December 10, 2019
Helping Businesses and Leaders be DataSmart | With Stephanie Verilhac
Privacy is dead, right? Facebook knows everything about you, LinkedIn has documented your entire career and consumer behaviour shows, repeatedly, that people just don’t care about privacy, no matter how much they complain about it. Research shows that most U.S. adults — 60 per cent —claim they care about privacy but will barely lift a finger in an effort to make sure it’s enforced.
December 3, 2019
Managing the new generation of workers | With Miguel Gonçalves
The new generation of workers is pushing back. They expect and demand flexibility — benefits, latest technology, like the ability to work remotely, come in late or leave early, or make time for friends and the things they enjoy. And all this is happening while they chat on their phones, using visual images on Instagram, snap chat and other social media.
November 26, 2019
How to get Published-Tips from an Editor in Chief | With Thornton Sully
In leadership, we have many experts, successful people, and those who have not been so successful, but they all have a lot to say, and many of them want to become writers. Many are seeking fame and encouragement because many believe validity and meaning will arrive out of publication. They see fame as offering a measurable amount of worth and competence.
November 19, 2019
Putting Influencer Marketing into your Marketing Mix | With Joseph Luckett
Influencer marketing has always been around with sports figures recommending various products or commercials that say “9 out of 10 dentists recommend this toothpaste”. But times have changed, and Influencer is not only about big brands, but it is also about local businesses. Alongside this, Influencers have also changed, they are no longer only sports figures and celebrities, but the “girl and guy next door” has gotten into the game.
November 12, 2019
Curiosity, The Essential Leadership Trait | With Dr. Diane Hamilton PhD
Long ago when I thought about curiosity the first thing that jumped to my mind was the quote “Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back’, a saying we often heard as children. But today when I think of curiosity, I know that it is constantly cited as a trait that most successful leaders demonstrate. In May 2018, Success Magazine, noted curiosity as one of the top 7 leadership traits leaders can have, stating that “Great leaders are intensely curious about ideas that come from fields like art, literature, philosophy and more” Management guru Peter Drucker said knowing the right questions to ask is at the core strategic thinking and today many leaders have adopted Drucker’s “be (intelligently) curious” philosophy, in their leadership style.
November 5, 2019
The Power of the Written Word | With Kristine Grant
When words are well-written in well-written communication they can help define goals, identify problems, promote understanding that can help people arrive at solutions. But we very often do not think about the impact of written communication. It is one of the most effective forms of communication one can use because if you write it correctly it can be understood by all.
October 29, 2019
The Social Impact of Innovation and Technology | With Katina Michael
As part of the Women in Tech Series, in this episode, we explore the impact innovation and technology is having on our businesses, our personal lives, and society in general. Today we are overwhelmed by data and new technologies, and we pose the question: Are emerging technologies positively or negatively disrupting the existing order of things? Our personal and business lives are touched by technologies such as voice-detection, suggestive searches, facial recognition and more, but where is this all going?
October 22, 2019
What Athletes Can Teach Business Executives |With Shawn Harper
People very often compare success in sports to success in business and management. This is because we can learn a lot from how athletes train and focus. When you look at high performers across all fields, whether it is a CEO or a Super Bowl quarterback these people do tend to have some common professional characteristics, personality traits, habits, lifestyles, and verbiage.
October 15, 2019
The Neuroscience of Leadership | With Dr Katharina Turecek
It used to be the only way to recognize a good leader was through their executive abilities or management qualities. When developing leaders, if something was lacking, then we would send that leader into leadership training. Today neuroscience has entered the world of leadership training.
October 8, 2019
Turning the Table – An Interview with Kimberli J. Lewis | With Thornton Sully & Kimberli Lewis
In this episode, we have turned the table on Kimberli J. Lewis as she is interviewed by professional writer and editor, Thornton Sully, Editor-in-Chief at A Word with You Press. Thorn talks to Kimberli about her thoughts on diversity, gender roles, life’s importance and many other subjects that are both about business and some that are very personal in nature. It is a fun episode that helps you get to know the host of Leadership Beyond Borders, at a very different level while making the listener reflect on their own thoughts and opinions.
September 24, 2019
The Trends That Are Shaping The Future of Advertising And Media | With Andrea Stimac
The advertising and media industries have always fascinated us. As far back as 1961, Rock Hudson, Doris Day and Tony Randall teamed up in a comedy called Lover Come Back. It was about a cocky advertising exec who inadvertently pitches a campaign for a product that doesn’t exist.
September 17, 2019
Helping SMBs be found by improving their proper SEO | With Jared Turner
Technology start-ups are like mushrooms in the forest, and unfortunately, 90 percentage of them fail but from the ones that succeed we can learn valuable business lessons. And the lessons that can be learned are not only for other technology companies but also for small and medium businesses. There are 125 million formal micro, small and midsize businesses in the world, including 89 million in emerging markets and they are just as important to the economy as technology start-ups.
September 10, 2019
Enhancing Performance Through Coaching | With Mary O’Sullivan
Gone are the days when executives are just executives and managers are only managers. Leaders are encouraged, even expected, to develop themselves and to more effectively manage their teams and companies. Workers today put in 50 or more hours per week in their job.
September 3, 2019
The Emergence of Voice Search | With Florian Huebner
The numerous articles and blogs we read about data and technological inductions show that we are still in a transition and adjustment phase when it comes to the tools we use to search, and one of those tools that is rapidly emerging is voice search. So, are we ready for this? As users we are slowly migrating to voice search while most small and medium businesses are still struggling to optimize their online presence and not even thinking about voice search.
August 27, 2019
What every business can learn from a fashion industry expert | With Maria Pesin
Fashion has always been an important part of how people define themselves and others. It’s a powerful tool of influence. First impressions are very often formed because of fashion and we are more likely to trust and even obey orders from people dressed in styles which dictate control, such as uniforms or “the power suit.
August 13, 2019
Protecting your business data with proper cyber management | With Christopher Gerg
Data is one of the greatest assets of a company, and when information is lost, it can result in substantial costs. Data can be lost several ways, the most common ways are through technology and process errors or external exposure. Firms such as Amazon and Walmart have had customer passwords leaked online, and these are only the significant breaches that we hear about, but there are many more.
August 6, 2019
Better Content and Digital PR – How to make your business famous | With Kari DePhillips
In the digital age, it is essential for all businesses to have an online presence. It does not matter if it’s a website, an e-commerce platform, a social media page, or a combination of all three; you need to be online regardless if you conduct business online or not. However, what constitutes an excellent online presence, and what ensures a business can be found online?
July 16, 2019
Tech Strategy-Women who are setting the vision | With Jacqueline Cook
The tech industry takes pride in changing the world of work, but it is further away from achieving gender equality than other industries. Looking at top companies, the leadership positions that women hold waver around 25 %. In school, girls get better grades than boys.
June 25, 2019
From Individual to Business Coaching-Successful Franchise Models | With Bradley Sugars
Coaching has developed over the years when it used to be considered a from of “punishment” it is now considered a necessary “performance enhancer”. Top CEO’s are proud to say they have coaches, just like top athletes always have. Businesses also need coaches.
June 18, 2019
Why we elect Narcissistic Leaders | With Bill Eddy
There is increase worldwide in High Conflict Personalities (HPC). Is it the media, the extreme competition, the global economy, video games and movies or a combination of all of the above? It sometimes seems that HPC, narcissistic and sociopathic behaviours are dominating our boardrooms and the political arena, but we are the ones putting them there.
June 11, 2019
Bringing Courage back into Leadership | With Bill Treasurer
Hyperconnected and digitally charged organizations have become the norm today, and this has brought with it new challenges. The rules for conducting business have changed and managing constant change is a necessity in our already a volatile and ambiguous world. From dealing with a global economy to changing consumer behaviours, leaders need to be agile in order to hold the competitive advantage, but they also need courage.
May 28, 2019
What your Body Language reveals about you | With Stefan Verra
Body language is something we notice but do not think about,but body language is the unspoken element of communication that we use to reveal our true feelings and emotions. Our gestures, facial expressions and posture, for instance tell people what we are thinking. Body language can heavily influence how anyone feels about interacting with us, it plays an important role in your career, and affects whether you have a positive or negative impression of you after an interaction.
May 14, 2019
Why Businesses should Think Like An APP | With Neal Polachek
Consumer insight is one of the most powerful tools marketers and publishers can hold. Discovering where your audiences are, and their interests and habits can not only allow you to talk to them in the right manner, with the right message, you can engagement them and grow your business. While mobile usage is on the raise, and people engage more and more with their mobile phones, there is one channel that leads the way in getting consumers engaged and that is the APP.
May 7, 2019
Promoting Diversity in the Digital Sector | With Steven Hyde
The ‘digital Sector’ is an umbrella term that covers a wide variety of industries – all having a big impact on the way that we live, work and play. Companies that create digital products or are involved in digital advertising must serve a wide and diverse customer base and they need a talent pool that understands this customer base. Their products and messages must be free of ideology, bias or prejudice.
April 30, 2019
Connecting African SMEs with the Digital World | With Ezana Raswork
As part of our series on the Middle East and Africa, this episode explores the digital opportunities in East and West Africa. Africa is on the verge of massive digital disruptions with the explosion of mobile, the increase of cross-border data and the constant focus on development that is skipping a lot of the earlier digital technologies. But even while all this is going on only about 15% of SME’s in East Africa have a website.
April 9, 2019
Why more women are not in the C-suite | With Ishreen Bradley
We still do not have enough equality in the C-suite. It does not matter how we cut the numbers they are just not there, and the question is why? One of the answers could be that we are all still living with unconscious biases, which can close the door to equality in the workplace.
April 2, 2019
How Big Data and Technology are shaping our future | With Dr. Anthony Scriffignano
When are artificial intelligence and big data going to achieve traction within Fortune 1000 corporations? We think It actually already has. In 2018 NewVantage partners’, conducted an annual executive survey on AI and Big Data.
March 26, 2019
Striving and succeeding despite change and challenge |With Soulaima Gourani
Globalization is very often thought of as a new phenomenon, but it isn’t. It is simply the contact between diverse individuals and it actually began when prehistoric wandering tribes settled and integrated themselves into more stable tribal environments. Digitalization- what is that?
March 19, 2019
Helping Start-Ups beat the Odds and Succeed |With Brian Rhea
We’re used to thinking of start-ups as primarily high-tech innovation companies and geographically located in Silicon Valley, but that has changed. First, start-ups have gone global with Hubs popping up from Tel Aviv to Toronto and from Berlin to Shanghai. Also, start-ups are not just about tech, but about local businesses.
March 12, 2019
How a Good Memory can be your Greatest Business Asset | With Chester Santos
In ancient times the ability to memorize was a considered a magical skill –sometimes even thought of as mystical and it was essential to the passing down of stories, legends, history, and taboos and laws. It was used as a basis for social and economic development. Today, the Internet seems to be making memorization irrelevant.
March 5, 2019
Innovation and Social Responsibility in the Cannabis Industry | With Warren Bravo
With the lifting restrictions on cannabis, many say that the current “green rush” will actually have even more impact on the economy than the reintroduction of alcohol in the 30’s. But it is not that easy to grasp the entrepreneurial reins that are needed to make it in this industry. Restricted licenses, regulations and new technologies in an industry that is really in its infancy, makes it exciting but also very demanding and great leadership plays an important role.
February 26, 2019
What is Best Practice AI? | With Simon Greenman
Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing everything. It is merging our personal lives with our business lives as devices learn more about us and location-based intelligence always knows where we are and what we are doing. We see AI used in internet searches, customer targeting applications, performance evaluations and it is rapidly changing many industries and the future of work.
February 19, 2019
The Digital Presence of Small Businesses in Europe and UAE | With Renato Bottini
Digitalization is happening at all levels of the economy and it is impacting small and medium size businesses (SMB’s) as much it impacts enterprise companies. The challenge is that SMB’s do not always have the same digital resources or knowledge that large enterprises have. For this reason, it is hard for SMB’s to keep up with the various types of digital media available resulting in a lack of web presence that may hinder being found when customers are ready to buy.
February 12, 2019
Digital Marketing Opportunities in The Middle East and Africa | With Zohare Haider
There is no place in the world where digital marketing is changing and advancing so fast as in the Middle East and African (MEA). In preparation for our LOCALCOMM SIINDA event, to be held at Google Headquarters, March 6 & 7 in Dubai, we are talking today with a MEA digital expert. . According to the latest telecom Intelligence reports, Mobile phone usage is skyrocketing in the MEA and the region is expected to account for the second-largest mobile phone population of any region in the world, with an over 200% penetration.
February 5, 2019
Digital Marketing Agency or Client here are the keys to success | With Kasim Aslam
Traditional marketers and business owners think that the word ‘digital’ in digital marketing is simplistically taken to mean ‘our website’ or ‘our Facebook page’ and this thinking limits the scope and opportunity that digital marketing brings. The use of the Internet, digital media and other new technologies support ‘new age marketing’ but it has also given rise to a number of labels created by professionals and marketers. These labels drive us to believe digital marketing about media, devices, data and technology, but it’s really about the people we want to reach, relationships and the engagement we accomplish with them.
January 22, 2019
Cyber security, why it is no longer an option but a must | With Lisa Lapointe
We were shocked when Equifax announced that 143 million Social Security numbers were compromised. Amazon and Walmart have had customer passwords leaked online. These are only the big breaches that we hear about, but there are many more.
January 15, 2019
The Emergence of the Freelance WORKFORCE | With Jill Ferguson
We are in the 4th Industrial Revolution and we are facing rapid change in the way we work and the kinds of work we do. Our workforce is experiencing more changes than ever before, with economic transformation driven by new technologies, automation, a global economy and changing consumer behaviour. It is expected in the US that freelancers will make up the majority of the workforce by 2027 and also worldwide.
January 8, 2019
The path to real thought leadership| With Mindy Gibbins-Klein
Thought Leadership is all about having the answers to the biggest questions on the minds of your target audience. It is about sharing a unique perspective on topics relevant to certain audiences. Thought leadership becomes effective when the passion and expertise of the thought leader coincide with the interests of the audience.