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What's Empathy Got to Do with it?
Empathy is valued currency. It allows us to create bonds of trust, it gives us insights into what others may be feeling or thinking; it helps us understand how or why others are reacting to situations, it sharpens our “people acumen” and informs our decisions. This article provides 10 tips for exercising your empathy muscle.
8 tips to increase bill value for every customer
How many of these 8 tips are you applying to increase sales of your retail business? These also help you in building better customer relationship increasing lifetime sales value in addition to the current bill.
3 Critical Franchisee Skills
Whether you are a franchiser attempting to find the candidates that will be both profitable and a brand asset or you are a franchisee attempting to create a thriving new enterprise, without these 3 components you will be challenged every day in your business.

What to Do When the Tables Are Turned
'Men's midlife crisis' is a grouping of words that seem to fit together. What can you do you're the man and your wife's the one exhibiting the classic midlife crisis signs?
A Successful Sales Model: The Key to Franchisee Success
With many individuals transitioning from corporate America to entrepreneurial ventures, it is no surprise that new franchised businesses are springing up everywhere. Many franchise owners are attracted to entrepreneurship because they like what the franchise business concept represents. However, while they come to their role as a believer of the concept they buy into they do not necessarily have the skills they need to sell themselves and their services — the skills that are needed to keep the business alive.

Developing Business Acumen & Business Sense
Are you excited about Mondays? Or, are you excited by the notion that the workweek begins today and you have to plough and slough through today? If you say ‘TGIF’, you may be missing the point.

Is Your knowledge an Obstacle to Selling More?
Examine whether or not your knowledge blurs the clarity and effect of your marketing.

Market Leadership
Learn how to become an effective leader in today's competitive market. And start by learning the 4 steps to achieving a customer centric oriented culture.
A culture of accountability is the key to business and organisational success
Nigel Griffiths gives a positive spin on accountability.
Stand up to the monsters that are holding back your success
Did you know that there are three monsters lurking about in the heart of our shadows and lonely corners of our lives and businesses? Read on to find out what these monsters are and how you can stop them in their tracks.
Business Acumen and Protocol Will Never Go Out of Style
This may be a time of transparency and casualness in all areas of our lives but I must put my foot down and say, while I am fine with moving forward and being transparent and casual when appropriate we must be very careful to avoid having an attitude of informality to the point of being rude.

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Heres a Source I Forgot
Lunch with Jack Singer at a new Italian place today gave me the chance to ask him how he started to prospect. Jack's a fund and stock broker who brought his family here from South Africa about a decade ago. Over there he was a druggist, so there were few skills to transfer, other than his business acumen, but no prospects or clients.

Blueprint for Success
It’s not just business acumen, but integrity, that carries you forward in the business world. It’s as simple as keeping your word, or, in some cases, remembering what your words were. It seems that “simple” isn’t always easy for some people.
Top 5 Ways Business Acumen Adds to Your Bottom Line
Acumen is described as insight, good judgment and wisdom. Sales acumen combined with business acumen is being hyper aware of trends going on in the world and connecting the trends to your product/service and solutions. The salesperson of the future is moving beyond bonding and rapport; They are professional that know how to carry on a conversation at the 'C' suite. Today's decision maker expects a professional salesperson to understand the business of business.

What is the Advantage of Being an MBA?
The importance of MBA degree lies in the fact that it is the confirmed ticket to the corporate world. Many more aspirants are taking new and advanced courses in MBA to accelerate their career growth so that they inculcate the much needed management expertise and business acumen. A mere mention of an MBA rank adds value and weight to one’s resume which gives an edge over others.

Hiring Talented Business Acumen and Business Acu-women
Okay, so it was a catchy title-there is really no gender difference when it comes to business acumen. But wait, what exactly do we mean by business acumen, and how do we know it when we see it?
Business Acumen Boot Camp is not for Sissies
Spring is in the air, buds are starting to bloom, the economy is starting to turn, and the sap is rising in the veins of entrepreneur’s everywhere (forgive the poetic license – it has been a hard winter). But although our entrepreneur’s sap is rising (when we say sap, think: motivation, frustration, ambition), their business acumen skills may not be up to the job? Here is where Business Acumen Boot Camp training can payoff.
What's Empathy Got to Do with it?
Empathy is valued currency. It allows us to create bonds of trust, it gives us insights into what others may be feeling or thinking; it helps us understand how or why others are reacting to situations, it sharpens our “people acumen” and informs our decisions. This article provides 10 tips for exercising your empathy muscle.
Leadership Acumen
What is leadership acumen? Leadership always yields tangible business results in the long-term. Since acumen is about insight and wise action, let’s consider it in context of great leadership and excellent business.
The Value YOU Bring Is As Important As Your Products
What you bring as YOU, the value you add to helping customers meet their business objectives, your ability to help them see a broader perspective, is as important, often more important, than what your products will do for them. Lately, there has been a focus on the need for salespeople to increase their business acumen - and rightly so.

5 Pitfalls to Avoid When Developing Business Acumen
Planning on improving the business acumen of your sales force please watch for these 5 pitfalls.
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