Twenty-two years within the corporate world with finance and accounting roles, I had little sales skills. I developed communication skills, and relationship skills. But as far as trying to sell you a product or a service, it’s an important skill I didn’t have.
You come out of this big corporate world, and then you decide, “I want to do consulting.” I’m curious, how do you build that model? What is that model?
The recap of a panel discussion with 3 successful leaders in the startup world
Allie Magyar, Mahmood Sher-Jan and Steve Barham, 3 successful leaders in the startup community, joined the Association for Corporate Growth event in Portland to share how they disrupted their market and the challenges they have faced along the way. Maggie Finnerty, Executive Director at the Oregon Entrepreneurs Network moderated the panel with probing questions that led to insightful answers.
The more you think up front in business, the easier it is to adapt, change, and even pivot as necessary. Yet most of us don’t plan for what might happen when we begin implementation to achieve growth.
Work Institute’s 2019 Retention Report reprises a familiar refrain:
“Career development continues to be the leading cause of employee turnover in the US.”
Yet again, organizations, talent professionals and leaders have to face the hard data and hard reality that we’ve still not cracked the code on what matters most to employees: career opportunities. It’s not for lack of effort. Companies are investing extraordinary resources in skills training, portals, online systems and processes designed to make this happen. And it all falls short. Here’s why.
