When To Hire A Consultant

A strong corporate culture encourages collaboration, co-operation, and teamwork among employees. When employees feel connected and trust one another, they are more willing to share ideas,
communicate openly, and work together towards common goals. This leads to improved problem-solving, innovation, and better decision-making processes

Understanding Effective Time Management

One day an expert in time management was speaking to a group of business students and, to drive home
a point, he used this illustration.
As he stood in front of the group of high-powered overachievers he said, “Okay, time for a quiz.” Then he
pulled out a one-gallon, wide-mouthed Mason jar and set it on the table in front of him. Then he produced
about a dozen fist-sized rocks and carefully placed them, one at a time, into the jar. When the jar was
filled to the top and no more rocks would fit inside, he asked, “Is this jar full?” Everyone in the class said,
“Yes.” Then he said, “Really?”

The Role of Communication in Life Science Boards

Eective communication is crucial for life science company boards to ensure transparency,
collaboration, and informed decision-making. Here are some of the best practices for life
science company boards

A Guide to Selling in Tough Economic Times

There aren’t many guarantees in life however it is reasonable to say that if you are in business for long
enough you will see the full range of economic conditions in the markets you serve from ‘boom’ to ‘bust’
and back again and it is so often the case that the bigger the ‘boom’ the bigger the ‘bust’!
Let’s consider where we are today. With a ‘bad news’ obsessed media fuelling what are clearly more
challenging and uncertain economic times it is critical to adopt a sense of reality as we go about our sales
roles on a day to day basis.

Local Territory Sales Planning

n order to make the very best use of our time and resources it is necessary to plan the finite time and
resources available to us at a local territory level. It is very easy to be busy but much more dicult to be
busy and eective. With more and more expected from less and less it is important to think about how we
get the very best return from that precious time and resource available to us from across our territory.

How to Test Your Sales Strategy

The success of any business is underpinned by a plan; a plan that shows how the business will achieve
both its short and long term goals to ultimately realise its vision. A key part of that plan is the strategy
which defines the route that will be taken to connect the current position of the business to both the short
and long term goals, ultimately realising the vision. The strategy defines the markets, geographies,
customers, applications and product focus. It defines the sales channels that will be used to reach the
customers, how the business will organise itself to support the customer eectively, the financial
investments and other resources necessary.

The Four Reasons You Fail To Achieve Objectives

When analysing why any individuals or teams fail to deliver against an objective (on the proviso that the
objective is SMART of course) it is important that we correctly identify the route causes of the problem –
any solution we propose has to address the root cause (s) in order to be eective. Solutions that address
symptoms are largely ineective and waste time and money. In today’s complex business world the root
causes can be dicult to identify and hence to assist us consider the following four most significant
reasons for individuals and teams failing to achieve an objective.

Do You Have A Strong Corporate Culture?

A strong corporate culture encourages collaboration, co-operation, and teamwork among employees. When employees feel connected and trust one another, they are more willing to share ideas,
communicate openly, and work together towards common goals. This leads to improved problem-solving, innovation, and better decision-making processes