by admin | Oct 5, 2015 | Uncategorized
People get bored at work. That’s been a problem forever—I bet there were bored Romans building straight roads, bored Aztecs dragging sacrifices up pyramids, bored pirates sailing the Spanish Main. Part of this boredom is inevitable in some jobs—people doing more or...
by admin | Sep 30, 2015 | Improvement, Sales Managers, Sales People, The Changing Face of Sales
We live in the age of CRM. Sales floors and account manager’s offices—the once-beating, bustling hearts of organisations—have fallen quiet, their primal rush and noise now replaced with a few people tapping on their keyboards and squinting at their screens. You might...
by admin | Sep 21, 2015 | General, Improvement, Sales Enablement, Sales Managers, Visual Communication
There’s a huge area of visual communication in business that we haven’t touched on since the new Whiteboard Strategies site went live, and that’s video calls. People occasionally assume that I wouldn’t be a big fan of video calls, and I can see where they’re coming...
by admin | Sep 8, 2015 | Sales Managers, The Changing Face of Sales, Visual Communication
Following a recommendation from a friend (we’d been discussing playing ‘Buzzword Bingo’ in meetings when we were both sales reps), I found myself on Tim Phillips’s blog, Talk Normal. For those of you who don’t know, Tim is a journalist who has written for all sorts of...
by admin | Sep 1, 2015 | Sales Enablement, Visual Communication
Numbers dominate sales teams. You need to hit your number or you’re out, your pay is incentivised, numbers talk, numbers matter. Now, even if we ignore the fact that half the time a team’s number has been plucked out of the air by an accountant with no grasp of...
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