
Six Things to Stop Discussing with Clients
It has been said that you get just one chance to make a first…

Managing Summer Time
Summer is a season of vacations, beaches, time with family and…

Cognitive Dissonance: Your Secret Weapon
“We might not be the right company for you.” Said no one…

Stop Being Nice
Perhaps you were raised with the old adage, “If you don’t…

Don’t Let Your Client Get Embarrassed
No matter your role, be it a salesperson, account director, or…

Building Effective Teams: Call It Like You See It
More and more often, many of us are selling and consulting with…

3 Reasons Why Sales Training Programs Fail
“See that over there,” he said to me as he pointed to a sales…

Top Selling Tips: The Ten Commandments of Selling
I'm often asked what are the essential rules of selling. While…

Avoiding Conversation Killers
We’ve all experienced moments when we said something expecting…


Contribution Is King
An essential responsibility of leadership is seeing potential in others that they may not yet see in themselves—and then helping bring it forward. That’s the difference between observation and contribution. It’s one thing to recognize talent. It’s another to activate it. Recently, I was coaching a high-potential Vice President and posed a simple question: “What’s […]