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From Employee to Healthpreneur: Adrienne Barela's Inspiring Story

Consulting Matters

Running a business and maintaining optimal health may seem like a Herculean task, but it's not impossible. In a recent podcast episode, gut health expert and successful entrepreneur Adrienne Barela demystified the intersection of wellness and entrepreneurship. An integrative health practitioner, Adrienne Barela navigated her journey from employee to health and wellness business owner with resilience, determination, and an impressive understanding of the human body.

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Building a Learning Culture: Encouraging Professional Growth in Organizations

Clarity Consultants

Organizations that foster a learning culture gain a competitive edge in today’s rapidly evolving business landscape. Companies can enhance employee engagement, attract top talent, and drive innovation by prioritizing professional growth and creating an environment that encourages continuous learning. Here are six essential components to consider when building an organizational learning culture.

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Protecting Your Workforce from Extreme Heat

Harvard Business

Companies have more than one reason to be worried about soaring global temperatures and heat waves. The health risks to employees range from exhaustion, cramps, worsening mental health, diabetic complications, and even stroke. In addition, extreme heat is projected to cause the loss of more than $4 trillion annually in productivity by 2030. The author, a physician who advises corporate leaders, recommends six best practices to help employers safeguard their people and their business.

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Is A Specialized Peer-To-Peer Group Right For Your Business?

Henry DeVries

Learn from the experts what things to consider when looking for a specialized peer-to-peer group that’s right for you.

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PowerPoint Best Practices for Creating Stellar Presentations

Mastering data visualization in PowerPoint will help accelerate your career because it positions you as someone who can present data that drives business decisions forward. think-cell's PowerPoint Best Practices eBook was created specifically for professionals aiming to master the art and science of data-driven storytelling. What’s inside: Practical Insights: Uncover valuable tips for crafting engaging and persuasive presentations.

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How to Make Generative AI Greener

Harvard Business

Generative AI is impressive, but the hidden environmental costs and impact of these models are often overlooked. Companies can take eight steps to make these systems greener: Use existing large generative models, don’t generate your own; fine-tune train existing models; use energy-conserving computational methods; use a large model only when it offers significant value; be discerning about when you use generative AI; evaluate the energy sources of your cloud provider or data center; re-use model

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Using Sprints to Boost Your Sales Team’s Performance

Harvard Business

Over the last two decades, technology developers have utilized the agile methodology to work more effectively. As sales teams are stretched thin and face change initiatives and strategy shifts, using the sprints made popular by agile can help them focus on priorities that will drive results. At the heart of this is a cadence of structured, weekly meetings between the manager and the salesperson.

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How to Go From Conflict to Collaboration, Part 2

Nash Consulting

By Nash Consulting We once collaborated with a team that seemed to have a Ph.D. in miscommunication. Picture this: a team meeting, two members start arguing, tensions running high, and the air so thick with awkwardness you could practically spread it on toast, all of which we had courtside seats to. In the past, situations like these would typically result in someone, usually the leader, squashing the dialogue and discouraging further bickering.

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How to Prevent Project Failure in Multi-Project Management: Useful Tips

Epicflow

How can you ensure the successful completion of all projects in your pipeline? To be sure that none of the initiatives will fail and your project management efforts will be crowned with the desired outcomes? In the previous article , we reviewed the main factors that lead to project failure in a multi-project environment. In this post, we’re answering the question: how to prevent project management disasters when running multiple simultaneous projects?

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Confusion and delay

Seth Godin Blog

Marketing is generally about action. Marketers seek to create the conditions for a change to happen, for people to accomplish their goals and to satisfy their needs. But since 1950, some marketers have worked in a different direction. To sow confusion and doubt, and most of all, to seek delay. In 1954, facing the real threat of peer-reviewed and clear evidence that smoking caused lung cancer, the cigarette industry startled pundits by acknowledging the research and then calling for more research

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr