I was recently introduced to a potential client who was looking for someone to guide their team through a workshop on sales management. Here’s my belief about sales management – while there are certain best practices and overarching themes, most of the real value comes from understanding and properly utilizing systems and process; business practices that are specific to each industry, company and product/service. Sales Leadership, however (and really leadership of any sort) is more ubiquitous. Leadership is about connecting the individual […]
The ubiquity of leadership
- Posted by: Chris Taylor
- Category: Employee Development, Leadership
The death of managerial reacting

- Posted by: Chris Taylor
- Category: Effective Communication, Employee Development, Leadership
Last week I wrote about how, as a leader, you will be having one on one conversations with your team members. It’s a choice as to whether you have those conversations as a regular part of your week, or in reaction to disgruntled employees who demand your time. Few would argue with the value of connecting proactively; extinguishing flames of discontent before they become a full, five alarm fire. Yet so few of us do them. I think the challenge is […]
Your car’s going to the shop

- Posted by: Chris Taylor
- Category: Effective Communication, Employee Development, Leadership, Team Optimization
Whether you like it or not, if you own a car, you’re going to have to take it to a garage. The question is whether you’ll take it in for regularly scheduled maintenance… or have it towed in after it breaks down on the highway on your way to a meeting. Leading people is a lot like that. If you manage people, those people need time with you and, one way or another, they’re going to get it. They’re going […]
What Women Want (and other people too)
- Posted by: Chris Taylor
- Category: Employee Development, Leadership
Digitally cut the following out of the latest issue of Inc. (really cool tool, for the record): The stats were collected from HR departments and based on number of requests for the various incentives. A couple really interesting things here, as far as I’m concerned: Only 45% of men have “more money” as their primary motivator. Which represents about 25% of the work world. So for the other 75%, cash is nice but not necessarily your best way to retain […]
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