by Shaun Heuerman | Dec 9, 2010 | Effective Leadership, Employee Training, Hiring, Strategic Planning
We’ve all played the game of Telephone. The leader shares a comment with one person, and the idea is whispered around the room. By the time the last person shares what they heard, everyone roars at how distorted the info is. And so goes the onboarding of new...
by Shaun Heuerman | Dec 2, 2010 | Profitability and Growth, Sales & Marketing, Sales Process
Unpaid consulting. What else can you call it? If your people are creating a plan for a prospect, running it past the credit committee and then not getting the deal, the expense has been hideously high and you feel a little… well… cheap. Don’t you?...
by Shaun Heuerman | Nov 25, 2010 | Effective Leadership, Employee Motivation, Workplace Culture
Something’s gotta give. New research shows that employees are exhausted to the core. The stresses of the workplace are so far beyond the good ol’ days. Remember when we used to take lunches together every day off site? Me neither. Well, it’s been a...
by Shaun Heuerman | Nov 18, 2010 | Effective Leadership, Employee Motivation, High Performance, Profitability and Growth
Last week I made a new friend—Tom Voccola, author of The Accidental CEO. Tom took something I’ve talked about for 20 years and put it in context with a picture—a pyramid with six levels. I’ll describe it for you. At the bottom of the pyramid is the...
by Shaun Heuerman | Nov 4, 2010 | Employee Motivation, High Performance
It’s party time… that time you’ve been waiting for to pick off the top loan customers key deposits from the weak banks around you that are floundering. You don’t need to buy them IF you know how to pull in all the business with ease. To do that, you must shatter...