Research that was conducted not too long ago by Springboard for Business found that 70% of business executives feel that their organizations are experiencing difficulties with employee skill gaps being an obstacle to company performance. This research, which is titled “State of the Workforce Skills Gap,” sheds light on an important problem that is hurting sectors all over the world.

Navigate quality monitoring software implementation with best practices and strategic insights, ensuring successful adoption and utilization across the organization. Set clear objectives, engage the team, and manage customer service with ease.

You would be hard-pressed to find a team leader today who acknowledges being a micromanager. But they’re out there and doing untold damage to morale, productivity and profit potential. Micromanagement’s most immediate impact is on employee engagement levels. Feeling controlled, undervalued and unable to make decisions, employees withdraw or leave altogether. But the influence goes far beyond disgruntled employees.

What does a business need? What is the expectation of a CEO? These are simple questions that come to the mind of business owners every day and one of the simplest answers to this is all they want is to enhance productivity and streamline their operations.

What are you assuming right this second? Lots of things! At a minimum: We all make assumptions about the world around us — it’s a part of navigating a complex and sometimes chaotic world. What good would we be in everyday life if we constantly doubted that gravity would hold us down, that electricity would keep working, and so on? We do the same thing in projects: we make certain project assumptions so we can focus on the less certain stuff between those assumptions.

Modern companies generate a mind-boggling amount of data but only use a fraction. It’s estimated that by 2025, we will produce, consume, share, and store over 180 zettabytes of data. That’s 180 trillion gigabytes zooming around the information highway. And yet, 44% of employees can’t find the data they need to do their job. They waste 36% of their day looking for and consolidating information scattered between 4-11 platforms.