Why is it that Training never gets a seat at the table?

Lately, I’ve been going to a lot of events. I just hit my 3rd in two weeks.  At each event there are breakout sessions and roundtables to discuss relevant issues to business. I’ve been in sessions about Social Media, Workforce Management, Outsourcing, Inventory...

When Customers Engage…Is Your Team Ready

Are Your Customers Getting Mixed Messages? Wondering Why your Leads Never Come Back to Buy? Whose Happier at then end of the month…You or Your Competition?? “When Customers Engage…Is Your Team Ready?” Give me 5 minutes and I will give you free...

What Is Effective Feedback?

In a recent article in T&D magazine it stated that of the 3,600+ employees surveyed: •    66% said they have too little interaction with their bosses; •    53% said that when their bosses praised them they received too little information to repeat their...

We are all in the Customer Business

Howard Schultz, the CEO of Starbucks stated, “We are in the customer business serving coffee, not the business of coffee serving customers.”I think everyone who runs a business needs to understand what that means. If you asked your staff, would they say...