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IBM Study Cites 4 Key Traits of the New Midmarket Sales Professional

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Employees, including sales professionals and sales leaders in midmarket companies will need to have four main traits to be competitive in the workforce according to the 2012 IBM Global CEO Study. The study was published today with 226 midmarket companies participating – we are just focusing on the midmarket CEOs for this post.

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Time management training: An idea whose time has come and gone?

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Planning on offering time management training to your employees anytime soon? According to two research studies, time management training — as useful as it may sound — doesn’t have much effect on employee performance. The training group experienced no improvement in a series of performance indicators.

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Mindfulness training: Now there’s an app for that

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In the workplace, studies show that employees can reduce their stress, lower their blood pressure, enhance their memory, cultivate empathy with others, improve their performance and raise their engagement level through mindfulness training. It’s no secret that mindfulness is good for you. Guided, short meditation sessions.

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10 Sales training ideas that increase team readiness

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Reps need to know A LOT to be at their best in front of buyers, but has your sales training strategy kept up with the times? Many organizations’ sales training has grown stale by relying on old-school tactics, like on-site boot camps and long-winded presentations, causing information overload for new reps.

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Study: What outcomes can you expect from workplace coaching?

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Coaching in the workplace has been the subject of a variety of studies across multiple real-world occupations. A recent research paper has collected and analyzed the findings of multiple studies to answer those questions. It collected findings from 17 different studies comprising over 1,700 subjects. The research. The takeaway.

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The Office As a Recruitment Tool

Sales and Marketing Management

The Wall Street Journal reports that Skift Inc., It used to be an obligation, where you had to get up, put on a bad tie, get on a train and go to work. Studies show that people who predominantly work from home are promoted less, says Nicholas Bloom, an economics professor at Stanford University. Webb told Monster.com.

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How the ‘protégé effect’ can boost employee learning

Selling Essentials RapidLearning Center

If you train rank-and-file employees to train others, you not only multiply your effectiveness, you improve the breadth and depth of the trainers’ own skills and knowledge. In one of these studies , students were randomly assigned to learn complex math problems. Unsurprisingly, they also did better at solving them.

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