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Difficult Employees
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Excerpt from A-CHIEVE! (July 2011)
Coach’s Corner – Responding to the most Frequently Asked Questions posed by our A-CHIEVE! publication readership…
QUESTION: What is the best way to deal with a difficult employee?
RESPONSE: Oftentimes the leader asking the question is hoping for a simple “terminate the person” reply. The reality is that termination is not necessarily the right solution at that particular point in time for several reasons. As we probe further, we oftentimes discover one or more of the following conditions:
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Ready for Hyperspecialization?
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Excerpt from A-CHIEVE! (July 2011)
When we first read Harvard Business Review’s “The Big Idea: The Age of Hyperspecialization”, the graphic that came to mind was a knowledge worker assembly line – very similar to a manufacturing industry’s production assembly line, but with workers contributing a very narrow slice of intellectual capital (or narrowly defined skill set) based on each person’s area of expertise. For those of you who may not be familiar with the term ‘hyperspecialization’, it is defined as extreme specialization. What exactly does that mean?
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Why ShareVis?
Posted by: |What is ShareVis?
ShareVis is a user friendly point-and-click solution that sits on top of (and integrates with) SharePoint for organizations who are serious about operating Faster, Better, Smarter, Cheaper.
Why ShareVis?
| IT’S FASTER… |
- Automate your most complex business processes in hours vs. weeks and months
- Define successful repeatable steps that deliver consistent positive outcomes vs. reinventing each and every time and hoping for the best
- Provide easy access to forms and documents that everyone can leverage vs. wasting time searching for and/or recreating documents
| IT’S BETTER… |
- Create pipeline transparency for high-value processes vs. operating in ‘a black hole’ (as an example, it’s a great project pipeline intake, management and delivery solution)
- Establish and measure against targeted outcomes and clear accountabilities vs. manage against subjective, evasive and nebulous expectations
- Optimize your existing SharePoint investment in a value-add, cost-effective, goal-attainment way vs. sinking more programming code dollars into a hard-to-use base product
| IT’S SMARTER… |
- Manage ‘by exception’ through automated alerts and dashboarding vs. trying to manage everything through information overload
- Become self sufficient where business/non technical people can easily create workflows, dashboards, alerts, forms and document management and collaboration communities
- Increase IT”s value proposition by offering a high impact, easy-to-use business solution that is not IT programming dependent
| IT’S CHEAPER… |
- Significantly reduce your future SharePoint development costs (low/no code)
- Reduce your programming rework expenses as you upgrade to future SharePoint versions
- Take advantage of ShareVis’ ’licensed per server’ vs. ‘licensed per user’ model
Why aren’t more consulting companies advertising ShareVis?
Many consulting/contracting companies are not pushing ShareVis like we are because ShareVis significantly lessens an organization’s reliance on SharePoint developers – which is the ‘bread and butter’ for many consulting/contracting companies. We’re introducing our clients to this product because our goal is to provide our clients with faster, better, cheaper, smarter solutions that materially accelerate business goal attainment. At the conclusion of virtual or on-site ShareVis Training (which we offer), the Business and IT can be 100% productive in ShareVis/SharePoint Day 1. Eric Hutchinson, our SharePoint/ShareVis expert plus certified trainer, is credited with many accomplishments including his recent SharePoint-as-a-business-solution/ShareVis Training roll-out to Kaiser Permanente’s 13 regions/2,600 users.
Who uses ShareVis?
ShareVis’ client list includes American Airlines, Lockheed Martin, Heinz, Sony, Pfizer, US Bank, Fujifilm, The Library of Congress, United States Special Operations Command, Edwards Airforce Base, Elgin Airforce Base plus many more large, mid size plus small businesses across a variety of industries.
Want to learn more about ShareVis?
Please contact us if you’d like to schedule a ShareVis demo plus allow us the opportunity to automate one of your complex business processes so you can experience ShareVis’ easy-to-use and quick-to-implement feature-rich capabilities. Contact us at 440.248.7488.
