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Don’t have time to attend conferences or lectures where the best and brightest are speaking? No worries. You can listen to videos that will help you improve your business or challenge your thinking about what is best for your company.
Here are the top 10 videos every businessperson should watch.
Tony Hsieh, CEO of the online shoe and clothing shop Zappos, explains how Zappos grew to a billion-dollar brand by concentrating on exceptional customer service.
You’ve already hired the most promising job candidates using your list of non-negotiables to weed out the bad hires for your entry-level positions. A few months pass. You’re happy with the hiring decisions, and your newer employees appear satisfied as well. You’ve successfully completed the first hurdle to building a great team. Congrats!
But what’s happens next?
Do you have a process in place to identify and reward those rising stars to increase your chances that they stay on your team? If not, you could lose a future leader and not even know it. [Read more…]
Analytics – while sometimes overwhelming – play an important role in the marketing sphere of a business. It’s easy to look at online ads, identify the ones that have the highest click-through rate, and create more ads like them. However, not all divisions in the corporate world are accustomed to leveraging analytics nor do all departments have data that would be helpful.
One area that doesn’t incorporate analytics is recruiting and human resources. According to Deloitte’s Global Human Capital Trends 2014 report, 86 percent of human resources professionals don’t use analytics at all. But that’s changing. [Read more…]
Our M&A digest this week examines realistic growth expectations when selling a business, the optimism level of middle market executives, and one of the hardest challenges of owning a company. As usual, click on the headline to read the full article. [Read more…]
Hiring the wrong person is costly. Not only does it cost you time and money but it also is mentally draining for you and your staff.
To make sure that you hire the right person the first time around, you should create a list of non-negotiable traits that all potential employees must exhibit. But that’s only part of the process when hiring a good fit for your company.
Another area that will help you when hiring a new employee is focusing on the types of questions the job candidate asks of you. This gives you insight into how the person thinks, what they’re looking for in an employer, and what kind of experiences they’ve had in the past. [Read more…]