Thought Leadership

Time management in simple terms is the ability to use time effectively and productively. This is one of the most sought-after skills by business professionals as they are asked to do more, faster, better, and with fewer resources. Now, with more people working in a virtual environment, production levels have gone down for many organizations. […]

According to surveys commissioned by the University of Phoenix, 94% of employers feel training and upskilling are critical, and 71% of employees feel they must continue to learn new skills to meet evolving job demands. Despite these numbers, even in the best of times, professional development is often pushed to the side or low on

When performance appraisals are done correctly, they provide valuable development and growth insight to employees that can be used to advance their careers. However, when done incorrectly, performance appraisals can be intimidating for both the manager that has to write them and the employee that has to receive them. In the last blog, we discussed

In today’s volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) environment, organizations need to be able to create an organizational culture that identifies challenges/opportunities, creates a plan of attack, and then measures/tracks them to make sure they are headed in the right direction. A “Performance Management Culture” ensures activities and outputs by the organization, a department, or

Selling for most sales reps has drastically changed in 2020. For salespeople that have never sold online before, this new environment may have them feeling fearful, hesitant, and unprepared. In the last blog, “Virtual Selling: The New Paradigm”, we discussed some best practices for selling online. This blog will focus more on conducting a virtual