3/28/2023 9:06:29 AM 'Why A Fool With A Tool Is Still a Fool' By Stephen Sumner A lot of 'future change makers' (maybe you) are now in the workplace. These are the guys and girls who know nothing other than a digital...
2/28/2023 2:52:06 PM Teams That Are Great At A 'Retail Warm Up' Do This. By Stephen Sumner What’s a ‘Retail Warm Up'? The answer is; When consumers choose one channel to get warmed up over a brand and go on to make a purchase...
2/28/2023 2:40:52 PM One Of The Hardest-to-find Items In Retail Right Now Is a Chief Executive. By Stephen Sumner What do Tomatoes, Peppers, and Cucumbers have in common? One of the hardest-to-find items in retail right now is a chief executive. It's...
12/21/2022 12:12:09 PM 3 Key Tips To Consistently Win More Business Or Get That Next Job. By Stephen Sumner Ever seen those post on LinkedIn that start with 'I don't normally post on here but'? These tend to be from what I call 'passive' not...
12/14/2022 10:31:55 AM How To Transform Your Customer Relationships In 2023. By Stephen Sumner I'm constantly amazed at people who are talented marketeers, who when they arrive at work forget to think about why they are on social...
12/14/2022 10:21:21 AM Why Your CEO Could Be Letting The Brand Down & What They Can Do About It. By Stephen Sumner A study by the Edelman Trust Barometer found that 67% of consumers trust “company technical experts,” while only 43% trust CEOs. We see...
11/28/2022 4:33:39 PM What matters most? Holding onto an old-fashioned idea and hoping you are right or the success of your company? By Digital Leadership Associates Every week we meet management teams from across sectors and across the globe. Every single one of them tell us that they have great...
11/28/2022 4:12:16 PM Lessons learned from training and coaching clients in Social Selling & Influence over the last 3 years… By Digital Leadership Associates I started out professional life in Electrical engineering. I worked in Offshore Drilling for 16 years and then moved into Health, Safety...
10/31/2022 12:21:57 PM How The Simple 'Word Cloud' Can Become Your Superpower. By Stephen Sumner If you were sat in a bar, or coffee shop after you had a meeting with a potential new client (go with me) and they entered said...
10/25/2022 9:38:25 AM "I don’t want to post personal content on Social Media…" By Digital Leadership Associates I don’t want to post personal content on Social Media… We hear this a lot, but it’s a distraction and you’ve missed the point. An...
10/19/2022 9:44:43 AM Why Is Big Retail Is Losing Out to Small Retail? By Stephen Sumner What do retail multiples do? - they buy other failed multiples, add them to the offer and then lose the brand connection and relevance to...
6/27/2022 2:21:15 PM How to cut through the online noise in your sector and why it will change your business for the better... By Digital Leadership Associates One of the most important and powerful documents I read last year came out in September and it’s been within arm’s reach ever since. I’ve...
5/3/2022 10:03:06 AM Vulnerability In Leadership - Do You Show It? By Stephen Sumner Times have been tough in several sectors over the past few years and retail is without doubt one of them. Covid, Brexit, continual rise...
4/25/2022 9:42:54 AM Questions from the client base #8: "Does digital transformation really apply to us..?" By Digital Leadership Associates What is digital transformation? Marc Benioff, Chairman and co-CEO of Salesforce came up with a good definition…(link to article below)...
4/12/2022 11:24:09 AM 3 Key Things To Look For When Hiring a CEO or CMO. By Stephen Sumner When we look back and ask the pre-Covid19 question about business transformation I think it will be safe to say that it was the virus...
3/28/2022 1:38:49 PM Today Brand Preferences Are Built Online - Yesterday It Was via TV Or Intrusive Advertising. By Stephen Sumner In my opinion far too many companies spend too much time trying to 'revive the dead' instead of 'giving birth' to new opportunities -...