workers into winners Have you ever envisioned your dream team? Fantasized about having super-powered employees who always knock it out of the park when it comes to productivity, achieving goals and exceeding quotas? If so,...