Top 10 Purchasing Coach posts

As I reflect on the top 10 Purchasing Coach posts it comes as no surprise that the majority of them are related to looking at a challenge or situation from a different perspective.

• It's like talking to a brick wall
• Making mountains out of molehills
• How could pipe cleaners have the answer?
• Is your language stopping you from finding the solution?
• Are you going around in circles
• Why metaphors are such good tools for facilitating change 
• We make decisions of how to act towards others based on our own preferences
• The Sky is not the limit
• Are you on automatic pilot
• Will you change the buyer/supplier archetype?

Other index's of blogs cover:

• The enablers for category management
• The enablers for supplier management
• Series using unconventional tools to provide a different perspective to challenges faced by procurement
• My year in blogs - 2016
• Looking forward to 2017 and what services I can offer

Do get in touch if you'd be interested in coaching, facilitation or training, whether using unconventional tools applied to challenges you're facing, or more conventional soft/people skills training. An earlier post described the outcome from a team building day I facilitated some years ago.

I do also provide category management and supplier management training and coaching too, directly or as an associate via other procurement consultancies (and I am always open to discussions about being an associate, partner or collaborator with others too) alison@alisonsmith.eu +44 (0)7770 538159

Alison Smith

The Purchasing Coach

Unlocking procurement potential using uncoventional tools

An exploration of many of the topics I write about can be found in the Purchasing Coach Soft Skills Toolkit that brings together a series of postcards from your soft skills - it's entitled Dear Procurement, with love from your soft skills. More here.