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Plan for 2024 While Enjoying the Holidays with Stephanie Anderson Ladd

Consulting Matters

Tips to prepare your business for a restful holiday season and a prosperous new year Imagine this: It’s January. You re-engage with your business and client work excited and ready to create greater success and impact in the new year. You look back on your time off and smile at the memories you created. You were fully present with all the holiday festivities and took advantage of your well-deserved downtime (i.e., the reason you became an entrepreneur in the first place, right?

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How to Create Your Own “Year in Review”

Harvard Business

While the reality of work can feel especially overwhelming at the end of the year, reflection is the key to doing things differently in the year to come. Taking the time to pause and review your year increases your self-awareness and provides insights to improve. The authors present three steps to conduct your own learning “year in review.

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Key Technology Trends in the Construction Industry in 2024

Epicflow

At present, the construction industry is undergoing a substantial transformation. Innovations, economic uncertainty, construction workforce shortages, and other factors have forced building companies to change the way they work and deliver their projects. Read further to learn what construction trends are going to shape the industry in 2024, and how it’s expected to address current challenges and ensure sustainable growth.

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5 Forces That Will Drive the Adoption of GenAI

Harvard Business

Today there’s a lot of hype around generative AI — and a lot of risk. In the face of uncertainty and inflated expectations, Gartner research has identified five forces that will keep the pressure on executives to keep learning, testing, and investing in the technology: 1) Board and CEO expectations; 2) Customer expectations; 3) Employee expectations; 4) Regulatory expectations; and 5) Investor expectations.

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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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Writing Secret 11: How to Use Your Fieldstones and Idea Bank to Write With More Ease

Johanna Rothman

A French writer bought Free Your Inner Nonfiction Writer and wasn't sure what I meant by a “fieldstone.” He couldn't find a translation that made sense to him. In Weinberg on Writing , Jerry explained fieldstones as a way to build a piece of writing, just like masons used blocks to build stone walls. The more blocks you collect, the easier it is to see when and where to use them.

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Leveraging Local Expertise: Conducting Business in the US

Business Consulting Agency

Entering the US market presents lucrative opportunities for foreign companies, yet navigating the complexities of a new business landscape can be challenging. Local insights, market understanding, and strategic guidance are invaluable for success. This article explores the pivotal role played by business consulting services, provided by local experts, in assisting foreign companies to establish a thriving presence in the US market, accompanied by a comprehensive list of benefits for clients enga

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Which is best – online or face-to-face training?

The Management Centre

Online learning was pushed into the spotlight a few years ago out of necessity. Since then, many of our customers still choose to develop their teams via a virtual classroom. Where face to face training has all the known benefits of physically being in the same learning environment, online opens up access to those in different locations, as well as offering many accessibility options.

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How Ultra Micro Holding Connects Finance to Millions in Indonesia - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM BANK RAKYAT INDONESIA

Harvard Business

Sponsor Content from Bank Rakyat Indonesia.

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Eight marketing maxims

Seth Godin Blog

Trust is worth more than attention. Helping people get to where they seek to go is more effective than hustling people to persuade them to go where you’re going. Choose your customers, choose your future. Tell ten people. If they don’t tell the others, make a better product. Creating the conditions for the word to spread is the job of the marketer.

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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

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A Blueprint for Better Change Partnerships at Work

LSA Global

Better Change Partnerships at Work Are Required for Successful Organizational Change For organizational change to be successful, leaders must form better change partnerships at work. In fact, our leadership simulation assessment found that change partnering is a critical skill that elevates leaders and teams to new heights by fostering change resilience and alignment.