Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

In my February 2015 piece, “ 5 Common Conditions of Career Reinvention ,” I cite similar findings from a Stanford Longevity Study. Somehow, this problem seems ripe for a solution, and I can’t help but be reminded of the situation I faced nearly 20 years ago when I founded my last company, an online advertising and marketing agency.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Email is by far one of the best digital marketing solutions to have in your toolbox. While email marketing is definitely not rocket science, there IS a certain degree of skill and artistry involved in crafting a winning email campaign. Savvy marketers understand this. Boring the Audience. Confusing the Audience.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 21, 2015

We live and breathe digital marketing and we know; we see the thousands of voices that are all talking at once online. How do you get noticed and ultimately grow your company with the aggressive competition that there is online? One thing you can count on in digital marketing is change. There are A LOT of voices out there.

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Chart Your Course

MARCH 10, 2015

This gap is having a negative impact on the engagement and retention of this generation, and is likely one of the primary reasons why Millennials will be looking for new opportunities in 2015. Financially successful/market leader. Job Hopping Ahead in 2015. © Copyright 1998-2015 by The Herman Group of Companies, Inc.,

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The number of women in high paying jobs and entering the job market has risen progressively through the years, but there are many hurdles in their journey up the ladder. . In the five years since 2015, women in high paying job representation in C-suite positions jumped from 17 to 21 percent. In managerial positions only 1 percent.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Today, workplaces are undergoing a digital revolution which is helping to transform entire industries and forcing companies to change the way they operate. Increasingly, companies are using digital innovations to expand into entirely new markets. Digital Skills Gap.

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ExactHire - Leadership

MAY 5, 2021

Diversity is complicated, and that’s why most companies fail to meet their Diversity, Equity & Inclusion goals. But companies that address the circumstances that lead to inequality ultimately reinforce the shared experience of living in our society. And now, more than ever, everyone seems committed to dismantling discrimination.

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Coaching Tip

JUNE 24, 2015

study of nearly 400 organizations by Lee Hecht Harrison has identified that 54% of employers plan to increase investments in leadership development in 2015. Top 10 In-Demand Leadership Competencies in 2015 (Respondents rated as “Very Important”). The online survey was open from January 20 to 30, 2015. Results management 2.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

restaurants and visited numerous international markets. For example, we’re continuing to expand education and training access to help employees at their individual point of need through programs like Hamburger University and Archways to Opportunity, which has served nearly 75,000 restaurant employees since launching in 2015.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2015

Today's workforce will need three times the amount of training that it now gets if the organization intends to stay in business, remain competitive and tackle the future successfully. Training is rarely allowed to be extensive. It is usually technical or sales/marketing in nature. Teaching-Training. One Size Fits All.

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Chart Your Course

MARCH 29, 2016

It’s a feat for businesses to retain employees for five years or more in today’s market, and the cost of losing them is high. years, while in 2015, CNBC reported the median for millennials was two years. years, while in 2015, CNBC reported the median for millennials was two years. Employee Retention and Engagement.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The researchers found that after examining 70 countries between 2005 and 2015, there is a clear link between the quality of institutions in a country and both the quality and quantity of entrepreneurship. Research from the University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley underlines this point. Rules of the game.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2017

Those skills, while uniquely human, are not what we are typically trained to do and require a deal of messy personal development. It’s typically not the player with the highest market value. Best Leadership Books of 2015. New skills will be needed. Uniquely human skills. Blog Post ). So that’s what we continue to get.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 15, 2019

They utilized natural language processing and machine learning to group the 500,000 or so comments left by current and former employees at 492 firms between 2008 and 2015 into a few hundred topics surrounding corporate culture. These were then used to train an algorithm to identify clear patterns in words.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 6, 2015

My good friend, and IBM’s social evangelist, Sandy Carter, asked me to comment on what’s next in the world of social selling for 2015. Here are the Social Media and Social Selling Trends for 2015 : Social media and social selling are entering the next phase. My business plan for 2015 has a heavy concentration on social selling.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

The number of companies participating in trade shows increases each year. While sales objectives are most common, trade shows may also be behavior, product, distribution or marketing oriented. Perform informal market research. Educate the public about what your company and your industry do. Introduce new products.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2015

As a company owner, you are used to making the decisions and there is a good chance you like to keep things under your control. Delegating to a trusted employee is a perfect fit for the day-to-day running of your company. There are offshore markets to explore too. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

‘Return on Investment’ (ROI) in business is predicated on the ability of the company to deliver as promised in product, profit, and its accompanying service. Here are the most prominent examples : Provide positive attitude training for everyone in the company. Many Happy Returns : Return on training.

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Steve Farber

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

This doesn’t bode well for the companies that just invested time and money in hiring and training these individuals. He’s working directly with OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers, companies making parts or subsystems used in another company’s end product) on better ways to attract and retain employees.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 10, 2015

And so, to challenge your 2015 thinking, here are the master’s philosophies from 1953. Created a demand in the market with no product (a market vacuum if you will pardon the pun). When the cleaner finally emerged on the market, it was swept up (sorry again). Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

And so, to challenge your 2015 thinking, here are the master’s philosophies from 1953. Created a demand in the market with no product (a market vacuum if you will pardon the pun). When the cleaner finally emerged on the market, it was swept up (sorry again). Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 19, 2015

If your system works it means you have a very small sales force, or that your system has been in place for so long that it’s refined to favor the customer, not the company. FIRST FAILURE: The sales system is all about the company that prepared it. The person that trained it sucked. Poor training by the launch person.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 31, 2019

For example, be careful what kind of company you keep. Bad company corrupts good morals. Drew Hiss launched his outsourced payroll and HR technology solutions company, Checkdate Solutions, in 1994. Dan Cooper co-founded ej4, a video-based online training company, in 2003, and was its CEO until selling in 2012.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 16, 2016

In Peter Diamandis’s 2015 book, Bold , he urges mold breakers and earth shakers to set goals to achieve ten times or 100 times their current levels of sales, income, and profitability in the years ahead. They should have told this to the executives at Blockbuster, who dominated the market for video movies to be viewed at home.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2017

The companies that think their employees’ digital IQs are unimportant are probably few and far between. After all, in just one decade the concept of “digital” has changed from a niche skill set to something that’s mandatory for virtually all blue-chip companies. How the best companies get up to speed.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

When a company is content with being merely mediocre it may survive but it will never do extremely well. The company must have an emphasis on high standards, a desire to create and give value to customers, accountability to the employers and to your customers, and the drive to learn. Focus on excellence. Business Success Checklist.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 5, 2015

Here are a few questions to get your social sales juices flowing : Why are big companies interested in big data? Why are formerly non-social companies suddenly scouring and analyzing social data? Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Why is ‘mobile’ the new ‘social?’ All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 18, 2015

Other important components of business (training, marketing, research, team building and productivity) were all accomplished according to goals, objectives and tactics. ’ Companies must change their focus from products and processes to the values shared with customers. It transcends service and quality. About the Author.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2016

No longer a discretionary luxury, predictive analytics are now the name of the game for those who seek to utilize customer metrics in a meaningful way to establish a tremendous competitive advantage, gain notable market share and significantly boost bottom lines. Maximizing Marketing Budget ROI. Enhancing Customer Relationships.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2017

Considering how Germany anchors a European continent plagued by high unemployment and slow growth, its labor market is on fire. The economy is doing well despite Germany’s accommodation of more than 1 million refugees since 2015. Analysts criticized the country’s labor market institutions as particularly inflexible.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

My own firm released a survey recently of 835 large companies (with an average revenue of $20 billion) that predicts a net job loss of between 4% and 7% in key business functions by the year 2020 due to AI. In stark contrast, very few of the companies we surveyed were using AI to eliminate jobs altogether. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

Applying this, however, is much easier said than done — especially among companies operating in emerging markets. Emerging-market data can be challenging to work with due to significant data gaps, biased data, and outdated or incorrect numbers. Of course, these issues can cause a headache for any company, in any market.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 5, 2015

The author believes, “The best marketing strategy is to be referable.” When someone gives you a referral, it means they are willing to risk their relationship with the referred person or company. The company, the product, the service, And you, must be ‘best,’ and ‘there when needed.’ He is correct.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

In 2015, there were 7 million jobs that required some level of coding skills , and programming jobs are growing 12% faster than market average. It’s now time for business, particularly technology companies, to harness the power of technology to help turn the tide. Supplementing K-12 with vocational training programs.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2015

Predict the biggest crises that can beset your company. Finely develop skills in every aspect of the organization, beyond the scope of professional training. Niche consultants place emphasis in the areas where they have training, expertise and staff support for implementation.and will market their services accordingly.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 21, 2015

In a survey conducted by a BIG benefits management company (a management and human resource consulting firm), they asked 365 CEO’s and sales management executives, “What are the three key factors that separate high performing sales professionals from moderate to low performing sales professionals?”. Quadruple self-belief. Maybe both! !

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

.” Our solution – one transferable to other organizations pursuing innovation – has been to create an agile network of volunteer ambassadors and coaches throughout the company who have taken collective responsibility for making innovation happen and steering our organizational culture in the right direction.

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