Silent Practice

Slent Practice from Paul Archer on Vimeo. How closely to real life do you provide your presentations, training and coaching? Paul shows you how you can improve this area with reference to a football match in the English Premiership. Paul also gives you some practical tips to “beef” up the practicalities of your training programmes.

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3 sales ideas from Wiggo

Apparently Wiggos are all the rage for men at the moment. It’s a style of side burns made famous by Bradley Wiggins the Tour de France winner in 2012 and subsequent Olympic gold medallist. We’ve heard all about it and much more but let me share with you the three main reasons why Team GB did so well in the cycling during the summer.  And more importantly the lessons for salespeople and their sales managers. The team had some science behind them – they trained at altitude, in the heat…

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How to be consistently customer focussed

It was my fault. The smoke alarm going off whilst we were settling down for our supper. I'd forgotten the chicken which was still in the oven and smoking ferociously. Silly me, but I engineered a discussion over dinner as to what the children would do if the smoke alarms went off at night-time. A really serious issue. The children told me their elaborate plans one after the other.  They'd obviously thought about it before, good for them. But what about doing it for real?  3am, dark, cold, scared, stress.…

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