Evolve Blog

Jul 2009

Financial Services Special Report: Is your brokerage built for success or failure?

“Good times shield us from the truth about the limitations of our sales organisation. However when the financial services marketplace gets tougher those limitations can threaten your brokerages very survival” so says David Malone, Executive Director of Evolve Consultants.

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Jul 2009

I know what you did last summer!

I know what you did last summer. In fact, I know what the majority of sales professionals have been doing every summer for the last five or six years. What am I talking about? The great corporate Ireland summer wind down. Quarter three is an odd time for doing business in Ireland. 

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Training Programmes - Innovating Suite

List of Programmes:

Creative Thinking Skills

The board of directors have just told you that the current economic climate means cutbacks. You have just been told that your budget has just been cut by 25%, you must reduce your head count by four people, and your sales target will remain the same. You ask how you can achieve your objectives with this reduction. The response the executive management team give you? "That’s why we employ you! Get creative."
 
The above scenario is something more and more people are facing in the current economic climate. So where do you start? How can you be creative? What does that mean? How can you get people to by into some of the creative ideas that you might come up with? Where to start?
 

This programme might be a good place to start.  This programme will provide you with a starting point, as well as a range of immediate and powerful techniques for creating a large number of ideas and encouraging innovation in your company. 

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Innovation and Creativity

This course is stimulating, interactive and fun. Participants will develop practical skills to increase their own level of creativity which they can put into immediate effect and in doing so help to create a culture of innovation in your organisation. They will learn to overcome their own barriers to innovation, learn several tools and techniques to assist them. Finally they will understand how to gain buy in to have their innovations implemented.

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