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Showing posts with label business. Show all posts

Friday, 8 April 2011

Focus On The Customer

There are three strategic imperatives for any business. Firstly, to ensure the shareholder value is increased. If our shareholder, and other stakeholders, do not see a return on their investment they will wish to put their money (and time) elsewhere. Just think about how you feel about your 0.10% interest on your savings.

Secondly, gaining customers and increasing the share of each customer's spend is also paramount. Increasing revenues & profitably is vital if our organisations are not going to stagnate and ultimately die.

Thirdly, costs must be reduced. Now let's be clear this does not mean beating up suppliers for the best price. It means getting the most value from the money we spend and also cutting out waste - of every sort.

When we satisfy these three imperatives we create and maintain a successful and vibrant business. Without we suffer frustration, stress and many other negative emotions.

The easiest way of getting to this beneficial condition of growth and profitability is by ensuring we win more business than we know what to do with and at our competitors expense. Being skilled in the process and relationship aspects of winning business is key. Creating successful relationships with customers will also ensure we streamline our production and delivery systems and processes, this ensuring maximum value form our cost base.

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David Pickering

Trainer and Sales Consultant

Friday, 26 March 2010

The power of team work!

It’s true that as individuals we can achieve a lot both in life and in business and when one looks towards the realm of personal development we’re often asking the question how can I achieve more. An experience over the past few months that culminated in a lot of running this past Sunday has reminded me of the importance of team work as well as individual achievement.

Towards the end of last summer we at Dale Carnegie committed ourselves to run in a Half Marathon in honour of our colleague Clive Thompson who was diagnosed with a blood cancer last year and therefore we chose to run in aid of Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research. I’m delighted to say that as a team we’ve raised so far over £1300 towards that cause. This past Sunday the team competed in both the Fleet and Reading Half Marathons .... some people running the whole way and others as part of a relay. Fun was had and medals and a few blisters were earned!
My advice to you is twofold:

Firstly when looking to tackle something in business and life look to the people around you and draw on the strengths of your team. It’s amazing how much more you can achieve by focusing energy on recruiting a team to solve a problem, than it is focusing on worrying about how you’re going to do it on your own.

Secondly It’s great for team moral in a work environment to have a goal outside the business that does good for the community at large and continues to pull you together as a team. We’ve decided to make Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research our charity of the year and will be looking for another team event in the autumn.

Please look to those around you and focus energy on building the right team and see what results are possible.

By David Anderson
Managing Director

Thursday, 1 October 2009

What challenging times?

Five months into the role...Wow, it feels like it went very quick.

I was told I started in one of the hardest times the business has ever faced. I wouldn't know, for me there's no benchmark to compare it with and also we had and still have some great opportunities.

Do you think having a positive attitude can affect your results? Do you think we can choose our attitude and set ourselves for success? I am convinced of that.

Worrying about the economic crisis and thinking people won't spend money on training was not on my agenda. I strongly believe in what we offer, it not only changes people's lives but more importantly it helps improve business results. That's the reason people and businesses see the value in investing in this type of development, even in these challenging times.

Have a positive outlook no matter what's happening around you, you'll see better results for yourself and for your business.

Corina Balaneanu
Sales Consultant