Barbara Esmedina has kindly offered to let us share some behind-the-scenes results from her Proposals & BD Professionals survey, which I mentioned here last week. (Do spend a few minutes completing the survey, if you get a few spare moments!)

I’m fascinated by some of the answers that have come in so far to the question “Do you have a pet peeve?”. Here are my favourites so far – some that provoke anguished grimaces of recognition, others that just made me smile:

“People holding on to RFPs for days before sending through to RFP team to work on them.”

“Folks who don’t read :-) ”

“Sales reps that don’t read the finished product.”

“A resume that claims excellent communications skills and reads as if written by a third grader.”

“People who are: late, disinterested, lazy, unethical, immoral, social climbers, corporate ladder climbers and way more interested in themselves than you.”

“People who don’t SPELLCHICK ;-) ”

“I don’t believe peeves should be kept as pets.” (!!!!!!)

We’ll be posting more of the survey’s conclusions as people continue to contribute over the coming weeks.