Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 3, 2022

His book, Deep Purpose: The Heart and Soul of High-Performance Companies , is written after extensive research on the fatal mistakes leaders make in this area. “Productivity and innovation soar when employees are inspired by a purpose that aligns with their own values.” How do leaders best develop these skills?

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 1, 2016

This month we are featuring Leading Voice Chip Bell , author, renowned keynote speaker on innovative customer service, and consultant/speaker to such organizations as Microsoft, Nationwide, Marriott, Lockheed-Martin, Cadillac, Ritz-Carlton, Caterpillar, Verizon, USAA, Harley-Davidson, and Victoria’s Secret.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 4, 2021

Over the past year, many companies struggled to make money because of the pandemic. Now that those days are gradually behind us, every business owner must develop strategies for generating sales. That said, you have to come up with innovative ways to boost your customer service. First, you have to build your email list.

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CoachStation

AUGUST 26, 2022

Developing the skills to engage team members is important. As a leader you are obligated to develop your skills to influence and support each and every team member. Every employee has to own their development and situation too. People are finding it easy to find jobs and unemployment is at a record low.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

MAY 21, 2012

They can at companies like Disney, Starbucks, Southwest, McDonalds and Google – all listed in the top 15 of the 2012 most admired companies. There is a direct relationship between clear values and success in terms of employee retention, customer loyalty, and long-term profitability. Choose the right values.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Choose sales compensation systems that suit your company. Compensation systems can be based on metrics your company prioritizes as well as a consideration of what is feasible for your company. Identify Company Goals Good sales compensation plans are based on a clear goal and identifiable performance measures.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 8, 2010

What do you your customers believe and understand about your brand? Using “Buddy the Elf” as an example for the four steps to brand building, this week we’ll discuss steps three and four: developing brand identification and meaning, and developing relationships with customers. Are you ready?? What would you think then?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

If change and innovation weren’t key contributors to sustainable success, and the enterprise could just run on auto-pilot, you could replace the CEO with a General Manager. If your company is in products, services, or businesses that you wouldn’t enter into if you weren’t in that particular arena today…GET OUT!

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Strategy Driven

JULY 8, 2019

But, the desire for instant gratification is also forcing logistics and transportation businesses to provide delivery options that are faster, more cost-effective, and convenient as well as offer increased flexibility to the customer. This means that logistics companies need to rethink their fulfillment processes. Conclusion.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2015

This latest frequent flyer reboot is an example of how the meaning, measure, and management of “customer loyalty” are changing. So serious customer-centric organizations and innovative marketers are decreasingly asking, “How do we make our customers more loyal?” Customers Marketing'

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

The companies that thrive and win as social enterprises will be those that do the most with their social connections. Just because all companies now possess the technological capability to hold social conversations with employees, customers and stakeholders, this does not mean we can automatically make these conversations valuable.

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Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Organizations that have heart and soul enrich their owners, customers and communities in both economic and non-economic ways. If I owned that jewelry store I would encourage everyone on the staff to be intentional about developing heart, soul, mind and strength. Many customers can sense this. What do I mean by heart and soul?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Fear based motivations don’t instill loyalty, create trust, build morale, inspire creativity, attract talent, or drive innovation. when things get tough, or other opportunities present themselves, your employees will cut-and-run at the first option that comes their way because you have failed to earn their loyalty.

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Chart Your Course

AUGUST 14, 2012

The Zappos vision statement is, “Delivering happiness to our customers, vendors and employees.” Happiness has created unparalleled customer loyalty to the extent 80% of their customers return to purchase again. People don’t quit their company, they quit their managers. 9) Customer and market focus.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

3 Innovation is DOA. Product development has been a little slow for a while. The company used to crank out new products all the time. These days, most of your product developments are minor enhancements that don’t yield better margins. But that’s OK, because the customer expects product improvements. Shake them up.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 9, 2015

Customer loyalty cards are one of the best ways of gaining insights into how people spend their money. Because you can target specific promotions to individual customer groups. No one likes the idea of companies selling their personal details to other people. It’s a classic way of fostering data monetization.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

How much does your company need to invest in innovation? Identifying this so-called “growth gap” is critical, because the bigger the gap, the more a company needs to look beyond its current offerings, markets, and business models to find growth opportunities. There are two ways to set revenue targets.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

In 2001, a new approach to technology development was created by a daring group of developers. Called Agile, the process put customers at the center of product development, encouraged rapid prototyping, and dramatically increased corporate speed and agility. How to make your company more nimble and responsive.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 5, 2015

Here are a few questions to get your social sales juices flowing : Why are big companies interested in big data? Why are formerly non-social companies suddenly scouring and analyzing social data? Why is ‘mobile’ the new ‘social?’ ’ Why is ‘cloud’ the new data room? Gitomer and Buy Gitomer.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Those companies who are committed to a strong workplace culture tend to perform well, and now they are featured prominently in a new ranking recently released by Great Place to Work Institute. The survey garnered responses from 20 of the top 25 companies in the global workplace ranking. They're upgrading. They know their audience.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Given the unrelenting pace of change surrounding organizations in virtually every industry, companies are looking for executives who know how to innovate and introduce change, not simply caretakers who can manage the status quo. Senior management doesn't really encourage innovation, you'll hear. They won't let me take risks."

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

When most of the great companies of the industrial era were founded, even the most brilliant economists believed deeply in the law of diminishing marginal returns. When your product can become more valuable to your customers over time, the way you prioritize building features and harvesting profits within a business needs to change.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 20, 2014

They’re independent businesspeople who are now marketing their sales and personal development services using my intellectual property, both online and in the classroom. Companies like Yellow Pages, Blackberry, and AOL have buried themselves by not advancing soon enough. Instant success. I’ve certified more than 100 advisors.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Innovation has the potential to transform the investment industry. Yet the world’s largest funds are closed off from these innovations. Research we have collected in recent months shows that pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, and endowments expect imminent breakthrough innovations in investment technology.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Apple’s product innovation strategy places it on a punishing treadmill. If the company does not deliver new products or new features to the market’s expectations and calendar, investors get jittery and the stock price sags; competitors attempt to steal the lead, and to set a faster pace of innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

CEOs should actively manage five specific tensions in today’s complex global business environment: Disruptive innovation versus leveraging the company’s core strengths. When confronted with disruptive technologies, many companies fail to align digital strategies with their core strategies.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2018

With no reprieve in sight for retailers, the online world is poised to do the same to brand-name consumer products companies. One of the core reasons that this is happening is that in addition to providing always-on, on-demand convenience, online retailers know so much more about their customers than their offline counterparts do.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2016

As China moves away from a manufacturing-driven economy to a more consumption and service-driven model, Chinese companies will have to find new ways of managing and motivating their employees. In the past, this belief was very much reflected in China’s customers’ preference for lower-quality but cheap products.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

In 2013, the company released a service called Virtual Technician to help existing drivers while also enabling new business models and revenue streams. By capturing information that formerly was available only from an in-person diagnostic test, Daimler Trucks North America creates customer loyalty and reduces risk for commercial drivers.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

In 2013, the company released a service called Virtual Technician to help existing drivers while also enabling new business models and revenue streams. By capturing information that formerly was available only from an in-person diagnostic test, Daimler Trucks North America creates customer loyalty and reduces risk for commercial drivers.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2011

The hybrid Prius was a legitimate business home run (2 million sold), and it helped both differentiate Toyota's brand as the market innovator and propel Toyota to unprecedented profits. But now the company faces renewed competition for the title of green auto leader. For years, Toyota has been the darling of the green business world.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2017

How the best companies get up to speed. Patagonia secures customer loyalty through its “Worn Wear” website, where environmentally-conscious consumers can purchase secondhand clothing at a discount and trade their own used duds for gift certificates. Insight Center. Crossing the Digital Divide.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2014

As a result, the custom orthotics line became an important profit driver for Consumer Healthcare. The lesson: Frontline people can not only help the top leader validate an innovative new strategy, they can also be a powerful means to convince customers and those in higher levels at your company to buy in. .

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2014

A sales focus fails to deliver a profitable market leadership position because it favors short-term revenue growth and customer acquisition over sustainable margins and customer loyalty. The problem with the areas of focus above is that none of them actually define what your company is and what it stands for.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2011

After publishing a book about closing the execution gap by focusing on the "peopley" stuff, CEOs of major companies took me aside (in a friendly way) to suggest I had made a major faux pas, and would be seen as having gone "soft." Even companies producing "things" have found a way to embrace the new economy. Look at Apple.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits. We exclude companies with a traditional CSR program that supports employee volunteering in the community – this does not by itself qualify as sustainability.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

In our experience working with hundreds of companies, this is a very common approach but it is essentially a tactical one. Big data managed this way may well improve your retention numbers but not transform your company. How can I help marketing retain more customers? But that will be about as far as it goes.

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