Work Life

JUNE 22, 2025

Unless you plan to do a trial engagement with them, try not to choose a project that takes more than one to two hours to do unless you pay them for the work. Build alignment with your team on what good looks like for each project and plan to debrief once the assignment is complete and/or presented. Again, hiring is hard.

Sales

Workplace Insight

JUNE 19, 2025

Focus shifts to targeted optimisation The report indicates that among organisations planning to reduce further, the most frequently cited strategy is not renewing expiring leases, selected by 63 percent of respondents. Other common approaches include subleasing space (60 percent) and actively surrendering leases (55 percent).

Real Estate

Work Life

MAY 8, 2025

Jason, a sales director, is coaching a group of midlevel sales managers tasked with expanding into a new market. They have a good grasp of sales fundamentals but lack experience in handling high-stakes negotiations with enterprise clients.

Delegation

Work Life

JUNE 16, 2025

In other words, even our most carefully crafted plans rarely unfold as expected. For entrepreneurs, staying competitive means building a business plan that can keep pace with evolving technology. Here are five planning strategies that have helped me make my company more tech-responsive and allowed me to future-proof our growth.

Software

Success

MAY 8, 2025

Roths newest venture, Venu Holding Corporation, is disrupting the music industry with plans to build 10 luxury outdoor music venues across the country. With Venu, Roth plans to build a company that is fan-founded and fan-owned. Plans call for Venu to build stadiums in El Paso, Texas, and Oklahoma City and Broken Arrow, Oklahoma.

Sales

Workplace Insight

JUNE 17, 2025

The initial hilo.work range includes three flexible solutions: a pop-up Pod that functions both as a desk and a private Pod; a height-adjustable high-back booth ideal for individual or dual-user work; and a series of linear acoustic dividers to zone open-plan offices without permanent fixtures. or call +44 1274 669823.

Manufacturing

Work Life

JULY 24, 2025

As a regional sales VP at a fast-growing tech company, she prided herself on building a loyal, high-performing team. But without a clear plan, that reclaimed time is often consumed by low-value meetings, inbox clutter, or busywork. When Lisa opened the resignation email from one of her top performers, she froze.

Coaching

Attendance Bot

JULY 10, 2025

In this blog, we’ll explore how practical, scalable small business workforce planning approaches can help retail teams punch above their weight, improving coverage, reducing burnout, and delivering consistent customer service across every location. That’s where micro-team productivity strategies and modern scheduling tools come in.

Retail

Success

AUGUST 7, 2025

AI can give you a multi-layered breakdown of everything from customer demographics and CTRs to sales volumes and market trends. This analysis can be used to create personalized growth plans that can help employees be more productive. Consider offering mandatory training and openly communicating your organization’s AI adoption plans.

Leadership

McKensey

JUNE 10, 2025

Let’s say a retail merchandiser starts the process of analyzing scores of sales data and making recommendations for stock adjustments. Sales, on the other hand, is likely to see relatively low automation in the next five years (around 25 percent), given how much this function involves customer-facing activities.

Retail

Great Place to Work

JULY 17, 2025

For example, you could gather the results from your Trust Index™ Survey , feed them into an AI system, and get suggested action plans that you can tailor to best address your company’s needs. Other options could be a sales team using an AI chatbot to practice their selling skills or a customer service team training to manage complaints.

Customer Service

Work Life

JUNE 24, 2025

. — Marialena Kanaki , content marketing manager, TalentLMS Embrace Flexible Daily Planning Strict scheduling doesn’t work for everyone. I make a plan, stick to it (barring emergencies), and get a real sense of satisfaction from knowing exactly what I’ll be doing on any given day. I’m a natural scheduler.

Multitasking

Work Life

JULY 7, 2025

The reasons for these enormous numbers are multifaceted, ranging from staffing and funding cuts by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and their ramifications, companies leaning in to automation and artificial intelligence to sluggish sales.

Consulting

C-Suite Assistants

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Your EA handles lower-level duties and helps you organize your time and efforts, letting you focus on strategic plans and higher-level responsibilities. This central overseer creates synergy between marketing, sales, operations, administrative, and other departments, boosting efficiency.

Problem-Solving

Attendance Bot

JUNE 13, 2025

The customer sees the outcome of poor planning before anyone else. Leveraging Historical Data and Forecasting Use past attendance, sales, or service volume data to predict staffing needs. When employees can’t plan their personal lives, job satisfaction takes a hit. I Want Predictability—Not Surprises Every Week.” It’s human.

Flexibility

Success

MAY 8, 2025

Selling the car may also be a viable option, but youll still be responsible for paying off any difference between the cars sale price and what you borrowed. Think about what you need in your life right now, but also plan three [to] five years ahead of time, says AAA repair systems manager David Bennett.

Purchasing

Fellow

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

As well, with a central library of recorded meetings, marketers can get caught up on calls from the sales or customer success teams to gain valuable customer insights to guide campaigns. That’s also an advantage for sales managers to provide feedback and coach their reps. Paid plans start at $7 per user.

Sales

Work Life

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Throughout my twelve years at Allianz Trade, Ive been given flexibility to explore various positions, from marketing and communications to human resources, sales, and distribution. We do this through annual succession planning and creating a personal development plan with our employees.

Mentoring

Success

JUNE 23, 2025

The monthly plan is $30 for one person; contact the company for group rates. It has software, integrations and resources to connect your marketing, sales, customer service and other teams. It had a way of helping you gain insight into your own personality while helping others understand you at the same time.

Software

Success

JUNE 14, 2025

And when they’re not planned… you have to take time out of what you’re doing at that specific time to focus, which makes it much harder to be productive.” “For a while, I did really go off a script, but it is a lot easier to talk on the phone when you don’t have a script, and you… know exactly what to say,” she says.

Communication

Work Life

JULY 31, 2025

The World Economic Forum reports that 41% of employers plan workforce reductions by 2030 due to AI. Reimagine: Shift time toward high-impact interactions, retrain agents for sales roles, or embed support teams into product development to help eliminate root-cause customer issues. AI will amplify an existing leadership philosophy.

Leadership

Insperity

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Working independently or as part of a larger brokerage group, brokers earn a commission on the insurance plans they sell to clients. Formulation of HR strategies to support business goals and future planning. The client terminates their benefit plans and the PEO assumes responsibility for offering benefits to employees.

Insurance

Work Life

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Were creating new ways for our remote team to connect, whether planning event space layouts in the Meta Wooorld app or playing a round of mini golf in apps like Walkabout. REFRESH OUR MARKETING AND SALES MATERIALS Its been a busy year.

Creativity

Fellow

DECEMBER 18, 2024

A single, unified meeting library means that employees can: Catch up on missed meetings after an absence Reference past meetings to prepare for future calls Share knowledge across teams with ease That means, for example, Sales can share call recordings when they pass an account to Customer Success.

Security

Workplace Insight

JULY 8, 2025

Many firms are relocating functions such as IT, HR, sales, customer support, and business development to these cities as part of broader real estate strategies. JLL’s Future of Work survey indicates that 55 percent of financial services organisations plan to increase investment in central business district locations by 2030.

Real Estate

Fellow

MARCH 18, 2025

Change management can be a tough field to work in as it involves a lot of planning and stakeholder relationship management. For example, it could be an update that more benefits have been added to the health insurance plan, or that sales teams are now required to conduct key performance indicators (KPI) reporting monthly instead of quarterly.

Communication

Work Life

JUNE 25, 2025

companies , and for many of their owners, the business is their retirement plan. But while owners often hope to finance their golden years by selling their companies, only 20% of small businesses are ready for sale even in good times, according to the Exit Planning Institute. And right now, conditions are far from ideal.

Small Business

Work Life

JUNE 27, 2025

Her team had spent the last six months toward brand alignment, market research, product iterations, testing, launch planning, and marketing planning and were now finally ready to do something. billion in sales in 2023. Her waterfall approach and his agile approach were in conflict. Both made great points.

Leadership

Office Snapshots

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

A steering committee, including representatives from each department, ensured that every voice was heard, from designers to sales teams. At just over 5,000 square feet, the new office had to be meticulously planned to accommodate everything the team needed.

Creativity

Vantage Circle

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Importance of Employee Engagement in the Retail Sector In the retail industry, where employees heavily influence customer experience, brand perception, and sales, employee engagement is vital for its success. Research by Gallup has demonstrated that engaged employees make 18% more sales and 23% higher profitability.

Retail

Go Burrows

JUNE 15, 2025

I became a sales assistant at an art gallery and I was curious to transition that into EA work and the rest is history. But I knew that without wanting to go into sales, there would be only so far I could go in the art world. I started studying art history in high school. That’s what brought me to New York.

Leadership

Work Life

AUGUST 12, 2025

Sales launched their own pilots. But alignment isn’t just about sticking to the plan—it’s also about pacing. Q2: Sales piloted AI-driven prospecting tools based on that foundation. To make it stick, they rolled out a deliberate cascade plan. But after his predecessor left, ownership splintered.

Government

Fellow

JUNE 25, 2025

Why this matters as teams and organizations scale The moment your meetings include more than one function: Sales, Product, Customer Success, you need structure. The summaries are saved as canvases in your chat history, which you can then turn into outputs like project plans, emails, or code. Does Record Mode save audio?

Security

Vantage Circle

MARCH 23, 2025

A well-planned budget is not about handing out rewards; it's— about fostering a culture that employees appreciate. A well-planned recognition program encourages the right behaviors. Better sales performance. Without a budget, your plans for implementing a recognition program will never become a reality.

Payroll

Work Life

AUGUST 2, 2025

That makes the information, idea, or plan you want to remember even more memorable. That’s especially true for prospective memories, or remembering to perform a planned action or intention at some point in the future. Say you’re learning a new sales demo. You didn’t just think it. You also heard it.)

Learning

Attendance Bot

JUNE 18, 2025

Forecast Demand Using Foot Traffic and Sales Data Use historical sales data and foot traffic trends to project when coverage is critical. Managers can build optimized schedules in minutes and use built-in forecasting to plan for peak hours. Looking to upgrade your shift planning process?

Retail

Success

MAY 26, 2025

Armed with that, they built a direct-to-consumer model with a 100-night trial that hit the bullseye alongside free shipping of mattresses in surprisingly small boxes$100 million in sales by year two. Launched in 2010 with $2,500, they hit an estimated $100 million in sales by 2015, disrupting optometry in record time.

Problem-Solving