Business
Greg Jacobson shares his ‘Secrets to Creating an Outstanding Client Experience’
Leading and globally acclaimed corporate trainer Greg Jacobson inspired business leaders with how to create better mindsets, positively transform businesses, and turning customers into lifelong loyal clients by establishing meaningful relationships at an exclusive event in Colombo.
“It is not just about selling a product or services but putting in the effort to make clients feel listened to, cared for, and important.” Jacobson said addressing the audience. He explained that the foundation for successful relationships is mutual trust, mutual respect, shared values, and common interests.
Greg Jacobson is the world’s leading quality of life strategist. This is achieved by focusing on emotional fitness and meaningful relationship-building. He has been personally mentored by Jack Canfield, Les Brown, Brian Tracy, Keith Cunningham, Jay Abraham, Tony Robbins, and many others. With years of experience as a mentor, consultant and speaker, Greg has taught hundreds of organizations and high-performing individuals to become better team players and achieve their objectives faster.
He has been featured on Fox Business, CNN, Bloomberg Business, and a myriad of other top news programs for his ability to produce stellar results for dozens of industries and several hundred clients including global business giants such as Marriott International, Sotheby’s, Andaz, the Ritz-Carlton, and Amazon.
Business leaders got an opportunity to learn how to create a culture where not just clients, but everyone from the front line workers to the C-suite executives feel totally cared for and special. “The frontline employees are the first point of contact with your clients, if you do not treat them well, they can very easily put your customers off. Always look for opportunities to prop people up and not to knock them down,” he said.
He emphasized the importance of empowering employees while focusing on client retention, not just top down but from bottom up.
Jacobson also shared tips on how to always receive nothing less than stellar 5-star reviews from every client, practices to immediately improve morale, and proven action strategies and systems that will greatly increase any company’s bottom line.
“Listening intently means, I intend to take what you said and act on it. This does not necessarily mean to be a problem solver but a solution provider. Also, listening intently helps to provide a highly personalized service, specific to each client,” he said are important elements for providing outstanding service. “Start by changing the way you think. Everything we do is based on what we believe and how we feel. Therefore it is important to train our brain to work for us and be comfortable with being uncomfortable, rather than being controlled by automatic thinking,” he said.
The programme was organized by Success Zante (Pvt) Ltd, a leading training and self-development event organizer in offering career, personality, and leadership training by international world renowned trainers and speakers such as Tony Robbins, Rajiv Talreja, Robert Kiyosaki, T. Harv Eker, Nas Daily, John De Martini, Indika Ramachandra and of course Greg Jacobson, and many others who are some of the best available anywhere.
“Greg Jacobson is a happiness and quality of life strategist.” Said Shuvo Hridayesh, CEO of Success Zante. “We believe in making a positive impact through world class teachings and take pride in providing opportunities where Sri Lanka can experience a global mentor such as Greg Jacobson, the international bestselling author of the book ‘Think Yourself Happy’.
“The feedback received was spectacular and everyone who participated received instantly-actionable skills and extremely useful insights on how to create opportunities for memorable and meaningful experiences that help to develop deeper relationships with both their clients as well as their team,” Hridayesh said.
Success Zante is all set to repeat the programme hosted by Greg Jacobson, on 30th of March 2022 at Jaic Hilton, due to popular demand. It is also a great opportunity for anyone who missed the initial programme and is interested in finding out the ‘Secrets to Creating an Outstanding Client Experience.’
Business
Ceylinco Life agent among three global finalists for award
Ceylinco Life’s Ambalantota branch agent AIP Manjula has been named one of three global finalists for the prestigious Insurance Agent of the Year award at the 11th Asia Trusted Life Agents & Advisers Awards (ATLAA) 2026.
The recognition places a Sri Lankan insurance professional among the finalists in a regional field spanning South Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia and the wider Asia-Pacific region.
Ceylinco Life said the achievement reflected the calibre and customer-focused approach of its agency force, while recognising Manjula’s professionalism and commitment to policyholders.
The award evaluates insurance agents on criteria extending beyond sales performance, including ethical conduct, client service, policy persistency, digital adoption, innovative practices and contributions to the insurance industry and community.
The awards are organised by Asia Advisers Network and Asia Insurance Review, with LIMRA as co-organiser. An independent judging and balloting process is monitored by KPMG as the official scrutineer. The judging panel comprises senior insurance executives, association presidents and industry experts from across the Asia-Pacific region.
Business
CEAT Kelani retains AA+ rating for sixth year
CEAT Kelani Holdings (CKH) has retained its National Long-Term Rating of ‘AA+(lka)’ with a Stable Outlook from Fitch Ratings for the sixth consecutive year, reflecting the company’s financial resilience and leading position in Sri Lanka’s pneumatic tyre market.
The ‘AA+(lka)’ rating, the second-highest on Fitch’s national scale, indicates a very strong capacity to meet financial commitments.
Fitch said CKH’s established market leadership and resilient financial profile remained key strengths, while noting its exposure to price-sensitive, cyclical and highly competitive markets.
The Stable Outlook reflects expectations that the company will maintain its market position despite rising input costs and increasing competition from imported tyres, while preserving adequate credit metrics during periods of weaker earnings and higher investment.
Fitch expects CKH’s established brand, extensive dealer network and adaptive pricing strategies to support its market position. Planned production facility upgrades are also expected to improve product quality, particularly in the radial tyre segment.
The rating agency expects near-term pressure on margins from higher raw material and energy costs but said the company’s low leverage and sound liquidity would provide a cushion.
CKH Chairman Chanaka De Silva said the rating reinforced the company’s focus on disciplined financial management, operational adaptability and long-term investment.
Business
SLT-MOBITEL Enterprise launches Premium Cloud
SLT-MOBITEL Enterprise, the enterprise services arm of Sri Lanka Telecom PLC, has launched its Premium Cloud service powered by Nutanix, aimed at helping Sri Lankan businesses modernise their IT infrastructure and accelerate digital transformation.
The service was unveiled at the Lanka Tech Summit 2026 held recently at ITC Ratnadipa, Colombo.
The Premium Cloud combines hybrid multi-cloud capabilities with enterprise-grade performance, enabling businesses to run mission-critical workloads, scale cloud deployments and strengthen business continuity through disaster recovery capabilities.
Hosted on SLT-MOBITEL’s Tier III data centre infrastructure, the platform is designed to provide enhanced security, reliability and flexibility while supporting the growing technology requirements of enterprises.
SLT-MOBITEL Enterprise said the platform would also support organisations seeking to adopt AI-ready capabilities and improve the management and performance of IT workloads.
A key feature of the launch was SLT-MOBITEL Enterprise joining the Nutanix Elevate Service Provider Program (NESPP), which the company said made it the first service provider in the region to join the programme.
Powered by Nutanix’s hybrid multicloud platform, the service enables application and data mobility across on-premises environments, public clouds and edge locations.
The company said the partnership combined Nutanix’s cloud technology with SLT-MOBITEL’s local expertise and support, strengthening its multi-cloud portfolio.
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