I recently read on a business advisor website that a clear vision serves as an anchor for any organisation. Personally, I associate anchors with stop things from moving forward! In any event, on searching further for inspirational vision statements, I realise that the real problem is there is a great deal of confusion about the […]
Read more »We offer a complete blended learning aproach for modern effective and time efficient learning. We can design and deliver face to face workshops (small intact teams, or larger subject specific cohorts), 1 to 1 coaching, webinars (Adobe Connect), videos, audio or reading either as one off’s or as a mix.
Read more »We offer a complete blended learning aproach for modern effective and time efficient learning. We can design and deliver face to face workshops (small intact teams, or larger subject specific cohorts), 1 to 1 coaching, webinars (Adobe Connect), videos, audio or reading either as one off’s or as a mix.
Read more »We offer a complete blended learning aproach for modern effective and time efficient learning. We can design and deliver face to face workshops (small intact teams, or larger subject specific cohorts), 1 to 1 coaching, webinars (Adobe Connect), videos, audio or reading either as one off’s or as a mix.
Read more »We offer a complete blended learning approach for modern effective and time efficient learning.
Read more »We offer all types of coaching including Performance, Career, First 100 Day Support, Sales, Project and Operational.
Read more »Here are just a few of our satisfied clients.
Read more »We add value by using experienced facilitators who can build relationships, assertively challenge, promote creativity and make a difference to ensure your workshops are enjoyable, memorable and outcome focused.
Read more »We provide facilitator support, novel interventions and specialist support to all your business events.
Read more »Rainmaker Coaching can help you with all aspects of strategy from initial vision through to the leadership required to deliver the plan.
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We suggest you might focus on developing relationship management and project management soft skills
Need A Workshop Facilitator? 5 Ways A Rainmaker Knowledge Café Can Transform Your Business You have a new project at work. You organise a meeting and get the team together. You desperately want to hear from everyone, including internal and external stakeholders
Read more »Can the people across your company describe what you do for your customers?
Can they really describe it to your satisfaction?
Could their descriptions motivate a client to ask for more information on the service?
I think lots of business development actions I hear of seem to be doing something but with no clear purpose or plan. For me they fall into the Nightmare category.
Read more »Gone are the days when the only way for a career was directly up.
I suggest that thinking differently might keep your career moving quicker and longer.
Read more »We feel that in any organisation, employees need to feel that their contributions are recognised.
Often it’s managers who design and implement recognition strategies for employees.
However you may wish to consider some other ideas for developing recognition systems.
“Thank-you that all sounds good. Would you send me a proposal?”
As a business developer when you hear those words, you’re pretty happy.
Usually it signifies that you’re close to the finish line.
However for lots of people those words carry a little warning.
Why then do we find managers happy to “Shoot from the Lip”.
Many rock up and start asking questions. Different questions at random.
Lots have never been trained on how to interview. Our Interviewer Skills Training Workshopcould help?
They relegate themselves to being poor or at best mediocre interviewers.
Perhaps if they were trained they may hire better people
And hey don’t better people build better businesses?
I’d like to venture that given our experience at Sales Training the biggest competitor that keeps beating your sales team is called Inertia.
Read more »Everyone agrees hiring the right people is so important…
Why then do we find managers happy to “Shoot from the Lip”.
Many rock up and start asking questions.
Different questions at random.
Lots have never been trained on how to interview.
Our experience is that you can spend an awful lot of manager and employee time trying to solve a performance problem.
And all of it can be wasted if neither the manager nor employee know what is the root cause of the problem
Employee coaching can and does take place in many circumstances.
Anytime a conversation takes place to guide behavior or build new knowledge or skills.
When you are building the business case for employee training it can sometimes be difficult to convince management teams of the need and benefits to the business. However it’s just like any business case, we need to persuade others through demonstrating the benefits and telling them what’s in it for the business.
Read more »A number of the Rainmaker Sales coaches have worked their way up from Sales Person through Sales Manager and to Sales Director. We have also worked with numbers of Sales Managers in many kinds of companies and cultures. We put our heads together and came up with a hypothesis that we think we have seen around four types of Sales Manager. There are many variations but in the main four types.
Read more »We’ve set out below 6 suggestions as to what may help you and your team pick themselves up, dust themselves off and get back to the job of increasing revenues, decreasing costs and improving client delight with your services after a bout of company restructuring or downsizing
Read more »If you are doing any kind of recruiting of new people then asking great questions and digging techniques are important interviewing skills to acquire.
Competency based Interviewing is asking a question about a candidate’s previous behaviour and experience.
The topic of the question should be about a competency required to be successful in the job role.
One of the greatest myths in IT Services companies is that your fellow consultants
will be eager to cross-sell you just because they’re your “partners.”
I’m sorry to disillusion you… The fact is that they aren’t.