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Standardizing Project Management
Many organizations operate in a state of mild chaos because of poor project management processes. This summary will provide the business case for implementing a formalized project management policy, methodology, and toolset. Review the Action Plan to obtain 11 downloadable templates and tools to assist you with creating your own customized project management procedure.

Give Clients What They Really Want
Build real personal relationships with your clients--so they'll reveal to you what they really want, what could really drive their decision but can't be written in an RFP.

Some are naturals, but everyone can get better
We were recently doing Relationships for Revenue Growth training for some of the sales force of a large technical company, and throughout the day, we had great discussions about the power of turning business relationships into personal relationships.

Project Success: Top Ten Tips
All organizations run projects from time to time. Yet more than half of all projects started fail their objectives. Why is this so? Read this article to discover ten things you can do to improve the chances of success with your project.

Sales Coaching is Like Baseball - How Do You Rate?

Really? Whiffle Ball in the back yard? Sandlot? Little League? Babe Ruth? High School? American Legion? College? Cape Cod League? Independent League? First Round Draft Pick? Signed by a Major League Team? High Minors? Cup of Coffee in the Bigs? Utility Player on a Major League Team? Every Day Player? All Star? MVP? Hall of Fame? When it comes to coaching, most sales managers have done the baseball equivilent of Sandlot - they messed around at it and had some fun.

Mastering Sales and Sales Management
Do you and your salespeople have a passion for sales? What is the thing you do that is equal to repeated listening, watching or practicing? What do you do to know your material cold? Do you attend training as often as you attend concerts, theater or movies?

Seven critical steps to positioning you as a thought leader
The seven key steps in the START IP methodology will help your arrive at a robust thought leadership position for you or for your company and its brands.

Is Personal and Business Coaching Alive in Ireland?
A common concern amongst Coaches in the current climate is the lack of data outlining whether or not people are looking for Coaching. If people are looking for Coaches; what type and where? Unfortunately, there is no empirical data to suggest whether or not the coaching industry is growing or if coaching is being embraced by the Irish public and businesses.

Top 25 Prerequisites for Successful Sales Training and Development
Before an inside or outside expert can help you develop your sales force, there are at least 25 milestones that must take place or the initiative will probably fail. Development has much less to do with content, curriculum, and methodology than it does with the person, or people who will do the developing.

Does industrial theatre really help learning?

When we look at corporate and adult training we find many frameworks and even many more products to choose from. One thing that we don't often find is a clear strategy and appreciation for the science and theory behind the chosen framework and style. KOLB is regarded by many as the thought leader on the topic of modern experiential learning. His learning model, although not widely acknowledged, has become the most commonly used and or adapted of its kind. So much so that there is very little out there that is really new. Now we are discovering developments in our application of inductrial theatre that are growing from success to success.

Home Based Business Opportunity - Using the Online Forums for Your Business Publicity
As the popularity of your home based business opportunity increases, you will see your profit increasing proportionately with it. New home based entrepreneurs normally start their businesses with very low budgets and the understanding of free yet effective website promotional methods always comes as a joy to them.

Web Analytics - Make the Switch to Performance-Driven Design

Web design in small, medium, and large companies alike has traditionally been driven by the loudest voice or the highest-paid person’s opinion (HiPPO). The Big Cheese steps into the meeting, and lays down the law, dictating what the next month’s web development priorities will be. Websites can also driven by committee with the end result resembling a camel when the original design called for a horse. There is a better way...

Sales Experts Disagree on the Right Way to Train Salespeople

I was involved in a nearly week long, on line discussion with about a half dozen other sales experts in the Top Sales Experts Group at LinkedIn that to date has included about 41 volleys. The original question, raised by the UK publisher of modernselling.com, asked whether there was a right way or a wrong way to train salespeople. While there was some agreement on some points, there was much disagreement on many points.

Heads You Win... Tails Your Lose...
The article "Heads You Win... Tails You Lose..." examines the casual and sometimes frivolous manner by which people and organizations make decisions on a day to day basis. Further more, this article addresses the impact of this conditioned behavior both in and out of the workplace.

Positioning Basics

There is no one-size-fits-all approach to strategy and positioning. Anyone who says there's a one-size-fits-all approach simply doesn't get it. Strategic positioning is more art than science. And each and every client is a new canvas. Great positioning is as unique as every situation. You have to be flexible, nimble. My ‘methodology' is more a way of thinking about things. I don't really have a checklist or set of step-by-step instructions.

Saving Motion, Time and Your Business
Conventional wisdom is that motion time study is only useful in the manufacturing industries, but the Indians are proving it can be applied to improve nearly any business from call centers to software development. Can we afford to ignore their success any longer?

7 + 1 Criteria, business owners should use, when selecting Sales & Marketing Consultant

What makes you different? How do I know I will get value from your services? Why should I use your services, as opposed to someone else? These are questions that I get constantly. I am sure that in your business you get equivalent questions. This article objectively looks at criteria you should use for choosing services like my company's. I would strongly advise you to use this as a template for the products and services that you sell. Do they have a passion to succeed in their own business, which will reflect on what they do for my Business?

industrial theatre can help adult and workplace learning

Does Indutrial Theatre help in learning? Can this mode of communication address both adult and workplace learning? We share some of the theory behind the art and the science behind our successes. Motivating people to change and helpning organisations develop peak performing cultures requires behaviour communication strategies that work. Industrial theatre can be implemented in a learning environment to facilitate an active learning experience. Theatre can bridge language and cultural devides. Our greatest moment is to share in a moment of personal discovery.

The Resume Checklist

The following checklist and tips could help you make sure that your resume gives you the best possible advantage. The checklist is by no means exhaustive, but if you follow these points, you will have a resume that is worth reading and maximises your career opportunities. Each point is important and it is equally important to make sure that your resume incorporates all of them. Miss out on one or two and you could see your good work on the others possibly wasted. Ask yourself the following questions:

Is Six Sigma Still Relevant in a Dynamically Changing World
The following is the overview of a just released white paper on Six Sigma, Lean and Integrated Enterprise Excellence with a corresponding link to download the paper itself (as the work was funded there is no charge to obtain the paper). I am certain that it will inspire a spirited debate - and that of course is beneficial to everyone.

Newest PI Sponsor Receives Patent That Will Forever Change The Software Vendor Landscape (e-LYNXX Corporation)

In an upcoming profile article I will be be reviewing the value proposition of the e-LYNXX organization. What will make this particular profile unique is that e-LYNXX recently received what has been described as a “landmark competitive procurement patent,” for a revolutionary methodology that will have a significant and far reaching impact on the supply chain industry as a whole, including tier one vendors such as Oracle, SAP and Ariba.

Do You Have a Corporate-Web Speech Impediment?
I spend a lot of time talking about websites. I'm always talking to clients, potential clients, job seekers, industry pros and my fellow Orbiteers and I've noticed a few things about how people talk about websites: people use a lot of fancy words. Naturally, the web has brought about a lot of new things that needed new words. But somehow it also led to more technical words for some simple ideas.

Government Could Use Some Sales Training
Government officials need to spend some time in the profession of sales and learn basic Sales 101 skills when it comes to satisfying the customer. Here are 5 sales lessons the government would benefit from in this difficult time.

SOME EXECS WILL NEED TO DECIDE: layoffs vs. retention
It’s depressing, it’s scary and it’s your decision. For those first timers- welcome to the terrifying responsibility of keeping your company alive during a recession.

Sure Fire Ways To Drive Customers Away!
Stop driving away your customer or members and learn important truths about "relationships".

WHAT TO LOOK FOR WHEN YOU BUY OR SELL A BUSINESS
Many business owners try to sell their business when it is not ready to be sold which makes it almost impossible for a buyer to see the real value of the business. The following article will provide guidelines on how to sell a business and how to buy a business.

Getting Things Done! The Stress Free Way!
Is it possible to really live a life that is stress free and focused on what matters? It is! But you have to be willing to make some choices along the way. How do you even know if you are focusing where you should? How do you know that you are defining things the "right" way. You cannot live your priorities if you don't know what they are. I'd like to share a way you can work through the process.

Sales Manager = Sales Training Success
Launching a sales training initiative without the UPFRONT buy-in and participation of your line sales management team is pure folly. In fact, if your sales management team does not believe that they own the sales training, just stop. Stop now.

How to Go From Dud to Stud in 30 Days

Last Saturday, in blizzard-like conditions, we left Boston for a much needed family vacation. We arrived in the Bahamas three hours later to find sunny, tropical, 90 degree temperatures. Blizzard to Tropical in three hours got me to thinking, as usual, about selling which, for a lot of salespeople, has become more difficult in the past 90 days. Learn how to go from Ice Cold to Red Hot - Blizzard to Tropical - Dud to Stud in 30 Days.

RAMP UP YOUR BRAND - SLEDGEHAMMERS AND SERVICE BRAND PREFERENCE

By Mike Schultz and John Doerr Swing the Hammer Imagine the strongman game at the carnival. You lift the sledgehammer over your head and swing it down onto the platform. When it strikes the target, a metal cylinder rises up and up—20 feet up the pole until it rings the bell. On its way down the pole the cylinder passes the same words it passed on the way up: strongman, tough guy, athlete, junior, and weakling. In a way, establishing a services brand follows a similar process. You swing the hammer (your marketing tactics, the marketing mix you employ, and the quality of your company's services) and the strength of your efforts determine whether or not your brand moves up the pole and makes it to the top to ring the bell. The question is, “What stages must your brand pass through in order to ring the bell?”

COMMUNICATING THE VALUE OF YOUR SERVICES CREATING A NEW REALITY

By John Doerr “…but I know it when I see it.” - Potter Stewart, Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court In writing his ruling on pornography, Justice Stewart probably sounded like so many of the clients you work with as a professional service provider. Since you are selling something clients cannot see or touch, they have a hard time knowing exactly what they are buying and what value they will get in return.

RAIN SELLING HOW RAINMAKERS LEAD SALES CONVERSATIONS

By Mike Schultz and John Doerr Sales Conversations for Services To advance in their careers and become Rainmakers (those people at services companies that bring in the new clients and revenue), professionals such as accountants, lawyers, management consultants, and technology consultants eventually need to excel at selling professional services. Rarely, however, are these poor souls given a primer on rainmaking, especially when it comes to leading sales conversations and sales meetings. As a result, they often just 'wing it' and learn by doing, making many avoidable mistakes and losing opportunities to win new clients.

Coaching Panorama

In this study, I offer the definitions of the following methods of human development: What is Coaching? What is Consulting? What does a Consultant do? What is Organization Development (OD)? What is Mentoring? PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC TRENDS: What is Psychotherapy? Gestalt. TA (Transactional Analysis). Gordon. Psychodrama. NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming). Emotional Intelligence. Assertiveness. Supervision. Based on my own approach of coaching I investigate the following: What is Coaching? 1. Who have “discovered” coaching? 2. Coaching types - business coaching; 3. Coaching is not consulting; 4. The language of coaching; 5. Coaches in the corporate sector, abroad and in Hungary. 6. Competitive spirit, performance motivation in Hungary.

Method Mapping. The secret revealed.
It doesn’t matter what business you are in, you have your own way of doing things, your own methodology, your own unique process.

The Number 1 Question Can A Consultant Really Make a Difference

Over the past few weeks I have received a spate of questions asking (although some readers have already formed an opinion), what role does an outside consultant really play in an organization? Specifically, what do they do and how can they help me? This is one of those rare instances when I wear the hats of an unbiased and neutral writer as well as a consultant (I write and teach accredited courses for associations such as Purchasing Management Association of Canada or PMAC). While I cannot speak for others, over the next few paragraphs I will attempt to provide you with some additional insight into how I approach my work. Hopefully this will at least begin to paint a clearer pricture and perhaps establish a framework for evaluating your current consulting arrangements to enable you to get more from existing relationships.

6 Tips for Understanding Words that Trigger Behavior

I know there has been a real increase in the interest of keyword research recently since I was speaking about it at the Toronto SES Conference. Keyword forensics is the term I coined after I wrote an e-book about the methodology I use to research user behavior. With this methodology, you quickly begin to notice specific keyword phrase clusters that are very telling about the conditions in a searchers life. The reason you want to dig into this is so you can understand what initiates the search and what the searcher is looking for and then you can find the best windows of opportunity for optimizing a keyword phrase for top organic ranking search visibility. Have you ever wondered about writing styles for your Web page that literally trigger behavior and compel visitors to respond?

Supplemental Material Double Marginalization and the Point of Ideal Price Viability

I have received a number of e-mails regarding my August 10th posting (Double Marginalization and the Point of Ideal Price Viability) requesting clarification of my theory. In line with the old saying that a “picture is worth a thousand words,” the following graph will hopefully illustrate the basis for my conclusions. (NOTE: due to space limitations I am not able to incorporate the actual graph into this posting. To obtain a copy of the graph send me an e-mail at jhansen@procureinsights.com with “Graph” in the subject line.)

Dangerous Supply Chain Myths (Part 4)
Segment 4 – Internal & External Collaboration: A Desire versus Skill! Internal & External Collaboration In order to extract the significant gains that collaboration can bring, companies will need to enable best-practice multi-lateral collaboration between supply partners, achieve integrated product development, and employ “customer of choice” positioning.

Creating Synergy With Others
Do you find that you tend to use "forced action" in your work? Do you feel like it's more of a struggle than a pleasure to work? Do you like to be "in control?" Find out some easier ways to joyfully accomplish your goals.

Sample Term Sheet
If the venture capitalists are interested, they will very quickly come up with a draft term sheet for you which gives an overview of the conditions under which they would make an investment in your company. (see next page for a sample term sheet).

Why Coaches should work from both the inside out and outside in
This article discusses the importance on focusing on BOTH behavioral and transformational approaches to improving results.

Business Coach: Do You Employ the Yard by Yard or Inch by Inch Methodology to Master Success
With all the business coaches to executive coaches entering the marketplace, what is the most effective methodology: Inch by Inch or Yard by Yard?

The Genesis of Emotional Branding
Anthony Mora discusses how the most effective emotional branding is a result of the systematic use of the PR process.

Improving Supplier Delivery using Lean and Six Sigma
Member Question: Can anyone share their experience in improving Supplier delivery performance using Lean and Six sigma methodology?

A SALES METHODOLOGY
Do you have a sales methodology that your team follows? What is a sales methodology? In Linda Richardson's new article, A Sales Methodolgy, Linda will review the importance of a an effective sales process and methodolgy.

How to be S.M.A.R.T. about Goal Setting
A methodology for setting and attaining goals consistently.

12 Questions About Your Sales Process
Most sales people don't follow a process, those that do often confuse a sales process with a methodology. The process is the sequence of steps, "to-dos", milestones and goals that must be reached. The methodology is the technique you use to execute those steps.

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