communication
The Ultimate Guide to Effective Communication Skills
Communication is an essential skill in today’s world. It’s the key to persuasion, role modeling, and moving others to take action. In the workplace, it’s critical for moving up the career ladder, maintaining employee engagement, building customer relationships, inspiring investors, and developing a great reputation within the community.
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How We Benchmark and Assess Communication Skills
If you’re like me, I’d imagine you’ve wondered how you or your team compares to the top performers in your role. In almost every facet of your business, improvement goals are set based on objective benchmarks — where are we now, where do we need to be, and what would best-in-class performance look like?
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Webinar Recap: Leading Company Culture in a Digital World
Last week we launched a webinar series designed to support organizations as they navigate a newly transformed business environment. And we couldn’t have asked for a more insightful conversation to kick us off.
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Best Practices for Leading Company Culture in a Digital World
Introducing Quantified’s new webinar series, supporting leaders as they navigate management in a transformed business environment. Best Practices for Leading Company Culture in a Digital World May 22, 1:00 p.m. CDT Register here The way we work, learn and interact with the world at large changed almost overnight with the COVID-19 pandemic. Suddenly, remote work…
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A New Standard for Learning & Development: How to Measure Employees’ Most Important Skills
Like so many business initiatives, learning and development has embraced the digital era, moving online in spades as the industry continues to grow steadily. The 2020 LinkedIn Workplace Learning Report indicates that online learning investments are on the rise: 57 percent of talent developers plan to spend more on online L&D, while 38 percent expect…
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The ROI of Investing in Communication Skills
North American businesses spent $340 billion on learning and development last year. More and more leaders are understanding the value of investing in talent, and the industry has seen remarkable growth over the last decade. But the market is still evolving. The 2023 LinkedIn Learning Report identified a shift in the way companies are budgeting…
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Learning & Development from a Distance, During COVID-19 and Beyond
As of the beginning of April, roughly four billion people around the world had been told to stay in their homes in a continued effort to slow the spread of COVID-19. It goes without saying that the steps we are (rightfully) taking to control this virus have meant massive disruption for businesses in every sector.…
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How Great Companies Communicate Earnings During a Crisis
There’s no denying the economic fallout of the COVID-19 crisis. With the stock market plummeting at a record pace, events being cancelled across the globe, and small and large businesses shutting their doors for the foreseeable future, unfortunately, it’s a good bet that financial reports for Q1 and Q2—at least—will be concerning for many companies.…
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Data-Driven Executive Reputation Management
For too long, communication was considered an art—a nice-to-have skill you were either born with or not—rather than a scientific process that leaders and aspiring leaders could study in order to improve their influence, their reputation and their business’ bottom lines. Quantified Communications was founded on the premise that, contrary to this traditional belief, an…
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In the Midst of COVID-19 Uncertainty, Trusted Leadership Is Critical
by Melanie Meador & Noah Zandan The novel coronavirus (aka COVID-19) continues to spread at an alarming pace, shutting down small businesses, moving classrooms and offices online, and (somewhat inexplicably) sending toilet paper flying off grocery shelves. But conflicting information, misinformation, and uncertainty are spreading as fast as the virus itself, stirring up anxiety and…
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