Hold Your Head Up Celebrated Suiting Their 1,007th Client on February 5, 2010.
Founded in 2008 by Rachel Grady President/CEO of Hold Your Head Up mission is to help disadvantaged women become self-sufficient through a comprehensive program that begins with career attire and interview preparation and continues with professional development, financial management and personal enrichment.
Hold Your head Up enhances their clients self-esteem and self-confidence in order for them to enter and succeed in the workforce and improve the quality of their lives.
On November 23, 2009 the organization received the Durham County Government Commissioners Community Circle Award. Created by The Durham Board of County Commissioners(BOCC), is designed to recognize county departments and community organizations for the extraordinary services they provide to Durham's citizens. Hold Your Head Up has received accolades around the triangle for its ongoing effort to suit women appropriately for professional endeavors.
Women benefit from the program not only receive suits, shoes, and accessories, they receive valuable support services from Hold Your Head Up. The BOCC celebrated Hold Your Head Up for successfully suiting over 400 women in its first year of inception and for providing valuable tools to overcome employment barriers today, many more women have benefited from the unique program.
Hold Your Head Up has influenced the lives of many women of durham and surrounding areas helped these women achieve self-sufficiency and financial independence through their ongoing efforts. Michael D. Page, Chairman of the Board of Commissioners presented the award to Rachel Grady of Hold Your Head Up.
About Hold Your Head Up
The mission of Hold Your Head Up is to help disadvantaged women become self-sufficient through a comprehensive program that begins with career attire and interview preparation and continues with professional development, financial, management and personal enrichment.
Hold Your Head Up enhances their clients self-esteem and self-confidence in order for them to enter and succeed in the workforce and improve the quality of their lives.
Contact Information:
Hold Your Head Up
Rachel Grady
President/CEO
(919) 402-6984
Are You Selling Collaboratively?
Sep. 06, 2010 - (by Olalah Njenga, Columnist, Marketing Strategist & Author Marketing Strategist; and owner of YellowWood Group) Too often, our enthusiasm to simply close the sale clouds our perspective. Not only are we leaving money on the proverbial table, but we are leaving something far more important on it. Opportunity! When we sell collaboratively, we roll up our sleeves and get a little dirt under our finger nails. We ask both the finite and the broad sweeping questions. We probe. We reflect. We engage. In the end, we, as sales professionals, position ourselves as the non-expendable resource that our clients are craving. We become the catalyst of opportunity making.
Don't assume that collaborative selling is merely the evolution of consultative selling. You would be mistaken. In a consultative selling relationship, sales professionals offer value, steer dialogue and uncover issues that could impede progress. In collaborative selling, sales professionals are highly involved in the interworkings of the clients' businesses. Collaborative selling demands that we work lock-step with a variety of people within the companies were we collaborate. Selling collaboratively is not for the faint at heart. It's not for the sales professionals who are happy to close the deal. Collaborative selling is for "sales rock stars". If you don't know whether you are a sales rock star or not, you probably aren't, but that doesn't mean you can't be one . . . eventually.
If you're interested in selling collaboratively, then take note, here's 3 ways to jump start the journey.
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Sep. 06, 2010 - (by Olalah Njenga, Columnist, Marketing Strategist & Author Marketing Strategist; and owner of YellowWood Group) Too often, our enthusiasm to simply close the sale clouds our perspective. Not only are we leaving money on the proverbial table, but we are leaving something far more important on it. Opportunity! When we sell collaboratively, we roll up our sleeves and get a little dirt under our finger nails. We ask both the finite and the broad sweeping questions. We probe. We reflect. We engage. In the end, we, as sales professionals, position ourselves as the non-expendable resource that our clients are craving. We become the catalyst of opportunity making.