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Investing in Your Team: Why Communication Skills Will Pay Big Dividends

by Carmie McCook February 24, 2016February 24, 2016 With all eyes on the unsettling news from Wall Street these days, decisions on where to invest to get the greatest return on your investment have become complicated. To invest your money wisely, analysts generally recommend doing research then investing in companies that show promise in order … Continue reading Investing in Your Team: Why Communication Skills Will Pay Big Dividends →

Get Trained and Get Ahead of the Digital Skills Shortage

Digital Transformation

by Jonathan Bright February 13, 2016 Follow @SoutherlyCommsFebruary 13, 2016 Given the current and global digital skills shortage, any kind of proficiency boost in digital marketing is a welcome development. So when renowned authority in social media, Hootsuite, devises a new educational programme doing exactly that, we simply had to get our resident expert Jonathan … Continue reading Get Trained and Get Ahead of the Digital Skills Shortage →

6 Skills That Could Save Your Job In The Future

Career Development

by Paul Keijzer January 27, 2016 Follow @Paul_KeijzerJanuary 27, 2016 The combination of skills that exist in a workplace between Gen Z to the Traditionalists could cause a disruption in the acceptable set of core skills that organizations look for. Whether these core skills come into question because you’re job hunting or because you fear … Continue reading 6 Skills That Could Save Your Job In The Future →

10+7: Skills Needed for Digital Marketing Success

Digital Marketing

by Angela Hausman, PhD January 14, 2016 Follow @MarketingLetterJanuary 14, 2016 Don’t trust your digital marketing to your niece or some intern thinking that young folks know all they need to know to generate digital marketing success. Sure, they may have 10K following their YouTube channel where they tape themselves doing crazy stunts, or a … Continue reading 10+7: Skills Needed for Digital Marketing Success →

4 Steps For Developing Managers’ Feedback Skills

Management Skills

by Eleanor Shakiba December 4, 2015December 4, 2015 Do you want a manager in your business to give better feedback? Then you need to develop their communication micro skills. The process of micro skilling involves four key steps. HR practitioners and trainers are ideally placed to facilitate those steps. Provide the manager with a compelling … Continue reading 4 Steps For Developing Managers’ Feedback Skills →

7 Skills a CMO Needs in the Digital Marketing Era

Digital Marketing

by Angela Hausman, PhD November 21, 2015 Follow @MarketingLetterNovember 21, 2015Image courtesy of Professional Academy Remember the BCG model you learned as an undergrad? You know, COWS, STARS, DOGS, AND ?Well, we used to call question marks (?) problem children before it became politically incorrect [children aren’t bad; they do bad things] Well, BCG is … Continue reading 7 Skills a CMO Needs in the Digital Marketing Era →

The Top 10 Customer Service Skills You Need To Have [Infographic]

Customer Service

Gigi PeccoloNovember 4, 2015 If you want to stand out from your competition, it isn’t enough to have a high-quality product. Many companies have realized the fact that the market isn’t as important as the customers. In addition, the present market is maturing, and acquiring new customers is getting harder. Therefore, it is more profitable … Continue reading The Top 10 Customer Service Skills You Need To Have [Infographic] →

How Good Are You at These Five Valuable Digital Skills?

Skills Management

Graham JonesOctober 23, 2015 Older people – many of whom run businesses – tend to have lower digital skills than youngsters Almost a quarter of small businesses in the UK lack the essential digital skills deemed necessary to survive in the online world we now inhabit. That’s the revelation from new research conducted for Go-On, … Continue reading How Good Are You at These Five Valuable Digital Skills? →

5 Skills That Every Entrepreneur Should Learn

Entrepreneurship

Beth RomelusOctober 20, 2015 Entrepreneurs need to be experienced and knowledgeable in a variety of skills and subjects to inspire innovation in their business. No one expects a one trick pony to propose intriguing marketing strategies or to be adaptable to changing market trends. So if business owners want to revolutionize how they operate and … Continue reading 5 Skills That Every Entrepreneur Should Learn →

Are Today’s Small Businesses Stuck With Employees Who Have Yesterday’s Skills?

Small Business Tools

Margaret JacobyOctober 5, 2015 According to a recent article on Forbes.com, HR executives indicate that their biggest challenge today is the skills gap, which seems to be widening instead of closing. A trend that is impacting the skills gap is the explosive growth in the use of technology. More and more employers see and are … Continue reading Are Today’s Small Businesses Stuck With Employees Who Have Yesterday’s Skills? →