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Four Career Lessons from Climbing Mt. Everest

Highspot

Since returning from Everest, I’ve thought about lessons I learned from the mountain and how they relate to my career. One night I watched the film Everest. And so, I scribbled down the goal that I knew would transform my life: Climb Everest. Everyone arrives at Everest base camp with a vision of themselves on the summit.

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Do You Embrace These Qualities To Move Past Tough Times

Smooth Sale

Re-strategizing, motivation to continue, and believing you can be successful all lend a helping hand. The learning curve was seemingly more treacherous to me than climbing Mount Everest. A sporting event can be motivating upon seeing athletes doing whatever it takes to make their goals. Motivate yourself to continue.

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How to Use Experiences to Motivate and Unite Your Sales Team

Sales and Marketing Management

To motivate and unite your sales team, you must create lasting, memorable and influential experiences that encourage them to believe in the goals you set before them. Motivating Sales Staff With Face-to-Face Experiences. The CEO needed help motivating salespeople to do their best. They felt heard, led and inspired.

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The Magic of Intrinsic Motivation with Brian Remington {Hey Salespeople Podcast}

SalesLoft

How do you motivate sales professionals so that their drive doesn’t need to be continually fed? Jeremey : Let’s use that to transition into specifically how those concepts apply to motivating early career sales professionals. No one summits Everest because they had nothing to do on a Sunday.

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A Blueprint for Creating a Sales Dynasty

Xvoyant

The more common or more opportunity a rep has to conduct the key activities, the more often the leader should have 1:1 coaching sessions. Be sure every member of your sales team knows the 1:1 is a strategic planning opportunity and one you will be prepared to help accelerate their progress. Coaching is never about motivating.

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5 Selling Lessons From the Saddle

SBI

I was with another 700 people, ready to cover 980 miles, a lot of hills (like cycling up Everest twice), and camping every night for 9 days. The key lesson for sales is this – have a clear objective for an account (to advance) or opportunity (to win, or lose early). I was confident that I was ready. Sales is tough too.

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Jonathan Farrington's Blog ? Truly Successful People Continually.

Jonathan Farrington

I felt a little like Sir Edmund Hilary when he was about to become the first man to conquer Mount Everest: Lots of people could describe the mountain right up to a level below the summit, but none of them were able to offer any advice about succeeding on that final stage. 5 responses so far.

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