Help Me

Category : Business, Customers, People, UX
The help desk calls for “I can’t get my emails”, “why have you blocked my emails”, “now that I can’t access my email I can’t work” and other such questions I found very easy to deal with. Typically the customer...

Ownership

Category : Business, Insight, People, UX
Good connections and customer ownership. In most businesses that I have worked for, there is still a disconnect between sales and the rest of the team. The customer is not owned by anyone, the information that one team gains should...

CRM

This sadly can be a great source of garbage in / garbage out. What I’ve found over the years working with sales and marketing, account manager, customers and project requirements is that there have only been a rare few who...

Development teams

Category : Business, Insight, People
What I’ve learned while working with small web development teams is that they have a tendency to get bogged down in the detail of making it perfect, rather than running for the workable first. Having a mix of members is critical to...

Crisis management

You have to be ready, a crisis will happen at some point. Having a communications person/team is very important, training them to respond and react responsibly to questions can make or break customer satisfaction. Monitor everything, knowing as soon as...

Customer satisfaction

Not all managers hold it as highly as I do. Appropriate communication is the key to minimizing business disruption and in the world of computer-based interconnected systems, it is not always feasible to retain constant connection at all times.

Changes

Regardless of where the notion came from changes affect people in different ways. In many of my roles I have influenced change, be it through creating a new UX vision, or a marketing strategy, or a business sales model, or...

Supervision

Category : Business, Insight, People
What I’ve learned about having been both self-employed and employed, is that I’m happy to lead or follow (assuming I’m following a leader). Some staff need closer supervision, others thrive when they are left alone to get the job done....

Mentor

Category : Business, Insight, People
Need a mentor? I certainly would have liked to have had one to discuss some business dealings over the years. When in doubt ask a lawyer, this has served me well, not quite the same as having a mentor, but...

Awesomeness

Category : Business, Insight, People
People are truly awesome. There are so many differences between each of our experiences that we all have the capability to be far better than what we and some others might think. The culture of a company can drive success...

Working Remote

Category : Business, Insight, People
What I’ve learned while working for international companies, is that no matter where in the world they work, when the client is awake and working they expect that all teams will respond within the time zone that suits the company at one time or another....
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