Mon.Mar 11, 2024

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Don’t Underestimate the Power of Small Breaks During a Busy Workday

Harvard Business

Many people operate from the belief that there’s too much to do and they can’t afford to pause during their workday. But taking effective breaks is essential to preventing burnout. In this article, the author outlines eight strategies to try to build more breaks into your day.

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How to Write Podcast Show Notes [3 Best Templates 2024]

Buzzsprout

Show notes can add tremendous value to your podcast by giving you a way to engage with your audience and share resources. In this step-by-step guide, we will look at what makes show notes an important part of your podcast workflow and why they're worth the extra effort! Table of Contents Benefits of writing good show notes What to include in your show notes Podcast show notes examples and templates Benefits of writing good show notes Show notes are a powerful piece of value-packed, written c

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The Benefits of Innovation That Isn’t Disruptive

Harvard Business

Disruption is not the only path to innovation and growth. Creation without disruption or nondisruptive creation is about creating a new market outside or beyond existing industry boundaries, and has its own organizational and business advantages. In this article, the authors outline four advantages to opting for this nondisruptive route: 1) It allows you to avoid direct confrontations with established incumbents. 2) It is an effective way to respond to full-on disruption. 3) It makes it easier t

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Say Goodbye to Strategic Planning? What’s Next?

Organizational Talent Consulting

We can all agree nothing is certain except death and taxes. Is it time for executives and teams to say goodbye to strategic planning? Annual off-site meetings to change dates on unsuccessful strategies don't make sense. One of the most significant downfalls of contemporary strategic planning is the failure to account for a growing uncertainty in a fast-paced, generative AI environment.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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Getting Along: My New Manager Didn’t Give Me the Promotion I Was Promised

Harvard Business

Not getting a promotion you were promised can bring up a whole host of feelings, from frustration to resentment. In this article, HBR’s advice columnist Amy Gallo answers a question from a reader who is facing this situation and offers advice and resources for how to work through their disappointment while keeping their career growing.

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The Essentials: Building and Repairing Trust

Harvard Business

How to be candid when you can’t reveal all the facts of a sticky situation.

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Hiding the ‘aha’

Seth Godin Blog

The most effective persuasion happens when we persuade ourselves. The purpose of the memo or the table or the graph or the presentation is to create the conditions for someone to make up their own minds. Because it’s almost impossible to make up their mind for them. The aha is actually a chemical reaction, a rewiring of our brain, the moment when we see what we hadn’t seen before and make a new decision based on what we believe to be new information.

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How Do I Balance My Career Goals with My Company’s Needs?

Harvard Business

A leader must figure out how to balance her career goals with the needs of her company.

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LSA Global Delivers Technology Sales Leadership Development Workshop for High Tech Company

LSA Global

Redwood Shores, CA – LSA Global, the leading business consulting, coaching, and training firm that helps fast growth life science, technology, and service companies by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with strategy, today announced results for a customized Technology Sales Leadership Development Workshop for a High Tech Company whose sales leaders and managers needed to meet aggressive growth targets while facing increased competitive pressures.

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Less Stress, More Success: Accounting Best Practices & Processes for 2025

Speaker: Duke Heninger, Partner and Fractional CFO at Ampleo & Creator of CFO System

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Duke Heninger, a seasoned fractional CFO and CPA passionate about transforming back-office operations for finance teams. This session will cover critical best practices and process improvements tailored specifically for accounting professionals.

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How to Measure the Effectiveness of Corporate Training

LSA Global

Do You Know How to Measure the Effectiveness of Corporate Training? Although most believe that the ability to measure the effectiveness of corporate training is too challenging or too expensive, evaluating the impact and return on training investments can and should be done in the right situations. For example, spending more time or effort on training measurement than the value of the measurement itself rarely makes sense.