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Rough and Ruddy

10,000 Birds

Not long ago I was down on the southern coast of North Carolina, staked out with a group of birders seawatching on a long concrete pier on Wrightsville Beach. The birders scattered and went on to other things, including my group which had Harlequin Ducks and Black-chinned Hummingbirds on the agenda.

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Teaching Ornithology in High Schools

10,000 Birds

Based on his own experiences teaching ornithology to high school students in California, he believes that high school student often just need the spark of an interesting elective class that fills a graduation requirement. In other words, a “spark class” rather than a “spark bird.”

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The Six Secrets to Superior Sales Kickoffs

Sales and Marketing Management

It’s easy and tempting to simply repeat the general format and agenda of past meetings. Then, determine the core working group, who will make day-in and day-out planning decisions, and other company leaders who should be brought in periodically to review important details. Secret 3: Set the agenda early.

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The Top-5 Birding Hotspots of Serbia

10,000 Birds

My own trip was not an intensive birding experience, and August is clearly not the most productive month. I chalked up 132 species in a pretty relaxed eight days, during which birds shared the agenda with culture. “I would certainly recommend Serbia to visiting birders. What has changed in the meantime?

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5 Ways to Deliver a Truly Impactful Sales Kickoff

Sales and Marketing Management

The three-day agenda combined information sharing, skills development, team workshops and fun, which I’m sure sounds pretty familiar. into similar “birds of a feather” groups. In InsideView’s case, we’d gone back and forth over the past few years between large scale/scope/budget/bold agenda and conservative/scaled back.

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8 Sales Enablement Predictions for 2018

Sales and Marketing Management

Donning the analyst hat I wore in my previous role – and also pulling from experiences I have with our sales team and customers every day – here are my sales enablement and readiness predictions for 2018: 1. pre-call planning, agenda setting, call execution and improvisation) to help reps better connect with buyers.

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5 Trends That Will Transform Meetings

Sales and Marketing Management

This is having a transformative influence on how we approach the group meeting experience in 2020 and beyond.”. Meetings remain, on average, three days and average group size is actually on the increase. Wanderlust and the desire to explore and discover is a flourishing element of meeting agendas in 2020.

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