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Recruiters You Should Meet to Staff for Success

Harmonious Workplaces

These professionals stand out as some of the best I’ve met in the biz When I worked as an executive or a consultant advising C-suite leaders and business owners, many of them complained about their inability to attract and recruit talent. During my career of 25 years, I have met and worked with dozens of recruiters and search firms.

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Wealth Management 101: The Hidden World of Private Banking

Tom Spencer

The financial services industry comprises firms that operate across a range of sectors: Asset & Wealth Management, Banking & Capital Markets, and Insurance. In simple terms, asset management firms are the ‘manufacturers’ of investment products (e.g., clients can purchase iShares on the RBC Wealth platform).

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Holiday Human-Capital Culling Could Cost

Harmonious Workplaces

Everywhere you look online during the 2023 holiday season, you’ll see three things: A ridiculous amount of ads for products you don’t need or want… but might buy anyway. Delaying hiring or RIFs (reduction in force) means existing staff may be overburdened, which can lead to burnout, decreased productivity, and attrition in the new year.

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Captive contact center vs. outsourcing: The most overlooked part of retail CX

1 to 1

As retailers contend with the latest slate of challenges—inflation, snarled supply chains, the return to experience spending—there’s no overstating the importance of having a high-quality contact center. Captive centers are those that are client owned and operated and provide resources directly to their organization. Jon Stough.

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How Low-Paying Retailers Can Adapt to Higher Minimum Wages

Harvard Business

These increases will seriously affect low-wage employers such as retailers and restaurants, which means investors should be asking some tough questions to see which low-wage employers in their portfolios will benefit from the wage hikes and which will lose: How are you increasing your labor productivity? Simplify processes.

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Oliver Wyman interview preparation: the inside story

Management Consulted

They seized this opportunity to establish a firm that would help firms gain clarity about their business models, products, and clients and then advise them by creating long term strategies. The firm offers consulting services including strategy, operations, risk management, organizational transformation, and leadership development.

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Lead to the future: leadership imperatives for success

Brimstone Consulting

To take advantage of this opportunity place focus on building agility, aligning the organization, operating as a team of teams, and developing your people. Retailers, grocery stores, and restaurants launched curbside pick-up. Resilient organizations, ones that excel at change, operate as a team of teams. Build Agility.