Using A3 Thinking in Lean Sales and Marketing

(2) One-hour Sessions on Consecutive Days When most Lean Organizations try to introduce Lean to sales and marketing they seldom take the time to develop Lean Thinking. They first start trying to apply the tools of Lean or trying to build a culture of Lean. It is a very difficult thing to do. Using the A3 Read More …

Achieving Breakthrough Success

Since the age of 12, Dr. O’Grady has been interested in entrepreneurial activities. Besides hard work, he credits his success to constant independent learning and states that he learns from each person he meets. His new book, The Mechanics for Breakthrough Success: The Guide to a Life You Never Considered Reachable is a compilation of what has Read More …

The Best Sales Question is not Why, it is What

The premise of the book by Michael Bungay Stanier’s titled The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever. is to teach managers how to make coaching part of their everyday job.  In  it, they drill down on 7 essential questions and as the authors say, “ to demonstrate how—by saying less Read More …

Deploying your Marketing Storyboard

Articulating a vision is not an easy process. Even more difficult is implementing the vision. Most of the time even if you had a way the vision might have changed along the way there. The important part is getting started and learning along the way. The vision needs to be there if for nothing else Read More …

Onboarding Your SaaS Subscribers

Does your SaaS product/service sell itself in your subscription based service? Or maybe, it is something more towards a membership style of arrangement?  Either way, there are a lot of lessons to be learned from the art of onboarding employees for most SaaS models. When we look at successful onboarding programs they typical address four Read More …

Using Trello for Storyboarding

This is more about the use of Trello and for a virtual team than it is about problem-solving. My Storyboard efforts are based on my training in Disney Practices and enhanced by the book, The Disney Way, 3E: Harnessing the Management Secrets of Disney in Your Company. [arve url=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/os4_A3OHSMc”/] Using Trello to develop a Problem-Solving Read More …