Need more accountability in your culture? | Issue #253
How to craft a culture of accountability
Culture isn’t something that can be managed centrally. It’s an accumulation of what each manager and team does. It’s helpful to think of culture-building as bottom-up rather than top-down. And if you have a consistent culture, it’s because the managers in your organisation are behaving similarly.
So for any culture-building in your business to succeed, you need to have a blueprint. Otherwise, people will sense the mismatch and feel unfairly treated. It will also be impossible to go to market and hire people based on a set of values because there’s no clarity on what those values and behaviours are.
A big part of culture-building is accountability in the workplace. And the above holds true. You can’t just expect accountability to happen naturally. It needs deliberate focus and a structured, consistent approach. This is essential to building an accountable culture.
E259 | Exploring A Bold Approach To Value-Based Pricing with Blair Enns
In the world of professional services, how you approach sales and how you price your products or services can make or break your business. Our guest this week has seen how shifting from a price buyer to a value buyer mindset has a massive impact on the success of a business.
This week we’re learning from Blair Enns, the founder of Win Without Pitching. Blair is known for his impactful insights on pricing strategies and value-based selling in professional services, whose journey began 21 years ago. He perceived creative professionals as people working in advertising or design, a mindset that gradually transformed with the shifting dynamics of the creative firm market. He realised that creativity was more than that; it was the ability to see, bring a novel perspective to a problem, and propel entrepreneurs towards their vision.
He now guides them through the process of selling, not as a predatory act, but as a path of facilitating and helping clients buy.
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The Win Without Pitching Manifesto
A manifesto of business practices for those who sell ideas and advice, The Win Without Pitching Manifesto lays out twelve steps in the form of proclamations that owners of creative businesses can take to distance themselves from their competition, regain the high ground in their client relationships and learn to win business without first parting with their thinking or writing lengthy proposals. The twelve proclamations were written to inspire owners of independent creative businesses (e.g.: design firms & advertising agencies) to rethink how their services are bought and sold. Anyone who sells ideas or advice will find relevance in their teachings.
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