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As the general public transitions away from crowded public spaces, delivery has gone from being a convenience to a necessity. Over the last few weeks, we have worked with business leaders around the world, discussing how to best meet this growing demand, while ensuring driver and customer and delivery safety.
Below are the five key elements of maintaining delivery safety and continuity during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Continue reading “Ensuring Delivery Safety During the Coronavirus Pandemic!”It’s an exciting time to be involved in the Supply Chain and for Supply Chain jobs. Across every industry, every geography and every country there are advances in Technology, the Internet of Things (IoT), Industry 4.0, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Blockchain and more.
But none of this can function without Supply Chain professionals. Your expertise and experience are the backbone of developing the strategies and action plans for making these evolutionary and revolutionary improvements .
Continue reading “The Hottest Supply Chain Jobs! (Infographic)”This Cultural and Communication Barriers study was part of a Supply Chain MPS focus on Lake Erie College in Painesville, OH. LEC is building a supply chain segment of its curriculum, and the first class is “Special Topics in Supply Chain’ led by adjunct professor Ron Emery.
The class is an exploratory class looking at all the various problems in Supply chains today and why they pose such a problem to the economy.
Continue reading “How Cultural and Communication Barriers Affect Business!”It’s really fulfilling to get recognition for something that you did. It makes a person really happy about their work and efforts when they get recognized for it through an employee recognition program. It also drives them to keep up the good work.
The exact same thing happens when it comes to the employees of an organization or a business. As when an employee gets recognized, it helps to bring out the best in them.
Continue reading “How to Select the Best Employee Recognition Program!”Women have made tremendous strides in the Supply Chain Management profession. However a new survey shows that the percentage of women Supply Chain leaders is still low.
Time was, Supply Chain Management was seen as an outgrowth of a blue collar profession. Logistics Managers, Manufacturing Directors and other Supply Chain leaders often rose from the shop floor, from front-line warehousing and transportation positions.
As a result, the field was overwhelmingly male: because mostly men occupied those front-line roles, and educational opportunities to get into the field were limited, the leadership reflected that demographic.
But as we chronicle on the Argentus blog, the field has changed. Supply Chain is no longer a back-office, transactional function.
Continue reading “There Are Not Enough Women Supply Chain Leaders!”The summer season often brings sunny skies, outdoor adventures, and a relaxed vibe. However, for many employees, especially those working in indoor office settings, the soaring temperatures and sweltering heat can dampen their spirits and motivation.
Keeping employees motivated during hot summer days is a challenge that employers must address to ensure productivity and overall well-being. In this article, we will delve into a few effective and creative tips for maintaining employee motivation during the sizzling summer months.
Continue reading “Keeping Employees Motivated at the Workplace on Hot Summer Days!”I spent a year working in Colorado. In Colorado you can’t help but be drawn to the beauty of the mountains. Eventually I started climbing those peaks (called the Fourteeners, as they are over 14,000 feet high) in my spare time. I hadn’t even thought about Mount Kilimanjaro at that point.
At the same time I started reading all of the books I could find on mountain climbing. One in particular, the “Seven Summits“, by Dick Bass and Frank Wells, with Rick Ridgeway, really caught my attention. It tells the story about these guys who got the idea to climb the highest summit on each continent.
By the time I had finished the book I got the idea in my head that I wanted to climb Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa. That became the start of an adventure of a lifetime.
Continue reading “Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro! Lessons for Life and Business!”There are differences between winning teams and a high performance organization and losing teams. There are differences between winning companies and losing companies.
Some of those differences are induced by uncontrollable factors. And while every winning team does not win all the time, and every losing team does not lose all the time, there are controllable factors which determine the predominant direction of any organization.
You can create the culture and the high performance organization which allows your organization to be successful and win more than you lose. Here we present our 10 best articles to allow you to create the culture that will lead to having a high performance organization.
Continue reading “Our Top 10 High Performance Organization / Cultural Change Articles!”The Union Public Service Commission is known as UPSC. Under the auspices of the Union Government, the Union Public Service Commission conducts a competitive examination in India.
Are you aiming to pass the UPSC CSE preliminary examination as a future civil servant? It’s simple to feel overwhelmed by the challenging coursework and fierce competition. But rest assured that we have you covered.
We’ll share our best advice for preparing for the UPSC in this blog article, which will keep you motivated, focused, and moving in the right direction.
Continue reading “Top Tips for UPSC Preparation!”I’ve told this story many times, and still get laughs out of it every time I do. One time, as I was having lunch with a relatively new associate, he asked what I did for a living. I told him I was a farmer.
Now after he spit his food out and laughed insatiably for a few minutes, I explained to him what I meant.
Continue reading “Be a Farmer … of People!”So, you spent four years learning everything about a hospitality career and tourism, public houses, and dealing with problem clients. What can you do with that knowledge if you choose the hospitality field? Can you go straight to a hotel manager position?
Well, it’s all a matter of a career ladder. For starters, learn the job positions one might consider in the hospitality field. All vacancies vary and have both perks and disadvantages.
Keep reading to learn about the most popular hospitality positions, and choose the ones you like in the article below.
Continue reading “Hospitality Career Options, Titles and Descriptions!”Hiring global talent takes a lot of effort and time. It can be a massive headache, and you might be discouraged from hiring the best workers from foreign countries such as Germany, the UK, the Netherlands and Spain, among others.
For example, if you want to hire workers from Germany, you need to partner with one of the leading, respected and trustworthy HR platforms of employer of record Germany.
Continue reading “Employer of Record (EoR): The Secret to Scaling Your Business Fast!”Understanding your Customer is the first and most important consideration in designing, defining and refining your company and your go to market business model. And millennials are different.
In the Retail sector one key demographic that demands consideration is that group called Millennials. Whether it be Marketing, Merchandising, Supply Chain, or any other aspect of your Go to Market experience understanding what is important to Millennials is critically important.
Continue reading “Why Millennials are Different and How Marketers can Engage Them!”Many of the most important, and in demand, jobs these days are in Supply Chain. Not only are these skills in high demand but the number of people with those extensive skills and experience and Supply Chain Management training, is limited, making the effectiveness of the Supply Chain job interview more important than ever.
The result is that there will be a lot of competition, both from those hiring and those being hired, for the Supply Chain positions that need to be filled.
To help facilitate placing the best people in the best jobs we have endeavoured to outline the top 20 Supply Chain Job Interview Questions and Answers.
Continue reading “20 Supply Chain Job Interview Questions and Answers!”We’re living in the age of video calls, where everyone needs to show up and smile to participate in key meetings and collaborations. Some of us have an easy time with video calls, while others are having some trouble navigating this new sensation. What is proper video call etiquette?
We talked to a few business leaders to hear their thoughts on video call etiquette for your meetings and some tips to keep in mind when you log into your next call.
Continue reading “Video Call Etiquette for a Great Video Call Experience!”
