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Employee Retention Series: Lay The Groundwork To Retain Your Top Talent With Strategic Onboarding

Clarity Consultants

Employee retention is a much sought-after goal for any growth-minded business. To drive those high retention rates, you need to invest in the strategic talent development and processes that develop high performing employees. Onboarding is a surprisingly important part of that strategy in part because those first couple months are critical in retaining new employees.

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New Ways To Navigate The Increasing Complexities of Work

Actionable

About two years ago, while reading Jennifer Garvey Berger’s Simple Habits for Complex Times, I was introduced to the distinction between complex and complicated. This distinction, more than anything I had previously learned, helped me to understand why we often get stuck and frustrated by the challenges we face. What was most liberating for me […] The post New Ways To Navigate The Increasing Complexities of Work appeared first on Actionable.co.

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With Passion and Enthusiasm Please!

Chad Barr

Photo by: Chad Barr. Have you ever sat through a dreadful live presentation feverishly looking for the exit sign? Or have you ever watched or listened to a mind-numbing video or podcast on the web and abandoning it quickly? I review a lot of content on the web and must admit that much of it is not only boring or blah but the content itself is mundane or lacks in value and the delivery is flat with no energy and excitement.

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New Ways To Navigate The Increasing Complexities of Work

Actionable

About two years ago, while reading Jennifer Garvey Berger’s Simple Habits for Complex Times, I was introduced to the distinction between complex and complicated. This distinction, more than anything I had previously learned, helped me to understand why we often get stuck and frustrated by the challenges we face. What was most liberating for me […].

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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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Dealing with Disappointment

Harvard Business

PM Images/Getty Images. Robert didn’t know what to think. How could he have misjudged the situation so badly? He felt angry, sad, and betrayed. Because of his impending retirement, Robert had carefully groomed a successor to take over his key project. The company’s executives assured him that they agreed with his choice. But when push came to shove, they vetoed his candidate.

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Case Study: Can You Fix a Toxic Culture Without Firing People?

Harvard Business

Illustration by James Yang. The flight attendant had to ask her twice, “Anything to drink, ma’am?” “Oh, sorry. Water, no ice, please,” said Noelle Freeman, the CFO of Franklin Climate Systems. Watching the clouds out her window at 30,000 feet, she’d been deep in thought. She was on her way home from two days in Arkansas visiting her company’s largest facility.

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Marketing isn’t about us – it’s about them

Rod Burkert

Have you wondered why it’s getting harder to reach the leads and prospects we want to sell to and serve? What if almost everything we’ve considered to be marketing … is wrong? Hey, what’s up everyone! I’m Rod Burkert. And welcome to my Practice Development Corner. The place where business valuation professionals like you come to learn how to turn the practice they have into the practice they want.

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What to Do When You Realize You Made a Bad Hire

Harvard Business

Catherine Lane/Getty Images. Sometimes it happens that a candidate who had the right credentials, seemed to fly through the interview process, and had lovely references turns out to be an unexpected problem after hiring. If it hasn’t happened to you yet, consider yourself lucky, because only 19% of new hires are considered fully successful , according to a frequently cited study, and by the 18-month point 46% are deemed failures.

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Two kinds of marketing

Seth Godin Blog

There’s the kind that no one can possibly like. The popups, popunders, high-pressure, track-your-private-data, scammy, spammy, interruptive, overpriced, overhyped, under-designed selfish nonsense that some people engage in. And then there’s the kind that inspires us, delights us and brings us something we truly want. We call them both marketing, but they couldn’t be more different.

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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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Engaging Employees in Learning

Gina Abudi

Improve commitment and retention of what they are learning – a client story. In order for employees to retain what they learned in a training program (regardless of the format), it is essential to engage them in a variety of ways before, during and after the program. Let me share one example through a client [.]. The post Engaging Employees in Learning appeared first on Gina Abudi.

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How to Develop Thought Leadership as an Independent Professional

MBO Partners

Three ways to begin establishing yourself as a thought leader in your industry.

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How HR and Judges Made It Almost Impossible for Victims of Sexual Harassment to Win in Court

Harvard Business

Roland Birke/Getty Images. Last December, Time magazine gave its award for person of the year to the “ the silence breakers ,” commemorating a broad societal awakening about the pervasiveness of sexual harassment in the workplace. As the #MeToo movement geared up, and as prominent men resigned or were fired, organizations rushed to create or update anti-harassment policies, complaint procedures, and training programs.