If you read the title of this article, you may be thinking to yourself: how can there be positive results from a team member's departure? If you consider the circumstances and implement the right strategy, there are potential positive results to be gained. Whether that team member was a positive or negative influence, the opportunity of [...]
During my first visit at the Social Media Marketing World convention in San Diego, I had the pleasure of hearing Mike Stelzner present the keynote address for the convention. Mike Stelzner is the President of the Social Media Examiner website, which hosts the convention. He did a great job in his presentation and his knowledge of [...]
Just like a great athletic team, having a great team around you is critical for your success. The importance of your internal team needs to be a high priority for you as a leader and your organization. It is important to attract and gather your team, and it is important to maintain and grow it. Here [...]
For this month's article on organization strategies, we're going to look at organization strategies for email management. If you're a busy professional, you are most likely receiving 100 emails a day or more. You're also looking at a lot of content on a daily basis as well. Some of what you are managing is content which [...]
Let's talk about sales strategies within your human resources operations. I was recently visiting with a business owner of a successful organization. He was sharing with me that, although he had a very good product, he was dealing with challenges in regards to his sales team. As he put it bluntly, he "just couldn't get the [...]
On Entrepreneur Magazine's website, Kelly Kinnard wrote a solid article about excellent recruiting strategies for today's market. She explained how startups can compete with established companies for the top talent. Entitled "Your Startup Can Compete With Companies Like Facebook for Top Talent. Here's How.", she describes how to attract top-notch talent with an engaging approach. One [...]
Many of us think that we have some solid organization strategies for ourselves. We learned a lot in school and then we've improved those strategies as we have continued in our work. That's not to say that we're not using good strategies, but we always need to get better. Just like a professional athlete finds ways [...]
As a leader, you get to lead your team. You get to make the final decisions on hiring and firing team members, as well as the management of that team. Your success and your progress is largely based on your decisions in these areas. It's an exciting part of your work. It can also create some [...]
There are a lot of you out there who work in either recruiting or Human Resources. This article will most likely be a review for you all - or at least I hope it is. If not, we need to talk about recruiting. Frankly, this article is targeted at all of you who are leaders in [...]
If marketing brainstorming isn't part of your strategic process, you need to add it. It's highly effective, and highly addictive in a good way. Some of the best ideas that I've ever had for new business opportunities have happened over a cup of coffee or over lunch or dinner. They weren't necessarily planned ahead of time [...]
