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Helping teams deal with change – part 1.
May 22, 2012 By Jon · Leave a Comment
If your team is racked with uncertainty, they won’t perform. If that’s the case have you failed in your duty as their leader? You may like to think the term leader doesn’t apply to you, but if you have people that work for you (directly or indirectly) then it does. In a recent article about [...]

Ideas to improve team meetings
May 21, 2012 By Jon · Leave a Comment
Do you and your team do little and doodle in meeting mayhem, where minutes are taken and hours are lost? Meetings with your team are a critical part of helping them to do their job and therefore are a critical part of your role – like it or not! If yours are not producing results, [...]

How to get staff to change – work smarter/ better/ more productively
May 14, 2012 By Jon · Leave a Comment
A leader’s role is managing change and nothing else I was participating in a recent discussion with some business owners about leadership The key theme was “A leader’s role is managing change and nothing else”. Think about it for a second, what’s your role? Think about some of the things that are going on in [...]

People are saying they want to work with you, but never quite commit
May 9, 2012 By Jon · Leave a Comment
Getting your client to buy, when they won’t commit. You’ve had the nice warm, fuzzy words. They like you and said they really want to work with you. They have even said that they are not even looking at anybody else. But they still don’t buy! Perhaps you’re trying too hard, perhaps there are a [...]

Are you wasting time with people who want things for free?
April 19, 2012 By Jon · 9 Comments
You’ve heard it too? Giving things away for free is supposed to help you sell more. But, add that to the number of people who think that they can cadge bits of free advice from you. Suddenly free maybe costing lots, leaving you feeling frustrated, maybe even angry? Sell more using the FREE model – in [...]
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