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The Advantages and Disadvantages of Virtual Organization Design in Startups
Today virtual organizational design is all of the rage. Every day more companies (including Fortune 500 companies) are more readily integrating virtual teams into their organizational design and hiring processes. The benefits are quite attractive. However, for smaller...
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How to Ensure an Internal Mentorship Program Improves Employee Engagement
Offering an employee mentorship program can be a huge boon to organizations that have lower levels of employee engagement. If you find that your teams seem bored, unenthused, and unchallenged, building employee engagement into your company culture can result in a...
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How to Determine Which Candidates Will Make the Best Remote Employees
Managing a remote team can be an incredibly difficult task. It’s quite different than monitoring an in-office team. It comes with its own unique challenges, considerations, and requirements. When most companies hire their first remote teams, they come in starry-eyed...
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How Workforce Management Can Make or Break a Year of Growth
What is the biggest expense in your organization? For nearly any sizable company, it’s their employees. Employees are an expensive investment. According to the Human Capital Management Institute, the sum of employee salaries, hourly wages, overtime, and indirect...
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Planning for Baby Boomer Retirements Presents a Huge Hurdle in Next 20 Years
Baby Boomers make up a disproportionate percentage of the North American workforce and as they near retirement age, companies are going to have some very important decisions to make regarding how they will handle this change. The larger the company, the more the...
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Top 5 Benefits of Moving Toward a Remote Workforce
Making the move toward a remote workforce can be tempting. It has been the trend, particularly among tech companies and startups, to make the move toward a remote workforce and provide some flexibility to their organization. Even large Fortune 500 companies have...
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The Most Popular Types of Marketing Org Structures
How should a modern marketing department be structured to get the most out of that department? The answer is different for every business. There is no one-size-fits-all solution that companies can turn to. The individual skills of your marketing team and the way your...
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Project Management vs Change Management — What Are the Differences?
Project management and change management are actually quite different disciplines, but often get confused, especially when enterprise companies are the midst of long, arduous projects. Because these large projects can often involve large-scale change within an...
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How Companies Can Execute an Effective Succession Planning Strategy
The head and executives of any organization are always running through “what if” scenarios. What if something goes wrong? What if our CEO becomes ill? What if we are forced to find new executives on short notice? They aren’t pleasant scenarios to think about but it is...
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What is an Org Chart? How Can They Help My Organization?
What is an org chart? An org chart is a graphical representation of the structure of an organization. When most people talk about org charts, they are referencing the org chart that outlines the entire organization, but org charts can be made for individual teams,...
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