Weekly newsletter #82
The best of what I've read this week, about operations, training and education, communication, and more
Hello!
I’ve been offline more recently and don’t have any of my own updates to share today, so onto the curated resources!
This week’s highlighted resouce:
Last week’s most popular link:
Greg Meyer writes about tracking progress with a simple Ops Kanban board
What I've been reading, watching, and listening to:
LinkedIn
Darrell Alfonso writes about how to run marketing ops like a product team, and marketing ops career advice he wishes he had at 20
Amanda Natividad writes about how to find great co-marketing partners in 3 minutes
Sara McNamara writes about operations advice you also may wish you could tell every company
Jonathan Moss writes about go-to-market efficiency
Nicole Pereira shares advice on how to better recharge on vacation or even just an evening or weekend
Wes Kao writes about how to derisk (continued in the newsletter)
Rosalyn Santa Elena writes about how to effectively motivate a team — you can’t use the same approach with everyone
Articles, Reports, Guides, Newsletters
Ty Wiggins and Rebecca Davies write about Inside the First Year as a CEO in Harvard Business Review (3 free articles a month)
Jess Almlie writes about The Psychology of a Training Request
The Secret CFO writes about Strategic Finance Part III: Increase value or reduce cost?
Christine Song writes about The Diary of a Chief People Officer - Chapter 8
Rita Azevedo writes about how your LMS onboarding deserves a go-to-market plan
Toni Hohlbein writes a commercial planning survival guide: Part 3 - How to close the gap
CJ Gustafson writes Your Definitive Guide to Annual Planning - Part 3: Bottoms Up Budgeting
Udemy Business shares Manager Essentials: Change Management Strategies
Trainual shares a template for How To Document a Process 📝
GTMonday by GTM Partners shares How to Measure the 5 Kinds of Partner Programs
David Young writes about 19 essential HR KPIs and metrics for executives
Podcasts & Webinars
Dan Giovacchini and Justin Norris discuss Taking the Pain out of Go-to-market Systems Enablement — 47 minutes 📝
Lesley Wilder and Melanie Jones discuss Lesley’s journey to Chief of Staff at a Higher Education Non Profit Organization — 38 minutes
Jeff Cypher discusses the Process To Streamline Your Agency Operations (Used by 3,000 Agencies) in a ZenPilot video — 39 minutes 📝
Featured Events or Classes:
August 23 deadline for next cohort: Fractional HR People Leader Program ($) from Lattice
August 28: Learning Strategy - How to Increase Your L&D Speed to Market from Infopro Learning
Sept. 25-26: Strategy Summit ($) from Training Industry
Featured Book:
Featured Remote Jobs:
A Few Ways I Can Help You
On-demand courses:
How and Why to Document Your Business Processes — full course
There is now a MarketingOps. com version! It includes the workbook and some marketing-ops-specific resources
Live courses:
How to Document Your Business Processes — Full course — Oct. 1-22 (new format of one class per week instead of two classes per week)
How to write a clear process anyone can follow - One-session workshop - Nov. 12, 8-11AM Pacific
Create a system to keep documentation in use and updated - One-session workshop - Nov. 19, 8-10:30AM Pacific
A new live course on employee onboarding will be available later this year — participate in the research that will shape the course here