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If you’re a franchise executive, you are pulled in two directions. You really should be networking with other franchise leaders and sharing the latest ideas and intelligence with them. But at the same time, you are so busy managing day-to-day processes that you don’t have the time to connect with other franchise professionals to…
Not long ago, a leading brand of cosmetics started hiring brand ambassadors. Those reps would travel to retail stores to see whether products were being correctly displayed on shelves, whether new displays were being used and, on occasion, to hand out samples and coupons. The company assumed that mostly millennial-aged applicants (born between about…
Entrepreneur recently invited fifteen successful entrepreneurs, including our CEO Evan Hackel, to answer this question . . . What was your first summer job and what did you learn from it? The result was an article that just appeared in Entrepreneur, “What 15 Entrepreneurs Learned from their First Summer Jobs.” What Did Evan Hackel…
“Kodak’s Fall Wasn’t about Technology,” an article that Scott Anthony published in Harvard Business Review on July 15th, gives a compelling case study of how Kodak fell from a position of leadership in the world of consumer photography. It makes for fascinating – and troubling – reading. Did you know, for example, that Kodak developed…
“Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 287,000 in June, and the unemployment rate rose to 4.9 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Job growth occurred in leisure and hospitality, health care and social assistance, and financial activities. Employment also increased in information, mostly reflecting the return of workers from a strike.”…
We have aired 11 webinars so far this summer in our Breakthrough Ideas in Training series, and people are raving about what they have learned. In today’s post, we will share some of our favorite success secrets from our presenters. If you haven’t taken part in any webinars yet, we invite you to…
Jason Forrest is founder of Forrest Performance Group, creators of a powerful training approach that builds performance by coaching people to uncover and remove hidden beliefs and assumptions that limit their ability to succeed. Jason shared some of his strategies in great webinar last week, part of Tortal’s Breakthrough Ideas in Training series. We invite…
Andrew Fischer is the CEO and Co-Founder of Choozle, a leading self-service digital marketing platform that powers media execution for over 800+ global advertisers. One of the challenges he faces? Onboarding new employees into a fast-paced, hectic business. How does he do it? He shared some strategies a dynamite webinar about people, products and profits…
Cordell Riley, President of Tortal Training, has created a company that delivers on a deceptively simple promise to its clients . . . “Make Effective Training Easy” How has he built a training company that can do that? After all, any training process is built from a lot of “moving parts” that include technology, instructional…
Brent Baldwin, Founder and President of Think World Class, spent many years establishing an enviable record of success in real estate and other fields. At some point, he began to connect the dots and see that success in any endeavor comes from a strong foundation of personal development. He then founded Think World Class, and…
