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CMI Highlights

Chartered Management Institute

As the importance of open and honest leadership continues to dominate the media spotlight, I find myself reflecting on how vital relationships are to building a positive working environment, and how important it is for all managers and leaders to develop this skill. You can learn more in FE News. Enjoy the rest of your week.

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Stretch Assignments for High Potential Employees

CO2

Manage a new product launch or acquisition. Manage subordinate performance problems. Secure financing for a key acquisition. Influence/manage people or processes for which one has no direct authority. Convince upper management to support a proposal. Manage key interactions with an important labor union.

Diversity 140
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How To Find “Hidden” Federal Contracts: Network :: Women on Business

Women on Business

In addition, when your bid is the first time a government agency learns of your company, you can be sure your proposal is heading for the bottom of the pile. Government agencies and their purchasing/contracting officers often rely on pre-existing relationships and preferred vendor lists for all of these less lofty contract awards.

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The Importance of Testing in an E-marketing Campaign

Women on Business

Send the email you’re using now (this is your control, or “A”)) to 500 names, and send your proposed new email (“B”) to the other 500. If so, How to Drive ROI on Direct Mail Guest post by Elizabeth Lombard, manager of postal carrier education, Pitney.

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Recommended Resource – Advocacy

Strategy Driven

Rather, reputation, relationships, timing, and persuasive messaging is needed to garner the attention and buy-in necessary to gain action on one’s proposals. Recommended Resource – Finance Without Fear. Recommended Resource – Reviving Work Ethic. Benefits of Using this Reference.

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Guest Post: Watch Out for Flying Monkeys!

Lead on Purpose

Jim’s passion is product management and product marketing. With over 20 years of technology industry experience, he has a fresh and current perspective in leading product management teams and has a gift for taking conceptual ideas and turning them into strategic reality using methods based on market sensing best practices.

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There's Still Time

Women on Business

Time is something we either manage well or have no sense of. If we are lacking in time-management skills it could take away from the time and love we get to share with our families. If your mind is full of things you keep meaning to get done, your head won’t be in the game Do the hard stuff first: outbound sales calls, proposals, etc.