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November 2011

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Are you struggling with your team consistently delivering the right sales or service experience to your customers? How do you feel about how your vendors are treated and what they would say about your company or people if you weren’t paying them? If these are challenges in your organization and the solution has been more training, rules, policies, monitoring, etc., you’re solving the wrong problem. The first Jurassic Park has a classic scene where a few people in a jeep feel the dreaded trimmers of a T-Rex fast approaching. On the dash, a glass of water begins to ripple. While trying to film that scene, the special effects department was tasked with making the water ripple from the bottom up, no small feat without CGI. The team searched long and hard for a solution. One day they tried flipping a guitar over and plucking a few strings. To their delight,…

How often do you take calls from numbers you do not recognize? How often do you feel obligated to reply to an email simply because someone sent it to you? Most people have the phone numbers of people they regularly talk to or want to talk to in their phone or address book. So, when that calls come in without caller ID or without matching one of hundreds of phone numbers you already have, why take the call? Unless you’re in a role or profession that requires fielding these calls, why not let the call go to voicemail and phone back when convenient for you? If you take an unsolicited call when you do not need to, you’re simply letting the caller dictate your schedule. What about the unsolicited email you get? I’m not talking about email from people you want or need to correspond with or spam, but all…