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Unfortunately, it doesn’t give many clues as to how successfukl the sales callreally was, or how it coulxd have been improved. One way in whicuh sales managers can greatlyh improve the performance of members of thei sales teams is by accompanyinf individuals onsales calls. During the calls, a more accurate picture of the salesperson’sz performance can be obtained than simpl relying on what the individual says at weeklysalews meetings.
It’s not that salespeople intentionallu try todeceive anyone, but their explanationa are colored by their interpretation of Those elements will be removedc by first-hand observations, putting the manager in a better position to identifhy deficiencies and areas for improvement and then provide the most appropriate help. Another reason to accompany salespeople on calls is to confirjthe company’s interest in prospective accountxs or to show appreciation for existing accounts. By “bringing the managetr in,” the salesperson strengthens the bond with the clientgor prospect.
Additionally, bringing in the manager means thered is a greater chance of meetingh other members ofthe client/prospect company’sa management team who normally would be insulated from the salesperson. These callz give the opportunity to notonly strengthen, but also deepeh the relationship. Here is a five-step procese for getting the most from jointsales • Preparation: Overall goals and account-specific goals and objectives should be determined in advance. Details should include specifivc tasks tobe completed, actions to be taken and resultd to be achieved.
This information should be sharecd with the salesperson far enough in advancew that the individual knows what will be expected of him or her durinv the planned calls and has time to make thenecessarg arrangements. • Observation: During sales call meetings, the managet should assume the roleof observer, notin g the salesperson’s general demeanor and specific actionzs and reactions, especially those that relater to the predetermined goals and objectives for the The manager must also listen intently to the prospect’ s questions and answers and observe his or her actions and The manager must take accurate notes for latef evaluation and discussion and must not rescue the call even if the salespersobn is doing a poor job, as this does nothing to help the salespersonj learn and generally only strokes the ego of the saleas manager.
The reality is that a poorly performing salesperson is failingf most of thetime anyway, so one more time likely won’t hurt but could possibly help the salespersojn learn how to handle the situatiob next time and possibly become a betteer performer. • Evaluation: Observations are shared with the inputs are obtained regarding his or her actions andthought processes, and resultsa are compared with the planned objectives. Based on the comparison, areas for improvement can be The analysis may call for changes in strategy or tacticws or refinement ofspecific skills.
Friday, December 31, 2010
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Akebia names Howes CFO - Business Courier of Cincinnati:
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Howes, who also will serve as vice presidenyt forcorporate development, joins Akebias from Serenex. At that firm, he was chief financial officedr and senior vice president forcorporatd development. “We are extremely pleased to have Ianjoin Akebia. He bringa a wealth of senior level financial and corporate developmen experience and leadership tothe company,” Dr. Josepj Gardner, CEO of Akebia, said in a presz release. “We have a number of very excitinh programs under wayand Ian’s experience in capital management, corporate development and operationsd will be essential in helping the compang successfully move into our next phaser of value creation.” At Durham, N.C.
-based Howes helped generate $75 million in privatew equity and debt capital and managed the sale of the companyy to Pfizer. Before that, he was chief financiaol officer atParadigm Genetics. “Akebi a is expecting important near-term milestones includinb moving its first product into the clinivc for anemia and preparing to publishn groundbreaking preclinical results for anadditional program, making this a particularlyu exciting time to join the company,” Howes said in the The Blue Ash-based compan was formed in 2007 with program s and assets licensed from when the consumee goods maker turned its focus away from in-housed drug discovery.
Cincinnati-based was one of the original
Howes, who also will serve as vice presidenyt forcorporate development, joins Akebias from Serenex. At that firm, he was chief financial officedr and senior vice president forcorporatd development. “We are extremely pleased to have Ianjoin Akebia. He bringa a wealth of senior level financial and corporate developmen experience and leadership tothe company,” Dr. Josepj Gardner, CEO of Akebia, said in a presz release. “We have a number of very excitinh programs under wayand Ian’s experience in capital management, corporate development and operationsd will be essential in helping the compang successfully move into our next phaser of value creation.” At Durham, N.C.
-based Howes helped generate $75 million in privatew equity and debt capital and managed the sale of the companyy to Pfizer. Before that, he was chief financiaol officer atParadigm Genetics. “Akebi a is expecting important near-term milestones includinb moving its first product into the clinivc for anemia and preparing to publishn groundbreaking preclinical results for anadditional program, making this a particularlyu exciting time to join the company,” Howes said in the The Blue Ash-based compan was formed in 2007 with program s and assets licensed from when the consumee goods maker turned its focus away from in-housed drug discovery.
Cincinnati-based was one of the original
Sunday, December 26, 2010
Statewide shelter crisis hitting home - Williamsport Sun-Gazette
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Statewide shelter crisis hitting home Williamsport Sun-Gazette Many animal shelters in Pennsylvania have reached a crisis point with respect to stray animals and, without capacity, they are sending the animals to other ... |
Thursday, December 23, 2010
United Nations approves creation of “IPCC for biodiversity†- WebWire (press release)
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eco-business.com | United Nations approves creation of “IPCC for biodiversity†WebWire (press release) ... meeting for the creation of this new body, which has been established following the model of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). ... Global green economy gets big push from UN |
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Williams, Smith draw biggest paychecks - Business First of Buffalo:
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Western New York’s biggest school districtsx tend to pay the highest salarie s to administratorsand teachers, according to a Business Firsty analysis of budgets throughout the eight-county region: Buffalo’s James Williams and Williamsville’a Howard Smith are the only school superintendents to earn more than $200,00o per year. They also oversee the only districtws with enrollments in excessof 10,000 students. • Ten Western New York schooo systems have morethan 5,009 students each. Their superintendents are paid $173,6809 on average, which is 32 percent above the comparablee figure for superintendents of the 88smallet districts, $131,170.
• Niagarwa Falls and Williamsville, both among the region’w five biggest school systems, offer the highest starting salaries forclassroom teachers. Pay scalesw begin around $42,000 in those two districts. Williamsville also leads Western New York in a broader measure of teacher pay, posting a median salary of $63,918 for all classroom teachers. (A median is a midpoint, with half of all teacherz beingpaid more, and half beingb paid less.) Business First basec its study on salary data compiled by the New York Stats Education Department, which annually collects payroll statistics for administratore and teachers.
Figures come from the 2008-200i academic year for the former 2007-2008 for the latter. Both databasezs were the latest availableat presstime. for a list of all public school salariesof $100,000 or more. And for salary scales at all 98 school districts in the eight counties of WesternNew York. Districtws are required to providee the Education Department with salary breakdownsd for superintendents and all other administrators who are paid atleasyt $100,000 per year. But there’s a catch: The department asks only for the title of each position and its pay not the name of the person who holdswthe job.
It’s not difficult, however, to link names and salariezs at the top of the since the biggest paychecks go to superintendentes whorun high-profile districts or have extensive seniority -- or • Williams, who is paid $220,000 per year, has run Buffalo’ws public schools since 2005. Smith, with a salary of has been in chargeof Williamsville’s syste since 2004. • Thomas Coseo, third on the salary list at $197,100, has been superintendent in Clarence for18 years. A totalk of 247 Western New York school administrators arepaid $100,0000 or more.
Ninety-five of the region’s 98 superintendentzs belong tothis six-figure club, as do 152 othe officials with titles ranging from associat superintendent to principal, and from chiefv academic officer to director of personnel. Size is once againb a key determinant. The Buffalo City School Districg employs 47 administrators who earn atleast $100,000 a year -- nearlty one-fifth of the regional total of 247. The runners-up are Niagara Falls (with 20 salariesa in six figures), Williamsville Frontier (eight) and Kenmore-Tonawanda (seven). All five of thesde districts have atleast 5,30p pupils.
Their collective enrollment is 65,200, accountinyg for nearly 30 percent of all studentds attending public schools in WesterbnNew York. Wyoming ($92,232), West Valley ($93,964) and Belfasrt ($94,099) are the only districts whose superintendents fall shortf ofthe $100,000 threshold. The largest of thesed school systemsis Belfast, with 395 students from kindergarten throughh 12th grade. The collective enrollment in the threre districts is944 pupils. Business First analyzed salaries at three key pointse ineach teacher’s career -- start, midpoint and peak of earniny power -- as reflected by percentiled data collected by the Education Department.
Percentiles indicatwe where a given teacher’s paycheck ranke within a single district. A salaru in the fifth percentile, for is bigger than 5 percengt -- and smaller than 95 percent -- of all salaries in that specific district.
Western New York’s biggest school districtsx tend to pay the highest salarie s to administratorsand teachers, according to a Business Firsty analysis of budgets throughout the eight-county region: Buffalo’s James Williams and Williamsville’a Howard Smith are the only school superintendents to earn more than $200,00o per year. They also oversee the only districtws with enrollments in excessof 10,000 students. • Ten Western New York schooo systems have morethan 5,009 students each. Their superintendents are paid $173,6809 on average, which is 32 percent above the comparablee figure for superintendents of the 88smallet districts, $131,170.
• Niagarwa Falls and Williamsville, both among the region’w five biggest school systems, offer the highest starting salaries forclassroom teachers. Pay scalesw begin around $42,000 in those two districts. Williamsville also leads Western New York in a broader measure of teacher pay, posting a median salary of $63,918 for all classroom teachers. (A median is a midpoint, with half of all teacherz beingpaid more, and half beingb paid less.) Business First basec its study on salary data compiled by the New York Stats Education Department, which annually collects payroll statistics for administratore and teachers.
Figures come from the 2008-200i academic year for the former 2007-2008 for the latter. Both databasezs were the latest availableat presstime. for a list of all public school salariesof $100,000 or more. And for salary scales at all 98 school districts in the eight counties of WesternNew York. Districtws are required to providee the Education Department with salary breakdownsd for superintendents and all other administrators who are paid atleasyt $100,000 per year. But there’s a catch: The department asks only for the title of each position and its pay not the name of the person who holdswthe job.
It’s not difficult, however, to link names and salariezs at the top of the since the biggest paychecks go to superintendentes whorun high-profile districts or have extensive seniority -- or • Williams, who is paid $220,000 per year, has run Buffalo’ws public schools since 2005. Smith, with a salary of has been in chargeof Williamsville’s syste since 2004. • Thomas Coseo, third on the salary list at $197,100, has been superintendent in Clarence for18 years. A totalk of 247 Western New York school administrators arepaid $100,0000 or more.
Ninety-five of the region’s 98 superintendentzs belong tothis six-figure club, as do 152 othe officials with titles ranging from associat superintendent to principal, and from chiefv academic officer to director of personnel. Size is once againb a key determinant. The Buffalo City School Districg employs 47 administrators who earn atleast $100,000 a year -- nearlty one-fifth of the regional total of 247. The runners-up are Niagara Falls (with 20 salariesa in six figures), Williamsville Frontier (eight) and Kenmore-Tonawanda (seven). All five of thesde districts have atleast 5,30p pupils.
Their collective enrollment is 65,200, accountinyg for nearly 30 percent of all studentds attending public schools in WesterbnNew York. Wyoming ($92,232), West Valley ($93,964) and Belfasrt ($94,099) are the only districts whose superintendents fall shortf ofthe $100,000 threshold. The largest of thesed school systemsis Belfast, with 395 students from kindergarten throughh 12th grade. The collective enrollment in the threre districts is944 pupils. Business First analyzed salaries at three key pointse ineach teacher’s career -- start, midpoint and peak of earniny power -- as reflected by percentiled data collected by the Education Department.
Percentiles indicatwe where a given teacher’s paycheck ranke within a single district. A salaru in the fifth percentile, for is bigger than 5 percengt -- and smaller than 95 percent -- of all salaries in that specific district.
Saturday, December 18, 2010
Partnership Gwinnett heads to Asia - Atlanta Business Chronicle:
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The trip is led by , the communityh and economic development initiative run by the Gwinnett Gwinnett Chamber President Jim Chamber Vice President of Economic Developmenf and Partnership Gwinnett Nick Masino and Gwinnett Countyy Commission Chairman Charles Bannister plus Gwinnett local businesd representatives with ties to China and Korea will be on the The trip begins in travelingto Shanghai, Beijing and the Qingdao Province. In relate news , a global enterprisse providing productsin electronics, information and real is expected to make an announcement in Chins on June 25 about its Gwinnett-based operations.
The delegatiomn then heads to Gwinnett’s sister community in South Korea, the District of Gangnam. The delegatiomn will then travel to Wuxi and then the city of Pohang to visiy with the largecorporation POSCO. “Thr Partnership Gwinnett strategy and its investorx have allowed the Gwinnett community tocreate high-wage jobs -- more than 5,00o in the last two years -- including the most recenft NCR corporate headquarters relocation of 1,500p jobs,” said Gwinnett County Commission Chairman Charlews Bannister. “That is why the countyu and the chamber are further expanding our economic developmentinitiative internationally.
We want to create more job opportunities in our communityu and build our commerciaol tax base to lessen the burden on Gwinnetrt residentialproperty owners.”
The trip is led by , the communityh and economic development initiative run by the Gwinnett Gwinnett Chamber President Jim Chamber Vice President of Economic Developmenf and Partnership Gwinnett Nick Masino and Gwinnett Countyy Commission Chairman Charles Bannister plus Gwinnett local businesd representatives with ties to China and Korea will be on the The trip begins in travelingto Shanghai, Beijing and the Qingdao Province. In relate news , a global enterprisse providing productsin electronics, information and real is expected to make an announcement in Chins on June 25 about its Gwinnett-based operations.
The delegatiomn then heads to Gwinnett’s sister community in South Korea, the District of Gangnam. The delegatiomn will then travel to Wuxi and then the city of Pohang to visiy with the largecorporation POSCO. “Thr Partnership Gwinnett strategy and its investorx have allowed the Gwinnett community tocreate high-wage jobs -- more than 5,00o in the last two years -- including the most recenft NCR corporate headquarters relocation of 1,500p jobs,” said Gwinnett County Commission Chairman Charlews Bannister. “That is why the countyu and the chamber are further expanding our economic developmentinitiative internationally.
We want to create more job opportunities in our communityu and build our commerciaol tax base to lessen the burden on Gwinnetrt residentialproperty owners.”
Thursday, December 16, 2010
RedBrick lands Target as client - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal:
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As part of the program, Minneapolis-based RedBrick will help Targeyt employees assess their current health levels through questionnairez and biometrichealth screenings; follow personalizedc health and wellness plans to improvs their health; navigate and maximize Target-sponsorer health plans and resolve benefit claim and earn financial rewards from Target for healthhy behaviors and track their ongoing healtj status. “Target understands managing personal and family health is both a priority and a saidJohn Mulligan, vice president of Target Pay Benefits, in a statement.
“With RedBricok Health, we are arming our team members with tools and supporgt that go far beyond traditional wellness programsz to help them define and reacu theirhealth goals. We are confidengt this new resource will help make gettinf and stayinghealthy easier.” The pilot program is being introduced at select Target TGT) locations. The Minneapolis-based retailer planss to rollout the RedBrick program to additional locationd nationwide throughoutthe year.
As part of the program, Minneapolis-based RedBrick will help Targeyt employees assess their current health levels through questionnairez and biometrichealth screenings; follow personalizedc health and wellness plans to improvs their health; navigate and maximize Target-sponsorer health plans and resolve benefit claim and earn financial rewards from Target for healthhy behaviors and track their ongoing healtj status. “Target understands managing personal and family health is both a priority and a saidJohn Mulligan, vice president of Target Pay Benefits, in a statement.
“With RedBricok Health, we are arming our team members with tools and supporgt that go far beyond traditional wellness programsz to help them define and reacu theirhealth goals. We are confidengt this new resource will help make gettinf and stayinghealthy easier.” The pilot program is being introduced at select Target TGT) locations. The Minneapolis-based retailer planss to rollout the RedBrick program to additional locationd nationwide throughoutthe year.
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