Always Treat Your Vendors as Nicely as You Treat Your Customers
Attempting to squeeze the last nickel out of critical vendors is not a smart strategy.
Tag: collaboration
Creating a Purpose-Driven Organization
Every organization has a pool of change agents that usually goes untapped.
Want Better Collaboration? Shift Your Thinking
When trying to solve everyday challenges in their organizations – be it missing deadlines, revisiting decisions, partnering across functional or geographic boundaries, or speeding up output – leaders often assume the root cause is lack of skill.
4 Tips for Planning a Successful Networking Event
Running a networking event doesn’t need to be difficult! With the following pointers, we think you’ll be on your way to a successful event that makes your world a little smaller by enlarging your network.
How to Keep a Global Team Engaged
Global teams have the potential to help organizations reach new markets and provide a seamless brand experience for customers across the world. But for global teams to work, team leaders need to make sure all members feel connected and engaged, regardless of their location or culture. From what I’ve seen when advising global teams, the psychological and emotional reaction people experience when participating on these teams can sink its effectiveness.
Engage and Inspire Your Team by Talking to Them Outside of Formal Settings
There are a number of ways senior leadership can connect and engage with employees beyond the normal flow of executive communications.
Millennials and Baby Boomers Can Work Together. Here’s How to Make It Happen
70 percent of adults, in all generations, want purpose from their work.
Want to Get the Most From Your Millennial Employees? Start Using ‘Leaderless Teams’
Understanding how to manage Millennials.
Sales And Marketing Alignment Often Fails For B2B Companies — Here’s How To Fix That
Aligning sales and marketing has become common practice as a business strategy, improving the dialogue between two separate departments of a business for improved results all around. But I often have clients approach me with the same problem: regardless of a seamless relationship between their sales and marketing strategies, they still find that there are not enough successful sales being generated from their leads.
4 Ways to Build an Innovative Team
One of the most common questions I get asked by senior managers is “How can we find more innovative people?” I know the type they have in mind — someone energetic and dynamic, full of ideas and able to present them powerfully. It seems like everybody these days is looking for an early version of Steve Jobs.