Branding Women in Technology Forum from Bret Simmons I am speaking today at the Women in Technology Forum being held at Microsoft Licensing, GP in Reno. In 50 short minutes, I hope to be able to persuade the women in my audience that because social business is the new business reality, having a good online [...]
LinkedIn NV State SHRM Conference from Bret Simmons I am presenting today to the Nevada State Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) conference in Reno. I am co-presenting in a session on using LinkedIn for recruiting talent. My role is to explain what LinkedIn is, why it is important, and what a good profile looks [...]
Pronet Personal Branding View more presentations from Bret Simmons I had the honor of speaking to ProNet Reno today about Personal Branding. I was impressed with the quality of support this group provided its members that are searching for employment. It was a serious business meeting with a serious group of folks. I hope some [...]
Can you learn faster than your competitors? If you can, you can help define what it means to be competitive in your business or industry and force your competition to play catch-up. If not, then you will be forced to try to imitate what your competitors are doing and how they are doing it. Give [...]
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I am speaking this morning to a group of leaders at Truckee Meadows Community College. It’s not often that I get a chance to speak to colleagues in education about leadership so I am looking forward to it. These folks have been participating in leadership development and my talk will be the final session. I [...]
Crappy Systems – The Reason Why Good Service Is So Elusive
Why is it so hard to get good service in a coffee shop in Reno at 7:30 am on a Friday morning? Last week I had an unacceptable service encounter at Starbucks. This morning I once again was near that same Starbucks, and instead of going for the convenient experience, I drove out of my [...]
