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

Partners in Excellence

Not fertile ground for sales folk. 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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Do We Really Want Our Sales People To Be Value Creators?

Partners in Excellence

We talk about sales people as problem solvers, working with our customers to identify and help solve their problems. We are creating massive sales assembly lines optimizing the order taking process. ” Fast forward to today, research shows customers have a preference for minimizing sales involvement in their buying journeys.

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Seller Engagement, Are We Asking Ourselves The Right Questions?

Partners in Excellence

” We see people (even experts) posing questions like, “How do we reduce our dependency on field sales–or sellers of all types?” ” Others revel in the fact that customers want to minimize seller engagement, preferring digital buying. 2018 Sales Management Critical Issues, Part 1.

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Do You Have A Practice Sales Culture?

Pipeliner

When you observe a successful sales organization or salesperson, it’s easy to assume they’ve always operated at a high level of sales mastery. They open up sales conversations with ease and grace. Thoughtful and provocative sales conversations seem to happen without effort. These sales organizations make sales look easy.

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Are You “Connecting” With Your People?

Partners in Excellence

I was coaching an outstanding sales manager. ” “Just the facts… ” Some years ago, the VP of Sales Ops on my team sat down to meet with me. Afterword: The VP of Sales Ops was Betsy. Betsy’s revelation was one of the most important pieces of feedback I’ve received in my career.

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

Igniting Sales Transformation

As sales teams mount their final push to finish 2019 strong, someone in a sales enablement, marketing or sales support role is planning what has become status quo in sales. The annual sales kick off (SKO) meeting. As the term implies, a sales kick-off meeting is meant to be a sales reset.

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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.” Fear Of Failure The Courage To Be A Great Sales Leader. Recently, I wrote, “ Making It Safe To Fail, Hogwash! Related Posts: Making It Safe To Fail?