skills

Best Foot Forward provides bespoke learning solutions to suit your staff and realise your objectives.

Inspirational Leadership gets results. It’s about recognising that your most precious possession is the people who work for you, and having the skill to draw out the very best in their performance.

To succeed in key account management we must make lots of contacts and talk to lots of people within the account. One of the ways customers reduce risk is to ensure that as many of their people as possible are in favour of the decision.

Verbal based communication, and cold calling in particular, remains an important part of any balanced sales strategy.

At SquareOne Training we take pride in designing Spreadsheets for our customers, so we were delighted to be asked to design a solution to track staff courses and KPI alerts. This spreadsheet was implemented in 2018, but completely changed the way the company worked and made the data not only accurate but trackable.

Reaching the decision maker is the first major milestone in the sales process, and it is vitally important to understand the best ways to achieve this.

Telling stories using your data has never been easier. Data storytelling sits at the crossroads of art and science and utilises both to improve insights. Today, there are a wide range of programs (take a look at somePower BI basics) that can take the data produced by your business and visualise it in a range of different ways, with the idea that utilising this visual language makes understanding complex and often dry data much easier...

One of the most effective tactics available to buyers is the price challenge. It is very simple to use, and can be very effective.

When it comes to negotiations, having the edge on the other side can make all the difference.

Whilst there are hundreds of traits and qualities that go into being a good manager, one vital ability is knowing how and when to delegate tasks.

What does it take to be a successful public speaker?

Read about SquareOne's global projects in New Hardware and Software Refresh and Microsoft Lync/Skype Rollout.

Cross-cultural negotiations can falter for a whole variety of reasons.

Cold calling, or telemarketing, is a tough, but rewarding role.