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4 Ways To Make Your Professional Development Budget Go Further
College Football Hall of Fame coach Lou Holtz once said, “In this world, you’re either growing or you’re dying, so get in motion and grow.” That quote is more relevant today than ever. Those straightforward words can help you develop resilience, manage your time more effectively and improve your efficiency. Unfortunate
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Black History Month: Authenticity in Diversity
As I think about this year’s Black History Month theme, Resistance, I reflect on the early days of my career as a young black woman in a predominantly
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4 Employee Engagement Trends That Leaders Need To Know
This article is first in a series focused on employee engagement. With rapid changes in technology, demographics and social norms/lifestyles, the workforce is changing at break neck speed. The workplace of today is definitely not that of just a few years ago, and one area that has changed most significantly is employee
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How Consolidations are Affecting the Food & Beverage Industry
An interview with Michael Bromfield, SVP & Market Executive, First Midwest BankSource: First Midwest BankIn late 2019, Performance Food Group completed its $2 billion acquisition of Reinhart Foodservice, consolidating the largest foodservice distributors in the U. S. to five. Most recently, PFG announced its intention
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Is Remote Work Good Or Bad For Employee Engagement? Your Leadership Holds The Answer
Virtual team meetinggettyRemote work is here to stay. While most businesses have made such arrangements work in the short term, how will employee engagement play out in the long run? How will you maintain team cohesiveness when some employees return to the office while others continue to work at home? What about compan
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To Be an Effective Leader, You Need To Handle These 7 Challenges
You too can master the challenges that make or break all leaders. Here is a self-test to get you started. As a business adviser, I often talk to business professionals who are critical of their CEO, and are convinced that they could do the job better. Yet I suspect that few of you have seriously thought about the scope
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What Recent (but Enduring) Changes in the Healthcare Industry Mean for You
How many times have you heard the phrase “new normal” recently? Have you wondered what, exactly, that may look like for operators in the Healthcare space? It’s too early to call every 2020 trend a winner or loser, but there are some sure-fire early takeaways for Healthcare industry players. All business leaders in our
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Four Steps To Re-Think Customer Experience In The Coronavirus Crisis
If the customer experience for your company hasn’t changed between February and April, you are unusual. In industry after industry, from consumer goods to B2B technology, the distancing, fear, and economic turbulence caused by the coronavirus are affecting the sales process, customer selection criteria, the way product
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CFOs increasingly prioritizing ESG issues along with addressing talent shortage
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) investment has quickly progressed from a mere compliance issue to a core value for many organizations. "It
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What to consider as vendors add generative AI to workplace tools
Vendors of all shapes and sizes are rushing to implement generative AI, a race begun by the release of OpenAI's ChatGPT and its newest large language