How does one master nonverbal communication? Well how does one master anything in life? You study and you practice. During entreQuest training programs which are designed to help our partner companies improve the client...
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Mastering Communication through the Silence
There are many ways to think about communication. This is one angle. The definition of effective communication is dependent on the response you get back. Therefore, the dynamics are all about truly listening, as well as being...
A Candid Talk with Candidates
No two people are alike so it makes sense that no two candidates are the same either. Years of hiring for companies and hundreds of interviews with candidates have certainly ground this law of human nature into our heads here...
Why Sales Training Is Overrated
(*The following article was originally published in the current edition of OnPoint Magazine which is available to read at this link: http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1f23836d#/1f23836d/1.) If you’re looking to grow sales,...
The Network that Keeps Your Company
About five years ago, city and statewide networking events were all the rage. We here at eQ actually built a concentrated sales strategy around attending them. We had two support staffers research every happy hour, committee...
Inspiring Your Company towards Altruism
Winston Churchill once said: “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” Every day of the year, entreQuest is committed to maximizing the living that our clients make for themselves. After all, in...
Don't Fall Short in February
Isn’t February a great month to miss your sales goals? Think of all the rationalizing you could do for failure. It’s the shortest month so it makes sense. We have plenty of time to make that revenue up before the quarter...
Be a Business Expert on Your Business' Expertise
This is an EMERGENCY EXPERTISE ASSURANCE CHECK. I repeat, an EMERGENCY EXPERTISE ASSURANCE CHECK. Stop everything you are doing and answer two questions: What does my business claim to be an expert in? Is every product and...
Totem Pole Myths and Your Company's Stories
In a way Americans have it all wrong when it comes to totem poles. From a career standpoint, the “bottom of the totem pole” is the last place we want to be. From a capitalistic standpoint however, it’s precisely the place...