Using 6s in your Data Management

I use a foundation of Training within Industry (people side) and the 6s approach (Data side) to implement an onboarding program. It is usually based on a 90 to 100-day cycle.  An outline of the process is depicted below. 5s is a systematic corrective action technique to clean up, get organized and make this the way Read More …

Traditional Marketing Stack

This is a collection of Business901 Podcast Transcriptions that focus on Traditional Marketing concepts. Or, as we might say without Social Media component. Guest include Malcolm McDonald, Joe Pine, Laura Busche and many others. Traditional Marketing Stacks are a new way to organize your own publications, as well as any other publications that you find Read More …

Just not eLearning at the Gemba Academy

I’m a big advocate of flip learning and online training and your site licenses are very compatible to that. Someone can watch and then they can go practice and go over the practice with a consultant or a partner or somebody. Is that something you do with Gemba? Is that constructed somehow? – Joe Dager An Read More …

4 Powerful Words: What Do You Think?

Exactly, respect for people. I read a good story J.W. Marriott Jr. who said the four most powerful words he knows is ‘What do you think?’ So I was asking folks what do you think? Here’s a plan, what do you think, and then getting reliable promises, reliable commitments from folks to do that walk. Read More …

Look for Patterns, Not Problems

Most people can see and solve a problem, and certainly an organization can do that. What salespeople should try to discover are the patterns that are associated with the product/service that they provide.  In Henry Cloud’s work,Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life, he discusses two types Read More …

Breaking thru Sales Deadlocks

Dealstorming” is Tim Sanders’s term for a structured, scalable, repeatable process that can break through any sales deadlock. He calls it “a Swiss Army knife for today’s toughest sales challenges.” Dealstorming: The Secret Weapon That Can Solve Your Toughest Sales Challenges drives sales innovation by combining the wisdom and creativity of everyone who has a stake in the sale. About Read More …