September, 2020

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New Collaborative Coaching Skills

Peter Simoons

Meet Max, our youngest and furriest family member! As an 8 week old Dutch Sheepdog puppy, Max entered our household two weeks ago. Now, I have been coaching Alliance Professionals for a long time, but since the arrival of Max, I’ve discovered the need for a whole set of new collaborative coaching skills! It is obvious that Max has a mind of his own.

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Why Enterprise Sales Should Be Working With Partners

PartnerTap

Secrets to Enterprise Sales Success: Working With Partners. Leveraging Partner Ecosystems. Unlocking Value. Unleashing Potential. Even in the most disrupted economic conditions (Coronavirus Pandemic, anybody?), one axiom remains true: there is always a market for value. Enterprise sales leaders, channel managers, and Chief Revenue Officers are always scrambling to hit aggressive, quarterly revenue goals. .

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Human Centric Leadership: Building Trust for Future Growth

EGA

Leadership is never easy – especially during periods of uncertainty and change. The challenge today is exacerbated by employees’ ‘pandemic fatigue’, lack of face to face interactions and rapidly evolving customer needs. Leaders can no longer rely on traditional management techniques such as setting challenging goals, measuring by KPIs and overseeing work activities.

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Benefits of Product Certification – Infographic

AM Consulting

Product Certification: why bother? The majority of product certification programs utilize a third-party evaluation process to validate a product against specific standards, specifications, or requirements. The process can be rigorous and can take anywhere from a few months to over a year to achieve, it all depends on the product and marketplace expectations.

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AI Strategies for Sales Managers: How to Cut Down on Tedious Admin Work

What if you could help your sellers stop wasting 72% of their day on non-selling activities and focus on bringing in revenue? Incorporating AI in your enablement workflows can help you cut down on busy work, get projects done faster, and let your team (and you!) focus on making a bigger impact. We put together this guide to show you how to use AI to cut time and costs for projects, including collateral creation, development of training videos, and automating tedious processes.

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Leading Innovation Though Nobilizing

Jesse Lyn Stoner

Guest post by Chip R. Bell When I was a teenager preparing to go out on a date or go out with friends, my dad would always say to me, “Son, don’t forget who you are and that we believe in you.” It was his way of grounding me in the rich legacy of a […]. The post Leading Innovation Though Nobilizing appeared first on Seapoint Center for Collaborative Leadership.

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Three Tried and Tested Ways to Dramatically Improve Your Alliance Skills

Peter Simoons

Without doubt, today’s business environment puts different demands on your alliance skills than ever before. As an example, the sudden change in the world due to Covid-19 has resulted in many companies putting their investments on hold. There are obviously implications involved, and you may well find that you need to build and manage your alliances in a different way.

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THE SKY ISN'T FALLING - PART 2

Be Partner Ready

If it feels like the sky is falling, purse those lips and get ready to kiss the stars. Because whether it is, or it isn’t, your response will create your reality. Here we reveal more stats from the awesome McCrindle/Cint [1] research study addressing How Australians are responding to COVID-19 and our interpretation for changemakers. If you want to understand business confidence, look to consumers.

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Understanding the Origins of White Denial

INSEAD Knowledge

Even as the existence of systemic racism becomes increasingly apparent, complacency is returning among white people. But research provides tools for reviving white racial consciousness, by remembering and celebrating common humanity.

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Staying positive in the pandemic

Remarkable Partnerships

One of the defining features of our new working lives is “the coronacoaster” – the inevitable ups and downs that come from working through an incredibly challenging period. When faced with these circumstances, we are reminded of a quote from Viktor Frankl: “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”. So, the Remarkable Partnerships team have put together six recommendations on how to stay positive in the pandemic.

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How to Build Competitive Channel Programs: Advice from 7 Channel Experts

The tech world is crowded. And that means the stakes for channel management have never been higher. How do you cut through the noise? Are SPIFFs, business plans, and marketing development funds really worth it? Get real-world, boots-on-the-ground insight into what it takes to build a partner relationship management motion that attracts, trains, retains, and motivates the right partners.

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The 7 Damaging Power Gaps Women Face and How Leaders Can Help

Jesse Lyn Stoner

Guest post by Kathy Caprino Several years ago, I began to notice some very common, repetitive patterns emerging in terms of what professional women were dealing with in their careers and jobs that were blocking them from the success, reward and impact they were longing for. I decided to pull back the lens to identify […]. The post The 7 Damaging Power Gaps Women Face and How Leaders Can Help appeared first on Seapoint Center for Collaborative Leadership.

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The Partner/Channel Manager Role—and How It's Changed In The Last 10 Years

CoSell

Curious how the partner/manager role is changing? Recently, clients are sharing stories of their experiences about this shift. The role used to be focused on enabling partners to be better prepared to sell independently. Yet, over the years, this role seems to be morphing. These days, we’re hearing how many partner/channel managers feel pressure to drive sales directly.

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Remote Work Is Better with New Video Conferencing

SamePage

Samepage goal is to bring to you an excellent video calling environment that nicely blends into our all-in-one team communication platform. That's why we invested the last few months into improving the stability, reliability, performance, design, and overall user experience of our video calling platform. Language.

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THE SKY ISN'T FALLING - PART 1

Be Partner Ready

There’s always an opportunity on the other side of a crisis, it all depends where you look. A fascinating research study landed on my desk recently from McCrindle/Cint [1] , addressing How Australians are responding to COVID-19. Here’s my interpretation of the data as it relates to changemakers who are considering partnering with corporates.

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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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How Netflix Finds Innovation on the Edge of Chaos

INSEAD Knowledge

How did a DVD-by-mail company transform itself into a leading global entertainment brand? By rejecting mediocrity, embracing negative feedback and turning hierarchy on its head.

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Welcoming The AI Shared Prosperity Initiative Steering Committee

Partnership on AI

Diverse Perspectives To Guide Multidisciplinary Debate For a Research Agenda Focused on AI Industry’s Role In Co-creating a Globally Inclusive Economic Future. Announced earlier this summer, the AI and Shared Prosperity Initiative (AI SPI) is a multi-year effort to advance public knowledge on what concrete frameworks companies developing and deploying AI should adopt to co-create a global economic future that is inclusive by design.

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Virtual Nonprofit Board and Member Meetings in the Time of COVID

Pearlman + Pearlman

Since the onset of the novel Coronavirus 2019 (COVID), everyday life has been upended for everyone. Nonprofits, their boards, and their members haven’t escaped the disruption, but life (and compliance with nonprofit law!) must go on. One serious challenge in the age of COVID is how, or whether, to hold in-person meetings. We have received a number of questions from clients about their ability to hold virtual meetings for directors and members.

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How to Have Better Virtual Meetings

CoSell

Getting Ahead of The Pack There’s no question that virtual meetings have taken off like wild during the COVID-19 pandemic. As a case in point, the popular video conferencing software, Zoom , has exploded by nearly 354%. Analysts think that this growth in video conferencing is set to continue through and beyond the COVID crisis. Top sales professionals are recognizing the key-value and making the most of this trend.

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Maximize Productivity and Simplify IT Management with Conversational AI

ChatGPT has dominated boardroom conversations for months now. From drafting a stock trading program, to creating a SQL query to model data, there are practically no limits to the applications of the AI language model assistant. At ManageEngine, we have been working on our own AI-assistant, Zia. Zia is a fully-trained analytics assistant that can perform a range of functions such as creating and adding reports to dashboards, providing conversational support to data analysis, insight discovery, bu

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Mobile Navigation Facelift

SamePage

Our mobile navigation just got a new facelift. The bottom navigation buttons got reordered, and a new screen was added. Everything was done to help you navigate as quickly as on the desktop. Let's take a tour of our updated mobile navigation. Language.

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Why Right Now Is The Perfect Time for a Channel Digital Transformation

Impartner

Lessons from the Edge Podcast Series Episode #1. Kicking off our first episode in our new podcast series, Lessons from the Edge , Jennifer Judy, Senior Director of Global Partner Experience at Poly joins Impartner CMO, Kerry Desberg, to discuss why now is the perfect time for a digital transformation in your channel. Jennifer offers tips and tricks for leading a large transformation and seeing positive results like onboarding thousands of partners, all while going through an acquisition.

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Making the Commute of the Future Happen

INSEAD Knowledge

Mobility as a service (MaaS) is an attractive form of public transportation that offers a variety of benefits. Enticing consumers to abandon their private cars, however, will be tricky.

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B2B Value Proposition – How Effective IT Vendors Work

ForzaDash

B2B Value Proposition – How Effective IT Vendors Work. Information overload is one of the top reasons why global attention span becomes significantly shorter. Thus, an effective and attention-grabbing B2B value proposition is king for IT vendors in the MSP arena. Working in Sales and Marketing particularly in the B2B industry is a daunting task.

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How to Leverage Intent Data for Better Outcomes

Speaker: Susan Spencer, Principal of Spencer Communications

Intent signal data can go a long way toward shortening sales cycles and closing more deals. The challenge is deciding which is the best type of intent data to help your company meet its sales and marketing goals. In this webinar, Susan Spencer, fractional CMO and principal of Spencer Communications, will unpack the differences between contact-level and company-level intent signals.

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Core to Success: Relationships

Collaboration LLC

Some might say that persistence and creativity are keys to success in business while others might define success by how much money they and their business make. Running a business requires creativity and drive, and the outcome of doing things well is profit which is critical to long-term sustainability. But I would venture to say that the core to success is all about relationships.

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How to Unlock Millions Through Your Ecosystem

CoSell

What is the best way to unlock massive value and drive disruptive growth? According to Accenture research, 60% of executives believe ecosystems are the way to go. In the next ten years, ecosystems could unlock $100 trillion of value for business and society, according to Accenture Strategy reports. The question is: how can you accomplish this in your industry?

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Three Channel Partner Selection Temptations and How to Resist Them

Channel Incentive Best Practices

In my experience, channel partner selection accounts for 80%+ of a vendor’s channel success. However, it’s not about the number of partners in a vendor’s ecosystem that impacts results. But rather the quality of those partners. That is their ability and willingness to see the vendor’s target markets and sell effectively and profitably to them, at a reasonable vendor cost.

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Learning and Development Trends During COVID-19

CGS

Prior to the pandemic, we asked over 200 Learning & Development (L&D) leaders what their priorities were going into 2020. In this new quick poll taken in July 2020, we get a glimpse into the long-term strategies of businesses as they create paths to the new normal. The steps that organizations take today to prepare for what lies ahead will determine how quickly their workforce and operations can ramp back up after major disruption. .

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5 Essential Virtual Selling Practices Every Company Must Have by 2023

Speaker: Erika Bzdel - Vice President of Sales and Craig Simons - Director of Marketing

Virtual sales success requires new ways of thinking. Sales managers, trainers, sales enablement managers, and sales reps across all industries must adjust to this digital transformation. That doesn’t mean, however, that you can transfer the old ways of doing business to the new blended selling environment. You need to implement essential virtual selling processes or you will get left behind.

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Big Tech’s Global Strategy in the Cloud

INSEAD Knowledge

Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Alibaba are fighting tooth and nail in the cloud market, using strategies heavily influenced by their respective histories.

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Marketing Channel Strategy – How IT Vendors Reach their End-User Goals

ForzaDash

Marketing channel strategy is made up of a series of decisions and structures that an IT vendor or manufacturer creates and makes. The purpose of these strategic moves is to reach your ultimate end-user or MSPs. It may sound simplistic but knowledge and mastery of these techniques will spell a world of difference for your company. In-Depth Understanding of Marketing Channel Strategy.

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Core to Success: Relationships

Collaboration LLC

Some might say that persistence and creativity are keys to success in business while others might define success by how much money they and their business make. Running a business requires creativity and drive, and the outcome of doing things well is profit which is critical to long-term sustainability. But I would venture to say that the core to success is all about relationships.