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How Distributed Leadership Can Drive Teamwork & Business Scalability

October 15, 2024

One of the privileges of helping companies leverage their business potential is hearing directly from CEOs, business owners, and senior executives about the challenges they face in achieving business scalability. Common themes like distributed leadership and sales teamwork emerge, and it’s both enlightening and comforting to know that we all face these challenges. One of […]

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Management Styles When Resisting Change & How We Can Adapt

Adapting Management Styles When Resisting Change

September 11, 2024

It is human nature for people to unconsciously resist change. People naturally rely on their routines, tools, and systems for communication, organization, and management to create a sense of consistency and control in their lives – especially when these systems have been developed over months or years. At the same time, companies exist in a

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AI Business Tools, AI Responsibility, and Human Connection

August 13, 2024

With the advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in fields such as writing and image creation, it is easier than ever to obtain unique and topical information and pictures to go along with them. This is an exciting prospect for many businesses as it can be a great way to achieve significantly faster results for a

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Extended Engineering Software and What it Means

July 16, 2024

Software is Changing. Are You? Choosing the right software is one of the most important decisions when running a business. It is just as important as choosing the right person to hire, as the software you use helps form the bones of the structure that the people you hire to use that software fill in.

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New Legislation Encourages Sustainable Business Practices

June 11, 2024

Sustainability has risen in priority for many businesses around the globe. Not only is the sustainability of a company important internally, but can often impact the perception of the business as well. Customers now care not just about the quality of a product, but also what cost that product came at to the environment, with

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How to Hire Great Salespeople

April 10, 2024

Why is it so darned hard to hire great salespeople? You’ve seen it in the interviews. a) They are charming, enthusiastic, personable and vibrant. b)…

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Essential Transition #1 – Business Building to Strategic Growth

March 7, 2024

By: Justin Vanhartingsveldt As a business leader in a growing company, you will eventually find yourself at a junction where the activities you perform daily become inadequate for creating real strategic growth. This guide explores the critical transition of working in your business to working on your business, and offers insights into navigating this shift

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Lead Generation has changed. Has your business adapted?

January 30, 2023

By: Justin Vanhartingsveldt Your approach to Lead Generation may have worked in the past, but life has changed and your approach must change too. As the years of experience pile on, we as human beings tend to remember the “good old days”. We reflect on times when life seemed simpler and straightforward. If we are

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Customer First Messaging – ABC’s of Effective Communications

March 18, 2022

By Samantha Customer First Messaging… What does it mean? There are so many tools for prospecting through social media and many of them work well. But are they great? Perhaps you’re getting results, but are you getting great results? I’m sure you’ve received a message through a social media channel that, at first glance, reads

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Perceptions of Sales – How they Impact Success

March 16, 2022

By Mark Wolters Perceptions of Sales: One of the most interesting parts of our work is that we get to see various business leaders’ perceptions of sales and the people they have hired to fulfill it. While we knew there were a lot of different perceptions, we were surprised to find out that there seem

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