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Tue Jan 07, 2014 at 09:04 PM by Aimen
Throughout my career and even in school a tool that I had always thought would be valuable is the ability to get recommendations from people whether it be classmates, teachers, peers or bosses in the right moment when my interactions with them were current and vibrant in their memories or in their present.  
 
So often when we need a recommendation from someone we reach out often years later and ask them to vouch for us and for our abilities.  Our favorites remember us and will always deliver to our expectations but this does not give others a set of recommendations about us that are curated and culled over time when our "impression" on the recommendation giver is fresh and vibrant.
 
This is one of the main reasons that we created urecommendme.com.
 
The idea of urecommendme.com came to me when my oldest son was in 11th grade and getting ready to prepare for college applications.  I thought that a tool that could have captured recommendations for him both academic and activity based as he participated in activities would have been ideal.  A tool like this was also needed for the professional world.  While the tool has grown and and evolved and my son has now graduated college and is working on Wall Street the need for this type of a tool is still equally important in the professional world.  Having a portfolio of recommendations that mark the progress and evolution of your career is an invaluable asset to have. 
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Fri Dec 09, 2011 at 11:26 AM by Dennis Nicholas

A new era of strong customer engagement is here with us. Today, marketers are adjusting to innovative ways of marketing, for example social-media management; different programs to enhance advertising campaigns on television, online, and in print; including added staff with Web skills to handle the outburst of digital consumer  environment. But according to experiences, that alone won’t bring real results home.

 

To really engage customers who drive advertising is growingly becoming irrelevant, businesses should do a lot more outside the limits of conventional marketing structures. Ultimately, consumers no longer divide the link between marketing and the item for consumption—it is the product. There’s no division between marketing from their online or in-store experience—it is the experience.

 

This shift obviously brings a huge challenge: if each person is responsible for marketing, who’s blamed? Also, what does this new certainty mean for the organization and charter of the department of marketing? It’s a predicament that matches the one that surfaced a while ago, the day’s of quality movement, actually before it was finally entrenched in the fabric of overall management.

 

Fundamentally, businesses need to be marketing vehicles, with the marketing team itself assumes the role of consumer-engagement engine, in charge for instituting priorities and fueling dialogue in the whole company as it looks to design, build, manage, and revamp advanced consumer-engagement approaches.

 

As that change takes center stage, the entire marketing institution won’t be the same: a greater allocation of existing marketing undertakings to other tasks will be experienced; additional councils and unofficial alliances that organize marketing tasks across the business will be realized; stronger affiliations with outside vendors, customers, and possibly even your competitors will become evident; and a huge role for data-driven consumer insights. Today’s editorial will show some real-life instances of these kinds of adjustments.

 

Marketing’s revolutionary is being redefined on a daily basis. Though, it’s still difficult to find definitive map illustrating how business can fruitfully take the helm in the epoch of engagement, we are optimistic to help top executives—and not just salespersons— begin to draw one.

 

Pervasive marketing

 

To engage consumers every time they interact with the company— be it on the phone; responding to an e-mail, an online review, a blog post, or physically in a store—marketing must spread through the entire organization. Businesses like Zappos and Starbucks have made strong engagement as their vital source of competitive upper hand from the start; already demonstrating some of these attributes. Such


 

 

Tue Nov 29, 2011 at 07:41 AM by Dennis Nicholas

As soon as you assume a role as a senior executive, you’ve undoubtedly acquired a set of skills and proficiencies that makes it possible for you to be efficient in your new job. To help you get to this position, you somehow had mentors and coaches who very much monitored your progress, pushed you to develop your talents, and, when necessary, they confronted you with constructive feedback that you may not have wanted to hear but needed to in order to persist on your upward course.

 

At this level in one's profession, most of your former colleagues are probably subordinates. Even as you may well be “overseen” by your senior boss or  the board of directors, your top level executives most likely no longer directly observe your daily activities. But instead, they’re now forming their opinions based on your presentations in comparatively official settings or on hand-me-down reports coming from your subordinates.

 
As a result, many heads realize that as they grow to be more senior, they get significantly less coaching and happen to be more vague in relation to their developmental needs and performance. They also become more and more isolated from positive criticism—junior staff don’t want to affront their boss and often believe that positive suggestions are unwanted and imprudent. At this level of their careers, they don’t really focus adequately on building mutually honest subordinate relationships – very critical in getting feedback and making recommendation a lot easier.
 

Too often though, when these senior managers eventually do get feedback in their end-year evaluations (normally the 360-degree-feedback plan) they’re shocked to be faced up with specific criticisms in relation to their leadership style, interpersonal skills and communication approach. Worse still, wide concerns are often raised about their key tactical decisions, strategy, and working priorities for the company.

 

The main objective of this editorial is to extract these approaches into a detailed and actionable recommendation. In doing so, we anticipate more awareness of the inclination to become isolated and advice approaches to our executives in getting better feedback, mostly from junior staff, which will help bosses materially develop their performance levels. We will also argue more steps top obtain considerably better strategic guidance regarding your business or organization. By considering these actions, you ought to be able to acquire better ownership of the recommendation process and advance your ability to put together your organization, capabilities, and occupation.

 

Promote a network of subordinate coaches

 

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