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Managing Remote Teams: Tips and Strategies for Success

HR Digest

By using multiple communication channels, managers can ensure that remote workers feel connected and informed. Managers can provide opportunities for social interaction by scheduling virtual coffee breaks, happy hours, or other team-building activities. Encourage Collaboration Collaboration is key to effective remote work.

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How GM Uses Social Media to Improve Cars and Customer Service

Harvard Business Review

The CoE has worked with IT and purchasing to procure a global set of tools for social media management, which are also integrated with our CRM systems. Since 2013, the team has reduced the number of publishing, listening, monitoring, and metrics tools used by our social media teams globally from more than 125 to fewer than six.

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Recommended Resources – An Interview with Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi, authors of The Essential Advantage

Strategy Driven

This book helps you identify your firm’s distinctive blend of strategic direction and differentiated capabilities that give you the ‘right to win’ in your chosen markets. It divested a number of personal care and confectionary lines (e.g., Schick razors and Trident) and acquired other products (e.g.,

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

Harvard Business Review

The company better aligned the workforce mix to its strategy, by optimizing different talent acquisition channels, manager spans of control (number of workers reporting to them), and worker mobility. Educate leaders on how and why to optimize a blended workforce.