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Trion Solutions: The First 10 Things I’d Review After Becoming Head of a Growing Company
If I became responsible for a growing company tomorrow, I wouldn’t spend my first week rewriting every workplace policy. I wouldn’t immediately replace existing processes either. First, I’d want to understand how the organization actually operates. There’s usually a difference between the process leadership thinks exists and the process managers use every day. That’s where…
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Trion Solutions: Why Moving One Team to Another State Created a Much Bigger Project Than Expected
We didn’t open a new office. We didn’t acquire another company. We didn’t launch a new division. A small team simply started working permanently from another state. At first, it sounded like an operational detail. The employees could do their jobs remotely, their managers stayed the same, and the team itself wasn’t changing. Then we…
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Trion Solutions: What I Learned From Auditing 20 Personnel Files at Random
I didn’t start with our oldest records. I didn’t choose the employees who had complicated histories. I didn’t ask managers which files they thought might have problems. I picked 20 personnel files at random. The idea was simple: If our process works consistently, a random sample should look reasonably consistent too. What I found taught…
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Trion Solutions: We Had Three Versions of the Same Workplace Policy — Here’s How That Happened
We didn’t discover the problem during an HR review. We discovered it when someone asked a simple question. The answer should have taken thirty seconds. Instead, one manager pulled up a document from a shared folder. Another manager forwarded a newer version from an email. Then someone found a handbook containing different language altogether. We…
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Trion Solutions: The Monday Morning After We Acquired Another Company
Acquiring another company sounds like a finance and strategy project. Before the deal closes, most conversations naturally revolve around valuation, customers, contracts, leadership, and whether the combination makes business sense. Then Monday morning arrives. Now there are two groups of people working under one organization — and they may have completely different ideas about how…