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“Why I’m So Interested In Selling,” Charles Green

Partners in Excellence

It was a life-changing experience regarding business – but not regarding sales. The only course I saw on sales (this was back 1974-76) was about strategic selling and sales management; nothing about the personal psychology of selling, which I later came to see as critical.

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“The Joy Of Selling…,” Have We Lost It?

Partners in Excellence

” Whether it’s bad prospecting, bad Social Channel interactions, bad selling, weak sales management, ineffective training, and so forth. I’ve written so much on where we are underperforming our potential as sales professionals, or undeserving out customers.

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Making It Safe To Succeed

Partners in Excellence

We seem to have a culture that revels in failure–that is encouraging people to experiment, learn, innovate, and grow through “making it safe to fail.” Are you giving them the resources, processes, systems, tools, training, programs, and support critical to their ability to succeed?

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Your Sales Kick-Off Meetings Are a Waste of Time!

Igniting Sales Transformation

Though the “goal” is to set the stage for sales success, SKO agendas are dominated with things that do not help salespeople be better at the craft of selling. Use your SKO time to train your sellers how to be better at selling; otherwise scrap the meeting. The surprising thing is that this is NOT a new revelation.

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20.5 Attitude Gems For You To Read And Study | Jeffrey Gitomer.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Online Training. “Revel” and “lament” are choices. Sales Management. Sales Videos. See Jeffrey Live! Hire Jeffrey. Who is Jeffrey? Attitude Gems For You To Read And Study. Gitomer | November 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment. Tweet Share Here are 20.5 Sound familiar? Your choices. Select Category.

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Decision Intelligence Selling: Transform Your Sales Team for the Future

Sales Hacker

That was extraordinary — a revelation for him and a confirmation for us. Training and practice. Several weeks after that first conversation with Mark, we were sitting in a training room with him and his senior team. He is an expert in attitude and its role in human performance and sales management. A Final Word.

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Manager, If You’re Doing Deals, You’re Not Doing Your Job

Partners in Excellence

All sales professionals revel in doing deals. But as managers, as great as that feeling is, if we are spending the majority of our time doing deals, then we aren’t doing our jobs. We do this by constantly training, teaching, and improving our people’s capabilities to perform.