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With the requirements for consultants becoming ever more stringent, many consultancies are incorporating tests into their interview process. There are four main types of test: personality, logical, numerical and verbal. Personality:these tests use a variety of situations and assess how you would react, how you work with others, what frustrates you and how you cope [...]

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Companies need to deliver revenue that increases profitability; however, this should be linked to the way a company treats their customers with the aim not only to fulfil the standards demanded by the FSA, but also to build credibility in long term relationships with their customers. Every company should be asking themselves, “are we looking [...]

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How is your company tracking customer experience? Are you just looking at sales data? If your answer is ‘yes’, that might show you how you are doing in a general way, but it will not show you how you can improve your customer experience throughout the process. The thing is, if a customer has an [...]

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What is your first thought when you hear the word “communication”? For clients, it is a broad term that includes the exchange of ideas and the imparting of news and information. It even includes the emotional understanding between the speaker and listener and it defines how they experience their relationship with your business. Huntswood was approached [...]

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After every training course, Huntswood measures how well the message got across. Just like everything else in business, training must be measured for you to assess your return on investment. Too often it’s treated like a check-box exercise and forgotten after completed – that’s a waste of your human resources development budget. Bring your usual [...]

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We’ve all taken Computer-Based Training (CBT) courses where the trainer sets us up in front of a computer and tells us to follow the instructions on the screen. Unfortunately, all too often CBT can fall flat. The training material seems distantly related to us at best and rarely seems to apply to the duties we [...]

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Top names like Michel Roux Jn and Mary Portas are on our screens expounding the benefits of good customer service, while major High Street banks and Telecoms providers are receiving media coverage for failing to meet customers’ expectations. Why does it matter? In the current financial climate, organisations are well aware that anything less than [...]

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Harry Potter fans will remember the Time-Turner device given to Hermione Granger so she could attend more classes in her third year than time would allow.  What a useful business tool that would be: peeking into the future before winding back time and nailing the deal! This is precisely how Business Simulations work.  By replicating [...]

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