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Vistage Best Practices are comprehensive online best business practice modules on over 40 of the most pressing topics in business today.

Below are overviews of six of our most popular best practice modules to provide a taste of the kind of practical leadership skill-building and problem-solving content Vistage members regularly enjoy.

• Strategic Planning -- Vistage best practices experts explore the vision, tactics and objectives of effective strategic plans and outline a set of underlying principles and management tools to help create a truly valuable strategic plan.
  
  
• Staffing/Hiring -- The key to hiring effectively is to have a staffing system that provides a template, a model and a process for those who recruit, screen, interview and hire new employees. Having a staffing system will dramatically increase your odds of getting the right person in the job with each new hire.
  
  
• Sales Training -- With effective sales training, your company can achieve the growth needed to stay healthy in difficult times. Quality sales training works best when it provides these tools: 1) expert customer relations skills, 2) enhanced communication techniques, 3) comprehensive product knowledge, and 4) advanced selling skills.
  
  
• Branding -- Is brand defined by your company logo? Your product packaging? Your advertising and public relations campaigns? These are all elements of branding, but by no means the whole story. In fact, the notion of branding is misunderstood by even the most marketing-savvy organizations.
  
  
• Marketing Strategy -- Marketing is the process of planning and executing the development, pricing, promotion and distribution of products and services to targeted customers -- strategic marketing planning. Using this standard, everyone in your organization is involved in marketing in some way.
  
  
• Mergers and Acquisitions -- Acquisitions carry a high degree of risk. When properly planned and implemented, acquisitions offer a legitimate business growth strategy for companies of all sizes. But when they fail, they generally fail big-time.

As a member of Vistage, you’ll have total access to Vistage View, our password-protected Web site that offers full-length best practices modules on more than 40 critical business topics, along with thousands of other articles that provide practical leadership and business advice, culled from the expertise of our entire global network of CEOs and chief executives. Topics include CEO Skills Development, New Product Development, Sustaining Business Growth, Workers’ Compensation, Financial Management and many more …