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Cultural cows and cakes could close you!
Tagged with: culture, employee engagement, leadership, sacredcows, facingchallenge
Posted in Business Growth, business strategy, change management, Company Culture, Decision Making, Engagement, leadership, Strategic Planning
Posted in Business Growth, business strategy, change management, Company Culture, Decision Making, Engagement, leadership, Strategic Planning
Menopause needs men to implement the Menostart
Tagged with: Diversity, employee engagement, equality, Inclusion, leadership, menopause, menostart
Posted in Business Growth, Company Culture, Engagement, leadership, People performance, Values
Posted in Business Growth, Company Culture, Engagement, leadership, People performance, Values
How to realise data Value from data Usage
There are also indirect benefits that come with data usage such as increased objectivity, accountability, appreciation, clarity, communication, teamwork, and problem solving – everything business leaders strive to instil in their people.
Tagged with: data, datamanagement, howtousedata, thevalueofdata
Posted in Business Growth, Data, Decision Making, Increasing Profits, Key Performance Indicator, leadership, Planning
Posted in Business Growth, Data, Decision Making, Increasing Profits, Key Performance Indicator, leadership, Planning
Slogans Attract, Stories Engage, Sales pay Bills.
Tagged with: Bounceback, Covid19, payingthebills
Posted in Business Growth, Marketing, SALES, Strategic Planning
Posted in Business Growth, Marketing, SALES, Strategic Planning
Performance or Market Improvement – where’s your GROWTH coming from?
The markets are under attack – “Covid-19 presents the greatest danger to the world economy since the financial crisis of 2008” (OEGD). “The FTSE 100 fell more than 8% in early trading as fears of a global recession grew, caused…
Tagged with: coronavirus, john lewis, People performance, Process productivity, Product profitability
Posted in Business Growth, Company Culture, leadership
Posted in Business Growth, Company Culture, leadership
A GOAL without a plan is just a WISH
After 30 years in what is generically referred to as “corporate life” where we even planned the plan, the shock of working with smaller businesses that do not produce a plan, let alone written goals was (for me) an anathema…
Tagged with: Budgets, Business Planning, Goal Planning, Growth, Skills for business growth
Posted in Annual Plan, Business Growth, Planning, Strategic Planning
Posted in Annual Plan, Business Growth, Planning, Strategic Planning
2018 Greatest Hits
So Greatness is all relative and Hits ain’t quite what they used to be! Nevertheless, here are the most viewed Value Innovator blogs of 2018. #3 Has the internet killed the Sales Professional? The demographic of the audience (and buyers)…
Tagged with: culture, internet, SALES, Skills for business growth, Sustainability, USP's
Posted in Business Growth, Company Culture, internet, Marketing, Sales Training, Values
Posted in Business Growth, Company Culture, internet, Marketing, Sales Training, Values
Your business may have grown, but have you?
Rodney is 77 years old, and as we chatted it was clear he had experienced life – not in terms of the trappings of career progression and boardroom status but his grey hair, wrinkled face, and twinkling eyes said he…
Key Decision Maker assumptions,questions,tips.
How to increase the success rate of your decision making. Key decision makers are a rare breed, rarely seen outside the confines of their immediate environment; they are creatures of habit and have exhaustive memories of what does and doesn’t…
Tagged with: Engagement, networking, self development
Posted in Business Growth, Decision Making, Engagement
Posted in Business Growth, Decision Making, Engagement
Has the internet KILLED the Sales Professional?
I suppose I first learnt the art of sales from Bob-a-Job week, from there I started my own car washing business – me with bucket and sponge in hand, knocking on neighbour’s doors and offering to wash their cars; in…
Tagged with: Gavin Ingham, Lee Lawson, Phil Hesketh, SALES, Steve Edge
Posted in Business Growth, internet, Sales People, Sales Training
Posted in Business Growth, internet, Sales People, Sales Training
Michael Donaldson The Value Innovator - Improving the performance of your business 
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