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How Going Backwards Can Be Profitable

How Going Backwards Can Be Profitable

For a strong indication of whether your business or department can hit a revenue goal, work backwards from the objective.  List the business’s revenue streams and total orders to date for each.  Next, list and total those you expect to realise in the coming...
Three Things That Improve Managerial Performance

Three Things That Improve Managerial Performance

Image by Glen Carsten-Peters on Unsplash Here are three things that will improve your managerial performance. 1.Submit reports on time If you leave report writing to the last minute, it means you didn’t block time to do this job properly. Reports are important because...
The Remedy For Your Big Sales Problem

The Remedy For Your Big Sales Problem

When revenue is falling far behind Forecast, life can get a little hairy. Especially if you’re the person who submitted the revenue numbers. Whether your enthusiasm got the better of you, or the numbers came from above, it doesn’t matter. It’s now a...
Budget Time Blues?

Budget Time Blues?

Are you experiencing the Budget Time Blues? You might be if your next financial year begins in April.  If so, you’ll be familiar with, Targets issued from on high.  Three-year plans published or adjusted. The joy of those late evening budget rewrites...
If Everyone Just Did Their Job

If Everyone Just Did Their Job

Wouldn’t it be great if everyone just did the job they were employed to do instead of, Playing office politics Undermining colleagues  Protecting their turf  Not accepting responsibility when things go wrong  Doing the minimum required for their role   What could...
What Are Your Desks Worth?  

What Are Your Desks Worth?  

Let’s be clear, I’m not talking about the value of your office furniture.  The desks in question are your Sales Desks (if you work in marketing or production, don’t stop reading yet). These are the spots, real or virtual, within your company occupied by salespeople. ...