Is your company going through major and necessary change? Or more importantly, are you in desperate need of challenging the status quo? Effective change management and helping employees understand the change process is critical to building and maintaining growth and positive momentum in any organization. Those organizations that are quickly able to adapt to necessary…
Collaboration, teamwork, idea sharing and prioritizing organizational initiatives all seem like they would be foundations to business growth and success. All organizations have specific challenges and opportunities that need discussion and attention in order to move forward in a positive direction. However, very few mid-sized busy businesses and growing corporations take the time to plan, strategize…
This summer the team at X5 Management will be facilitating several strategic planning sessions for organizations and companies looking to reflect on the previous year, share information with their teams and plan for the upcoming quarter and year. Several themes exist for these sessions including strategic growth planning, team goal setting, succession planning and leadership or…
Guest blog by Dennis Bridges, MBA Communication and transparency: Schedule meetings with your sales staff regularly. Instead of just focusing on what they’re doing well and what they are doing wrong, make sure that some 1-on-1 time is used to address their worries, pain points and work environment issues. If you encourage honesty and constructive criticism…
Guest blog by Dennis Bridges, MBA I spend the majority of my time as of late working in sales with teams and individuals and a question I continue to get is, “what roles do we need to fill to operate a successful sales team?”
Guest Blog by Nicolle Germain, MBA As summer comes to a close and the leaves begin to change colour, we slowly begin to settle back into the work groove.
Guest blog by Dennis Bridges, MBA I had an interesting conversation the other day with a friend of mine who owns a small business. His company currently has 10 employees who are all busy generating revenue through a variety of different tasks.
