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What is Category Management? How to Bake a Better Pie

August 28, 2015

Learn How to Bake a Better ‘Category’ Pie Category Management is a means of organising product groups to meet shopper…

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Personal Development Plan Examples: Identify Your Goals

Nathan Simmonds

August 24, 2015

Structure Your Personal Development Ideas Properly Personal Development Plans (PDPs), sometimes called Individual Development Plans (IDPs) or Personality Development Plans,…

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How to Have Tricky Conversations with Ease, Grace & Confidence

Darren A. Smith

August 20, 2015

Find out How to Have Difficult Conversations: Virtually everyone you meet has, at some point, faced with the seemingly difficult…

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The 5 Main Influencing Styles to Improve Your Influencing Skills

Darren A. Smith

July 29, 2015

Build Your Influencing Skills In business, you impact people every day. As a human being, you impact people every day.…

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Category Management Scorecard: Give Your Category an MOT

Darren A. Smith

July 29, 2015

How to Give Your Category an MOT in 3 Steps with this Category Management Scorecard Our Management Category Scorecard tool,…

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I’ve Been Told to ‘Think More Strategically’: Strategic Thinking

Darren A. Smith

July 29, 2015

Improving Your Strategic Thinking I’ve been told ‘Think More Strategically‘ or do more strategic thinking. We have heard this many…

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Do Not Start with Powerpoint – 7 Pieces of Preparation

Darren A. Smith

July 29, 2015

Presentation Preparation ‘Do not start with Powerpoint – 7 Pieces of Essential Presentation Preparation’ is about sharing with you how…

7 Important Questions to Ask Your Current Training Provider

Darren A. Smith

July 29, 2015

Are you buying in training? If so, you should answer these seven questions when evaluating your current or prospective training…

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2 Ways to Quantify a Category Sales Opportunity in Category Management

Darren A. Smith

July 29, 2015

2 Ways to Quantify an Opportunity in Category Management is for Category Managers, Account Managers and Buyers to be able…

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7 Facts to Help You Make the Case for Coaching in the Workplace

Darren A. Smith

July 23, 2015

Coaching in the workplace is a phenomenon that has seemingly crept up on us and now we talk about coaching…

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67 Time Management Tips to Quickly Increase Your Productivity

Darren A. Smith

July 22, 2015

Let’s skip the introductions and get straight down to the Time Management Tips to Quickly Increase Your Productivity. General section:…

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JBP: The Brave Approach to Writing a Joint Business Plan

Darren A. Smith

July 15, 2015

How you can take the Brave Approach to Writing a Joint Business Plan – JBP – with a UK Supermarket:…