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The Sprint to December: January & Planning
How to Survive the Sales Kick-Off Sales Kick-Offs are energizing, noisy, and full of good intentions. Sadly they are rarely the place where real insight happens. The first rule of SKO... The aim isn’t motivation. It’s clarity. Before SKO: Look Back and Decide What You’re Listening For Before you walk into SKO, create a small pocket of space to review last year honestly and prepare intentionally for what’s ahead. Talk with a coach , a trusted colleague or a former boss and us

Andrew J Calvert
Jan 132 min read


Driving a High-Performance Culture
In Sales and Customer Success, “busy” can look like the whole team hustling on calls, chasing renewals, logging activity in the CRM. On...

Andrew J Calvert
Oct 27, 20251 min read


Delegating Effectively: The Key Actions for Leaders
Ever assigned a task and then had it land right back on your plate? Delegation is an essential leadership skill that empowers teams,...

Andrew J Calvert
May 29, 20252 min read


The Best Things I Learned in training: Return on Investment (ROI)
Return on Investment, or ROI, is a widely used metric that helps determine the value gained from an investment relative to its cost. In...

Andrew J Calvert
Mar 26, 20251 min read


The best things I learned in training: personal wins
When you're in B2B sales you are expected to Add value during the sales process, helping the client think deeper and better about their...

Andrew J Calvert
Nov 6, 20241 min read


Top industry hack!
At an industry event a C suite executive at a top rated restaurant chain related a recent "discovery" On nights where one staff member...

Andrew J Calvert
Oct 24, 20241 min read


No one looks back and remembers the nights they got plenty of sleep
And yet the science suggests you can't sustain a productive healthy life on too little sleep Try a week of going to bed at the same time...

Andrew J Calvert
Aug 8, 20241 min read


We get out what we put in
A gentle reminder What have you put in this week? What are you putting in today?

Andrew J Calvert
Jun 6, 20241 min read


Take a break
The benefits of taking a break are well documented and well proven Like me I'm sure you have used and enjoyed breaks in your own life -...

Andrew J Calvert
Jun 4, 20242 min read


Conversation. Two's company five's a crowd?
I recently read Robin Dunbar's book Friends and in among the many pearls of data backed insight on conversation, connection and...

Andrew J Calvert
May 30, 20241 min read


Quick to learn?
In the always-on hustle culture of hurrying-for-results world, we too often see the end result and not the effort that the result has...

Andrew J Calvert
May 2, 20241 min read


Hybrid work and collaboration
In my coaching sessions of late, I think in relation to the return to office based work and the mandates to get back in the office 3 or 4...

Andrew J Calvert
Dec 14, 20232 min read


No waiting
Where are you waiting for someone else to make the first move? What makes you wait for the right time, situation? What is making you...

Andrew J Calvert
Nov 23, 20231 min read


The power of a who to call list
A best practice in any new role is to build a "who to call list". Whether you are new to to the organization or you are in a new role,...

Andrew J Calvert
Sep 28, 20232 min read


There is always time (until there isn't)
How do you use your time?

Andrew J Calvert
Jul 18, 20231 min read


The Idea Cabinet
Every day we have dozens of ideas, from where to eat and who to call, to how to focus and the criteria we use to prioritize our task...

Andrew J Calvert
Jul 11, 20231 min read


Reboot
If you have a program hanging on your tablet or the "Blue screen"? of terror on your computer or an app won't open on your phone... What ...

Andrew J Calvert
Jun 29, 20231 min read


Preparation
I recently was in Bali with my family, and one day my son and I had a massage. The appointment was booked for 3:15pm. So at about 2:55 I...

Andrew J Calvert
Feb 28, 20231 min read


Relax, you'll never get it all done
The to do list. Starts at 100 things to do today. You filter that list against your "to don't list" and reduce it by a few Filter that...

Andrew J Calvert
Jan 31, 20231 min read


(It’s about) Time
Last year I read a great history in a book called Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem...

Andrew J Calvert
Dec 22, 20221 min read
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