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Apprenticeship Levy flexibility and productivity

Chartered Management Institute

Here, we go beyond the public debate on how to re-distribute limited resources and ask how the levy system could support a meaningful expansion of employer-led training across the UK. Open University's 2023 Business Barometer Declining employer investment: Despite the importance of training, employer investment in skills has been decreasing.

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Multicultural Leadership Starts from Within

Harvard Business Review

As new technologies in social media, transportation, and telecommunications bring us closer together, it's more critical than ever for organizations to recruit, develop, and retain multicultural leaders who can skillfully navigate both the opportunities and challenges of a more connected world. The world is getting smaller.

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An Entrepreneur's Three Strategies To Outsmart the Quants

Harvard Business Review

As companies like this one grow from start-ups into larger enterprises, they're often compelled to analyze numerical data to reduce risk, maintain operations, and model predictable outcomes. The partner confidentially approached the software CEO for advice on how they developed and trained their own staff over the years.

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Put the “and” Back in “Sales and Marketing”

Harvard Business Review

But the real power of the partnership comes from their ability to bring the best of each of their departments—as well as pricing, operations, and other groups—to bear in exploiting those micromarket opportunities. From the sales side, teams need to be trained to take the insights generated by marketing and act on them.

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To Improve Sales, Pay More Attention to Presales

Harvard Business Review

Distinct from marketing and sales operations, presales provides a specific set of activities that lead to qualifying, bidding on, winning, and renewing a deal. Opportunities have exponentially increased for salespeople, thanks to digital innovations, more systematic RFPs, and the pervasive use of inside sales for lead generation.