The Official Blog of Assessments 24×7 with Dr. Tony Alessandra + Special Guests
Speaker, author, and Assessments 24×7 Chief Operations Officer, Rick Barrera explores the question of whether business leaders should focus on growing revenues or cutting costs. Rick contends that in almost every situation, the answer is obvious – GROW REVENUE! On the surface, cutting costs may seem like the obvious thing to do. However, we discover…
Sales and marketing expert, Mark Sanborn, writes this week’s story, 10 Ways to Sell More. Mark offers readers 10 valuable tips to find potential clients, form client relationships, retain those relationships, and perhaps – most importantly – GROW those relationships into lasting and mutually beneficial partnerships. Be sure to take notes – if there was…
This week’s story, written by Dr. Nido Qubein, teaches us a very important lesson: “Stop spinning your wheels”. We have all had the experience of working hard to meet our goals, but for some reason feel like we are getting there too slowly (or not at all). Dr. Qubein offers some valuable insights as to…
Topic of the day: Conflict Resolution Behaviors! Be it personal or in a business setting, we all have had to deal with conflict and adopt behaviors to resolve it. Dr. Tony Alessandra identifies the five key conflict resolution behaviors which can turn a potentially damaging conflict into a positive resolution. Read on and discover ways…
As much as we may hate to admit it, the phrase “nobody is perfect” applies to all of us. No matter how good you are at your job, one thing is guaranteed: leadership mistakes happen. There is always something you can do to improve your workplace performance, relationships, motivation, etc. This week’s quick-hit story, by…
Every great communicator has various tricks up their sleeve. Deb Calvert discusses one such technique – mirroring – as a way to dramatically improve professional communications and relationships. The good news is, this technique is something most, if not, all of us already do to some extent with the people we are closest to in…
As a business leader – do you want to increase your confidence and success? Do you want more time to focus on high value tasks and decisions? Do you want your employees functioning at optimal productivity levels? Most leaders would say “yes, yes and YES!”. In the week’s story, reader favorite Anne Bachrach discusses how…