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Need to make redundancies?

Redundancies are a harsh reality that many businesses may be forced to face and it is a difficult process for both employers and employees to go…

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6 Essential Strategies for Growing Your Business

Expanding a business creates a whole new set of challenges but it is important that your business doesn’t stagnate and is constantly moving forward.

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Psychology of the Sales Process

There are seven stages of the sales process, but before I tell you them all, let me first emphasise that you do not have to do…

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Making your emotions work for you

Your emotions matter in negotiations. They fuel your behaviors, energise you, and allow you to strengthen—or distance and damage—relationships with the people you’re negotiating with.

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Cold Calling Conundrums – 7 Common Mistakes

Whenever I’m working with salespeople and business owners to help them generate better results from their cold calling, I start by looking at their current performance,…

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How to get productive

Forget the apps. True productivity requires discipline and simplicity.

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The 5 basics of networking

Making the right connections can make the difference between success and failure.

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Can you fire someone & they say thank you?

Could this be true? Many people would think not but it is all about the approach you take to the conversation, with the use of a…

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Returning to work after having a baby

Returning to work after a period away to have a baby can be a daunting and anxious experience for many women, particularly first-time mothers.

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How to be a successful franchisee

Leading consumer brands like Subway and McDonalds have set the global yardstick when it comes to Franchising, especially in the UK where hundreds of businesses have…