With July 4th coming up, I started thinking about this topic of Independence and as it usually goes, several items of interest came to my attention that made me think of this topic, declaring your independence from independence to interdependence.
Continue reading Declare Your Independence from Independence – Special Episode
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The summer chill continues with this replay of my interview with Kathryn Wagner. At the time of the interview, she was a new employee at Zingerman’s Coffee Company.
Enjoy and I hope your summer is chill. Continue reading Kathryn Wagner – A Millennial’s Perspective of Zingerman’s – Ep 76
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Building a company that inspires and is engaging needs to start with intentional hiring. Listen to this webinar replay by the team at ZingTrain where they talk through their processes for hiring the right people.
Read more… Continue reading Hire the Right People ZingTrain Webinar Replay
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The Zingerman’s community of businesses as discussed in Deep Dive 15 are led by Managing Partners (Owners) as discussed in Deep Dive 16. These Managing Partners come together at various times and will make decisions that affect the entire community of businesses. When a decision is to be made they make these by unanimous consensus. All employees are allowed to attend these meetings.
Back in September of 2014 they introduced the program to included 3 staff members in the Zingerman’s Partner Group Consensus. This is a big deal to give the employees more of a voice and to offer a different perspective to the group.
This webinar replay will get into the details of why they made the decision and how it will work. Continue reading Giving Your Employees More of a Voice – ZingTrain Deep Dive 17
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In the previous Deep Dive, we discussed the concept of creating a process for your employees to create businesses within your ecosystem of businesses. In order to do that at Zingerman’s, they wanted those employees to become business partners.
In this episode, we learn about that Path to Partnership. Continue reading Path to Partnership for Your Employees – ZingTrain’s Deep Dive 16
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