Newsletter August 2008 - QED Consulting

This Month...

Welcome to the August edition of the E bulletin, as most offices are likely to be quiet during the holiday period, for those of us keeping things going in the office, why not take 5 minutes out to catch-up on this month's newsletter. This month we bring you: The Value of Learning and Development in the workplace...even more critical during times of instability The Turning Tide - An insight into your buyers behaviour The latest in QED Consulting’ adventures – at Buckingham Palace

The Real Value of Learning and Development within the Workplace Employers often worry about the cost of training their staff and often question ….."What if we train our employees and they leave?" Here at QED Consulting, we feel the more important question organisations should ask themselves is…… "What happens if you don't train them and they stay?" Read more...

The Turning Tide – and why businesses buy your products and services The emotions behind how we make our personal purchasing decisions as consumers are often very well researched by those who seek to sell to us. But professional buying-decisions in industrial markets have their emotional triggers too – and they are changing. The focus of successful business-to-business sales teams has been moving rather subtly over time. Perhaps you may recognise the following sequence, of how professional selling has developed over the years? Read more...

Adventures at Buckingham Palace QED team members “meet the Queen” at Buckingham Palace and continue to demonstrate their commitment as “Supportive Employers”, positively encouraging active participation in Territorial Army Duties. Its not every day that a member of your team hands you an invitation to a Garden Party at Buckingham Palace,as part of the Centenary Celebration of the TA activities. That’s exactly what happened here at our QED offices. Emily Anderson, our Business Development Consultant, is an active member of the Territorial Army and as a thank you to her employers for the support they have demonstrated, Emily applied for tickets via competitive bidding process and was lucky enough to be successful in securing three tickets to this prestigious event. It was a “Royal Day Out” for Emily, Steve Hinton, CEO and Kathy Denton, Director as they went to London to meet the Queen! Read more...


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The Real Value of Learning and Development within the Workplace

The Turning Tide – and why businesses buy your products and services

Adventures at Buckingham Palace