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APRIL 22, 2013

Sales Training Coaching Tip: Training is learning a new skill; development is deepening that skill. If you want great sales managers instead of poor sales managers, then invest the time to train them to learn the necessary new skills such as delegation, realistic goal setting for others , etc. Share on Facebook.

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OCTOBER 30, 2013

Can we have a forthright conversation that the business world has changed and specifically the most pressing sales training dilemma? ” Sales Training Coaching Tip: People buy on emotions (feel) first then justified their buying decision with logic. Sales Training Marketing sales leads sales practices sales process SMB'

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MAY 2, 2012

The majority of sales training can either be categorized as one of two approaches: Anvil. When sales training is examined, much of it is more anvil in construction than ladder. Yesterday I received a survey from a national training association seeking my input on sales training certification. Think about an anvil.

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AUGUST 5, 2013

Years gone by, sales training was provided by small businesses (under 500 employees) be it through human resources or recognized sales training coaching consultants. Sales training is still needed. With information doubling at the speed of light, sales training is now becoming the responsibility of each salesperson.

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JANUARY 8, 2013

If sales is the transference of emotions and many emotions are transferred through sight, sound and sense, then how many sales training coaching programs focuses on the senses of human beings? Sales Training Coaching Tip: Knowledge of the DISC tool supports the power of observation. Technical sales skills are essential.

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JUNE 13, 2012

A recent rerun of the movie the Good, the Bad and the Ugly reminded me of why sales training works or does not work. In many cases, sales training is more bad and ugly than good being sustainable and delivering the desired results. Sales training coaching does not happen in a vacuum. Diagnostic.

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JULY 5, 2013

During lunch a Vice President of a regional bank asked me this very pointed question: Why doesn’t sales training for banks stick? My quick and direct response was “banks and other financial institutions continue to use the same training providers they have been using for the last 20 plus years.”

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MAY 21, 2012

Years ago when earning my first degree in education and then later my Masters of Science in Instructional Design (thank you Purdue University ) I was exposed to Edgar Dale’s Learning Model and today when reading another blog about assumptions realized the prevalence of assumptions in sales training coaching as well. 10% of what we read.

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OCTOBER 24, 2012

Recently I spoke with a potential client who shared with me in had invested $80,000 in sales training over the course of three (3) years. Further discussion revealed this expensive sales training focused on technical sales skills and failed to address the people side of selling or people skills. It did not increase sales.

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MAY 20, 2016

Today I received another email about the 7 sales skills that can be taught through sales training. We train dogs; we develop people! As I reviewed these 7 sales skills each of them is not an issue of acquiring knowledge as in training, but rather the unaddressed issue of performance, the application of knowledge.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Some of the more forward thinking business leaders continually seek small business sales training to improve their business results. And very few small business sales training programs, seminars, webinars, workshops focus on effective marketing less alone the purpose of marketing that being to: Attract Attention.

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APRIL 5, 2013

Is it just me or are there a plethora of individual or business leadership training programs that now have an adjective or some other description in front of the word leadership? Is the real issue someone wanting to sell another self improvement book or business leadership training program? Transformational leadership.

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JUNE 14, 2012

Just imagine what would happen if a sales training program had a session entitled “The Sounds of Sales Silence?” Maybe if just as much time was devoted to understanding and leveraging sales silence as it was to training of sales questions as part of all those necessary sales skills what would be the results?

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MAY 19, 2015

Sales training today covers a plethora of sales styles or models. I know this to be true when speaking to my clients and sales leads who tell me they can tell what type of sales training the salespeople have experienced by the questions they ask. How many times is the focus on the sales training model or process?

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JUNE 28, 2012

Have you recently attended many of the published sales training workshops, seminars or read some of the published books on sales training coaching? In other words, the majority of sales training objectives are based upon just 2% of the business population. Credit www.sxc.hu. A colleague, Don F.

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APRIL 11, 2016

Sales experts promote their books to their sales training programs all promising a quicker, faster way to increase sales. The real problem with the new normal within many of the sales training programs is the natural style of the salesperson is ignored or even destroyed. ” Want sales training that sticks?

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MAY 6, 2016

Yesterday in speaking with an executive coaching client, he mentioned how his firm was looking into a leadership training program, I suggested to him sustainable leadership happens through a developmental process not through a training program. Employees attend mandated diversity training on a regular schedule. Let me explain.

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AUGUST 9, 2012

Look at the learning objectives for most sales training coaching programs and you might find these sales skills: Sales Negotiations. How many times have you read about writing being a necessary sales skill in any sales training coaching seminar or educational experience? Credit www.sxc.hu. Prospecting. Overcoming stalls and objections.

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DECEMBER 10, 2012

Hmm, I just received another webinar email on sales training offered by some experts. I am continually amazed of all the sales training or sales coaching being offered that avoids the personal aspect of each salesperson. Yet, nothing, zero, zilch on the personal aspects of each salesperson.

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DECEMBER 18, 2015

Implementing sales training even for the smallest B2B firms is expensive. These are the first two rails in any sales training program or even executive coaching. Workplace culture contributes to the return on investment of sales training or lack thereof. Yet the third rail in any learning engagement is often ignored.

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MAY 5, 2015

Having a background in small business sales, when I ever received sales training it was an unexpected treat. Now engaged with both individual salespeople as well as teams of salespeople, I have experienced the reality of I don’t want training attitude. Zig Ziglar said “attitudes are habits of thought.”

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APRIL 20, 2016

At least once or twice monthly, I receive catalogs from organizations that deliver very expensive two to three day off site leadership and sales training. The problem with these off site leadership and sales training events is they fail to leverage the HOW and WHY behind learning engagement. Want sales training that hits the mark?

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APRIL 21, 2015

Is it just me or does most of the sales training appear to identify what makes the perfect, almost robotic top sales performer who never makes a mistake? Don’t you wish as a small business owner or sales manager if you could quickly train your sales people to be the perfect android? Wouldn’t that be nice? Share on Facebook.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Having experienced numerous sales training programs in my previous life, not one of them really explored positive attitude in the learning engagement. Unfortunately, many sales training programs do not recognize this linkage and only further the disconnect. Attitude Is the Answer to Better Sales Training. The Disconnect.

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MARCH 5, 2016

Yet in reviewing a recent catalog with a plethora of leadership and sales training opportunities, the word practice is missing. After 2 weeks if we never revisit what we learned from our leadership and sales training, our long term memory retention (learning) is down to under 5%. Practice makes perfect or so we are told.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Today I encourage you to review your most recent sales training and identify where self-leadership development was present? Sales training needs to evolve beyond what worked for the Fortune 500 firms and now must work for the smaller businesses. Possibly you may be somewhat confused by the term self-leadership. The results were dismal.

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JULY 16, 2015

This morning I just received an email request from an almost complete stranger who asked my feedback on a 41 page book on all one needs to know about sales training. What is missing in the majority of sales training is this one word – leadership. Credit www.gratisography.com.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2013

How many times do sales people in their effort to showcase their latest sales training end up tripping over their own two feet or rushing in without predetermined thought? The majority of sales training is based upon the minority of businesses where qualified sales leads are the starting point. Developing a powerful LinkedIn profile ?

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FEBRUARY 10, 2015

“We need some sales training” is heard quite often by small business owners to regional sales managers to even independent sales representatives. And in most instances, what is really wanted is effective sales training, not just any training solution. Leanne can be reached at 219.508.2859 central time USA.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Most sales training and much of the sales coaching focuses on how to improve sales skills. To reach that next level of sales success may require going beyond current, almost cookie cutter, robotic sales training. Yes sales training is important as is understanding marketing in today’s social selling world.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2013

If being successful as a salesperson is all about having someone buy your solution, then most sales training really is buying training isn’t it? Now there are some efforts in the sales training industry that discuss being an assistant to the buyer. Yet the focus is still on the salesperson first and the buyer second.

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MARCH 2, 2016

This Learning Model has unfortunately expanded its roots into leadership and sales training. On a regular basis I receive catalogs from various leadership and sales training companies including associations that offer half day to two day learning engagements to even on-line learning. Credit www.picjumbo.com. Liked what you read?

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JUNE 1, 2015

Even mid-size to small businesses can locate good sales training that meets their needs. Realizing training must be a continuum with development and then coaching the next steps. Investing time to find the right person such as a sales coach, business coach or sales training consultant. Training Is a Continuum.

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JANUARY 20, 2015

The sales training contract you are about ready to sign has met all of your requirements. What specific deliverables will the sales training coach, consultant or firm commit to delivering to you? Sometimes, this item is what differentiates sales training solutions. How will the sales training’s effectiveness be measured?

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MAY 30, 2015

The absence of sales training is directly and firmly placed at the feet of leadership. When leaders fail to train and develop their people especially their sales team, then only they can be held for the lack of results. The usual reason for not providing any sales training is money. How many times have I heard that?

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MAY 29, 2015

Sales training, rather good sales training (results driven), is the mechanism to reduce and eventually eliminate these inconsistencies. Since businesses are dynamic with changes in people and process, sales training must be an ongoing solution. The Inconsistency of Productivity. The Inconsistency of Progress.

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APRIL 7, 2015

In the US, sales training is big, buck business. Yet as Rain Group and others have also shared, up to 90% of all sales training fails. I continue to sit back in amazement because the real reason behind “I want sales training” is ignored. Annually $3.4 Learning objectives that have not been updated in 5 to 25 years.

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