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Darren A. Smith

Darren has been working in the world of soft skills training and coaching for over 20 years. He began his career as a buyer at big 4 UK supermarket and after 13 years he decided to leave to set-up Making Business Matter (MBM) because he wanted to help people to be the very best version of themselves. Connect with Darren on Linkedin and his Google Profile.

Book Review: The Truth About Employee Engagement by Lencioni

Darren A. Smith

May 20, 2019

The Truth About Employee Engagement: About the Book ‘In a sea of generic books on employee engagement and empowerment. Lencioni…

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Revision Strategies: How to Support Your Kids Revising GCSE’s

Darren A. Smith

May 14, 2019

Revision Strategies – What’s One of Those?! I picked up Cider with Rosie and began reading. I read for 20…

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100 Category Manager Skills Tips from Expert Category Managers

Darren A. Smith

May 1, 2019

Category Manager Skills Tips Do you want to improve your Category Management skills? We are on a mission to build…

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GSCOP Written Supply Agreements: Myths, Lies, and the Truth

Darren A. Smith

April 16, 2019

Demystifying GSCOP Written Supply Agreements Do you supply one of the big 12 UK grocers? Have you a GSCOP compliant…

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The Basic Principles of Effective Communication

Darren A. Smith

February 10, 2019

How to Achieve Effective Communication We all learned different communication styles growing up. For some, communicating at work and in…

Make Learning Stick & Achieve Real Behavioural Change

Darren A. Smith

February 7, 2019

Why Do You Need to Make Learning Stick? Because otherwise, you have just wasted 8 hours of your hectic schedule…

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15 Leadership Qualities Every Great Leader Must Have

Darren A. Smith

February 7, 2019

Stand Out With These Qualities It takes more than a few weeks in front of a slideshow to transform someone…

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Human Resource Planning: Objectives & Actions

Darren A. Smith

November 26, 2018

Where to Start and How to See it Through Your business wouldn’t work without your employees. In fact, 71 per…

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Share Your Expertise as an Associate & Raise the MBM Profile

Darren A. Smith

September 18, 2018

Share Your Expertise as an Associate You have a huge amount of expertise and experience. We’d love to share it.…

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The Hare and Tortoise System for Managing the Email Overload

Darren A. Smith

September 4, 2018

Emails. Create a chain around our neck to our inbox that only seems to get harder to break. Where will…

Book Review: The Power of Purpose by Richard J. Leider

Darren A. Smith

August 27, 2018

The Power of Purpose: About the Book Richard J. Leider’s ‘The Power of Purpose’ is now on its third edition. Leider…

Book Review: The Negotiation Book by Steve Gates

Darren A. Smith

July 26, 2018

The Negotiation Book: About the Book ‘An unputdownable step-by-step guide to successful negotiations’, claimed Poitr Malita, Commercial Capability Director of…