Comments on: Professionalism Part 6 – The 7 Things You Need to Know about Meetings

By: Editor

Editor — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:41:28 +0000

I definitely hear where you’re coming from and I did say that this might be a bit of an arb point. I guess for me, it’s about the subtle sign of someone using their initiative – It also only takes about a minute to get the directions off Braby’s. If a person makes the effort to read a map or get directions off the net, find the place and still manage to be on time – it’s says quite a bit about them.

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By: Chris M

Chris M — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:15:43 +0000

Really interesting list, the only one which I don’t really know about is “Don’t ask for precise directions either” – That’s a bit strange if you ask me. Yes, there are services online to provide directions and all, but it normally only takes a person a minute or two to draft or copy-paste directions. Knowing the precise directions means you will arrive their on time and not waste their time by calling them when you’re lost, thus resulting in being late..

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By: Editor

Editor — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:42:14 +0000

Hi Colin, thanks for your comment! It’s incredible isn’t it, some companies just cannot see the wood for the trees. The salespeople can look young and pretty but at the end of the day, they need to be able to sell and that means knowing the product. Yes, it might cost a company a fair amount to train staff but it will cost them even more in the long run ie. when they can’t sell their products to anyone!

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By: colin syme

colin syme — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:26:19 +0000

Your,”salesperson who knows sod all about the products they are selling”
Chuckle chuckle, perhaps the firm concerned spends thousands on marketing and advertising and consider thats enough and thats why they employ bimbos at as low a wage as they can get away with and save money on staff training sessions, BIG MISTAKE.
Years ago l worked in the marketing dept. of a company selling high value goods, we used to send out mystery shoppers to pretend that they had an interest in the products and some of the results were astonishing, in some cases sales staff made up BS when talking about the product to customers and clearly knew nothing. When we approached the firm we received answers like,”we have two sales staff trained, unfortuately they were off that day” to, “we have used up our training budget and they will be trained next year. needless to say my company withdrew the products from some firms.

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