Presenting 101: Is Less More… Or Just Less?

We talked in the first Presenting 101 piece about the importance of the presenter-presentee dynamic, and how you can harness and use that dynamic to drive your presentation towards a pre-decided end result. This article is closely related to that one – it’s a slightly...

Mind the Gap(s): An Open Letter to Sales Teams

Dear Sales Professionals, I’ve been reading a lot about gaps in sales recently – communications gaps, ability gaps, expectation gaps, quota gaps. The impression this is giving me is of an industry that is cracking, a broken industry that is slowly drifting away from...

Is Selling ‘Britishness’ to Hollywood Helpful?

A new breed of British leading man has emerged over the last few years. Charming, well spoken, and less obviously handsome than most of his American counterparts, he tends to achieve incredible success over the pond – because they love the idea of the charming,...

Overlooking Lead Gen – and Why It Needs to Stop

Lead generation is the thing that ensures that there is enough fuel to keep the fires burning when it comes to sales. It’s absolutely fundamental to the sales process – a constant stream of prospects getting drawn into your pipeline is the ideal start to sales cycles,...

Motorbike Accidents & Finding Your Sense of Mission

A friend of mine had a motorbike accident last week. He’s OK – as in, he’ll live – but he’s not in a great way. He broke most of the important bones in his upper body – arms, ribs, sternum, both collar bones – and missed breaking his back by millimetres. He’s got icy...