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Navigating Sales Training and Development: Insights from a Seasoned Expert Leaders' advice

Navigating Sales Training and Development: Insights from a Seasoned Expert

Explore the dynamic intersection of leadership, learning, and sales in the home improvement industry through the seasoned insights of Chris Boswell. Uncover strategies for effective sales training and development, as Boswell shares his wealth of experience and emphasizes the human touch in every interaction.
Lara Kremer
12 February 2024
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Mastering the Art of the Cold Call Leaders' advice

Mastering the Art of the Cold Call

Perhaps one of the most challenging elements of sales, cold calling is a notoriously difficult place to find success—that is, until you've found a practice that consistently and sustainably works for you. And mastering the art of the cold call can be a career-long process (if one even is able to master it at all). "In my honest opinion," Alice Wheaton, business development coach and profitability catalyst says, "only about 4 or 5% of salespeople are elite performers." This, Wheaton notes, is largely due to problems in both training and in growing up in a society that considers certain behaviours, such…
Kendra Guidolin
21 December 2023
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Implement the 4-Day Work Week with Success FeaturedNews

Implement the 4-Day Work Week with Success

In my opinion, blog posts published in January of each year are some of the most interesting posts, specifically because of the predictions they make of the coming year. Take, for example, the Time Magazine article from January that suggested "2023 could finally be the year of the 4-day workweek." And certainly, this strategy has taken off this year in an attempt to reduce rates of burnout—an article by Josh Bersin for Harvard Business Review reports that the number of companies practicing the 4-day work week has "tripled in the last few years." Nevertheless, it seems as though many still…
Kendra Guidolin
14 December 2023
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The Top Three Ways to Improve Your Business Strategy Career advice

The Top Three Ways to Improve Your Business Strategy

As recent article from Harvard Business Review by Graham Kenny reveals, countless companies fall into one or more of the following traps when executing business strategies: 1) letting too many people weigh in, 2) planning activity without concrete actions, and 3) not establishing means for remaining accountable for execution. And as Kenny suggests, these traps are common and easy to fall into—so easy, in fact, you may not even recognize them until further reflection. So, how can you both acknowledge these traps and therefore improve your business strategy? It all starts with recognizing each of these traps and their root…
Kendra Guidolin
7 December 2023
How to Nail Your Response to This Top Job Interview Question Career advice

How to Nail Your Response to This Top Job Interview Question

How many times have you been prompted in a job interview to tell the interviewer a "bit about yourself"? Countless websites, including The Muse, Indeed, Resume Genius, Novoresume, and LinkedIn, place this prompt at the number one spot for most common job interview questions. And despite how frequently interviewers offer this prompt—and even how simple it may seem to answer—many candidates struggle to answer this question succinctly. Many assume they need to somehow summarize everything they've written on their resume and cover letter; others think they should expand on their personalities—their hobbies, what they do in their down time, and…
Kendra Guidolin
30 November 2023
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Are You the Bottleneck in Your Business? Leaders' advice

Are You the Bottleneck in Your Business?

Recently, we've been seeing a higher demand for blog posts on advice for business owners and entrepreneurs. So, Workwolf Marketing Consultant Lara Kremer has been meeting with some very influential business owners and entrepreneurs alike to ask them what their biggest challenges were and how they overcame them. One such meeting was with Yoon Cannon, a business growth coach and three-time successful business founder, who herself works daily to support entrepreneurs who aim for the kind of success Cannon has found. And of the most common challenges Cannon has learned founders and businesspeople face, the bottleneck effect is one that…
Kendra Guidolin
16 November 2023

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The first 90 days decide whether you hire once or twice
The first 90 days decide whether you hire once or twiceRecruitment

The first 90 days decide whether you hire once or twice

If someone leaves in the first 90 days, the hire was wrong before day one. This post shows why early turnover is often a screening problem, not a retention problem.
20 August 2026
Interview capacity is your real hiring constraint
Interview capacity is your real hiring constraintRecruitment

Interview capacity is your real hiring constraint

Interview capacity decides whether sourcing becomes hires. Learn how to calculate the slots your hiring plan needs and protect them before the month starts.
11 August 2026
Hiring handoff
Unbiased hiring assessments: what actually worksRecruitment

Unbiased hiring assessments: what actually works

Most assessments measure privilege, not performance. How to tell the difference, and why fairness breaks down as hiring volume rises.
31 July 2026
How to know when hiring volume has outgrown your team
How to know when hiring volume has outgrown your teamRecruitment

How to know when hiring volume has outgrown your team

When hiring never stops, the internal process eventually breaks. Use this operating diagnosis to see when demand has outgrown your team.
29 July 2026
How to build a monthly hiring capacity plan before the month slips
How to build a monthly hiring capacity plan before the month slipsRecruitment

How to build a monthly hiring capacity plan before the month slips

A monthly hiring capacity plan turns a 10+ role hiring target into a real operating model: demand, applicant flow, interviews, offers, starts, and ownership.
14 July 2026
Cost of an open position
The cost of an open position (and how to close it faster)Recruitment

The cost of an open position (and how to close it faster)

Most companies obsess over time to fill. Almost no one tracks what an open position costs while it sits empty. Here is the full breakdown.
23 June 2026
Interview no-shows are eating your front-line hiring budget
Interview no-shows are eating your front-line hiring budgetRecruitment

Interview no-shows are eating your front-line hiring budget

Interview no-shows quietly drain front-line hiring budgets. Here's what the data says, why it happens, and how to fix it.
9 June 2026
The true cost of a bad hire (and how to avoid it)
The true cost of a bad hire (and how to avoid it)FeaturedRecruitment

The true cost of a bad hire (and how to avoid it)

The cost of a bad hire can reach 50% to 200% of their salary. See where the money goes, why it happens, and how to stop it. Free guide inside.
4 June 2026
I charged 25% as a recruiter. Here’s what I never told clients
I charged 25% as a recruiter. Here’s what I never told clientsFeaturedRecruitment

I charged 25% as a recruiter. Here’s what I never told clients

Every time I placed a candidate, I made $15,000 to $50,000. If they quit after three months? I still kept most of it. After seven years as a contingency recruiter, here's how the machine really works, and what you should demand before signing another agency contract.
14 May 2026

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