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Are You “Connecting” With Your People?

Partners in Excellence

I was coaching an outstanding sales manager. She coaches each person, having a very disciplined approach in leveraging data and how they worked. I see managers at all levels who are trying to do the right things with their people and their organizations, but somehow they aren’t connecting.

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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 coaching and developing them, helping improve their ability to be successful? Recently, I wrote, “ Making It Safe To Fail, Hogwash!

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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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Opportunity Math……

Partners in Excellence

I think, “Why do we revel in achieving our quotas and scaling goals, when we could be doing so much more?” How should we be coaching them? I’m constantly amazed as I look at performance of organizations. ” If we achieve our growth/revenue goals, we think we are doing well. We are underperforming the potential.

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

Igniting Sales Transformation

The surprising thing is that this is NOT a new revelation. Your SKO sales training establishes the foundation for better sales results, and behavior will not change after one training. A sales kick-off meeting has huge potential if done in the right way. Buyer expectations keep rising.

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

Jeffrey Gitomer

” (A [famous coach] Vince Lombardi quote.). “Revel” and “lament” are choices. Sales Management. Sales Videos. But, “You must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.” ” (A famous Zig Ziglar quote.). A quote that many claim to have said. Sound familiar?

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The “Adrenalin Rush” Of Crises

Partners in Excellence

I revel in a crisis, I’m challenged and excited about tough problems. I have to confess, I’m a bit of an Adrenalin junkie. Talking to me about a critical deal where we must do something now, energizes me. Show me a bad pipeline that we have to “fix” quickly, I roll up my sleeves and dive in.