All small businesses care about 3 things. Finding customers Keeping customers Keeping costs low Finding customers is generally considered a marketing activity but today, your greatest marketers are your employees. If you have passionate people behind your product and services, who better to promote than them?? If they’re not, they don’t believe in you, what […]
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With all the attention on using Zoom these days I figured I’d share how we used it at my local ATD chapter to provide a semi-formal online learning event with the video meeting tool. Last October we executed a 1/2 day conference using Zoom Video Conferencing platform (for meetings). It went really, really well. And
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Working remotely en masse is bringing anxiety to traditional management. They used to walk by, see people at their desks, see them attending meetings, and see them having discussions. They felt confident people were working because they believed they could “see” it. Now they can’t. And now is the time we can change Work and
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Today, with so many people physically (I won’t call it Social) distancing there is a mad scramble by organizations to support their employee learning needs. However, much appears to be in the form of formal efforts like online learning and virtual training. These each have value of course but there are some easier, more natural ways to
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I often speak of org design and the intra systems that influence company behaviors. Things like company policy, procedures, recognition and rewards. But there are also greater inter or macrosystems at play which speak to a larger Culture of Work as opposed to the culture IN a workplace. For example take the adage of one
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