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Managing Remote Teams: Tips and Strategies for Success

HR Digest

New era of work has forced many companies to move their employees to remote work, and this shift has created some new challenges for managers. Fortunately, there are several tips and strategies that managers can use to improve the engagement and productivity of remote workers. Email alone is insufficient.

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How To Expose Your Vacation Rental to Thousands Of Online Visitors

Strategy Driven

The reason people searching for holiday homes are able to find these websites online is that every vacation rental website out there has a dedicated digital marketing team and budget to bring traffic to their website. How Do You Manage Multiple Websites? You can have your own branded website with a booking system built in.

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The Sales Role Multinationals Need in Emerging Markets

Harvard Business Review

For many executives battling through economic headwinds in emerging markets, the answer tends to be wherever they think someone will provide the strongest boost to top-line growth, which usually means hiring an additional sales or marketing manager to support the commercial front lines. This is a problem for several reasons.

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The Big Disconnect in Your Talent Strategy and How to Fix It

Harvard Business Review

This leaves operating managers, the ultimate “consumers” of talent, to choose between two talent acquisitions methods (or “sourcing channels”): Either engage HR to acquire employees or engage Procurement to acquire contingent workers. Educate leaders on how and why to optimize a blended workforce.

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How GM Uses Social Media to Improve Cars and Customer Service

Harvard Business Review

In 2013, we created a global Social Media Center of Expertise (CoE), staffed by about 600 people in five regions from the marketing, communications, and customer care teams, with the goal of enhancing the company’s market-based decision making (part of CEO Mary Barra’s mantra of earning customers for life ). Integration is hard.

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We Can't Agree to Disagree

Harvard Business Review

The alignment of investors' interests with the executive team's goals. On day one of a new venture, the executive team and the investors are on the same page; both plan for a big outcome. Some teams do a "middle of the road" solution that pleases no one. You'll have to figure out which customer to serve.

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How Multinationals Should Be Planning for Brexit

Harvard Business Review

The sooner firms have a Brexit plan, the faster they can focus on managing these competitive dynamics. Create a strategic Brexit team. Once a company understands the broad exposure of Brexit on the business, it needs to form a team responsible for its strategic plan. How to Plan for Brexit. Understand possible scenarios.