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3 Ways Inclusive Leaders Communicate
When leaders commit to building an inclusive organization, they tend to start with the company mission, vision, and values, and a promise to ensure everyone in the organization has a voice. But when those same leaders’ everyday behaviors don’t support those efforts, the progress stops there. And one of the crucial behaviors that can make…
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Introducing the Buyers’ Guide to Communication Skills Training
2020 saw a rapid, full-scale disruption of the way companies communicate, both internally and externally. We’ve witnessed many businesses achieve incredible pivots to continue serving their customers in new and valuable ways. But, there’s one critical skills gap that has widened with this transformation: communication.
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Our Favorite Things for Communicating During a Pandemic—2020 Edition
Somehow it seems this year both flew by and lasted at least a decade, but here we are, sliding headfirst into the holidays and preparing to bid 2020 good riddance. But before we do, we wanted to take a minute to reflect on some of the small silver linings that came from this difficult year.…
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A Quantified Success Story: Tommaso Padula
Tommaso Padula lives in Milan, Italy, with his wife. He has a degree in business administration from Bocconi University, he currently works as a brand strategist at Artefice, an Italian brand consultancy firm, and he dreams of one day starting a business in the food sector. He is also a Harvard Business School student who…
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The 3 Trends Transforming How Your People Connect
Video communication is relatively new as a workplace collaboration tool, but given the rapid shift to remote work, it has quickly become a primary communication channel. From conducting team meetings to delivering keynotes to thousands of viewers, how someone shows up on video can conjure a certain image of them as a leader.
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The Secret to Sales Success: Enable Every Rep to Meet Quota, Every Time
In the first weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses across the globe hunkered down, cutting costs where they could and scrambling to stay afloat. It was quite the finale to the first quarter of 2020. But now, as we’re wading into Q4, something has changed. We haven’t eradicated COVID yet, and most of us aren’t…
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Survey: The Most Important Leadership Development Skills in 2020
What We Already Know We know leadership development is a critical initiative for businesses, and we also know that communication is one of the most important skills businesses are looking for in leaders and high performers. But communication, in and of itself, is a remarkably broad category. What kind of communication skills, exactly, do our…
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How to Deliver Personalized Talent Development at Scale — Even When Your Team Is Remote
With companies like Google, Twitter, Facebook, and others announcing that they intend to let their employees work from home indefinitely, it’s becoming clearer and clearer that remote work is likely to become more than just a pandemic-induced trend. In fact Global Workplace Analytics has recently found that 77 percent of the workforce says they want…
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With More University Classes Online than Ever, How Can Educators Prepare Their Students for Real-World Success?
When the pandemic shuttered schools in mid-March, educators from kindergarten through graduate school went into emergency mode, shifting to synchronous and asynchronous distance learning as fast as possible. Now, as we head into the fall semester, schools have had the opportunity to catch their breath and think through not only how to teach online at…
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The Power of Executive Communication Development to Build Your Company’s Reputation
Here at Quantified, we talk a lot about the power of communication development to enhance internal operations, from boosting employee engagement to minimizing wasted time (and the costs associated with it) to building a more inclusive culture. But as powerful as the ROI of communication development can be within an organization, we know that it can be…
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