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Five Skills Modern Brand Managers Need to be Successful

Hppy

Brand management is an ongoing, vital process of running any successful enterprise. In the highly interconnected world that we live in, proper brand management is essential. Not only does branding affect consumer relationships, but it also impacts company culture. Brand managers must possess a developed, diverse set of skills to be successful. Consider how a great brand manager can boost a brand and strengthen the company with a set of five core abilities.

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weekend free-for-all – July 7-8, 2018

Ask a Manager

This comment section is open for any non-work-related discussion you’d like to have with other readers, by popular demand. (This one is truly no work and no school.). You may also like: all of my 2017 book recommendations all my 2016 book recommendations all my 2015 book recommendations weekend free-for-all – July 7-8, 2018 was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager.

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How Owning a Van Can Give You the Career (and Lifestyle) of Your Dreams

Corn on the Job

The Washington Post recently reported that “ 71 percent of employees are looking for new jobs.” This statistic is remarkably consistent with another study from 2013 that revealed that “only 13 percent of people worldwide actually like going to work.” While you may have heard otherwise in college, landing your dream job is clearly no easy task. Workers in 2018 are burdened by stressors such as low pay, high student loan debt, long hours, and frequent layoffs.

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If You Want People to Collaborate, Get Rid of this Office Plan

Evil HR Lady

Employees hate open office plans, but at least the help employees collaborate and work together? It saves companies money and it increases teamwork , right? Well, wrong. Ethan Bernstein and Stephen Turban, at Harvard Business School and Harvard University, took a look at how people who switched from individual cubicles to an open office plan. What they found wasn’t more collaboration after the switch, but less.

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The Rules Do Apply: Navigating HR Compliance

Speaker: Ann Meyers Piccirillo

HR Compliance is like a giant game of whack-a-mole. Once you think your company is compliant with all policies and procedures documented and in place, there’s a new or amended law, regulation, or final rule that pops up landing you back at ‘start.’ There are shifts, interpretations, and balancing acts to understanding compliance changes. Keeping up is not easy and it’s very time consuming.

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"What Good Shall I Do This Day?"

Avid At Work

This Fourth of July brings to mind a section of Benjamin Franklin's autobiography showing his daily schedule. Mr. Franklin was not only a prolific writer, inventor, scientist, and one of the authors of America's Declaration of Independence. He is also my inspiration for time management. This image shows his daily scheme: Looking at his 8-hour day, I wondered, "how in the world did he accomplish so much in his life?