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Everyone Is Talking About the Future of Work. Here Are 4 Ways to Take Your Company Into the Future Now.
Forty-seven percent of U.S. jobs are at risk of being automated within the next 20 years, according to researchers at Oxford University. Their studies suggest that the most valuable employees in the future will not be the ones with years of...
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5 Ways to Prepare Your Business for the Future of Work
The workplace of the 20th century is no more. In my view, its remnants of menial labor and tasks completed by hand are soon to simply a vestigial tail of a bygone era. The future of work lies in the digital world. One major indicator: Amazon...
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4 Must-Know Strategies for Selling Efficiently to Distributors
So, you’ve created a great product and you’re ready to scale. Whether you’re looking to land distribution with retailers or ambassadors, there’s one common need: to make sure who you’re selling to understands the incredible business...
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How to Make Meetings More Meaningful
The average business’s workforce spends 15 percent of its time in meetings. This figure has increased year on year since 2008, and senior executives lose two days to meetings every week. Worst of all: Unproductive meetings cost U.S. companies an...
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6 Types of Management – Find Out What Kind of Manager You Are
There are many types of management. Without self-reflection from time to time, it’s very easy to fall into the trap of thinking you are a great manager with very few areas to improve. You may think that your team is motivated and working at...
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The Growing Business Of Custom Products
Custom products, or personalized products, have been around in the industry for quite some time already. Thanks to the advancements in modern technology, the process of customizing different products are now made more convenient and...
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How to Establish a Social Media Marketing Content Strategy That Actually Works
Have you successfully established a social media marketing content strategy for your business? Why do you need a social media marketing content strategy? Every successful digital marketer needs a sustainable marketing plan...
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If Women Don’t Apply to Your Company, This Is Probably Why
“I’d love to hire more women, but when I post a job, they don’t apply. They’re not interested.” “There just aren’t enough qualified women to do the job.” At the Stanford VMware Women’s Leadership Lab, where we work...
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What Is Strategy, Again?
If you read what Peter Drucker had to say about competition back in the late ’50s and early ‘60s, he really only talked about one thing: competition on price. He was hardly alone — that was evidently how most economists thought about...
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How to Focus on What’s Important, Not Just What’s Urgent
Do you get to the end of the day and feel that you’ve met your most pressing deadlines but haven’t accomplished anything that’s fundamentally important? You’re hardly alone. In a series of studies recently published in...
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eLearning Models of Engagement that Benefit Training Teams
The goal of an online training programme is never “to complete this course with 100% participation”. Sure, that might be an essential demand on the organisation, but the purpose of the training isn’t just to get to the end. It’s to...
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Best Practices for Performance Appraisals
When it comes to performance reviews, in recent years it has become obvious that there really isn’t much to enjoy about the process. An hour-long conversation is surrounded by hours of admin for manager and employee. HR teams produce and track...
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5 Things to Help You Stand Out in a Competitive Job Market
Talent could be one of the biggest areas of competition for small and midsize businesses right now. After 10 years of economic expansion, the labor force is simply tapped out. And yet, more than half of CEOs (56 percent) still...
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3 Macro Trends Shaping Business Practices in 2019 and Beyond
A generation ago, CEOs and executives planned an organization's entire roadmap. Sensitive data were stored in file cabinets and vulnerable servers. Lifelong employees calculated nest eggs that were tucked away in...
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Want Your Team to Be More Curious? Ask Guided Questions in Your Next Meeting to Spark Ideas
Innovation, empathy, and engagement begin with curiosity. In a world where we're constantly deluged with new information, it's guaranteed that every time you meet with other people, they have information you don't. Meetings are the perfect...
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Help Your Team Take Control of Their Career Paths With These 4 Career Development Opportunities
When I ask people what they want to do with their career, many can't really answer the question. It's not necessarily a bad thing to be undecided about what path you want to take, but it's indicative of a recent change in the way we think...
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Ready to Transform Your Business With Technology? 5 Challenges to Overcome
Technology, the change agent of our generation, is transforming the business landscape by enabling small and midsize businesses to streamline processes, improve productivity and get ahead of competitors. In a recent study conducted by SMB...
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Why Business Ethics are a Vital Part of a Happy Work Place
“I got an offer I couldn’t turn down!” We all have heard this cliche line from a departing employee about their reason for leaving. But there is always more to the story than just accepting an irresistible offer. Maybe the employee was not...
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How To Motivate Employees To Work For You?
The motivation of employees is directly related to workplace productivity. To keep your company thriving and alive, you have to pay attention to the performance of workers. If everything is going well, you may not think about it. In the opposite...
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6 Ways to Attract and Retain a Dynamic Millennial Team
Millennials are poised to drive the future of business. The 53.5 million-strong millennial workforce has risen rapidly and surpassed Generation X to represent the largest share of the American workforce. Millennials offer truly unique skills...
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How to Make Your Best Employees Stay at Your Company
Q: My entry-level employees keep getting poached. We’re on a tight budget -- is the only way to retain talent by paying higher salaries? -- Jessica M., Philadelphia Jessica, we feel your pain. We had a similar situation at one of our...
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How Artificial Intelligence Can Automate Sales Process and Give Rise to New Opportunities
One of the most important gifts that technology can bestow on a knowledge worker is to help increase his productivity for good. Peter Drucker (renowned educator, author, and consultant), deems the increase in productivity as one of the biggest...
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Why Do Marketers Need To Study Data Science?
Marketers always need to post unique, relevant, and engaging content in order to attract customers. Data science can help marketers pull data that will help them craft the best content for every customer. Data science has the ability to...
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Giving Better Feedback & Improving Conversations to Scale Cultural Change
Client Profile and Challenge If the University of Notre Dame’s performance review process had been an employee, it would have gotten a poor evaluation. Leaders in Human Resources had implemented performance evaluation software to reduce...
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This Checklist Gives Managers 4 Ways to Develop Their People
Whether Attracting or Retaining Talent, Managers Hold the Reins Attracting, developing, and retaining talent isn’t an “HR job.” You, the manager, have a front-and-center role in making sure you have the right people doing the right work and...
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3 Ways to Increase Buy-in from High-Potential Talent
Discussions of talent management frequently overlook the perspectives of high-potential talent. Management often misses the chance to better understand what the organization’s top talent says it needs. Talent management represents an...
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Don’t Confuse High Potentials with High Professionals
Take a Fresh Look at Your Approach to Top Talent High-potential talent is rare and valuable. These emerging leaders and thinkers are the change-makers and problem-solvers that your business and customers desperately need....
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10 People Who Will Destroy Your Business
If you want to build a great business, you have to be very deliberate about whom you let into it. Emotions and behaviors may circulate through social networks in patterns similar to what’s seen in epidemiological models of the flu virus. Every...
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How Can Brick and Mortar Stores Compete with Online Retailers?
Can a small, brick-and-mortar store ever hope to compete with online retailers—specifically, with Amazon? Apparently yes: Nearly 86% of retail sales still happen in physical stores, Internet Retailer reports. How Can Brick and Mortar Stores...
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Large Client Bankruptcy: 13 Ways Small Businesses Can Protect Themselves
Landing a large client is a major moment for a small business, one that calls for celebration. But later on, if that large client finds itself in financial troubles, problems may arise for all of its associates. As such, a small business that puts...
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10 Best Practices for Managing Your Email
Q: I spend so much time responding to emails that I lose productivity in other areas. How can I become more efficient when it comes to managing my inbox? A: Emails are clearly a major part of our personal and professional lives today, and yet...
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61% of Your Customers May Hate Your IVR
The concept of Interactive Voice Response (IVR) was first introduced in 1962. And since that time, it has evolved with new innovations. But new research from Vonage reveals 61% of consumers think IVRs make for a poor experience. This...
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4 Steps to Grow Your Agency to 7 Figures
So, you’ve started your agency and things are going well. You’ve brought on a few clients, perfected your service or services, and maybe you’re preparing to make your first hire. Now, you want to focus on scaling to seven figures and beyond....
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Small Business Cost Cutting Secrets Revealed
With recession fears increasing day by day, it won’t be long before companies start looking for new ways to save money. Economic downturns can be make-or-break situations for plenty of businesses. And, costs are a big factor in who makes it...
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The 4 Golden Rules of Millionaire Time Management
There’s really only one life hack you need to sit up and pay attention to when building your business: time management. It’s a ridiculously vital skill, yet many of us are guilty of falling behind. I think entrepreneurs are easy to label...
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13 Ways to Help Overworked Team Members Decompress
No matter how passionate or hardworking your team is, there will come a time when some (or many) of them will start to burn out. It can be difficult to reverse this burnout and morale dip once your staff has hit this point, so it’s...
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4 Trends in Sales Tech That Will Determine Success in 2020
Everyone wants to sell more, but not everyone does succeeds. With so many new sales tools flooding the market, growing companies struggle to distinguish the genuinely helpful from the borderline useless. No company has unlimited time...
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How to Create a Confidentiality Agreement Form
Your business should have a ready-to-use confidentiality agreement form to protect you from having confidential information stolen by anyone you do business with. What is a Confidentiality Agreement? A confidentiality...
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Become a Better Leader By Helping Your Team Manage Stress
Workplace stress is an epidemic, and unfortunately, high levels of stress not only harm employee health, but they also harm your business. In many cases, stress is short-lived and lasts only as long as the stress-inducing project or event. This is...
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Put Purpose at the Core of Your Strategy
by Thomas W. Malnight, Ivy Buche and Charles Dhanaraj ight years ago we launched a global study of high growth in companies, investigating the importance of three strategies known to drive it: creating new markets, serving broader...
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11 Time Management Mistakes You Are Probably Making
Do you feel like you’re working all the time but not producing the results you desire? You’re not alone. It’s a problem that a lot of talented entrepreneurs must overcome. Unfortunately, some people, as a last-ditch effort, embrace time...
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Buying a Home in America’s Most Expensive Places
There are plenty of articles telling home buyers the best and worst places to buy a new home, but rarely do they provide any support or advice to those forced to invest in areas that are less than financially ideal. If you could drop everything...
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Useful tips to save money on these 9 car expenses
1. Buy used Even though owning a new car is pretty ‘cool’, I still believe buying used is a better financial deal. New cars depreciate a lot in time, not to mention their value drops real fast as soon as you begin driving your first...
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Scaling up? Should you promote, or recruit?
Should you promote your existing staff or hire new people while you’re scaling up? We take a look at the pros and cons of each avenue. It’s clear that there are pros and cons for each option, so you should always hire the best...
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Why Should I Hire You Recruiting
One of the most searched questions on the Internet is, “Why should I hire you?” When it comes to recruiting, business leaders need to be asking that question. They also need to be asking, where can I find you? Here is the good news and the...
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“We’re Giving Ownership of Development to Individuals”
To understand how the “personal learning cloud” is changing the way companies think about developing executive talent, HBR editor Amy Bernstein and senior editor Daniel McGinn spoke with three heads of learning and development...
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The 8 Ways Companies Get Work Done, and How to Align Them
For much of the last 30 years, organizations have agonized about whether they should centralize or decentralize their operations. But today that debate is increasingly moot. Every organization is essentially a distributed one, with many...
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Leading Change in a Company That’s Historically Bad At It
Organizational change was once a seasonal experience. But today, managing continual disruption is a skill required of most leaders. Change management is the new management, which makes doing it effectively that much more difficult. Despite our...
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