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Learning from the Best: What Athletes, Musicians, and Healthcare Providers Teach Us About Workplace Training

Lessonly

In the spirit of my mom’s two nice things for every negative thing philosophy, I’ve got some thoughts on traditional workplace training. Here we go: Workplace training can be brutal. We’ve watched thoughtfully-built training empower people to be exceptional at their jobs. Turns out, training can be both informative and engaging.

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The Ultimate Guide to Sales Coaching

Highspot

From delivering winning doses of inspiration to transforming rookies into all-stars, coaches are a key component of any winning team — and not just in sports. In the scheme of sales training and sales readiness , coaching lives between sales onboarding and sales training. Why Is Sales Coaching Important?

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The One Group Missing Out On The Benefits of Sales Data

A Sales Guy

Yes, most salespeople know their number to date, their quota and how much more they have to sell, but that’s where the data train stops for most sales people and that’s a problem. My dad didn’t play sports or know much about them. So, my frame of reference was pretty remedial. When I was in H.S. I loved it.

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Five Powerful Strategies to Ensure Coaching Success

Keith Rosen

This “Broken Wing Mentality” (a focus on remedial coaching) doesn’t create an atmosphere where everyone would want to be coached. Train Your Sales Managers in Coaching. When it comes to actually training your managers in a classroom setting, consider a new hire. Here’s your chance to redeem yourself!” B coaches yield B results.

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8 More Indispensable Questions to Assess Your Leadership Coaching Skills and Impact – Part 2

Keith Rosen

That’s why the sport coach stands on the sidelines, observing what their players can’t see themselves. If so, without resetting the parameters around what great face to face and remote coaching looks and feels like, then you’ve just positioned coaching as remedial, and only for the underperformer.

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Sales Hacker Recommends: 97 Best Sales Books for Peak Performance (2020 Update)

Sales Hacker

Contrary to popular sales training, you don’t have to make presentations to everyone who will listen. Shanks has trained and advised 100’s of companies on SPEAR Selling to increase sales pipeline in all types of sales functions (inside sales, field sales, customer success, channel sales). This is more than just a book.