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How leaders can deal with checkmate
Checkmate: When It’s Game Over and You as a Leader Need to Pick Up the Pieces In chess, “checkmate” signals the end of the game.
2 November 2024
Checkmate: When It’s Game Over and You as a Leader Need to Pick Up the Pieces In chess, “checkmate” signals the end of the game.
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Yoke has 10 years consultative sales experience working for Oxford Publishers, Pearson and Entrepreneur magazine. Additionally, she trained national sales team for Auto Trader, Commercial Trader, Auto Fuzion, Bikes and Corporate Sales. She developed team-building and staff dynamics workshops for Auto Trader and various companies. With her passion she founded Y-Connect in 2017.
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