Keeping your wider team CLOSE:
Time and time again we meet people who comment on frustrations they have inter-department within their business. The price paid by the business through the loss of morale and productivity is...
5 Great Ways to Finish the Calendar Year in Style
As the end of the calendar year approaches it is very easy to get distracted by talk of upcoming holidays and to mentally ‘wind down’. The fundamental issue with this is that if you...
Beware the ‘Open Door Policy’!
- Most modern Managers state to new recruits and existing team members alike: “My door is always open”
- While we massively respect this idea when compared to the autocratic closed door...
Two More Ways to Grow Sales
- Develop Your Sales Leader
- Only 34% of organisations believe their sales manager has the right skills to manage and motivate their sales team effectively.* Many team leaders struggle with the same...
How to Kill Procrastination!
The Cambridge Dictionary definition: ‘Procrastination, to keep delaying something that must be done, often because it is unpleasant or boring.’
Most of us suffer from...
3 Ways to Develop Your Resilience
In essence, being resilient means knowing how to cope with setbacks or failure. To build your resilience you need to understand that how you deal with failure is crucial. In fact, it’s more...
Be Fast and Personalised
Stat 3: 78% of Salesforce customers state that the sale goes to those who respond first within two hours of an enquiry** – so be responsive in sales
- As most of us have experienced, both as a...
Lessons from Australia and New Zealand
Lessons from Australia:
By most accounts, the Australian economy was protected from the GFC, thanks to the mining boom. But as with all seasons, all booms must end. After two tough years in the...
Business Stats You Won’t Want to Ignore*
Building a business is a lot of work. Only a few break into the $1 million ceiling. Still a few break into the $10 million ceiling. It takes a lot of hard work to get to this point and many factors...
Lessons from the US and Canada
Lessons from the US:
Expert customer service can have a greater impact on goodwill than you think. At a recent incident with my daughter at Six Flags Over Texas, we lost our mobile phones. While...