by George Pastidis
We were cruising through some YouTube music videos with my wife Katerina when we bumped into the concert for the 50 year career of the Greek singer Vasilis Papakonstantinou. A 73 year old man on stage bursting with energy and energizing a huge crowd that had swarmed the stadium. Super good! read more…
by George Pastidis
I have heard so many sellers and participants in sales trainings, telling me over the last twenty years things like “customers care about price only”, “we all offer the same stuff more or less”, “we’re treated as a commodity”. We see then here basically two issues arising. To avoid being treated as a commodity and to avoid feeling you deserve being treated as one read more…
by George Pastidis
Following the Milwaukee Bucks’ loss on the very first round of the NBA playoffs, their leader Giannis Antetokounmpo was asked during the post-game interview if the season was a failure. Responding to this question, Giannis provided another mini lesson. This time on resilience and reframing. A lesson which will make this journalist, any journalist actually, to think twice before he drops a similar question read more…
by George Pastidis
Perhaps I should be more concerned with the large workforce reductions in tech including the company I work for but this is a sensitive and gloomy issue that I wouldn’t like to touch for now. I’d rather have a write up on something way more positive that a good friend’s request got me thinking a lot about the last days. How someone can succeed quickly in a new job role and company read more…
by George Pastidis
When I was a kid, one of my very favorite comics was Adam Strange. It was a rather cool comic published from the late 50s thru the early 60s. When I started being capable of reading magazines, it had already been discontinued in Greece but I discovered and got access to that through trading old magazines with older kids. It was featuring an archaeologist who was teleporting between planets with his super jetpack, had a laser gun, a powerful suit and helmet protecting him in tough situations and he would develop his intellect with studying. Ray guns and flying cars all around. This is how people were fancying their future, our present, back then read more…
If you’ve reflected in past year about why Sales and Marketing do need Artificial Intelligence(AI), then my guess is you’re not alone. Having thoughts on what type of AI is most suitable and what AI goals to pursue is kind of expected– since AI has gained popularity, is changing the way we sell things and helps business to keep a competitive edge. Many questions have been bugging us. I have the luxury to hear hosting today my dear colleague and subject matter expert in this field Andreas Mansson, Marketing & Communication Data & CRM Director Ericsson, has many answers in his insightful article below: read more…
by George Pastidis
Holidays is just around the corner and we all have some more time for reading a good book between family and friends gatherings and celebrations. I would like then to recommend 4+1 books that I read in 2022 for 4+1 different reasons that I will elaborate on below read more…
by George Pastidis
It’s quite few wins that we could and should celebrate in our team but one that I am particularly proud of is the speed with we managed seamlessly, smoothly, efficiently and effectively to switch over night from in-person to remote trainings when we entered the Covid era. Kudos to us and kudos to our training vendors. Our experience, adaptability, creativity and problem-solving skills met with technology and the result was awesome. We continued making our learners happy. We continued seeing our learners’ behaviors changing. We continued having learners sharing testimonials about the business impact they see in the sales trainings provided read more…
by George Pastidis
Quiet quitters make up at least 50% of the U.S. workforce, the Gallup research finds and the LinkedIn editor Yessi Bello Perez LinkedIn defines “quiet quitting” as follows: “is about rejecting the notion that work has to take over one’s life and that employees should go above and beyond what their job descriptions entail. According to Metro, this can take many forms – including turning down projects based on interest, refusing to answer work messages outside of working hours or simply feeling less invested in the role.” read more…
Consalia, interested in learning how to further develop the sales industry and connecting with Sales leaders to spread key knowledge to their audience, has Sales Transformation podcasts on a weekly basis. Dr Philip Squire spoke this week with George Pastidis about storytelling and his book “90 Short Stories for Better Business” read more…
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