Posts tagged experience
The Challenges of Hiring, Firing, and Promoting

While competency and skills are undoubtedly essential factors, ignoring DNA match entirely can lead to serious issues. Employees who do not fit in with the organizational culture may be less motivated, less engaged, and less likely to stay with the company long-term.

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Avoid Expensive Trial-and-Error

Building and running sales processes and teams without experience is an expensive trial-and-error scenario! Can it be done? Sure, it has been done this way many times. Should it be done? In my opinion, no. Because…

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Top-Notch Soft Skills Eat Experience for Breakfast

And top-notch soft skills eat experience for breakfast: According to Forbes, 94% of recruiters believe that top-notch soft skills outweigh experience when it comes to promotion to leadership positions.

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The 10 Types of Innovation

Personally, I was part of a team that, following a series of acquisitions, was looking for the innovation potential in the newly formed business. And we found it predominantly in Process and Structure.

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Recruiters Believe That Top-Notch Soft Skills Outweigh Experience

Interestingly, technical skills (59.6%) and computer skills (55.1%), often considered among the most important skills an applicant can possess in today’s high-tech job market, ranked quite low by comparison.

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Winery Clubs - D2C At Its Best

In recent years they have done a fantastic job on me! There are charges on my credit card, and in turn, I receive very regularly the ‘gift’ of a great variety of wines unavailable in my local wine store.

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The 10 Types of Innovation

How do you tell your R&D team that while you value their work, their innovation on Product Performance matters the least to customers? The executive I was with has had this very conversation and was able to demonstrate how, for his business, Customer Engagement was the most impactful type.

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