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How Leaders Foster 100% Responsibility

Jesse Lyn Stoner

Guest post by Dr. John Izzo Almost every leader of a team or organization of any size wants their people to step up to 100% Responsibility – to take full responsibility for their own careers, for their own engagement, for winning every customer, for driving innovation, for keeping costs down, and on the list goes. […]. The post How Leaders Foster 100% Responsibility appeared first on Seapoint Center for Collaborative Leadership.

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The Queen’s Gambit and corporate partnerships

Stellar Partnerships

Have you watched the Queen’s Gambit (currently streaming on Netflix) yet? I highly recommend it. It’s entertaining and makes chess look far less geeky than how I viewed it when my brother was the school champion. There are also lots of parallels to be drawn with corporate partnerships. The show is named after a chess tactic where a player temporarily sacrifices a pawn to gain control of the centre of the board.

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Are You Ready for the Third Wave?

Peter Simoons

Almost everyone will admit that the reality of 2020 has deviated from any plans put into place for this year. We all experienced two waves of Covid-19 that affected our businesses and alliances. With that in mind, are you ready for the third wave? I know, with all the better news coming through surrounding vaccines telling us that they have a high percentage of effectiveness, I’m sounding pessimistic but let’s be realistic.

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Success with Your Valuable Volunteers

Partners Preceptors

Danielle Jessup, CMP Many organizations around the world are changing due to COVID-19. Potentially the organization structure has changed but the workload has increased. Now is the time to enhance your organization’s volunteer program.

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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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The New Business Models (and Jobs) in Blockchain

INSEAD Knowledge

From finance to smart cities, distributed ledger technology is beginning to deliver on its vaunted potential in several key sectors.

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Ep. 138 – Xponential Fitness Chief-Operating-Officer, Michael Abramson

COO Alliance

Our guest today is Xponential Fitness’ Chief Operating Officer, Michael Abramson. . At a young age, Michael was exposed to the world of fitness from his father, David Abramson, who is a world champion powerlifter. Michael trained with some of the best coaches in powerlifting, making him a 3x national champion in USA Powerlifting. . Michael’s accreditations include being President of the Student Bar Association in law school at UIC John Marshall; Tennessee State Chair for USA Powerlifting; develo

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Success with Your Valuable Volunteers

Partners Preceptors

Danielle Jessup, CMP Many organizations around the world are changing due to COVID-19. Potentially the organization structure has changed but the workload has increased. Now is the time to enhance your organization’s volunteer program.

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Workplace Mental Health Is a Business Asset. Treat It That Way

INSEAD Knowledge

The most successful initiatives deliver employee well-being programmes as a strategic “product”, with four fundamental planning considerations.

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An Overview of dataBelt - the Swiss Army Knife of Data Management

TRG Blog

Data is the lifeblood of every organisation, the valuable asset that each employee generates an endless amount of daily. Effectively collecting and analysing data can help you understand your customers better and make more informed decisions.

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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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Tech Tools Every Business Should Know

COO Alliance

New technology is appearing everywhere all the time, so why not embrace it? There are all sorts of tools technology brings that can certainly help your business, so why not check them out? All of this technology is simple, free, or inexpensive, and something that virtually every company or leader like a COO can use to help them run their business more efficiently.

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Transforming Beyond the Crisis

Thinkers 50

Transforming Beyond the Crisis. The Covid-19 pandemic reminded us how fragile our societies, businesses, and our lives are. It turned things upside down in a matter of weeks. It required governments to provide dramatic emergency support. It forced people to enter self-isolation to protect themselves and others. It pushed organizations to reimagine how they do business and how they would survive.

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Six Tools for Turning Your Ideas Into Reality

INSEAD Knowledge

From finding the right analogy to tapping into FOMO, learn how to sell your ideas to potential supporters.

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Move Aside Work-from-Home, It’s the Work-From-Anywhere Era

TRG Blog

If you think employers that offer employees the ability to work from home any day of the week is progressive enough, think again. COVID-19 has accelerated an endless number of transformative initiatives that are otherwise put on hold indefinitely. Among which, work from home (WFH) was the one that witnessed the strongest growth due to increasing health concerns.

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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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Ep. 137 – Grafana Labs Chief-Operating-Officer, Douglas Hanna

COO Alliance

Our guest today is Grafana Labs’ Chief Operating Officer, Douglas Hanna. . Grafana Labs is the company behind leading open source projects Grafana and Loki, and the creator of the first open and composable observability platform. . Prior to Grafana Labs, Douglas spent nearly four years at Zendesk, most recently as VP, Operations at Zendesk. Before Zendesk, he was the founder and CEO of Help.com , a customer service software company, and the CEO of A Small Orange, the homegrown hosting company. .

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How To Open the Securing Renewals Conversation?

Channel Incentive Best Practices

No-one needs to be told the importance of securing renewals. They are the life-blood of both vendor and reselling partners. However, some vendors fail to realize the leakage and spillage caused to securing renewals by the lack of data, systems and tracking. At both the vendor and partner level. A vendor will likely have a CRM or PRM that tracks when renewals are due.

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Advance Enterprise Agility in 2021

Planview Blog

With organizations globally making a rapid shift to remote work, many businesses are starting to embrace enterprise agility to work cross-functionally to better plan and deliver value to customers, faster. It’s important that organizations become familiar with Agile transformation, Lean budgeting, and Lean Portfolio Management to maximize the success of their transformation journey.

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CEOs: Forget V-Shaped Recovery. Lead Y-Shaped Reinvention to Be Better

Thinkers 50

CEOs worry about the shape of recovery: V, U, W, or L? The V-shaped recovery, while most desirable, is out of question according to the Fed and OECD. Rather than passively dream about a V-shaped recovery of the whole economy, which is beyond their control, CEOs must proactively lead a Y-shaped transformation of their organization. Such a conscious and deep reinvention will enable their business to achieve sustainable success in the post Covid-19 world. 95% of companies today operate in survival

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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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Tech Tools Every Business Should Know

COO Alliance

New technology is appearing everywhere all the time, so why not embrace it? There are all sorts of tools technology brings that can certainly help your business, so why not check them out? All of this technology is simple, free, or inexpensive, and something that virtually every company or leader like a COO can use to help them run their business more efficiently.

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Seven Tools for Turning Your Ideas Into Reality

INSEAD Knowledge

From finding the right analogy to tapping into FOMO, learn how to sell your ideas to potential supporters.

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Trends Shaping the Future of Employee Experience in 2021

ITA Group

Trends Shaping the Future of Employee Experience in 2021. In the year 2021, we’re predicting efforts to refine and enhance the employee experience will continue to be a top area of focus for leaders everywhere. And they should—companies that have a dedicated focus on employee experience tend to also have a strong culture, heightened employee engagement, a diverse and inclusive environment, and high levels of touch throughout the employee life cycle.

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Big Idea Webinar: What’s Your Problem with Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg

Thinkers 50

Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg explains how to solve the right problems by mastering the art of reframing. Have you or your colleagues ever worked hard on something only to find you were focusing on the wrong problem entirely? Most people have. Research shows that 85% companies say they often struggle to solve the right problems. The consequences are severe: leaders fight the wrong strategic battles; teams spend their energy on low-impact work; and start-ups build products and services that nobody wa

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How to Prove Marketing Value: Demonstrate Content ROI and Contribution to Sales

Every marketer knows how important it is to prove their efforts drive sales opportunities, but that’s easier said than done. When problems like sales and marketing misalignment, lack of data, and wasted efforts persist, marketers can’t measure, prove, or increase their impact on revenue at a time when demonstrating marketing value is critical. Using analyst and expert data, this guide to marketing impact and content attribution explains: How B2B buyers use content The most common types of conten

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Can't Make Sense of Your Business Data? Here Are 5 Ways A.I. Can Help

TRG Blog

Wonder how Netflix is able to suggest TV series that match your interests, or how Amazon recommends personalised products, thus urging you to buy more? These are all made possible thanks to Artificial Intelligence and machine learning.

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How to bridge the gap between cyber security technologies and business value

Managed Services Platform

The borders of the network have disappeared, and people have moved out of the office with minimal focus on securing their remote environment. Ransomware events are increasing in both frequency and amounts demanded. Compliance and certification is getting more focus as governments move to support cyber security initiatives. The news is full of talk about security concerns.

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6 Tactics to Kickstart B2B Customer Loyalty Marketing

ITA Group

6 Tactics to Kickstart B2B Customer Loyalty Marketing. According to Marketing Metrics , the success rate of selling to an existing customer is 60-70% , while the success rate of selling to a new customer is only 5-20% ! The most common pitfall for businesses around the world the belief that if they have a great product or service, then customer retention will follow naturally.

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Back2Better Webinar: Leading From Anywhere with David Burkus

Thinkers 50

It’s undeniable that we’re entering a new era of remote work. While many leaders seek to run business as usual, why settle for the usual when remote teams allow us to work even better? The research shows that employees are more productive and engaged when they have the freedom to work from anywhere. Which means leaders need the skills to lead from anywhere.

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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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Get Your Sales Team Excited About Co-Selling With a 50% Faster Time to Closure

Crossbeam Blog

Rajiv Ramanan , Director of Startup Program and Technology Alliances at Freshworks , noticed a trend in the partnerships industry: co-selling tends to get lost after the account mapping phase.

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How to Host and Facilitate Remote Diversity Training

Aepiphanni

As we march into 2021, diversity, equity, and inclusion have been at the forefront of our daily dialogue. At the same time, millions of people have taken to the streets in cities across the globe to support the Black Lives Matter movement in the wake of Ahmaud Arbery’s, George Floyd’s, and Breonna Taylor’s deaths. As activists call for change, many call for change in the workplace as well.

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Ep. 138 – Xponential Fitness Chief-Operating-Officer, Michael Abramson

COO Alliance

Our guest today is Xponential Fitness’ Chief Operating Officer, Michael Abramson. . At a young age, Michael was exposed to the world of fitness from his father, David Abramson, who is a world champion powerlifter. Michael trained with some of the best coaches in powerlifting, making him a 3x national champion in USA Powerlifting. . Michael’s accreditations include being President of the Student Bar Association in law school at UIC John Marshall; Tennessee State Chair for USA Powerlifting; develo