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“Why I’m So Interested In Selling,” Charles Green

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It was a life-changing experience regarding business – but not regarding sales. The only course I saw on sales (this was back 1974-76) was about strategic selling and sales management; nothing about the personal psychology of selling, which I later came to see as critical.

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Seller Engagement, Are We Asking Ourselves The Right Questions?

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” We see people (even experts) posing questions like, “How do we reduce our dependency on field sales–or sellers of all types?” ” Others revel in the fact that customers want to minimize seller engagement, preferring digital buying. 2018 Sales Management Critical Issues, Part 1.

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Do We Really Want Our Sales People To Be Value Creators?

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In some ways, sales leaders revel in this. We nurture them until they have done much of the work, then we engage them running them through our sales assembly line of qualifying, demoing, pitching, proposing, closing. We revel in the predictability of our order taking process, seldom questioning whether we can do better.

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Are You “Connecting” With Your People?

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I was coaching an outstanding sales manager. Afterword: The VP of Sales Ops was Betsy. Betsy’s revelation was one of the most important pieces of feedback I’ve received in my career. She’s committed to her team and improving the performance of each person on the team.

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Making It Safe To Succeed

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We seem to have a culture that revels in failure–that is encouraging people to experiment, learn, innovate, and grow through “making it safe to fail.” Recently, I wrote, “ Making It Safe To Fail, Hogwash! ” It was a rant about the social psycho-babble around failure.

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Investing In The Future Of Selling

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It was a fascinating conversation about sales management and the role of managers in developing their people. Recently, Martyn Lewis and I were invited to participate in a session with Barry Erickson ‘s students at the Michael Foster School of Business at the University of Washington.

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Opportunity Math……

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I think, “Why do we revel in achieving our quotas and scaling goals, when we could be doing so much more?” I’m constantly amazed as I look at performance of organizations. ” If we achieve our growth/revenue goals, we think we are doing well. Too often, however, we could/should be doing much better.