Improving Productivity – 4 ways through sports participation

1. Maximise Your Potential
It’s no surprise that many of the most successful entrepreneurs invest in having a healthy body and mind. They know that being fit and active puts us in optimal shape to make the best possible decisions. It is through sport that we challenge ourselves to grow and develop, training ourselves to maximise our potential.

2. Explore Comfort Zones
When hiring, entrepreneurs look for employees who have taken part, and particularly excelled, in any given sport. Why? It is when we push ourselves outside of our comfort zones to overcome obstacles in the pursuit of our goals that we achieve greatness. In sport, there are regular obstacles to overcome; you might get knocked down, lose the game, experience fatigue or be caught in adverse weather conditions. Sport provides a perfect arena to practice the skills we need for business.

3. Drive, Focus, Commitment
Any sport whether undertaken as part of a team or solo requires commitment. To improve in sports, we need to apply focus and motivation to train hard. When it comes to training, consistency is key and consistency requires commitment. Who wouldn’t want a driven focused and committed person on their team? When these qualities are applied to business – the results will speak for themselves.

4. Boosts Activity
A sporty person is an active person. Someone who enjoys being active will find ways to indulge this desire by finding more to do at work. They won’t be happy with sitting still, in either the physical or the metaphorical sense. If you hire a graduate who was captain of the football team at University, he’ll be knocking on your door asking for more work.

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We hope you have found this information useful. This guest post was written by Sophie Radcliffe of Challengesophie.com . We are a leading Marketing Agency in London.

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Marketing Fundamentals Team

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How to recruit the right people –  6 Tips

1. Guest posts

As you build your following on social media through the distribution of unique content on a regular basis not only do you build traffic to your site but you also create fans of what you are doing. People will be attracted to your company or social enterprise. Use your website’s blog to invite people to write a guest post for your site. The passionate among your audience will want to and will respond.

2. Networking

When networking keep an open brief – you may meet potential customers, partners and of course suitable team members. Enter into open conversations and you will be surprised at the number of potential staff this relaxed approach will yield.

3. Customers

People who consume your products and/ or services on a regular basis could become potential staff. They already have an affinity with your company and a subset of them will be not only brand loyal but brand advocates. Through your database you will have access to them.

4. Social Media Interactions

A lot of people consume your social media output on a regular basis – for many of you this will be daily. Consider those that interact particularly on Twitter and LinkedIn (for business to business companies). This community will include people who could make great team members. Draw them out from the crowd and give them special treatment.

5. Personal Referrals

Personal referrals will come via your network and can potentially a great source of staff and uniquely they each come with the personal guarantee of the referrer.

6. LinkedIn

LinkedIn has retained its usefulness and remains a good source of potential people you could know through it’s use of personal data that you provide – more so than Facebook. It is a two way interaction and often people who are attracted to you, your company or enterprise will reach out to you.

Once you have your potential team members it’s up to you to construct an interview and recruitment process that works well your sector, business model and meets the expectations and legal requirements of the territory in which you are operational.

We hope you find these methods useful and that you are able to build a quality team. If you would like our help implementing this stealth recruitment strategy or with anything else give us a call on +44 (0) 845 2264 247 or drop us an email via mail@marketingfundamentals.com – We look forward to hearing from you.We are a leading Content Marketing agency in London.

We hope you find this information useful.

Mike Pitt
Founder & CEO
Marketing Fundamentals Ltd

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