From CMO to CEO: modern leaders must equate marketing with business strategy | The Drum
In the third installment of his CMO ot CEO column, Paul Evans ponders how putting marketing strategy at the heart of his business makes for better leadership.
Creating a quick & simple dollar value business case for employer branding | LinkedIn
What's the hardest part of getting your employer brand ideas off the ground? Building a business case. Very few of us were taught this skill, so my friend Mezjan wrote up his own process for business case development perfect for EB pros.
Research: How to Build Trust with Business Partners from Other Cultures
I've got an open call for podcast and article ideas (feel free to chime in), and one of the big asks is more discussion on how to work with recruiters and other teams. While I try and put together my own thoughts, here's an article from HBR on how culture differences should be considered when building trust with other business units.
7 factors that will shape ecommerce in the second half of 2020 – Econsultancy
This is a great article on the seven trends in ecommerce for 2020, which are all applicable to any employer brand pro: personalization, digital savvy, and developing a real candidate experience STRATEGY (remember: if you invert your "strategy" and it isn't a strategy, you didn't have a strategy in the first place).
Forget about the “new normal”: Design something different
Everything changed six months ago. And so we adjusted. But has it felt like we’ve built for a new future, or just build enough to “get through this?” I would bet most of you would see it as the latter. Which is too bad. Because it may never come back. It may never come back in the same way. So rather than wait until we can “go back to the way it was,” this is your time to reinvent from the ground up. It is time to take the chaos all around us (and it isn’t any less chaotic, we’ve just built a callus to things lately) and build the “next normal,” not the new one.