If I smell flowers I look for the funeral, but I will tell you the truth you need to hear. You may not want to hear it, but you will need to hear it.
The benefit will be not only loyal hard working people, but people that actively promote the company they work for.
I was representing a technical product which I knew was brilliant. I targeted a client who had great need for our product and was paying too much for something inferior.
Do you know what empowerment really means? The popularity of this buzz word has grown. A very dangerous word, but a very profitable word.
High commissions, tough training and hungry for success can fill that order book, but do they stop when the money does?
The way we treat people has an astonishing effect on them. We spend a fortune on recruitment and training and then fall at the first hurdle.
People have a weird habit of responding to requests that are made confidently with no conditions. I will reveal a power word.
We can sometimes use knowledge of psychology and body language to identify the real movers and shakers but to be safe try and spot everyone involved and convince them all.
Whilst just a callow youth, I would tend to gravitate towards sales jobs because in my mind they were an easy option.
Here is a fascinating head game that can give you some great insight into persuading others. Would you would like to be a millionaire?
Imagine that I walk up to you and ask you to buy a puppy. The Puppy dog close is an oldie but a goodie.
You have a meeting set up with a firm of architects to demonstrate your stressed concrete roof trusses and realize that you have got the office junior.
In many persuasion, sales, and negotiating skills, books that I have read recently, the authors have all been at pains to point out that theirs is a gentle art.
Now here is a simple persuasion technique that, if you can turn it into a habit, can be literally life-changing.
Customer care is vital. See what happens to companies who treat customers badly, but on the other hand we don't want pet customers, we have to make our bacon.
I was called to a bank who was considering appointing a new advertising agency. The budget was many millions and I was asked by the board to sit in on the 'pitch'.
I was approached by BBC Television to do a business rescue reality show called 'All Over the Shop'.