We usually wait until at least the first full week of January, usually the 2nd full week because so many people take vacations wrapping in the New Years Holiday.

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Based on your experience during your career with successful and unsuccessful supply chain transformations at scale, what were 3 key factors that contributed to having a positive transformation & 3 key factors that undermined it and led to the failure?

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JAMES RINKProgram Director, Interdisciplinary Professional Programs, University of Wisconsin-Madison in Education10 months ago

The ACT framework helps address this issue by emphasizing human oversight and continual monitoring to identify and address potential bias, errors, and unintended consequences. This means that organizations must establish ...read more

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How do you recover (mentally and physically) after returning from a conference or work travel? Do you set aside time to catch-up before you even first leave home? What advice do you have to make sure I am bringing all that I learned back?

JAMES RINKProgram Director, Interdisciplinary Professional Programs, University of Wisconsin-Madison in Educationa year ago

In terms of bringing back your knowledge I consider all of the sessions and speeches through the lens of my organization. Is this relevant, is this something I can use or just anecdotal given our maturity level in the topic?

I ...read more

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How do you track whether your "personal brand" is growing? What are some metrics or even anecdotal evidence that anything you're doing is working?

JAMES RINKProgram Director, Interdisciplinary Professional Programs, University of Wisconsin-Madison in Educationa year ago

To track the growth of your personal brand, you can rely on various ways to track depending on the strategies you employ:

If You Primarily Use Social Media:

Follower Growth: Observe an increase in social media ...read more

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Does your company have special initiatives for "World Mental Health Day"? What are they? Do you think they are effective?

JAMES RINKProgram Director, Interdisciplinary Professional Programs, University of Wisconsin-Madison in Educationa year ago

Yes, there were awareness creating communication and expert talk session organised.

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What activities do you do to measure the value of sending your team to training?

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JAMES RINKProgram Director, Interdisciplinary Professional Programs, University of Wisconsin-Madison in Educationa year ago

Depends on the training. Typically if it's technical training, there's a requirement to write an exam and getting certified, that value is easily measured.

If it's more like soft skills training or a conference, ...read more

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