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Help Your Global Talent Succeed and Lead - Cultivate Communication Skills

Great Leadership By Dan

A 2011 white paper jointly published by the GlobalEnglish Corporation and Human Capital Institute reported that 70% of global employees are non-native speakers – and only 7% think they speak English well enough to do their jobs. Are they sharing their ideas on conference calls? But what else do their jobs require?

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Possibility Maximizer: Aon Hewitt Webcasts

Sales Wolf Blog

Why You Should Check Them Out:  It is hard for me to say enough about how impressed I am with both the quality and quantity of research and educational resources that are regularly released by Aon Hewitt in the form of white papers, research reports, surveys, newsletters, and expert editorials.

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Smart Marketing for Small Businesses

Strategy Driven

Get to work on writing articles, blogs, white papers, or even a book. Develop a speech (you can potentially leverage your thought leadership writing, discussed above) and begin by speaking at small, local or regional seminars; then, build up to speak at industry conferences or larger venues. Social Media.

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How To Get Others To See Your Potential

Harvard Business Review

Of course, you can''t just prop someone''s eyelids open, A Clockwork Orange -style, and force them to read your white papers or watch your webinars. At cocktail parties or conferences, you and your friend can make a point of mentioning each other''s accomplishments or bringing up conversational topics where your partner excels.

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How to Create True Customer Advocates

Harvard Business Review

One predictable result of this activity has been increasing demand from marketing and sales leaders to find more such advocates to showcase, in some cases creating a "beast that needs to be fed" similar to what you see in traditional media channels — like sports or the entertainment industry — that experience rapid growth in popularity.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

Harvard Business Review

He sold off slower-growth, low-tech, and nonindustrial businesses — financial services, media, entertainment, plastics, and appliances. Everything is on the table,” Flannery said on a conference call to discuss quarterly earnings. He doubled GE’s investment in R&D. “Things will not stay the same at GE.”

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Five Steps to Resource Optimization: Any process can be improved.

Strategy Driven

Each issue is packed with thought-provoking content and insight into the business issues that affect all companies competing in today’s technology-driven marketplace with recent contributions by best-selling author and researcher Tom Davenport; social media guru Chris Brogan; and Myron Scholes, world renowned economist and Nobel Prize winner.