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Bad Boss or Good Boss: Who Do Your Work For?

Rick Conlow

The worst bosses contribute to poor morale and bad attitudes, which lead to poor productivity, indifferent customer service, lower sales, reduced quality, and poorer overall financial results. Offers little training or coaching. Provides on-going training and development. Tells employees what to do with little or no input.

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Less Marketing, More Consulting — How To Win Projects Within Your Network with Stuart Friedman: Podcast #19

Consulting Success

This Silicon Valley-based previous electrical engineer with a passion for theater studied at Carnegie Mellon, then started his career in product marketing and sales before becoming a VP General Manager. Description: Today I’m excited to be joined by Stuart Friedman from Global Context. Building A Business on Cross-Cultural Communications.

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Happy customers are closer than they appear

1 to 1

At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, automotive sales tumbled in 2020 before surging demand and a global chip shortage sent prices skyrocketing in 2021. We provide onsite free training for our technicians. And we do that across all departments, whether that’s marketing or technicians or sales. Some look at it every day.

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The Art of Communication is the Language of Leadership

Rick Conlow

18% lost in sales. Invest in communication and leadership training: Managers must actively seek out opportunities for professional development in communication skills. This can include attending workshops, seminars, or courses on communication. leading to: 52% more stress for employees. 44% failure to complete a project.

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History of Organization Development (Part 1 of 6) ? ?Prehistoric OD.

Consulting and Organizational Management

The latter phrase refers to a field of well-trained people with expertise in guiding successful organizational development. This observation is from the creative theologically-trained mind of OD consultant and good friend, Mike Murray.). Pre-Historic OD? He stands in reality, not in ‘pie-in-the-sky’ thinking. So you’re a Kiwi!

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Make Data a Cornerstone of Your Team

Harvard Business

Has the company decided to pursue a new business vertical based on data collected by the sales team in the field? If a sales manager has been tracking the performance of sales efforts against a new vertical, he should be able to quickly gather some valuable insights that the rest of the organization would benefit from understanding.

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The Show Me State (of the art)

Seth Godin Blog

Instead, they trained us to be satisfied by merely watching the attractions. My full-day live seminars have impact on people partly because I don''t announce the specific agenda or the talking points in advance. Oh, that''s right, Cliffs Notes'' sales are way down because they''re too long.]. It''s live and it''s alive.

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