29 Oct 2016

Simply put, Contract Management is ‘Forward Thinking’ and Bill Gates for one, would never be able to appreciate it enough! Call it seeing the right opportunity at the right time and then executing well on the concept. Contract management is the process of managing contract creation, execution and analysis to maximise operational and financial performance at an organisation, all while red...

08 Oct 2016

Alexander-the-Great never had a Life Coach but he valued learning so highly, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge than to his father Philip for life.  In our times, many people often mistake a life coach for a mental health professional, such as a psychiatrist or a therapist.  This misconception often leads people to believe they do not need a li...

13 Sep 2016

“I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.” Multi-level marketing, also known as MLM, is a business marketing strategy that many companies use in order to encourage current agents to perform while at the same time growing the team by recruiting and training new agents. This tactic of marketing helps boost the company’s sales force not only from the s...

15 Aug 2016

“None of us is as smart as all of us. As the saying justifies, a HPTs remains a concept within organization development referring to teams, organizations, or virtual groups that are highly focused on their goals and that achieve superior business results. Bringing team members together through a virtual environment can be a challenge task. This workshop identifies these challenges and he...

05 Jul 2016

They say if you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm. Nevertheless, having to fire an employee is never an easy task.  Sometimes, despite attempts of open communication and encouraging performance, an employee will need to be terminated from the company.  One of the hardest aspects of preparing to fire an employee is to separate the emotions from the facts.  Ma...

12 Jun 2016

Networking – according to Merriam Webster is “the exchange of information or services among individuals, groups, or institutions; specifically:  the cultivation of productive relationships for employment or business”. These and other events can become more easily managed with this great workshop. Granted that networking is the key to sound business, which twists in, as much about whom y...

13 May 2016

An annual review can help you keep your employees happy, engaged, and focused. It is human nature to want to succeed. Giving your employees feedback on their positive and negative attributes is part of the pathway to success. A poorly designed annual review can have the reverse effect. With our Conducting Annual Employee Reviews workshop, the participants will discover how to conduct a w...

13 Apr 2016

Human Resources
This week, I finally watched the movie “The Martian,” starring Matt Damon. Damon plays Mark Watney, an astronaut trained in botany who is left for dead on Mars. Watney must stretch his food rations to keep himself alive in case help arrives. Using all the tools in his mental toolbox, and with no way to communicate with NASA, he engineers methods to keep certain death at bay until the nex...

13 Apr 2016

Bar none, the biggest objection a customer ever raises is price. Often they don’t comprehend the value of your solution, therefore concluding that the number you’ve quoted is completely arbitrary, maybe even greed-based. It’s true that today’s customers exist in a climate of global competition; they know how to “Google it,” etc. But information isn’t always knowledge, so they’re not nece...

13 Apr 2016

Research shows that salespeople will never reach their performance potential without a well-defined sales-call procedure that they can follow and learn from. “Winging it” on sales calls has grim consequences – lost sales, extended sell cycles, margin erosion and no clear path to improvement. Bottom line: Your entire sales career can be mediocre if you “wing it.” Performance improves b...