Workplace Insight

JULY 30, 2025

A new large scale study from Microsoft has offered what its authors claim is one of the clearest pictures yet of how Generative AI is being used in real workplaces and which jobs are most exposed to its growing influence.

Customer Service

Vantage Circle

OCTOBER 18, 2024

This gap impacts the core of the retail industry, where employees directly influence customer experiences through their regular interactions. Research by Gallup has demonstrated that engaged employees make 18% more sales and 23% higher profitability. Has this always been the case in the retail industry?

Retail

Success

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Many feel overwhelmed by workloads and anxious about the growing influence of automation and AI on their roles. For example, someone who excels in a high attention to detail, fact-finding research position may struggle in a fast-paced sales role, even if they have some of the necessary skills.

Leadership

Mad in America

APRIL 2, 2025

It was understood as an emotional disorder or melancholic condition influenced by personal life circumstances and social factors. The Mechanisms of Influence: How Marketing Shapes Medical Practice As the industry changed, I too had to adapt. Modern psychiatric care isn’t built on scienceit’s built on sales.

Pharmaceutical

Mad in America

APRIL 24, 2025

The advent of SSRIs in the 1980s and 1990s came with the typical psychiatric sales pitch that these medications protect against adverse outcomes of depression, particularly suicidal behavior, and that they are life-saving. That is not so.

Influencing

Work Life

JUNE 28, 2025

Leaders have a broader range of influence, because of the number of people who report to them, the practices they adopt, and the decisions they make. For example, decisions by the product leader can impact how the brand team markets the product and the sales team positions it with customers. Leaders also have a big impact on others.

Leadership

Work Life

JULY 8, 2025

Similarly, Semrush hosted an influencer weekend in 2024 for nearly a dozen creators in London paying for their travel, meals, and experiences. This is because many influencers have become trusted voices who drive sales, even in complex B2B buying cycles. trillion in revenue by 2037, according to Research Nester.

Influencing

Vantage Circle

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

Example: Now imagine a scenario where the sales team of a tech company achieves record-breaking quarterly sales. Example: A tech company that aims to expand its market share sets a clear goal for its sales team to boost customer acquisition by a certain percentage.

Sales

Vantage Circle

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Observe task completion rates, sales numbers, and revenue generated per employee. Solution You must portray engagement as a strategic lever that influences the bottom line. Here are some common metrics to consider: Productivity: Keep regular track of individual and team output after implementing engagement initiatives.

Prioritization

Success

JULY 1, 2025

When New York Times bestselling author and speaker Rory Vaden and his wife AJ were at the height of their career after 12 years at a sales coaching company, AJ spoke up about an important issue at work… and got fired. Here’s what he learned on his journey and what he wants others to know about building influence and becoming well-known.

Influencing

Success

JUNE 30, 2025

Cracking the consumer mindset has always been the holy grail of sales. In the week following its viral breakthrough, sales of Little Moons at British retail giant Tesco surged by 700%. Some trends have been so far-reaching that they’ve directly influenced brand focus and strategy.

Sales

Work Life

JUNE 20, 2025

In 2022, the company launched an aggressive advertising campaign to distance its beers from the human rights abuses associated with the World Cup , even promising to donate sales of its Lost Lager to fight human rights abuses. But here’s the rub: those performances shape reality. So yes, corporations must be careful what they pretend to be.

Supplies

Great Place to Work

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Just as your core values influence how you treat others and approach challenges, a companys core values serve as its moral compass, guiding everything from strategic decisions to everyday interactions. But one of your sales teams consistently overpromises to close deals with clients. Its the same thing for companies.

Teamwork

Work Life

JULY 22, 2025

While they found no discernible difference in sales or profits between the two samples, they found that labor wages were cut 6% over five years at companies run by managers who went to business school, while managers with no business degree shared profits with their workers. One study examined 9,900 U.S. Distrust follows that uncertainty.

Training

Success

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Operating far beyond its roots in short-form entertainment, TikTok serves as a powerful hub where users are compelled to consume, and in turn, creators can earn big on ad revenue and sales. national security risks from apps like TikTok, highlighting concerns over data privacy and foreign influence.

Sales

Vantage Circle

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

It influences several aspects of life. Its influence is more significant than you might realize. For instance, research indicates that strong internal social capital positively influences knowledge-sharing behaviors. Too often, businesses focus only on traditional KPIs like sales numbers or project deadlines.

Networking

Halo Psych

MAY 6, 2025

A performance goal would be something along the lines of to achieve at least 25k in sales by the end of Q4 31 st December 2025. How does leader humility influence team performance? This was compared to those assigned a performance goal who were more tense and performed worse. Owens, B.P., & Hekman , D.R.

Coaching

Mad in America

APRIL 19, 2025

Peer drinking significantly influenced whether an individual drank, but ALDH2 did not. An Exciting Sales Pitch John Z. The search for magic bullets in medicine and psychiatry makes for exciting sales pitches to legislators, pundits, and lobbyists on Capitol Hill.

Reporting

Vantage Circle

MARCH 20, 2025

For example, a sales team might participate in a leaderboard competition with rewards for top performers. Likewise, models influenced by Hertzberg's Two-Factor Theory help organizations in industries with limited budgets focus on non-monetary rewards to enhance engagement. What would help in this case?

Creativity

Success

JULY 5, 2025

Businesses get into the customer’s frame of mind to make more sales. It is what you think about it.” — Dale Carnegie , How to Win Friends and Influence People “Standing on the fringes of life… offers a unique perspective. Authors write books with multiple points of view.

Sales

Vantage Circle

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Focus Examines fairness, belonging, and value alignment, uncovering deeper cultural dynamics that influence daily experiences. Timing is Key Launching a survey smack in the middle of your busiest sales season or on the heels of a major rejig is a fast track to a dismal response rate. pay, benefits, daily tasks).

Leadership

BMT Office Administration

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

” Values : These are the guiding principles that influence the decision-making process and behavior within the organization. Use the SMART criteria to transform vague goals like “increase sales” into specific goals, like “increase sales by 15% over the next fiscal year.”

Sales

Success

AUGUST 8, 2025

Gen Alpha’s spending influence is real and growing, with new data from public relations firm DKC showing that children in this age range (8-14) impact nearly half of their households’ purchasing decisions. From slick sponsorships to subtle plugs for his own brands, like Feastables and MrBeast Burger, every view is a sales opportunity.

Influencing

Success

MARCH 5, 2025

This typically occurs when businesses face rising operational expenses or declining sales, prompting them to streamline and downsize operations. Inflation and online discounts are hammering physical stores, with consumers flocking to fast retail platforms like Temu and Amazon Haul for easier shopping and endless sales.

Retail

Vantage Circle

MARCH 3, 2025

Incentive theory is based on a psychological framework that emphasizes how external rewards and penalties significantly influence human behavior and motivation. The psychology behind incentives is rather complex and sheds light on how different motivators influence human behavior. Let's get started. What is Incentive Theory?

Influencing

Mad in America

AUGUST 9, 2025

Paid thought leaders could mention “fewer EPS than Haldol” in speaker programs and publications , but we couldn’t make clinical comparisons in ads or sales aids. By encouraging medication adherence in therapeutic partnership, we extended our influence far beyond the prescription itself—into the relationship between patient and provider.

Pharmaceutical

Mad in America

JULY 29, 2025

1 The Cochrane authors had not listed any conflicts in relation to drug firms, but they did not tell their readers that the studies they included, 37 placebo-controlled trials (12,226 participants), were heavily influenced by drug firms. Selective publication of antidepressant trials and its influence on apparent efficacy.

Reporting

Office Snapshots

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The Mattamy Homes Sales and Decor Centre in downtown Toronto is a testament to innovative design and strategic planning. This project aimed to co-locate Mattamy Urban office space with a sales and décor centre in a central location, closer to ongoing developments and other Mattamy offices.

Sales

Success

JUNE 22, 2021

Sales managers are responsible for optimizing seller performance to realize revenue goals. Often, sales managers rely on training to help improve seller performance, but this approach by itself is insufficient. In fact, the biggest difference between successful sales performance and a lackluster record is mindset.

Sales

Success

MAY 17, 2022

How do you grow your circle of influence and become more influential around the colleagues and friends that you currently have in your life right now? Because if we’re honest about it, having influence is big, right? Influence allows you to have more income, it allows you to have more impact; it allows you to have a better life.

Influencing

Work Life

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Whether you’re looking to bring in more leads, be seen as a thought leader in your field or, well, “influence” people, I am sorry to break it to you, but you may be an influencer. Or perhaps a wannabe influencer. I am trying to influence people. Influencers want to influence how you live.”

Influencing

Work Life

JUNE 16, 2025

With influencers and those types of creators wearing football shirts, it’s a lot more connected now than it used to be.” Global sales of new soccer shirts reach beyond $6 billion annually, and Bettinelli sees massive potential in a market he estimates is growing at over 100% year over year.

Retail

Success

OCTOBER 22, 2022

I have always said that everyone is in sales. Maybe you don’t hold the title of salesperson, but if the business you are in requires you to deal with people, you, my friend, are in sales. we fully understand that anyone on our staff can make—or lose—a sale. Sales are what you do for people, not to people. At Ziglar Inc.,

Sales

Success

MARCH 27, 2022

The true measure of the success of any business is the bottom line—sales minus cost of sales. Managing the cost of sales is an analytical process. Managing sales, however, is a different matter. No woman in the delivery room looked at her newborn child and said, “We’ve got a champion sales-person here!”

Sales

Success

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Every year, the SUCCESS Women of Influence awards shine an exciting spotlight on remarkable women who transcend boundaries, inspiring and transforming lives across diverse industries and communities. These women are the unsung heroes, the trailblazers who’ve left an indelible mark, both personally and professionally.

Influencing

Success

MARCH 9, 2022

Proof comes from testimonials, not sales presentations,” says Jeffrey Gitomer, president of Buy Gitomer and author of The Sales Bible and The Little Red Book of Selling. Selling is a business of emotions,” says Tom Hopkins, a sales trainer and author of How to Master the Art of Selling. The Process Rules.

Sales

Insperity

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

By leveraging relationships with other organizations that are aligned with your target markets, your small or midsize company can gain sales momentum and outperform the competition. The first step to developing a strategic alliance requires that you identify key industry influencers and determine if a joint value proposition exists.

Sales