Monthly Archives: May 2014
Accelerated Talent Development #5: Three Ways to Boost Your Employer Branding
0 comentsWhat the Best Employers Know to be True In the thirty years I have been studying what best motivates and engages employees it has never been clearer what it takes, and the tremendous payout it provides. It’s not just my insight; In my discussions with Canada’s top 40 talent developer’s it’s becoming clearer and clearer that command and control strategies do not work anymore, ...
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Two Guaranteed Ways to Fail
0 comentsIt’s time to compete – win and achieve what you want for your business. A desired future is something that can’t be managed, predicted, or just wished or waited for. It’s created from re-thinking your market and business, creating a new business strategy and turning it into action and then into reality . Unfortunately, what we know can keep us away from learning what we ...
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Can We See What is Right in Front of Us?
0 comentsIn a culture of distraction, most of it self-imposed, we struggle to see what’s right in front of us. I was at a Blue Jay baseball game with my son, sitting next to some people who all had their heads down fiddling with their devices while the most exciting play of the game happened. Not one of them saw it! At the airport I watched two young parents intensely engaged with their devices ...
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Rebuilding the Business
0 comentsSince January, I’ve been working with a group of business people who want to lead their businesses to a new future. Why? Their businesses aren’t making money like they used to. Margins are shrinking and they don’t like where things are going. They’re great people. They’re successful and yet they don’t let that blind them into becoming a caretaker. They ...
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Accelerated Talent Development #4: What can a bunch of bikers really do?
0 comentsWhat I Learned from Harley Davidson Things are not always as you imagine them. In searching for Canada’s leading talent developers, Harley Davidson would not necessarily automatically come to mind but then you don’t know Mike Harwood. In fact some would automatically assume they were a bunch of rough around the edges ex-bikers. They would be right but they would also be very wrong. Many ...
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Marketing Hasn’t Been Producing
0 comentsThey are called soft leads. Today’s marketing that focuses only on creating awareness in the marketplace, building brand as they say, hasn’t produced at the rate that is needed to recover from our worldwide slow down. It is expensive and isn’t easily measured. The small community of companies I am working with have learned to connect sales and marketing in their effort to ...
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