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To boost performance, focus on the positive

Selling Essentials RapidLearning Center

Those positives can have a big effect on an organization’s bottom line. Positive organizational scholarship. Positive psychology in practice. The post To boost performance, focus on the positive appeared first on Rapid Learning. Doing what they do best. times more productive and 1.4 Linley, P. and Joseph, S.

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Three Recent Hurricanes Show the Path to More Effective Selling

Understanding the Sales Force

This past week, Hurricane Lee roared into Nova Scotia, becoming the first such storm to do so since 2003, although at the time it made landfall, Lee had been downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone. Three of this year’s (2023) Hurricanes took unusual paths for hurricanes.

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Best time to ask for a referral? Listen for warm words from your buyer

Selling Essentials RapidLearning Center

However, in another test the researchers asked customers to appraise the overall relationship using specific positive or negative words. When customers rated the relationship positively – using terms like “good,” “happy,” or “excellent” – they had a strong inclination to provide referrals to the salesperson.

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Top 10 Sales Coaching Quotes

Steven Rosen

Regardless of where your salespeople lie on the spectrum, it is your duty as a sales coach to offer constructive criticism and advice in a manner t hat compels the people you’re coaching to positive action and self-betterment. “If Trust is the foundation of any productive relationship.

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How to Build Your Social Brand

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Building a positive brand in the B2B world is the first step toward the idea of a virtual pipeline where content and ideas convert into prospects and ultimately, clients. I started blogging with a Typepad account in October of 2003. LinkedIn was new in 2003 and I put my profile on LinkedIn in October. I corrected that misstep.

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LinkedIn Celebrates 10 Years with Big Enhancements

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I opened my LinkedIn account on October 3, 2003. I’m an early adopter because I had moved 3000 miles and didn’t want to lose connections with the great friends I made at CCBN (my last corporate employer) so I reached out to hundreds of my former co-workers in 2003 to connect via LinkedIn. It is professional.

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The Promotion Gap for Women: Yes, It Still Exists

Zoominfo

Although some companies do well elevating women to leadership positions—particularly in certain industries or at businesses of a certain size—new data from ZoomInfo suggest that the rate at which females are promoted to management and executive levels still pales in comparison to their male counterparts. the Denver Post reported at the time.

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