Archive For June, 2010

Better team and customer communication – it’s about understanding them not you

Have you ever noticed that you find some people more difficult to talk to than others? But, that other colleagues get along with those people just fine? I’m sure, like me, you have. Until a few years ago, I thought that was one of life’s ‘little struggles’ and that some people were better at it [...]

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Book Clubs, Team Building and Training – What’s the link?

Now, I hope that we are all agreed that investing in training and developing your people is essential for the growth of your business. Right? When we think about training, most businesses will think about training for job-based skills as their training requirement and they will either book members of their team onto an open [...]

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Net Promoter Score: Would Your Employees Be Promoters of You?

In an earlier post I wrote about Net Promoter Score: It could change your life and how I thought it was a great way to approach your business as it can help focus your business on improving delivery and customer retention and loyalty. Then , recently I was thinking about the idea that if our [...]

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Business networking online is great, face to face is better

Business networking online has exploded over the course of the last few years with Social Media sites like Facebook, Linked In, forums, blogs etc and has allowed many business owners to extend their far beyond their normal horizons. However, I think many businesses can miss an opportunity to build those relationships even further by taking [...]

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Jack Welch, England and the World Cup – Leadership and Growing Teams

We’re in the midst of the World Cup and following France’s exit yesterday under a cloud of recriminations, today is the day of reckoning for England in their last group game. It is an all or nothing game. They need to win or they will be coming home by the end of the week. At [...]

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