WORKING SMARTER: Get Everyone Focused on the Goal

Patti Welsh and Laura Esker of North Branch Nursery, along with Jim Paluch of JP Horizons, discuss how the Working Smarter Training Challenge has helped North Branch stimulate a game-changing mindset shift among its 50-plus employees.

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Gregg Wartgow
Aug 18, 2010

Patti Welsh and Laura Esker of North Branch Nursery, along with Jim Paluch of JP Horizons, discuss how the Working Smarter Training Challenge has helped North Branch stimulate a game-changing mindset shift among its 50-plus employees – a shift that has pulled everyone in the company closer together, working toward the same goal.


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