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Like good customer service or people skills, strong sales skills can make or break a business. ‘Selling’ is not necessarily synonymous with convincing people to buy a product. Having sales skills may more generally mean a gamut of attributes, from being able to articulate yourself with purpose, to understanding the pros and cons of an […]
News that as many as 2,000 licence holders across Fife, Dundee, Angus, and Perthshire and Kinross have missed the deadline to refresh their Personal Licence as the December deadline whizzed past has rung true for Dunblane based training company Tickety Boo Training, who have been deluged in recent days with licensees literally begging for solutions. […]
Tis almost the season to be jolly. And as the Christmas office parties come round, you can almost hear everyone inwardly groaning that they are going to have to do that thing called “networking”, fuelled with alcohol, and with people they might spend the rest of the year trying to actively avoid. So, after spending […]
Guest Blogger – Peter Russian, Chief Executive, Investors in People Scotland. Organisations who reach their business goals require employees who are motivated, skilled and inspired. You could say that leadership is a bit like sales – fundamentally it’s about getting people to do something and then helping them to do it. We can choose […]
“Empty vessels make most noise.” Plato’s legendary words will resonate with anyone who has ever had to contend with a boardroom loudmouth. While some people naturally brim with the confidence to gush ideas before they are fully formed, others can struggle to sound out their thoughts, often to their own detriment. There are many reasons […]
Diamonds are forever. The right to sell alcohol in Britain is decidedly finite. Shaken, stirred, or otherwise dispensed, if you want to continue to serve dry martinis to your thirsty patrons, it could be time to refresh your training as a personal license holder. For the thousands of restaurant owners, publicans and bar staff who […]
It’s a fact of life: more often than not, we are entirely defined by our ambitions. This is no bad thing. As well as contributing to our overall satisfaction with life, the pursuit of meaningful objectives has been psychologically proven to equate directly to happiness and emotional well-being. The zenith of personal goal-setting power is, […]
It seems to us that every time there’s a major holiday, there’s also a rash of food scare stories. But, while Mary Berry might have stirred up the latest home cooking craze, as we all head for the kitchen armed with our pinnies and pastry cutters, the basic rules of food hygiene still apply. At […]
The thing we love most about Spring is its freshness. New flowers are bursting out from beneath the soil daily, spring colours are brightening up our landscapes and everything just, sort of, smells fresh. There’s something about freshening up that makes us feel invigorated. The “Spring Clean”, for instance, is a time old tradition of […]
