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Heather Foley
Heather Foley is a consultant at etsplc.com, a bespoke HR technology provider.

Super Troupers: how to manage your brightest stars

It’s great to have superstars on your team. It might be a sales hot shot or a marketing whizz or perhaps a technological...

Motivating on a shoestring

Shutterstock Of course you wish your teams were motivated all the time. Of course you wish you could easily achieve all of your targets and...

Carrot not stick: how to motivate your sales team to work hard and effectively

As a sales manager, it’s your responsibility to obtain the maximum output from your resources. While this may sound rather cold, in reality,...

Bigging it up: maximising the value of a sale

How do you see the sales process? Some people see sales as one-off interactions and, to increase sales, they feel they need to...

Search and Rescue: finding your ideal customers

Shutterstock It’s an age-old problem. Companies invest huge amounts of time and money selling products and services to potential customers, but not every potential...

How to deal comfortably with difficult situations

It’s inevitable that, at some point, we’ll all have to deal with a difficult situation. Whether it’s a complaint from a major client or...

All you need is love: why investing in people should still be your top priority

Donald Trump once said, “watch, listen, and learn. You can’t know it all yourself. Anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity.” ...

Frankly my dear: how to get your people to care

Some people, teams (and companies) seem to achieve more than others despite having similar products to sell and similar structures to organise their work....

Starting the year with a bang for your business

The new buzz word in politics? It seems to be ‘momentum’. When a party starts to see a few wins it achieves...

Preparing for the holiday season

According to Andy Williams, it’s the most wonderful time of the year. Or, at least, it could be if you prepare well. The...

Working on those warm fuzzies: how to handle a complaint

Shutterstock We’ve all complained at some point in our lives. How was your complaint handled? Well? Were you satisfied? Or was...

We will rock you: five ways to excite your customers

Shutterstock Customers can be rather fickle people. One minute, they’re singing your praises and the next they’ve snubbed you for another supplier. It’s...

Want to make a great first impression with your customers? Time for a bit of common sense

Do you remember your first day at school? How about your first job interview? Or even your first date? Even then you...

Want to develop your people? The 4 things you need to know

With an improving economy and an increase in job availability, the people on your team have greater choices of where they work. If any...

How to give your customers what they want

There’s an old joke that goes: a client asks a sales rep “what time is it?” The sales guy thinks and then replies,...

The dream team: managing your ambitious people

Ambition is a wonderful thing in business. It drives people to try harder, to innovate, to apply creative solutions to problems and to...

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