Emily Golden Answers Your Most Pressing Career Questions As part of our Start It Sunday series, a professional development campaign designed to motivate you for the week ahead, we caught up with author, speaker, and master certified coach Emily Golden who specializes in executive leadership and career coaching. She has 17 years of corporate human resources experience; practical experience from more than 2,500 hours of […] CATEGORIES ForceBrands PUBLISHED January 31, 2021 AUTHOR Rebecca Fryer
How Employee Retention Has Changed Amid COVID Free lunches at the office. A complimentary gym membership. After-work happy hours at your team’s favorite local pub. These types of perks, offered by companies in the name of corporate culture and employee retention, now seem like relics of a bygone era in 2021. The COVID-19 pandemic that dominated 2020 has fundamentally reshaped the way […] CATEGORIES ForceBrands PUBLISHED January 27, 2021 AUTHOR Tim Crean
Why Delegation Should Always Include Teaching, Coaching, and Mentoring The practice of active delegation is an essential part of effective management. If you want to compound the impact you have on your team and organization, you will need to learn to effectively delegate duties, responsibilities, and projects that are not essential that you be involved in. Having said that, truly great leaders utilize a […] CATEGORIES ForceBrands PUBLISHED January 25, 2021 AUTHOR Patrick Proctor
Financial Storytelling: How to Use Data to Tell a Story It goes without saying that without data, finance cannot function. But too much data can be overwhelming and even detrimental to reporting, which is where the phrase ‘paralysis by analysis’ comes from. We caught up with ForceBrands‘ Chief Financial Officer Karl Schroeder to discuss how we can better use data to tell a more complete […] CATEGORIES ForceBrands PUBLISHED January 22, 2021 AUTHOR Rebecca Fryer
How to Sustain Diversity Hiring Throughout the Year Diversity hiring is (and should be) important to companies in the CPG space. Many companies talk about it and many even put plans into action to get the process started. The problem becomes, these programs often fail to produce the long-term results that were intended. Like so many New Year’s resolutions, diversity hiring starts with […] CATEGORIES ForceBrands PUBLISHED January 20, 2021 AUTHOR Tim Crean
These Organizational Design Changes Will Remain Even When COVID Is Gone Many companies shifted to fully remote workforces in a matter of weeks or days in the wake of stay-at-home orders when the pandemic hit, and many workers are in no rush to return to the workplace. Many CEOs, however, aren’t ready to say goodbye to the office forever. That said, the offices of the future […] CATEGORIES ForceBrands PUBLISHED January 13, 2021 AUTHOR Beth Braverman
Discover the Future of Field Marketing in This Must-Watch Webinar Field marketing looks a lot different since the outbreak of COVID-19. The shift from in-person experiences to virtual interactions has made it challenging for brands to connect with audiences. Companies have been forced to redirect their field marketing efforts online and get creative on how to maximize their impact digitally. With an end hopefully in […] CATEGORIES ForceBrands PUBLISHED January 13, 2021 AUTHOR PINATA
How to Look at Finance From a Futuristic Perspective and Why It Matters Finance is traditionally a backward-looking function in that it relies heavily on the data of the past to help tell the story of the future. In the debut episode of our ‘how to’ educational video series, where we spotlight niche industry experts to share their unique expertise, we caught up with ForceBrands’ Chief Financial Officer […] CATEGORIES ForceBrands PUBLISHED January 11, 2021 AUTHOR Rebecca Fryer
These 5 Trends Will Shape How We Hire in 2021 At the start of 2020, it was hard to imagine how much the world and the workplace were about to change. Soon businesses everywhere would need to pivot and adjust business practices amid a global pandemic. Less than a year later, social distancing, mask-wearing, and remote work have become commonplace, and organizations now view hiring […] CATEGORIES ForceBrands PUBLISHED January 11, 2021 AUTHOR Melanie Haniph
Field Marketing Innovation: How These Two Brands Have Adapted Amid the Pandemic According to Plato, necessity is the mother of invention. To say that the arrival of COVID-19 has forced us all to find innovative ways to manage our lives and work as we know it would be an understatement. Even though 2020 was a bleak year for global economic growth and business, and marketing efforts have […] CATEGORIES ForceBrands PUBLISHED January 6, 2021 AUTHOR Stefanie Schwalb
24 Big Ideas That Will Shape the World in 2021, According to LinkedIn From holding employers accountable to their diversity commitments to returning to a more relaxed office, 2021 is shaping up to be a year unlike any other, thanks to the events of 2020. At the end of each year, LinkedIn editors reach out to their community of Influencers, Top Voices, and frequent contributors to share the […] CATEGORIES ForceBrands PUBLISHED December 13, 2020 AUTHOR Rebecca Fryer
What Candidates Really Think About Video Interviews In the absence of in-person meetings, most companies are now offering job interviews to be conducted virtually. Video interviews are the new normal in the current job market amid the pandemic. According to hiring managers, there are many benefits of video interviews that include: • More flexibility around scheduling the interview • The ability to […] CATEGORIES ForceBrands PUBLISHED December 10, 2020 AUTHOR Kristin Herman