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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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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 3 Big Faults Sales Finds with HR

SBI Growth

We’ve seen this occur especially in Sales talent/recruiting efforts. Instead, agree to give quick compliance reviews to any pending Sales projects. More Sales complaints we’ve witnessed: Can’t engage a world-class external training program. HR doesn’t always take time to proactively partner with Sales on strategy.

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Sales Training Look into the Common Myths of Great Salespeople

Customer Centric Selling

Sales Training Article: 8 Myths of Great Salespeople. By Geoffrey James, INC - Sales Source Everything you think you know about great salespeople is probably wrong. Fact: Most top performers in sales today are better at listening than talking and are careful never to appear pushy or "hard-sell."

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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.

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Shopping for Sales Pros: Now is a Great Time to Optimize Your Team

The Brooks Group

For companies who have the resources to do so, or are bullish on their future, now is the ideal time to upgrade your sales talent in a bid to refortify for the “next normal.” . Talent assessments are a great way to gauge which employees have the skills, experiences and insights to take on more responsibility. Sales Training

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