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What Companies Don’t Know About Sales

Understanding the Sales Force

CEOs hire Sales Leaders believing they know how to do all of these things. Sales Leaders believe that asking for or bringing in outside sales experts would make them look incompetent. I can think of five reasons: Unrealistic expectations. Everyone is afraid of change and most find it difficult to change.

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The Insider’s Guide to a Sales Talent Audit

Janek Performance Group

As basketball is an apt metaphor for sales, it’s a great time to discuss a sales talent audit. After all, when the sales environment shifts, teams need to reshuffle and improve to keep up. Yesterday’s sales team might not stack up against tomorrow’s challenges. A sales talent audit is no different.

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What Type of Sales Training is Right For Your Team?

Janek Performance Group

Now the economy is growing again and you are looking to hire more sales talent for your team. The bad news is your sales managers have maxed out their bandwidth with their current responsibilities and daily activities. This leaves you with a critical decision regarding how to ramp up the new sales hires.

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Sales Skill Development vs. Sales Process Improvement – Which Is Right For Your Business?

Janek Performance Group

Organizations were forced to change their sales process to accommodate their prospect’s new buying journey or suffer the consequences. Traditional sales organizations with outside sales reps had to quickly pivot to new virtual processes. The new sales process required the salespeople to learn new skill sets.