“be Better” Tips for Everyone
Next-Level Leadership: The New Skills & Mindsets Needed To Lead Others Into The Future
By H.V. MacArthur – Forbes Information sharing via the internet has unleashed a whole new playing field for businesses. Leaders have had to begin working on different skills for a few years, but 2020 has pushed the envelope and created a definitive mandate for the shift to happen or else fail. Add in this year’s…
Read More10 Ways To Make Meetings More Effective—Based On Science
By Tony Ewing – Forbes Most sane people hate meetings. And for good reason. Despite all of the resources companies devote to them, many meetings end up being counterproductive. Add to this, human factors—such as our mental and emotional biases—and meetings can actually become a perilous problem for a company. Fortunately, behavioral science can help.…
Read More7 Things You Should Never Ask Your Boss
By Anouare Abdou – Ladders They say there are no stupid questions. But in the context of your relationship with your boss, there are certain things you should avoid asking. Why? Because even in the most casual work cultures, your boss is still your superior and her impression of you and your work will have an…
Read More9 Ways to Boost Remote Sales Productivity
Companies around the globe are asking employees to work from home to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. Yet many global firms are not prepared for a remote workforce. And when it comes to sales teams, remote work presents a unique set of challenges for sales managers tasked with leading geographically dispersed teams. Sales teams…
Read More8 Essential Elements of Virtual Sales Training
Sales productivity has never been more important, yet sales teams today face tougher obstacles than ever as the current crisis makes most in-person interactions impossible. Almost 90 percent of sales have moved to a remote model since the pandemic began, according to McKinsey. Almost every B2B company’s products and services are now being sold virtually.…
Read More7 Ways to Enable a Virtual Sales Team
Before March 2020, at least 70% of sales calls were virtual, according to Forbes. With the effects of the current pandemic, that number has skyrocketed. As the country begins to reopen, we’re still far from business as usual—especially for sales teams. In-person meetings, sales kickoffs, and training sessions simply aren’t happening. Many companies face the…
Read MoreIf You’re In A Job Search, You Need To Hear This
By Dawn Graham – Forbes A listener looking to make a career switch called into my weekly radio show on SiriusXM to ask if I could help hone his professional introduction. When I asked what he did for a living, he immediately confessed, “Well, right now I’m unemployed, but…” Immediately I cut him off (something…
Read More5 Ways to Help Your Business Win in Times of Crisis
By Tim Davis – Entrepreneur March 11, 2020, is a day destined for the history books: “WHO Declares Coronavirus Outbreak a Pandemic.” It was that day that, all around the world, leaders began scrambling, ripping through the pages of their crisis playbooks (or quickly creating them), searching for their pandemic play-by-play. Shortly after came the day the markets crashed on March…
Read MoreThe 2 things highly productive people do to get so much more work done
By Thomas Oppong – Ladders Productivity has more to do with your habits than with your IQ. What you do every day either put you one step closer to getting more high-value work done or two steps back. Managing time efficiently is increasingly becoming challenging. Sometimes, distractions are often about the fear of missing out,…
Read MoreAdjusting to New Places
-by Isabella Caprario at Hire A Helper Adjusting to New Places: Exploring People’s Experiences With Moving to a New City America is becoming increasingly mobile and not just in the cellular sense. More than forty percent of the U.S. population lives in a state other than the one in which they were born, and they’ll likely…
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