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Where’s your team playbook? Hmm?

Berkonomics

From experience and from information about the competition, a coach creates a playbook that contains detailed plans for actions or plays that the entire team must know without question and execute without pause in order to win games and advance toward the playoffs. Again, there is a great parallel in football coaching.

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Does your team know your playbook?

Berkonomics

From experience and from information about the competition, a coach creates a playbook that contains detailed plans for actions or plays that the entire team must know without question and execute without pause in order to win games and advance toward the playoffs. Again, there is a great parallel in football coaching.

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Will you BURN the next manager you hire?

Berkonomics

You may have been managing for years and need to hire that direct report to lessen your workload, setting up the same result. I urge them to coach, but not to expect the new manager to be a duplicate in style or perceived ability. The predictable result…. Then it happens.

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5 Ways To Optimize Team Satisfaction In The Workplace

Startup Professionals Musings

Develop metrics to monitor work intensity. These metrics are also the best way to gauge when your team needs more help, and identifying strong and weak contributors. Some team members feel they have to perform or show off by talking excessively in meetings, always staying late at work, or over-reporting to you on their every move.

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Technology Roles in Startups

SoCal CTO

Forms Augmenting the team can take various forms: Consulting – defining how to attack particular issues, possibly directly planning Coaching – advising on how to approach particular issues Manage – lead members Execute – take on specific activities Again, this is fairly fuzzy, but it comes down to having mutual expectations.

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8 Initiatives To Make Your Customers Loyal Advocates

Startup Professionals Musings

In case you don’t understand the urgency, just be aware that according to a recent Forrester report , nearly 95 percent of your competitors are saying that providing a good customer experience is their top strategic priority. It must be written down, with measurable team objectives, validated by metrics and compared against competition.

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Launchpad LA Receives VC Funding: $50,000 Per Startup

Both Sides of the Table

Report Card. But the most important metric has been the deep and lasting relationships that have been built with startups and also between senior executives. Sometrics – Acquired by American Express for a reported $30m after being funded by Greycroft Ventures & Steamboat. How has Launchpad LA done?