011- 2018 Trends that will Impact Your Business

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This show is dedicated to talking about some critical trends that will be immerging or advancing in 2018.  ​Many areas that affect business are changing this coming year like the use of technology, worker composition, skills training, marketing focus and a movement back to more human interaction.

Time Stamps:

1:15   How does the listener benefit?
Once business owners and company executives understand how their business environment will change, they can get ahead of the trends most important to them and look for ways to capitalize on them

​2:00   Discussion points: (8:00 mins)

1. I researched several well informed sources about their view of important trends to watch in 2018.  The ones we chose to talk about fell into 3 categories: use of technology, development of people, and the evolution of marketing.
2. These trends focused on how current activities may be hitting a high point like the evolution of worker interaction and artificial intelligence to more strategy activities like marketing.

10:00 Tips for improving in this area or overcoming this problem: (7:00 mins)

1. Using artificial intelligence to drive customer and workplace experiences
2. How generations are effecting workplace performance
3. What marketing needs to focus on
4. What leading companies are doing to upgrade employee skills

 
17:00  Final Take-aways: (2:00 mins)
There are so many factors changing the future of how we run or operate companies and work as people that smart business owners will start looking at these trends to gain strategic advantage in their industries and markets.
 
19:00 Closing comments: (show promotion, next episode, events, etc.)
We'll be adding our resources to this page of our website so you can read all the other areas expected to change that we didn’t have time to cover.

Resource Information:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ianaltman/2017/12/05/the-top-business-trends-that-will-drive-success-in-2018/#57361881701a
 
https://www.forbes.com/sites/danschawbel/2017/11/01/10-workplace-trends-youll-see-in-2018/#60c7026e4bf2