June, 2020

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Ed Rigsbee’s Raw & Unedited with Dawn Tiura (SIG.org): Doubling Meeting Attendance by Going Virtual

Rigsbee Research

Convert your event from live to virtual and double meeting attendance in 6 weeks. Dawn Tiura, CEO & President at Sourcing Industry Group, a membership association of over 400 Global 1000 companies…representing an annual spend of $11 Trillion, shared her success in converting her live meeting to virtual in 6 weeks. With only 19 employees, […].

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A Moment to Change

Board Source

This past month has been full of tragedy and sadness. We watched in horror as a Black man was murdered by the police in broad daylight, and the pain and anger of 400 years of violence and injustice against African-Americans poured out onto the streets of every major city in this country. This pain and injustice is not new, but for whatever reason, for millions of Americans – this time was different.

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I have an ego

Jake Jorgovan

I have an ego. Yep. Plain and simple. Not gonna deny it. I have an ego. At times, this has made me come off as arrogant. But, this ego has also helped me thrive into who I have become today. This article is about ego. The ego in you. The ego in me. The ego in all of us. It's about that inner struggle we all face. Ego has it's downsides. It can lead to us making arrogant business decisions.

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Plan Events Effectively While Working Remotely

AM Consulting

As an event planner during this time of the pandemic, most in-person meetings have likely been postponed for the foreseeable future and we’re all anxious for events to return. It’s likely for those first meetings, you’ll need to schedule venues and plan remotely. For us at Alliances Management, this is business as usual as we […]. The post Plan Events Effectively While Working Remotely appeared first on Alliances Management Consulting.

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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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Power of Peers – Navigating through Uncertainty

EGA

Business leaders are faced with a difficult challenge in today’s rapidly changing environment: there are very few people they can rely upon for impartial advice. Similarly, there are no traditional educational (universities, seminars, workshops) courses on ‘how to manage in and recover from a pandemic. Leaders today need new ways to learn quickly as they navigate through uncertainty.

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Ed Rigsbee’s Raw & Unedited with Tom Papas (WSRCA): Going by the Book

Rigsbee Research

Tom Papas, Executive Director Western States Roofing Contractors Association shares his perspective on following bylaws, leader fiduciary responsibility and quality governance. He suggests association executives rely on the law, common sense and empirical knowledge to stay on course. The post Ed Rigsbee’s Raw & Unedited with Tom Papas (WSRCA): Going by the Book appeared first on Ed Rigsbee association and membership growth.

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Failure is not an Option: How Nonprofit Boards Can Support Leaders of Color

Board Source

For nonprofits who are now hiring new executive leaders of color, here are some steps to take—and pitfalls to avoid—to ensure a successful leadership transition. As capacity-building consultants to the social sector, we regularly support nonprofit organizations, their leaders, and their boards. Some of this support involves leadership coaching for individuals and teams.

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IEEE Industry Standards and Technology Organization Appoints New Board Members

ISTO / IEEE

PISCATAWAY, NJ 23 June 2020 – The IEEE Industry Standards and Technology Organization (ISTO), an International Federation of leading industry groups and consortia dedicated to the advancement of standardized technologies for the benefit of industry, today announces the addition of two new Board Directors. ISTO Chair Yatin Trivedi has appointed two new Directors to the ISTO Board, Dr.

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Is "Definition of Ready" Part of Scrum?

Collaborative Leadership Team

Is “Definition of Ready” part of Scrum? The short answer is no. If you read the free, official Scrum Guide ( [link] ) you can verify this answer for yourself. So “Why isn’t there a Definition of Ready in Scrum?” may be a follow up question that requires a longer answer. Scrum is about approaching work differently. It is the Product Owner’s responsibility to refine Product Backlog Items (PBIs) soliciting input from stakeholders, customers, subject matter experts, etc. to determine if the item or

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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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Secret to Success Post COVID-19

EGA

The unprecedented speed and impact of change experienced by leaders during the COVID-19 crisis demonstrated the need for innovation, agility, fast-action and collaboration. EGA connects open, committed, brave leaders with similar challenges and opportunities. Through proven peer collaboration and learning process, they overcome challenges, co-create new solutions and gain future-readiness.

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Association Peeps in Cubicles Drinking Coffee – Episode 7

Partners Preceptors

Episode 7 of Association Peeps in Cubicles Drinking Coffee is out, titled “Fundraising in Tough Times”, featuring a discussion between Partners owner, Bennett Napier, CAE, and Mickey Moore of Moore Business Strategies. Check it out here! [link].

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Ed Rigsbee’s Raw & Unedited with Richard Melancon: Reopening Businesses

Rigsbee Research

Ed Rigsbee, CAE interviews Richard Melancon, CPA about how to successfully reopen your business following the post Covid-19 pandemic shut-down. Richard states that the customer loyalty, customer service, and branding rules have drastically changed. Be armed with insightful knowledge for your successful strategy and tactics. The post Ed Rigsbee’s Raw & Unedited with Richard Melancon: Reopening Businesses appeared first on Ed Rigsbee association and membership growth.

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Podcast: Need for Extreme Humanization

The 2112 Group

POD2112: Business Guru Tom Peters on the Need for Extreme Humanization. Technology is making the world move faster through analytics and automation. Businesses and individuals leverage the power of cloud computing and collaboration tools to interact without meeting face to face. In recent months, the value of these resources came to the fore as the COVID-19 pandemic forced businesses to shut down, send their staffs home, and initiate crash courses in socially separated working organizations.

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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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The IEEE SA Corporate Program: Engaging Industry in Standards Development

ISTO / IEEE

by Robby Simpson, PhD, System Architect, GE’s Grid Solutions and IEEE SA Corporate Advisory Group Chair. In the world of standards development, there exist a variety of participation methods. Some utilize the individual method, where each participant represents, acts, and votes on behalf of themselves. Others utilize a nation-state method, where each nation is a participant and representation and voting occur accordingly.

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What’s the responsibility of the AI industry in ensuring that AI serves to create an inclusive global economy?

Partnership on AI

Provide input on PAI’s new AI and Shared Prosperity Initiative. The COVID-19 public health and economic crises have exposed and exacerbated unequal access to opportunity and economic vulnerability for many workers around the world. As the AI industry mobilizes to respond to these twin momentous crises, we must ensure that our sector’s work does not further the very inequities that we seek to mitigate in the face of the pandemic.

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Winning back the Retail Customer – It’s Not Too Late

EGA

While the demise of traditional retailers such as Sears, is often attributed to technology growth, the real killer is lack of attention to customer experience, choice and market direction. Consumers have easy access to a broad range of choices, personalization of offers and quick easy online-enhanced experience. Therefore they expect ‘friction-free’ ability to access what they want immediately – without searching through a large store with variable customer service levels.

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Celebrating Juneteenth:   Vantage Partners' Stance Against Racial Injustice

Vantage Partners

Juneteenth recognizes the end of slavery in the US. We acknowledge and celebrate it both as a day of liberation and as a reminder of the progress still to be made. On Juneteenth, and every day, Vantage Partners stands in solidarity with the Black community as allies in the fight against racism and injustice.

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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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Ed Rigsbee’s Raw & Unedited with Don Phin: COVID-19 & Employee Law

Rigsbee Research

Association & Society executives are facing huge issues with cash flow and retain employees. April 1, 2020 changes much. Terminate or furlough? Employment law attorney, Don Phin, answers your questions. More answers at [link] [link]. The post Ed Rigsbee’s Raw & Unedited with Don Phin: COVID-19 & Employee Law appeared first on Ed Rigsbee association and membership growth.

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How Leaders Can Cultivate Patience in an Impatient World

INSEAD Knowledge

Nine ways to develop this important “muscle” and reap its mental health benefits.

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Big Idea: Expand Enablement to Everyone

The 2112 Group

Making training available to everyone will cultivate a strong, capable labor pool while showing empathy to partners and their families. By Larry Walsh and Anonymous. Introduction by Larry Walsh. At the height of the pandemic, a friend and colleague penned this piece about the value of extending training and enablement resources to everyone. The big idea: Enablement shouldn’t end with employment and vendors can help themselves by providing access to training and learning to former, furloughed, an

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How to Succeed with Limited Resources

CenterPoint Group

The lockdowns have caused massive disruption to life as we know it, particularly when it comes to work. Depending on where you are and what the rules of your local lockdown might be, your business could be operating with a skeletal workforce, with just the most essential employees coming into the office and the rest staying home on furlough or simply working from home.

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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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Business Networking

Chameleon Sales

Networking is a concept that business owners struggle to build or develop. Most people have a network of some kind whether it is friends from college, friends from their child’s extracurricular activities, or friends from their own interest groups. However, not all business owners know or understand the importance of networking in their professional lives.

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How To Use Partner Enablement to Fuel A Successful Channel

PLM Alliances

A widespread problem with a partner channel is lower than expected revenue growth or inconsistent returns from your partners. In cases like this, the culprit may be what you are doing or not doing to enable your partners success. Ultimately, your job as a channel leader is to create an environment where your partners are motivated to work to your strategic goals, and enabled in a way that will make them successful.

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Ed Rigsbee’s Raw & Unedited with Tom Papas: Member Recruitment at Your Expo

Rigsbee Research

Ed Rigsbee Interviews Tom Papas, Executive Director, Western States Roofing Contractors Association on how to grow your membership (10+%) with a “membership booth” on your expo floor. Homepage. The post Ed Rigsbee’s Raw & Unedited with Tom Papas: Member Recruitment at Your Expo appeared first on Ed Rigsbee association and membership growth.

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What is the Difference Between a Partnership and a Limited Liability Company?

Tishkoff

A limited liability company is a form of business organization combining elements of limited partnerships and corporations. All partnerships consist of individuals who have agreed to run a business together under the terms of a partnership agreement. A general partnership typically does not provide its individual partners with limited liability from lawsuits and debts.

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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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4 Key Things to Consider When You’re a Channel Leader

Impartner

Have you ever asked yourself what drives channel revenue, what makes partners profitable and what does it take to make your channel successful? The front edge of the challenge with Business Intelligence (BI) tools is always finding a better way to show what really matters and making informed decisions based on real-time data. If you’re a channel chief looking for visibility into your channel, Impartner is here to help and we’ve built the perfect tool that answers those golden channel questions.

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Easy Savings During An Economic Crisis: How CenterPoint Can Help

CenterPoint Group

During this unprecedented global pandemic, businesses everywhere are filing bankruptcy claims, from small businesses to mega-companies like Golds’ Gym. In a time when only essential goods and services are spared, too many industries are suffering the effects of a global lockdown. Halted trade, manufacturing, and distribution create an economic imbalance that reverberates throughout the globe.

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The 48-Hour Challenge

Collaboration LLC

I’ll admit that the amount of information coming at me these days is overwhelming — from constant news alerts to webinars to guidelines from every organization I can think of. Then, trying to digest everything and not get too anxious about the future. I began to think about creating a 48-hour challenge – taking a break from all social media, news, email, and phones for 48 hours.

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