Myles Lester

Myles Lester

Freelance business coachLondon, United Kingdom
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Myles Lester

Myles Lester

Freelance business coachLondon, United Kingdom
Work history
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    Freelance Business CoachFreelance
    Director
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    Reporting to the Chief Executive: Responsible for the print and digital advertising revenue for a contract publisher, producing show guides, catalogues and members directories across EMEA, Brazil and the UK. Tasked with a complete top down re-organisation of a failing sales function. • Rewrote job descriptions to re-align with company objectives. • Managed out poor performers then recruited new staff with language capabilities to strengthen the reach of the team. • Coached teams to achieve monthly targets in less than 3 months (for the first time in over two years) • Developed best practice Sales Academy including formal peer to peer coaching, mentoring and external training • Implemented monthly and annual appraisals based on a matrix based appraisal system designed to introduce step targets, objective feedback and coaching to improve performance • Devised and implemented formal KPI’s aligned to company objectives. • Conducted an industry wide review of remuneration and benefits and then implemented and introduced new company benefits and commission scheme • Personally mentored, coached and trained Department Managers
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Skills
  • Advertising
  • Events
  • Film
  • Marketing PR
  • Theatre
  • Office