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• 3 painless ways to pump up productivity April 20, 2019
  Deliver meaningful career value to employees, and publicly recognize those who go above and beyond. The key goal for a manager is getting optimum team productivity for an extended period. Productivity is the ultimate measure of supervisors’ effectiveness, because it engenders better business outcomes. Highly productive employees stay at their jobs longer and have higher rates of […]
• Ragan Training makes it easy to offer new ideas April 19, 2019
  Answering the call for a fresh approach can be as simple as a yearly subscription. It’s hard to keep your tactics fresh. You stride into your regular Monday meeting, and a restless energy pervades the room. The numbers are down, and everyone seems to have aged overnight. Your team is in a slump; upper management […]
• Your media relations strategy deserves recognition April 19, 2019
  Enter your best pitch, media event strategy or campaign to PR Daily’s 2019 Media Relations Awards by the extended deadline on April 24. The post Your media relations strategy deserves recognition appeared first on PR Daily.
• University boosts engagement with email analytics April 19, 2019
  Where it once operated with little email data, Northern Illinois University now knows how successful its messaging is. That allows tweaking email programs with low engagement rates. Employee engagement at a university comes with particular challenges that make email an essential form of messaging. For example, faculty members operate independently, scattered in 20 buildings across […]
• 5 behaviors that ruin media relationships April 19, 2019
  PR pros can’t do their jobs without media contacts. Here are some actions that will undermine reporters’ trust and tank your media strategy. This article originally appeared on PR Daily in April of 2018. The inbox and the telephone are tools of the trade for a journalist. They can be useful platforms that deliver the next exceptional […]
• 3 attendees share why you shouldn’t miss our summit at Microsoft HQ April 19, 2019
  Join us this fall for the 11th annual Employee Communications, PR and Social Media Summit. A lot has changed in the communications world over the past decade. The demands on industry professionals are constantly growing—but the communicators who have joined us at our annual Employee Communications, PR and Social Media Summit aren’t breaking a sweat. […]
• Infographic: What marketers should know about voice search April 18, 2019
  Many people are asking AI assistants questions instead of typing them into search engines, and brand managers should be tailoring their efforts accordingly. This guide can help. The phrases “OK, Google…,” “Hey, Siri…” or “Alexa…” begin many consumers’ online queries—and brand managers should be listening. Voice search is becoming common practice for people searching for […]