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Study: Training and coaching help employees feel proficient

Selling Essentials RapidLearning Center

If you were asked to identify the main goal of training, you might answer, “To help employees develop and maintain proficiency.” Fortunately, there’s evidence that training does make employees feel proficient, with all the benefits that this implies. This blog entry is based on the following research study: Truitt, D.

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Partner Hiring and Training

Your Sales Management Guru

Partner Hiring and Training Lessons from Sage Summit. Non-productive partner companies often hire the best, but fall short at training their talent. If you’re attending the Sage Summit look to utilize your time to refine these points for your firm. The next piece is ongoing training. By Ken Thoreson.

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How to Avoid Coaching Failure… More Lessons from the Soccer Field

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Jason Jordan In a previous blog post , I recounted the story of a coach who shouted absolutely useless advice to a team of 12-year-old boys who were trying to win the last game in a soccer tournament. It seems that kids’ soccer games never fail to deliver fodder for blog posts, because the coach recently blurted another classic.

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Sales Tips: 4 Tips to Maximize Email ROI and Improve Business Development

Customer Centric Selling

Guest blog post provided by Sage Software. Sales Tips: 4 Tips to Maximize Email ROI and Improve Business Development.

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Do You Simplify Doing Business?

Pipeliner

One sales training quote commonly used by sales trainers is forever in my mind. You can believe that shivers went up my spine when I heard the slogan while attending my first sales training class. Putting the customer first is sage advice. Related Blog Stories: A re You Creatively Adapting To Future Business?

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What You Silently Think Contributes Heavily to What You Receive

Smooth Sale

NOTE: Irina Birnovean provides today’s guest blog, What You Silently Think Contributes Heavily to What You Receive. That sage is, in fact, your consciousness, or ‘what you silently think!’ Related Blog Stories: Do You Know Your Consumer’s Thoughts? Learn more to train teams, and join the advocacy program.

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Get the Gatekeeper on Your Side

No More Cold Calling

Learn more about the power of referral selling from some of this month’s blog posts: Forget B2C or B2B—Focus on H2H Instead. Sage advice from a sales VP I used to work under: “Joanne, never leave a meeting without giving your buyer a task. Your business might be complicated, but your customers aren’t. Are You Expecting Too Much?