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How to Run your Daily Scrum as a Tight Ship

October 25, 2022 by Rachael
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Runaway Daily Scrum meetings are no fun! Learn helpful tips to run your Scrum as a tight ship – your Scrum Team will thank you!

Categories Agile, Daily Scrum, Retrospectives, Scrum, Scrum Master, Scrum Team, Sprint Backlog, Sprints

5 Bonus Tips to Retain your Very Best Employees

March 7, 2022February 24, 2022 by Rachael
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Here are five more bonus tips for retaining your very best employees; they’re a few more things you can do to keep your best employees around.

Categories Communication, Employment, Leadership, Management, Resources 4 Comments

10 Tips for Successfully Onboarding New Employees

February 10, 2022 by Rachael
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After hiring a new employee, it’s crucial to welcome and give them a top-notch onboarding experience, setting them up for success from day 1.

Categories Communication, Employment, General, Leadership, Management

Top 10 Tips for Hiring New Employees

February 8, 2022 by Rachael
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Once you have attracted, recruited, and interviewed candidates for employment, the next step is to make a job offer. Read my top ten tips!

Categories Employment, General, Leadership

Top 10 Tips for Interviewing Potential New Employees

April 5, 2022February 3, 2022 by Rachael
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Stage three of the Employee Life Cycle involves interviewing the potential new employee. See my top 10 interviewing tips (plus 5 bonus tips)!

Categories Communication, Employment, General, Leadership

Proctored online tests? – Here are my Top 10 Tips!

January 18, 2022 by Rachael
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When you sign up to take an online proctored test, it’s different from taking the same exam at a testing center. Here are my top ten tips!

Categories Agile, Business Analysis, Certifications, Certifications, Project Management

Debate #11 – Can Agile work with offshore / distributed teams?

February 1, 2022February 22, 2021 by Rachael
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So, can Agile work remotely? Just because your team is distributed or remote doesn’t mean that you can’t be successful. Learn how.

Categories Agile, Communication, Scrum
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