Remove help work

Chris Koch

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Jobs Don’t Give Us Purpose and Meaning, Helping Does

Chris Koch

Face it, few of us can say that our work has a high degree of purpose and meaning in the greater scheme of things. Companies Must Make Room for Helping. When you boil purpose and meaning down to their essences, you get helping. We become desperate to do something to help. Helping Can Happen on the Job.

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Why Companies Must Hire for Potential, Not Skills

Chris Koch

She knew that a writer with journalism experience could learn about computers, but a computer expert who couldn’t write the materials she wanted would not work out. ” Workers will walk if you don’t help them learn. Where’s the Flexibility? Employees demand more than a paycheck to keep them engaged.

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Why salespeople should sell ideas: an FAQ

Chris Koch

They assume that salespeople can’t help them at that point. I ask them about their pain points and work with them to resolve them. They want to start the conversation with their pain points and work forward from there—without talking about what you have to offer them. And for the most part, they’re right.

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Why Can’t Companies Be More Like the Iroquois?

Chris Koch

Women hold a strong place in Iroquois society, leading individual clans within tribes, helping determine chiefs, and holding veto power over treaties and declarations of war (the Iroquois declared war on Germany in both world wars). Why Can’t Companies Do This? So the obvious question becomes, why can’t companies cooperate like this?

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Bring marketing into the account planning process

Chris Koch

I don’t discount the importance of change management, but sometimes you need something more concrete—something that marketing and sales can do together that gets them working closer together without people noticing it so much. Marketers could help with that problem. Why aren’t more companies working like this?

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Want to get along better with sales? Find a way to work together.

Chris Koch

That can help, but salespeople and marketers need more concrete reasons to work together. It’s much easier to see the value of someone else’s work when you’ve tried to do the same thing yourself. Sharing what works. Salespeople love to get clear, simple tips on what’s working for others. Marketing can help.

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Is ghost writing in social media right or wrong?

Chris Koch

And many who do would be better off getting some help. I will attempt to respond to all comments myself, based on the work I’m doing with the SMEs. I’ll also name the writers that I have working with the SMEs as we are doing interviews and working towards the “final” products: white papers, videos, etc.