May, 2021

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Five Due Diligence Recommendations

Remarkable Partnerships

Corporate partnerships have the potential to deliver significant value, both financially and in-kind for your charity. However, you do not want to partner with companies whose objectives or practices are in conflict with your mission. An effective due diligence process should protect your charity’s reputation, streamline your decision making, and remove any scope for personal opinions.

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Top Tips for Modernizing your Partner Incentive Program

Channel Incentive Best Practices

The channel partner ecosystem is rapidly evolving. So how can you, as a vendor, build a modern incentives program? One that caters to all partner types and business models? This was one of the topics under discussion on our recent webinar: ‘Modernizing Incentive Programs for Today’s Channel’. Channel Mechanics’ CEO Kenneth Fox was joined by Sunny Song , Director Channel Operations at SentinelOne and Margaret Fetting , Channel Strategy, North & Latin America with Zebra Technologies.

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Future of Collaboration in the Workplace – What’s on CIOs’ Minds

Frost & Sullivan

At VIBE 2021, a virtual event for AVI-SPL customers and technology partners, Frost & Sullivan moderated a series of round tables for AVI-SPL’s global and enterprise customers. IT leaders from 40 global organizations in finance, pharmaceutical, technology, and manufacturing— Amazon, Amgen, BNY Mellon, Capital One, Eli Lilly, Estee Lauder, Citi, Ford Motor, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, Novartis, and other companies—that are part of AVI-SPL’s global and enterprise account program shared their

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The March Continues

Board Source

I believe I’ll remember the images of last summer’s racial justice marches for the rest of my life – largely for a reason that I didn’t expect. It wasn’t just the number of protests around the country that inspired me, or even the size of the crowds (impressive as they were). It was the rich, diverse tapestry of faces that I saw in those marches that I was especially surprised to see – a tapestry that provided much-needed hope and encouragement to me and many other Black Americans.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Singing, Doodling, and Other Unexpected Skills: Bringing More “You” to Work

Partners Preceptors

By Christina Neuhauser, SHRM-SCP Often, we get so caught up in trying to get through the day that it can be difficult to step back and look for ways to change the routine and shift our focus.

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Four Roadblocks Partnerships Hit Within the First Year

PartnerTap

There are four common roadblocks that partnerships hit within the first year that are often fatal. If you want to have a successful partnership (one that drives revenue for both firms), you must avoid these four pitfalls… 1. Lack of a Clear Partner Strategy. There are various reasons companies form Partnerships, so the strategies also vary.

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Importance of Equality in Peer Learning Groups

EGA

“The only source of knowledge is experience.” Albert Einstein. Numerous studies have found that people are their most creative when they meet informally on the job in groups of their peers where everyone is treated equally, has an equal opportunity to participate and speak up, and are focused on achieving the same objective. In a peer learning group, every group member has an equal opportunity to participate and to communicate their ideas.

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DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOU'RE GOING?

Be Partner Ready

As Yogi Berra once said “ if you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll end up somewhere else ” That’s why the BePartnerReady.com® process starts with setting an intention for corporate partnerships. There’re 3 good reasons to set an intention: 1. Focus. It gets you focused on a clear outcome so you can concentrate all your energy on that, and avoid distractions and so-called ‘opportunities’ that throw you off course.

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The Art of Building Trust With Your Channel Partners

CoSell

In a recent Accenture report, B2B companies are finding that trust is the most important success factor for ecosystems. Yet, it is the least appreciated or valued aspect of success. The experts at Accenture are clear in stating the problem and the potential solution. The problem: “When Trust is Gone, Everything is Gone.” This is true of all human relationships.

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Maximize Productivity and Simplify IT Management with Conversational AI

ChatGPT has dominated boardroom conversations for months now. From drafting a stock trading program, to creating a SQL query to model data, there are practically no limits to the applications of the AI language model assistant. At ManageEngine, we have been working on our own AI-assistant, Zia. Zia is a fully-trained analytics assistant that can perform a range of functions such as creating and adding reports to dashboards, providing conversational support to data analysis, insight discovery, bu

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Singing, Doodling, and Other Unexpected Skills: Bringing More “You” to Work

Partners Preceptors

By Christina Neuhauser, SHRM-SCP Often, we get so caught up in trying to get through the day that it can be difficult to step back and look for ways to change the routine and shift our focus.

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Are you Collaborating with your Competitors?

Peter Simoons

Coopetition, according to the dictionary, is “collaboration between business competitors, in the hope of mutually beneficial results”. Coopetition seems to be a word that finds its origin in the 1980s and slowly but steadily has grown into a common form of alliances and partnerships. The best-known coopetition examples of today are probably the partnerships that have been formed between pharmaceutical companies, to develop Covid-19 vaccines.

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Lighting the fire: leadership for corporate partnership success

Stellar Partnerships

“Managers light a fire under people. Leaders light a fire in people” Kathy Austin. Anthropologists talk about the importance of the chief in primitive times. The chief would be the one to light the fire for the tribe. The fire provided warmth, a gathering place for the tribe and a light to lift the darkness. When I was a little girl, I stayed at my gran’s old house that had an open coal fire.

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There are Standards…and There are Standards

ISTO / IEEE

Contributed by Bill Rubin, Senior Manager ISTO. The benefit of standards for developing products and processes across industries is well understood. Wikipedia ( [link] ) defines a Technical Standard as an established norm or requirement for a repeatable technical task. It is usually a formal document that establishes uniform engineering or technical criteria, methods, processes, and practices.

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How to Leverage Intent Data for Better Outcomes

Speaker: Susan Spencer, Principal of Spencer Communications

Intent signal data can go a long way toward shortening sales cycles and closing more deals. The challenge is deciding which is the best type of intent data to help your company meet its sales and marketing goals. In this webinar, Susan Spencer, fractional CMO and principal of Spencer Communications, will unpack the differences between contact-level and company-level intent signals.

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Vantage and Kotter Partner to Enable Change

Vantage Partners

Vantage Partners and Kotter Announce Strategic Partnership to Build Leadership and Change Capabilities Globally. Vantage Partners and Kotter today announced a strategic partnership to provide leadership training focused on navigating change and leading through turbulence. Together, Vantage and Kotter will offer learning solutions tailored for everyone from frontline staff, to middle management, to senior executives.

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Account Mapping: The Chocolate Truffle That No One Told You About

CoSell

What’s the big secret about co-selling? Account mapping is easy. It is tasty. It is delicious. It’s just like a yummy chocolate truffle. This explains why so many people are avid about how Cosell works. In a lot of conversations these last weeks, I’m speaking with professionals who are driving rapid expansion. These leaders are successfully responding to changes in our world.

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Singing, Doodling, and Other Unexpected Skills: Bringing More “You” to Work

Partners Preceptors

By Christina Neuhauser, SHRM-SCP. Often, we get so caught up in trying to get through the day that it can be difficult to step back and look for ways to change the routine and shift our focus. Looking for areas to bring our unique skills and ideas to the table at work can be challenging and even scary – especially given the current climate. Even if your office culture provides a safer space for expression and growth, it can be a delicate balancing act between what is expected, what can be questi

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It’s Your Fault! – Getting the Blame in Coaching

Peter Simoons

“ It’s your fault! ” said the executive to me with a big smile when he welcomed me to our next coaching meeting. My coaching engagement with him started with a question, “ My new role requires me to collaborate more with others and I am not comfortable doing that. Can you help me? ”. As a Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered certified coach I suggested following this methodology.

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The Essential Guide to the Buying Experience of the Future

Your buyers’ lives, preferences, and expectations have changed. Over two-thirds of buyers prefer remote or digital interactions — and they expect those interactions to be substantive and valuable. They hold sellers to a high standard, and that means the buying experiences of the past — in-person meetings, transactional conversations, and linear sales funnels — no longer deliver.

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3 ways to help corporates connect with conscious consumers

Stellar Partnerships

I’m getting lessons in conscious consumerism from my 19 year-old daughter. Recently we headed to our local shopping centre for a mum and daughter afternoon of coffee, cake and refreshing her wardrobe on my credit card. As I browsed the window of Uniqlo I was told firmly, “No mum. Don’t buy at Uniqlo- their cotton comes from Xinjiang forced labour ”.

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Airports to be Fastest-growing Critical Infrastructure Sector to Invest in Cybersecurity by 2030

Frost & Sullivan

The global critical infrastructure cybersecurity market is estimated to reach $24.22 billion by 2030, finds Frost & Sullivan. Santa Clara, Calif. –May 24, 2021–Frost & Sullivan’s recent analysis finds that while corporate and consumer businesses remain popular marks for cyberattacks, critical infrastructure facilities have become increasingly viable threat targets.

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The Differential is the Valuable Feature of Membership (703 words)

Rigsbee Research

The post The Differential is the Valuable Feature of Membership (703 words) appeared first on Ed Rigsbee association and membership growth.

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What is a Partner Manager?

CoSell

A partner manager is an emerging role in today’s world. It’s a term that essentially is at the heart of collaborative partnering. As the nature of business is so varied, it makes sense that the specific details of this job vary across different industries. Yet, some things are in common.

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5 Essential Virtual Selling Practices Every Company Must Have by 2023

Speaker: Erika Bzdel - Vice President of Sales and Craig Simons - Director of Marketing

Virtual sales success requires new ways of thinking. Sales managers, trainers, sales enablement managers, and sales reps across all industries must adjust to this digital transformation. That doesn’t mean, however, that you can transfer the old ways of doing business to the new blended selling environment. You need to implement essential virtual selling processes or you will get left behind.

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Nudging Kids to Their Highest Potential

INSEAD Knowledge

How a top global NGO uses behavioural science to support parents and educators in some of the most challenging contexts.

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Agree on a Set of Alliance Core Values and Operating Principles

Peter Simoons

Tip 9: Agree on a Set of Alliance Core Values and Operating Principles. You and your partner will be able to accomplish so many things just by trying to bridge your organizations’ two distinct cultures and create a third culture that’s all your own. This shared culture will build a way for you and your partner to understand each other on a deeper level.

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5 things to make a submission stand out

Stellar Partnerships

There are ways to stand out that are memorable and ways that are best avoided. My brother was on his way to the office to meet his new boss. He wore his best suit and had a fresh shave to make a good first impression. But he didn’t realise that he had cut himself shaving and had bled all over his clean white shirt. As it was London, and British people on the underground would rather chew broken glass than speak to a stranger, no-one said a word.

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Ep. 159 – Dialpad COO, Jason Yang

COO Alliance

Our guest today is Jason Yang, COO of Dialpad. Jason joined Dialpad in 2018 and was previously SVP of Marketing and Business Operations. He brings to the role more than two decades of experience with high-growth global companies and a wide breadth of experience across disciplines. . Jason is a global marketing and digital transformation leader with experience in successfully delivering against complex and challenging business objectives.

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Strategic ABM Gifting: A CMO’s Silver Bullet to Engage the Enterprise

Today’s customers are hungry for human connections, but how do you break through the digital noise? How do you connect on a more personal level? A strategic ABM gifting campaign can help. You can target accounts and prospects by sending gifts or direct mail. It will help you stand out from the crowd and increase your chances to connect. Download Sendoso’s complimentary eBook to learn: Effective ways to level up your gifting strategy for the enterprise customers.

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Supporting Current Partners: Quick Wins That Can Provide a Boost to Performance

Impartner

How do you work with partners? It sounds like a simple question but it isn’t. Successful partnering today demands exacting answers. This is especially true of partner enablement, management and prioritization. Here are some questions and answers that will help you get up to speed and rack up wins quickly to help build momentum.

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Making the SMART Choice with CoSelling

CoSell

As we head into this quarter, many people I’m talking with are wondering how the pandemic will shape the workplace trends of 2021. It’s clear that we are getting used to working virtually, and this looks likely to continue for collaborative selling. One of the core tenets of sales training is we are focused on getting results. I bet you remember the SMART methodology from your sales training days.

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Breaking Bad: Humanitarians Who Went Corporate

INSEAD Knowledge

How three professionals who started in purpose-driven organisations continued to do good after migrating to “the other side”.

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