TeamTALK Spring 2014 | Page 13

At that time, all new starters had to self-generate ALL leads for a period of time before they were allocated call centre appointments…. Tough going! After the big recruitment drive, we split the teams into 3 regions and each team was delivering 350 deals at the most. We were an average player in an average market. Oh how things have changed…. An experienced board of Directors with over 100 years of industry experience - Innovative and care about the company and all of us Five regions NE, NW, SE, SW & Ireland/Scotland 2 Call Centres servicing more than 60 BDMs 2 floors in Matrix house housing all the important sales support departments Partner Programme – a fully self-employed option Corporate Account Manager Head of eCommerce Head of Training and Development Dedicated Marketing Department Dedicated IT Department Electronic Application and Appointment Manager Dedicated Recruitment Team – constantly sourcing the highest quality candidates in the market for all departments Regular coaching and training A fleet of more than 70 company cars A sales team that delivers in excess of 1000 deals a month A summer conference – for the first time ever And much, much more! And all this is just the tip of the iceberg. You can get the flavour of how, over a short period of time, RMS has not just evolved and expanded, but is leading the way in the ISO market, a true force to be reckoned with. Yes we occasionally make mistakes, we are human after all, but one of the things I love about RMS is that if it makes commercial sense to change things, then we do. We are still on this mega journey of evolution and there will be many more changes to how we do things, the majority of which will serve to enhance the great job that we do in the sector we operate in. We are not the finished article and I for one am proud to be part of what has been achieved so far but more excited as the best is yet to come...