Networking as we know it first took shape 15 or 20 years ago, when entrepreneurs and consultants started meeting up with people for the sole purpose of cultivating business relationships. It makes sense that self-employed folks would jump into the networking mosh pit ahead of corporate types, who didn’t need big or robust networks to [...]
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7 Cringe-Worthy Networking Blunders
September 21st, 2011 
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Making the Most of YouTube in your Marketing
August 30th, 2011 emanuelperdis The world of YouTube can be lucrative one for advertisers with billions of users watching videos daily. But what are the best ways to find your target audience and put your brand in front of them? Each day more than three billion videos are played on YouTube Worldwide. In Australia, it has now become [...]
Posted in Consulting, featured, Your Business, Your Career Tags: advertising, marketing, video, video ads, YouTube No Comments »
A Smarter Way to Network
August 27th, 2011 emanuelperdis Networks are effective not because they are large or high powered, but because they support and challenge you. One’s relationships help gain influence, broaden expertise, learn new skills, and find purpose and balance. As an executive, you ought to value and nurture them. “Make friends so that you have friends when you need friends” [...]
Posted in Coach-Mentor, Consulting, featured, Your Business, Your Career Tags: address book, connecting, connections, contacts, network, Networking, rolodex 1 Comment »
What causes well-crafted strategies to fail?
August 12th, 2011 emanuelperdis Most organisations create strategies to achieve their business objectives. Strategies may be established for the development of new products or services; for new approaches to marketing and sales; for creating value extensions to existing products; for internal productivity gains; for talent development; and other initiatives designed to increase organisational performance and create new opportunities. Most [...]
6 Steps to Extreme Productivity
August 8th, 2011 emanuelperdis Principle 1: Know Your Comparative Advantage. Many CEOs encountered say, “Here are the top five priorities for the company. Who would be the best at carrying out each one?” Then they propose themselves for all five areas. This is based on a self-centered concept of comparative advantage. It focuses on what an executive does best [...]
Posted in Coach-Mentor, Consulting, featured, Training, Your Business, Your Career Tags: efficiency, executives, leaders, management, managing, Organised, Organization, performance, Productivity No Comments »
Dealing with Cold Shoulders after coming back from an Expat assignment
August 4th, 2011 emanuelperdis Many executives returning to Australia after several years away are frustrated by the lack of recognition of their experience but are important home truths to anticipate. Following are some great tips to help expats optimise re-integration and facilitating the leverage of value in international experience. Prepare a detailed Plan for your comeback. The devil really [...]
Perils and Opportunities of Poaching Talent
August 2nd, 2011 emanuelperdis It might cost more and cause havoc within the organization but businesses say poaching is rife and here to stay. With the unemployment rate expected to fall further from its current level of 4.9 per cent, poaching will be the weapon of choice for many firms fighting it out in the war for talent. It [...]
Posted in featured, Your Business, Your Career Tags: employee enagement, hiring, poaching, recruitment, staff training, talent No Comments » 5 Personality Traits of Top Salespeople
July 19th, 2011 emanuelperdis If you ask an extremely successful salesperson, “What makes you different from the average sales rep?” you will most likely get a less-than-accurate answer, if any answer at all. Frankly, the star salesperson may not even know the real answer because most successful salespeople are simply doing what comes naturally. Personality test result findings indicate [...]
Posted in Coach-Mentor, featured, Your Business, Your Career Tags: performance, personality, sales, sales reps, selling No Comments »Can more praise be poisonous or void at the least?
July 18th, 2011 emanuelperdis Giving positive feedback to employees does not necessarily make your workforce more productive “Are we there yet? Are we there yet?” is the chorus from young workers today, said Fiona Smith in The Australian Financial Review. A survey of 1,299 workers by talent management company SHL found the most important skill a boss had to [...]
Why So Many Companies Fail at CEO Succession Planning
July 9th, 2011 emanuelperdis A poorly executed CEO succession has immediate adverse effects on stock price, momentum, reputation, and employee morale. Its necessary for every board to get succession planning right however too often the process is not given enough consideration. There are few opportunities for board members to develop expertise in handling this process. Though boards seem to [...]
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