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Optimizing your sales training investment

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In October 2010, McKinsey & Company published an interesting white paper – Getting more from your training programs. The focus was on optimizing the results from the $100 billion that world-wide companies spend every year on performance skill training in areas ranging from performance management to sales techniques.

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Optimizing your sales training investment

Sales Training Connection

In October 2010, McKinsey & Company published an interesting white paper – Getting more from your training programs. The focus was on optimizing the results from the $100 billion that world-wide companies spend every year on performance skill training in areas ranging from performance management to sales techniques.

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Optimizing your sales training investment – the sequel

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Optimizing Sales Training Investments. Some time ago we posted an article based on an October 2010 white paper in the McKinsey Quarterly entitled – Getting More from Your Training Programs. the McKinsey authors point out – “Participants rarely leave any training program entirely prepared to put new skills into practice.”

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Feedback to millennial sales reps – more is better!

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Look at the list for the Class of 2010, and it’s easy to see how the Millennial experience differs from others in the workplace – examples: for Millennials, the Soviet Union never existed, it takes longer to make a coffee than a milkshake, and “google” has always been a verb. . ©2011 Sales Horizons, LLC .

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Medical sales – impact of hospital mergers and acquisitions on sales strategy

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In 2010, hospital mergers and acquisitions were valued at $3.8 At a strategic level what does this mean for those of us interested in sales and sales training? If you are going to sell as a team, you need to train as a team. Medical sales. Even before the health care reforms passed, there were good reasons to consolidate.

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Emerging importance of medical sales key account executives

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As reported in a recent article by the Date Decision Group there were 77 major merger and acquisitions in 2010 – a 50% increase over the 2009 level. So what does the sales training community need to think about to train KAEs? First, sales training for KAEs is not just more of the same. So, this is Sales Training 2.0. .