Babette Ten Haken

Contact Babette
  • Home
  • Programs
    • Keynotes
    • Breakouts & Workshops
    • Professional Innovation Coaching
  • Blog
  • My Story
    • Testimonials
    • Honors & Awards
  • Resources
    • White Papers
    • Do You Mean Business? – The Book
  • Contact Me!
You are here: Home / Collaboration And Convergence / Unconventional -The New Norm for Business Success

Unconventional -The New Norm for Business Success

September 23, 2014 by Babette Ten Haken Leave a Comment

iStock_000006714581XSmallWhat would happen to your business success if you systematically and consistently adhered to processes and practices?

Your success might fly in the face of the conventional, same-old status quo business outcomes you’ve gotten very comfortable with.

Time to move onward and upward!

Small things, done well, over time move business outcomes forward. Those small things involve you and your staff’s dedication to reinforcing those processes and practices which produce the best business outcomes for your company as well as your customers’ businesses.

What’s unconventional is your decision to move away from your status quo. What’s unusual is that you took the time to define your status quo. You can’t move forward until you understand what’s holding you, and your business, back.  That’s the recurring mantra of my book, Do YOU Mean Business?, a manifesto on how collaboration creates business development strategies which drive revenue.

What’s unusual is that when you and your team consistently and systematically apply collaborative habits and attitudes towards business outcomes, your customers begin to take you more seriously and credibly.

The term “unconventional” relates to something that is “not based on or conforming to what is generally done or believed.” Your customers currently perceive you as yet another commodity sales person or manufacturer of low-cost, low-quality output. They will sit up and take notice once you’ve moved beyond their “conventional” perceptions. Are you ready?

The term “non-traditional” describes something that is “nonstandard, non-normative.” What the marketplace perceives as status quo today can be altered tomorrow by a business that exceeds expectations via consistency and discipline.

The term “unusual” involves something that is “not habitually or commonly occurring or done.” Why should your business, manufacturing or selling habits conform to the marketplace’s expectation of mediocrity? Make sense?

It doesn’t take much to shake things up so your customers sit up and take notice. Achieving “what it takes”, however, involves you and your staff’s full buy-in and commitment to developing healthy, disciplined and productive processes, core capabilities and self-beliefs.

Are you there yet? Do YOU Mean Business? offers a set of tools to move you closer today.

Babette Ten Haken, Founder & President of Sales Aerobics for Engineers®, LLC catalyzes small to midsize businesses transitioning forward, startup growth and professionals development. Let’s get to work today! This article was first published in the 9/9/2014 weekly edition of Top Sales World magazine.

Enjoy this post? Please share it!

TwitterFacebookLinkedInEmailReddit

Filed Under: Collaboration And Convergence, Customer Experience, Success, Loyalty, Retention, Human Capital & Industrial IoT Workforce, Professional Development Tagged With: business success, customers, Do You Mean Business, sales, unconventional

About Babette Ten Haken

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Hire Babette to speak at your next conference or corporate meeting.

https://youtu.be/Yf-h80O_QZ4
Sign up to receive posts via email
Please wait...
Please enter all required fields Click to hide
Correct invalid entries Click to hide
No spam, ever. Promise. Powered by FeedBlitz
SalesProCentral
Customer Experience Update

Categories

  • Collaboration And Convergence
  • Customer Experience, Success, Loyalty, Retention
  • Human Capital & Industrial IoT Workforce
  • Professional Development
  • Trending Book Reviews
  • Uncategorized

Recent Posts

  • Why Project or Business Cases Undersell A Team’s Value
  • Does Working in Silos Prepare You to Lead Strategically?
  • Are You Managing Teams for Innovation or Stasis?
  • Are You Professionally Understandable To Everyone?
  • Is Professional Elitism impacting How You Lead Teams?

Archives

Storytelling for STEM Professionals and Left Brain Thinkers Speaking Programs. Learn more....

Contact Babette
Sign up to receive posts via email
Please wait...
Please enter all required fields Click to hide
Correct invalid entries Click to hide
No spam, ever. Promise. Powered by FeedBlitz

Recent Posts

Why Project or Business Cases Undersell A Team’s Value

Does Working in Silos Prepare You to Lead Strategically?

Are You Managing Teams for Innovation or Stasis?

Follow Us!

Follow Us on FacebookFollow Us on TwitterFollow Us on LinkedInFollow Us on Instagram

Privacy Policy | Terms and Conditions

CATALYST FOR PROFESSIONAL COLLABORATION: Storytelling for STEM Professionals and Left Brain Thinkers Speaking Programs.
Sales Aerobics for Engineers®, All Rights Reserved 2021 ©
By continuing to browse the site you are agreeing to our use of cookies