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Are Learning Organizations the Key to Keeping Talent? Here’s What You Had to Say

For brands to catch fire, companies rely on talent, marketing, and technology as kindling. The pandemic was an accelerant — fast-tracking trends, compressing timelines, and requiring skills of the future, now. Keeping competency current and being proactively prepared for what’s next has never been more important. To build on Albert Einstein’s quote: “Once you stop […]
- CATEGORIES Featured
- PUBLISHED January 23, 2022
- AUTHOR Rebecca Fryer
Cannabis Business Sales to Soar in 2022

The beginning of every year presents an opportunity to look ahead. What will 2022 look like for the cannabis industry? After experiencing record-breaking growth during the last few years, even amid a pandemic, sales of cannabis show no signs of slowing down, especially as more states move to legalize it. We checked in with ForceBrands’ […]
- CATEGORIES Featured
- PUBLISHED January 19, 2022
- AUTHOR Rebecca Fryer
Food and Beverage Businesses Rally Behind Boulder After Marshall Fire

Few U.S. cities are as defined by the natural foods scene as Boulder, Co. A nationally-recognized hub for emerging food and beverage businesses, Boulder is home to a wide range of brands with a shared appreciation for health and sustainability. And now they’re giving back to a town that has given them so much. On […]
- CATEGORIES Featured
- PUBLISHED January 11, 2022
- AUTHOR Rebecca Fryer
Here’s What You Had to Say About DEI at Work

Diversity. Equity. Inclusion. Meaningful mandate or empty words? In a series of polls on ForceBrands’ LinkedIn page, we set out to learn how employers are responding to the social justice events of the past few years and what actions they’re taking to build more inclusive workforces. DEI cannot be an afterthought for today’s organizations — it […]
- CATEGORIES Featured
- PUBLISHED January 9, 2022
- AUTHOR Rebecca Fryer
Behind the Scenes of The Great Reshuffle

The Great Reshuffle, as coined by LinkedIn editors, has disrupted the workforce in unforeseen ways. The pandemic has put candidates in the driver’s seat of the job market and according to LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslanksy, it’s “unlike anything we’ve seen in the history of work.” So who exactly are these candidates and why are they motivated […]
- CATEGORIES Featured
- PUBLISHED January 7, 2022
- AUTHOR Rebecca Fryer

6 Inspiring DTC Brands to Watch in 2022

Direct-to-consumer (DTC) startups have thrived during the past decade. Fueled by venture capital funding, low competition, and abundant advertising opportunities, several companies leveraged this unique business model to achieve unicorn status. Today, the DTC space is more competitive than ever and investors are savvier – now relying on years of data intelligence to help inform […]

CATEGORIES ForceBrands
PUBLISHED January 24, 2022
AUTHOR Rebecca Fryer

Motivation at Work: Here’s How We’re Goal-Setting in 2022

We kicked off the year by asking our Start It Sunday community how they’re approaching work in the new year. Start It Sunday — our initiative designed to empower you to take charge of your career — is all about motivating, after all. More than half of our survey’s respondents (56 percent) reported that they’re […]

CATEGORIES Career Advice
PUBLISHED January 16, 2022
AUTHOR Rebecca Fryer

Top HR Trends of 2022

The past two years have arguably been some of the most challenging ones that HR professionals have ever faced. This means that going into 2022, new trends will permeate how we think about people management. Simply put, the industry as we know it is evolving. HR professionals will have no choice but to change how […]

CATEGORIES ForceBrands
PUBLISHED December 26, 2021
AUTHOR ForceBrands

The Essential End-of-Year Checklist for Job Seekers

It’s that time of year again when the holiday season is in full swing. As people step away from their work to celebrate with family and friends, it can seem like the hiring process gets put on hold. Our recruiters, however, say it’s an optimal time for candidates to continue the search and leverage any […]

CATEGORIES Career Advice
PUBLISHED December 19, 2021
AUTHOR Rebecca Fryer

‘Culture Fit’ Is a Myth and Here’s Why

The Great Resignation has caused a major disruption in the workforce. But perhaps the silver lining to this ‘Great Reshuffle‘ is that it’s encouraged us to reconsider what matters most to us when it comes to working. As it turns out, money can only go so far. Who we work with and where we work […]

CATEGORIES ForceBrands
PUBLISHED December 17, 2021
AUTHOR Rebecca Fryer

mg Magazine Releases List of Top 50 Cannabis Employers

No one will deny 2020 was challenging. A deadly pandemic led to stay-at-home orders and business closures, which boosted some industries and decimated others. Mass layoffs, eviction moratoriums, and supply-chain disruptions strained the economy, and social and political unrest fractured communities. Most jurisdictions declared cannabis commerce “essential” early in the crisis, saving jobs and likely […]

CATEGORIES HerbForce
PUBLISHED December 12, 2021
AUTHOR mg Magazine

These Are the 29 Big Ideas That Will Change Our World in 2022

Each year, professional networking platform LinkedIn releases a list of big ideas that will shape the new year. Last year’s list predicted that 2021 would be the year we returned to the office, focused our leadership style on character, and designated more C-suite seats to women, among other thoughts. So what does 2022 have in […]

CATEGORIES ForceBrands
PUBLISHED December 12, 2021
AUTHOR Rebecca Fryer

This Is How Many Desks Will Remain Empty in the Post-Pandemic Workplace

Currently, there are 125 million full-time jobs across the U.S. Nearly half of those jobs can be done remotely. To get more clarity on what the workplace will look like after the pandemic, analytics and advisory company Gallup decided to investigate. Through their research, they determined that a stagging 30 percent of the 60 million […]

CATEGORIES ForceBrands
PUBLISHED December 7, 2021
AUTHOR Rebecca Fryer

Inside The Great Reshuffle and What It Means for the Future of Work

The pandemic has shaken up the workplace in many different ways. This great reshuffling was challenging at first, but it helped us discover new, innovative ways to collaborate, communicate, and even grow. It also helped new sectors of the economy flourish, offering various job opportunities along the way. All of this occurred as workers developed […]

CATEGORIES ForceBrands
PUBLISHED December 5, 2021
AUTHOR ForceBrands

Watch the SKU Dallas 2021 Virtual Pitch Event Live

Founders of the six startup brands who participated in the second cohort of the SKU Dallas 2021 consumer packaged goods (CPG) accelerator will celebrate the culmination of the program with a virtual pitch event. The SKU Dallas 2021 Showcase will debut on December 7 at 12 pm CST. Following the pitch event, viewers will have the […]

CATEGORIES FoodForce
PUBLISHED December 2, 2021
AUTHOR Rebecca Fryer

Do You Have a Side Hustle? Here’s What You Had to Say

Side hustles have become overwhelmingly popular, with perhaps more employees than ever before choosing to explore their professional interests and passions outside of their full-time work. Now, in a new LinkedIn poll, ForceBrands discovers just how popular side hustles have become, and what people are saying about them. Nearly half of surveyed LinkedIn audience have […]

CATEGORIES ForceBrands
PUBLISHED November 19, 2021
AUTHOR Melanie Haniph

What Do Employees Want Most From Their Jobs? Here’s What You Had to Say

How are employees feeling amid the pandemic? Through a series of LinkedIn polls, we set out to find some answers. As it turns out, there are a lot of changes happening in the workforce, particularly when it comes to the demands of employees. With unemployment numbers shrinking, employees are in the driver’s seat in this […]

CATEGORIES ForceBrands
PUBLISHED November 16, 2021
AUTHOR Rebecca Fryer

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Are Learning Organizations the Key to Keeping Talent? Here’s What You Had to Say

Cannabis Business Sales to Soar in 2022

Food and Beverage Businesses Rally Behind Boulder After Marshall Fire

Here’s What You Had to Say About DEI at Work

Behind the Scenes of The Great Reshuffle

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