A blog article by BizX Member Tony Robbins.

You may only think of leadership in the context of how you lead your business, but in fact, this is a critical error that you should avoid. Leadership should be part of the everyday culture of your business. Employees at all levels of the company can lead, and when they do practice great leadership in their work, they will enjoy greater empowerment.

Follow these tips for turning employees into leaders and increase your company’s productivity as your empowered employees take charge:

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Ask salespeople to list their least favorite selling activities, and you can count on “prospecting” being at the top of the list. And, the least favorite of all prospecting activities is unquestionably making  cold calls.

The reasons may be prospects have an unending list of excuses for dismissing salespeople before the prospecting call conversation actually gets started. Those prospects who do listen to what the salesperson has to say still say that they’re not interested, regardless of how many features, functions, benefits, or advantages the salesperson mentions. Why is this?

BizX is more than a company,  BizX is a collaboration. This past month, almost 50 new members joined this growing collaboration! Check out all these members that joined the community, giving you more ways to spend your BizX and potential new customers to meet for the upcoming year!

Everyone knows who the Oakland A's are. They are one of the oldest professional baseball teams and they've been an Oakland staple since 1968. The Athletics have won nine World Series championships, the third-most of all current MLB teams.

The Oakland Athletics are also BizX members.

Stores around the country are looking to make more sales and increase revenue, but many are failing. Why is this?  Quit making introductory offers to strangers and start engaging with past customers happy they did business with you.

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