Peer Power Blog

We are looking forward to the third of four HTG events planned around the HTG Advisory Council’s recommendations to help HTG member companies build leadership throughout their ranks.  The Sales Management Summit happens September 17-18, 2012, and will occur in Omaha, NE, along with a portion of it taking place at the farm and HTG headquarters in rural Harlan, Iowa. You might remember that the purpose of this event is to provide folks who are currently in sales management roles, or are potential up-and-coming sales management leaders, the opportunity to hear from industry leaders around the topic of leading and managing people involved in sales.  What the Advisory Council reminded ... Continue reading

We are excited to announce that LabTech is supporting HTG as the sponsor for our upcoming Service Management Summit Webcast which will be happening live from the Heartland on August 16-17.  The event will be broadcast live by Varvid.  We have two days of great content focused on the people side of service management.  LabTech and ConnectWise are great companies that have created fantastic tools, and they add much value to those of us who depend on them to operate our company day in and day out. But at the end of the day, it is people that really make service delivery happen.  And these two companies (now three with Quosal) understand that reality and a... Continue reading

This week I am attending the Willow Creek Global Leadership Summit in Omaha which is being simulcast to hundreds of locations around the world with over 160,000 people either watching live or via streaming.  The content is rich with gems on leading well from the likes of Jim Collins, Patrick Lencioni and many other well known leadership guru's. One of the lessons that has struck me more than any other is the reality of what leadership is really all about.  Too many of us believe that leadership is all about getting followers.  We have fallen into the trap of thinking that our role as a leader is to create people who will just blindly go where we go and do what we ask the... Continue reading

We are pleased to announce that HTG Peer Groups in conjunction with the Heartland Leadership Group will be hosting our second annual IT Channel Vendor Summit.  The purpose of this event is to provide folks who are vendor partners the opportunity to hear from industry leaders around the topic of partners and vendors working together in the channel. ,This event WILL NOT focus on selling a specific product or service but around the idea of leveraging relationships in the channel in order to optimize what we each do and take our businesses to the next level of success. : Pricing for IT Channel Summit is listed below. If you are an HTG Platinum or Gold sponsor, you receive two or one free pass... Continue reading

We are excited to announce that we have officially launched HTG Online.  This is a return of a program that we initially had back in 2006-2008 in cooperation with Microsoft, but had to end it in the summer of 2008 due to funding limitations.  After several years of planning and a desire to return to helping small IT firms, we have brought the program back.  We were serving over 150 companies when the program retired last time, and believe there are many others that would benefit which served as the catalyst to bring it back again. HTG Online is an adaptation of HTG Peer Groups’ face-to-face program, which consists of  quarterly meetings, networking and an annual summit. Now, without the cos... Continue reading