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Change is hard, but necessary. When you make changes to your business, you need the support of employees who can adapt, and at speed. A significant part of nurturing employees who are good with change is to know how to answer their questions, specifically the 5Ws and 1H: Why, What, Who, Where, When, and How. […]

After a grueling hiring process, you have finally found the right candidate for the vacancy. It is now time to make things official. As the hiring manager or HR personnel, there are and will be numerous vacancies and even more candidates. Creating a new contract from scratch for each candidate is just a productivity-killer. What […]

Businesses that create well-researched target personas see tangible positive Return on Investment (ROI) on their money and effort. Marketing Insider Group reports that of the companies they surveyed on the issue:   Over half generated higher-quality leads using buyer personas 36% have created shorter sales cycles using buyer personas, and 24% generated more leads using […]

Bigger projects are turned into smaller, easier-to-complete tasks to avoid overwhelming the team/team members. However, as you do these smaller tasks daily, you might fail to prioritize, lose track of the leading project’s objectives, and mistake the forest for the trees. Dividing the work into smaller parts has its purpose; equally important is ensuring you […]

Introducing a new employee to a team/department/company requires an effort from all stakeholders. The new employee usually introduces himself/herself, and be introduced to other people by someone else, perhaps the HR or the department head.   More often than not, people take a shot and ad-lib these introductions. But there is a better and more […]

The very first, imperative and even obligatory task to perform when you join or attempt to mingle in with a new group of people is to tell the members about yourself. You could be introducing yourself to a new place of work, department, team, or just wanting to be friends. An introduction or indulging in […]

“The expert at anything was once a begineer,” American actress Helen Hayes has said. Even to begin work, there are protocols to be met, with internships acting as launchpad for entry into a business career.   A good internship is the light that sparks a fantastic career. Once an internship is received, the onus shifts […]

“Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make me feel important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.” - Mary Kay Ash, American Businesswoman   This quote from May Kay Cosmetics founder captures the essence of the sales process. As […]

People overestimate what they can do in a day but underestimate what they can do in 30. In 30 days, you could hire more qualified candidates to improve Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), audit your business processes for faults, analyze customer feedback, find the bottleneck in your sales funnel, and more. But a hit-and-trial, make-it-up-as-you-go strategy […]

“Keep your friends close and your vendors closer,” we know that the actual quote has enemies (instead of vendors). This blog’s intent, however, is to demonstrate the importance of the nodes that make a supply chain work in business: Vendors. Beyond the ‘obvious’ function of keeping goods and materials flowing through the supply chain, vendors […]