8 Incredible Communication Tools To Strengthen Your Customer Relationships

This is a contributed post to JMLalonde.com. For more information on contributing a post, please see our contributing policies.

Customer communication is so important these days because consumers want an increasingly personalized experience when they deal with a business. They don’t just want to buy a product, they want to open a dialogue and create a relationship with your business. Forging those strong relationships is the key to creating loyal customers that come back time and time again. 

Unfortunately, a lot of businesses don’t really know how to improve communication with customers and they fail to build any kind of relationship with them beyond the point of purchase. The good news is, there are so many great tools available that can help businesses. These are the best tools for improving customer communication. 

Quotes And Leadership Lessons From The Peanut Butter Falcon

A Reel Leadership Article

I missed one of the best movies of 2019. My guess is you probably did as well.

This movie flew under the radar. There wasn’t a lot of hype or advertising for it. However, the movie was stunning in its beauty and portrayals.

That movie is The Peanut Butter Falcon.

The Peanut Butter Falcon follows 22-year old Zak (Zack Gottsagen). Zak has Down Syndrome and has been placed in the Bethanyven Nursing Home. He’s frustrated and knows he doesn’t belong there. He plans and executes a breakout so he can attend Salt Water Redneck’s (Thomas Haden Church) wrestling school.

Along the way, he meets low-life Tyler (Shia LeBeouf). Zak’s nurse, Eleanor (Dakota Johnson), soon finds them and joins their cause.

Shia LeBeouf, Dakota Johnson, and Zack Gottsagen walking along a beach in The Peanut Butter Falcon

They eventually discover Salt Water Redneck’s school. It wasn’t what they expected. Yet Zak got to have his day in the ring.

How To Lead Upward

If you’re leading in an organization, there’s a good chance you’re not the top dog. Even then, you still have someone to answer to. This is why every leader needs to know how to lead upward.

Leading upward is all about helping your boss or leader become better. They play a part in your development. You can play a part in theirs.

Man standing on yellow line in road

Photo by Komal Brar

Leading upward can be difficult. Scary even. It’s hard to look at your leader and think of ways to lead them.

The good news is that you can lead your leaders. The way you lead others looks different than the way they lead you or the way you may lead others.

How To Lead Upward

John Maxwell suggests you lead upward by becoming a go-to player. To become a go-to player, you need to perform your tasks with excellence and integrity. You have to be a person your leader wants to go to when he needs someone to step in during his absence.

Tips To Help Make Moving Business Premises Easier

This is a contributed article. See our Guest Posting guidelines to learn more about contributed content.

Moving to new business premises can be a little daunting, to say the least. You may have grown a lot since your last move, and so there’s likely to be plenty of logistics that need working out. With that being said, here are some tips to help make moving business premises easier on yourself.

Organize It Via Departments

When it comes to organizing the move itself, it’s worth breaking it down into departments. Each department in the business then has the responsibility of coordinating the removal and packing of their area. While liaising with the building manager, this can be a great way of spreading out the workload that you’re likely to get when moving from one office to the other. It also gives those in management positions, the time to prove themselves, and to help the organization when they need it the most. By grouping your departments off, it’s going to help keep everyone in their specific stations, and that way, you’ve not got a load of employees all over the place trying to pack up different things and constantly asking if they are needed. Creating a plan for the move is important, and this can certainly help.

Lead With A Positive Attitude

When you think of yourself, do you think of yourself as a positive leader? Or do you relate more to Eeyore from Winnie The Pooh?

Eeyore is a lovable but pessimistic and gloomy friend of Winnie The Pooh.

Nothing seems to go right for him. He’s always seeing the downside of life. And, his thought-life continues to bring himself and those around him down, down, down.

Woman sitting on a rock looking at the mountains

Photo by Denys Neoczhai

You might hear Eeyore say:

But Pooh… the Hundred Acre Woods are always changing. I just can’t keep up. Huff…

Eeyore brings negativity to everything. Even the beauty of nature. He can’t seem to break out of the funk.

Sadly, many leaders are like Eeyore. They bring a constant sense of negativity to their office and their team.