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Talent Strategy

To grow and thrive as a business, you must be deliberate in your strategies for identifying, attracting, developing, and retaining a strong team. Find information and advice to help you accomplish these tasks.

The Impact of Flagship Project Teams in Talent Acquisition

In the realm of Talent Acquisition (TA), where the daily grind often dominates our focus, there is an innovative approach that has the potential to revolutionize how teams operate – Flagship Project Teams. While the concept might seem unconventional at first glance, it offers a unique opportunity to challenge team members, unearth hidden talents, and drive innovation within the TA departm...
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Non-Negotiable: Addressing Work-life Balance to Recruit Top Talent

Post-pandemic, relationships between employees and employers have transformed. Employees have gotten a good taste of work-life balance, which has edited what they want in their careers.  Businesses must meet these new cultural demands somewhere in the middle and create a working synergy focusing on healthy work-life balance.  Ignoring this new trend will impact hiring and retaini...
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5 Tips to Help Small Business Owners Manage Their Sales Team

5 Tips to Help Small Business Owners Manage Their Sales Team
Adding new sales reps to your small business is a quite an accomplishment. It means you’re at a point where you’re ready to start growing your business and you’ve found and hired talented salespeople to join your team. But your job is far from over.Even though many sales reps like to work on their own, they are still going to need training, coaching, motivation and incentives to maintain a high le...
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6 Ways to Strengthen Your Willpower Muscle

Willpower is like a muscle. It can be improved and strengthened over time. Conversely, it can also become weak over time, especially as the day or week progresses. Here are 6 ways to strengthen you willpower muscle so you can reach your goals. What is the first thing you give into as your willpower muscle weakens throughout the day? 6 Ways to Strengthen Your Willpower Muscle
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Lack Luster Employee Culture? Address It Now to Impact Retention.

This post is Part 4 in a Salesjournal Series on “Making Your Business Attractive to Top Talent.”  Part 1 asks “Is Your Business Attractive to Top Talent?”, Part 2 describes how to “Market Your Company and Positions to Attract Top Talent”, Part 3 outlines ways to “Cultivate Your Network to Attract Top Talent“, and Part 5 asks “Want Top Talent? Rethink Benefits“. Whether you know it or ...
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Cultivate Your Network to Attract Top Talent

This post is Part 3 in a Salesjournal Series on “Making Your Business Attractive to Top Talent.”  Part 1 asks “Is Your Business Attractive to Top Talent?” and Part 2 describes how to “Market Your Company and Positions to Attract Top Talent”, Part 4 details “Lack Luster Employee Culture?  Address It Now to Impact Retention” and Part 5 asks “Want Top Talent? Rethink Benefits.” You can’t rely...
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Market Your Company and Positions to Attract Top Talent

This post is Part 2 in a Salesjournal Series on "Making Your Business Attractive to Top Talent."  Part 1 asked, "Is Your Business Attractive to Top Talent?" Attracting top talent is a struggle for almost every company. An essential element to combating this problem is being able to market your company and your positions effectively. Appealing job descriptions, marketing your open positions...
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Is Your Business Attractive to Top Talent?

How do I attract top sales talent? I find this question being asked repeatedly when speaking with business and sales leaders. It is nearly unanimous that they all struggle with finding and keeping good sales professionals. Solving this tough challenge involves selling your company as much to prospective employees as to prospective customers.  Too many businesses set up all of their marketing and c...
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13 Reasons for Poor Sales Hires by Hard Working Sales Managers

Lance Cooper of Sales Manage Solutions invites you to imagine this picture... Turnover occurs - sometimes at an excessive rate. Sales managers work hard and struggle to find quality candidates for open sales positions. They place ads in local newspapers and get many responses. Some use Monster. Some use recruiters. However, many of their candidates come from people who cannot find a job anywhere e...
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Always Be Recruiting!

Dave Kurlan wrote an outstanding post: Bench Strength – The Key To Replacing Salespeople. He mentioned that managers must always be recruiting. It’s such a simple concept, but Dave Brock is constantly amazed at how few managers–at all levels do this. Here’s how the cycle goes. We have a bad performer in place, we worry about firing the person because it leaves an open territory - too often we thi...
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