10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2021

Spring in western New York was and is a time of melting snow, of ice chunks being rushed along the Niagara River, of when you wondered if this year, would it maybe stay warm in April and not snow again? You just knew it wouldn’t but you still wished it somehow would manage to get warm and stay that way. However, as expected, even when it got pretty warm in the latter days of March and hawks migrated along the southern shore of Lake Ontario, at some point in April, it always did snow again.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 29, 2021

Not long after I joined data-driven marketing agency Stirista, I pitched a company podcast to CEO Ajay Gupta. When the world seemingly screeched to a halt in March of 2020, the idea was fast tracked and the Marketing Stir podcast was born. Now a year later, with 50+ episodes under our, the podcast enjoys guests from companies like SAP, Regal Cinemas, Amazon, Discovery Networks and Zoom.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2021

As ambiguous as the title of this piece sounds, a foray into the ornithological literature may lead to even more confusion. The family Furnariidae consists of ovenbirds and woodcreepers, but the actual Ovenbird belongs to the family of New World Warblers – Parulidae. This is not the most confusing aspect of birds by any means, after all there are tanagers which belong in the cardinal family and cardinals that are tanagers.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2021

Last week, I took you to the La Mesa reservoir, the higher-altitude of the two thorn-forest sites on my regular birding rotation. The week after I returned to that site, I went to another of the Michoacan highland’s less-forested areas, which shares many characteristics with La Mesa, but features more grass, and fewer short thorny trees. I suspect the area technically qualifies as a savanna.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2021

I am not crazy about alliterations. They seem a poor device, suitable for children’s books but not for refined literature. After all, there is no Oscar Wilde novel titled “The picture of Dorian Day”, nor is Raymond Chandler`s hero called “Philip Parlowe” Admittedly, the private detective in a few decent Howard Browne novels is named “Paul Pine”, but then again, these novels are not quite as good as the Chandler ones (notice that I do not use the phrase &

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 28, 2021

The last weekend of March offers much, both in terms of new additions to your current suite of avifauna and the promise of more to come. Even better, April means more of the same. I found the opportunity to chip away at my county list this weekend, filling an odd Blue-winged Teal -shaped hole while enjoying an array of snappy waterfowl. Corey had his hands full this weekend with more pressing concerns than adding Black Vulture to his county list for the year, so we’ll give him a consolatio

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 2, 2021

A sales environment is heavily focused on the achievement of goals, quotas and targets. Staff are motivated and ambitious, and competition between sales agents or teams is often encouraged. It’s therefore no surprise that effective performance management is fundamental to a sales manager’s success. Without a rigorous monitoring, motivation and recognition system, a sales team […].

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 1, 2021

COVID-19 turned the world of sales upside down. Millions of reps now sell from their homes and sales leaders are in search of new ways to motivate their teams. One thing is clear to all of us: the pandemic made existing sales productivity challenges more pronounced and created new ones. As leaders, we need to find ways to shift our operating philosophy for this new age of sales.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 1, 2021

Business leaders have been forced to make difficult decisions in the past year, resulting in clarity around leadership. Let’s call this COVID Clarity?—?key realizations borne out of the pandemic. One of the key takeaways in clarity is that your people are your most important asset, especially in challenging times. The post Leadership Lessons from Our COVID Year appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 1, 2021

If your one-on-one reviews leave employees rolling their eyes?—?managers often are the last ones to discover this?—?here are five tips from HR service provider Primehr to make performance reviews more meaningful for everyone involved. Continuous feedback. Don’t wait until annual or semiannual review time to offer feedback. Provide suggestions and guidance throughout the year.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 1, 2021

While some companies have announced long-term or even permanent remote work policies, others are eager to bring teams together in the office when it is safe and when employees feel comfortable doing so. In a recent article for MIT Sloan Management Review, Liz Fosslien and Mollie West Duffy, coauthors of the book “No Hard Feelings: The Secret Power of Embracing Emotions at Work,” offered these steps leaders can take to make employees feel supported and safe ahead of an eventual return to the work

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 1, 2021

How desperate are people to travel again after a year in lockdown? The post Incentive Travel Experiences Are Too Treasured to Abandon appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 1, 2021

Employees are motivated when their work has relevance. Business adviser and author Lisa Lai offers these tips for how managers can make work more meaningful for those on their team: Share context and provide relevance.?To motivate your employees, start by sharing context about the work you’re asking them to do. What are we doing as […]. The post How Managers Can Make Work More Meaningful appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 1, 2021

Following a turbulent 2020, U.S. employee engagement increased to 39% in January, up from 36% late last year, according to a Gallup study. Gallup has long studied the topics of job satisfac­tion and engagement. Its latest report states, “While engagement growth has been slow and steady in the past decade, the disruptions of 2020 brought never-before-seen fluctuations in workplace cultures.”.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 1, 2021

Like everything else in the pandemic year, workplace recognition and managing teams for improved performance have been disrupted. In a virtual world, it’s harder to gauge team members’ needs, celebrate successes and make employees feel valued. The post How the Pandemic Year Changed Employee Recognition appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 31, 2021

A full recovery is expected at some point, but the look of group travel may be forever changed. The post Changes Afoot for Incentive Travel Programs appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 28, 2021

A few weeks ago I showed you how flooded the station property was on each side of the highway heading south. Well, it did start to dry out a little, but then we got a lot more rain. The first culvert you come to when you drop down onto the open plains is now flowing nicely under the road. There are plentiful fish to be seen in the clear water. The header photo shows the water running under the culvert.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 29, 2021

Ken Cross lives with his wife Megan and their three children on the hinterland of the Sunshine Coast on Australia’s east coast. Currently he is the convenor for Birdlife Australia in his local area and, as that suggests, he loves sharing his passion for birds and all wildlife through outings and bird walks. Currently Ken continues to dream of overseas birding tours but will settle for ones down under.

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