Are your initiatives for improving performance treating the symptoms or the cause? Your answer may mean the difference between success and failure of the initiative and maybe your company. Let me explain. A few weeks ago I developed knee pain and went to my orthopedic doctor. After an MRI and some X rays he told …
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In today’s demanding marketplace sales managers must have strategies for increasing sales and developing people. Besides enhancing relationships with customers making calls is the best opportunity to do both. This article outlines strategies for making three different sales calls that will drive sales and develop your people. They are: • Training • Joint • Coaching Each has …
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Many sales executive wonder why sales training fails to get results. Unfortunately, many sales managers and trainers spend time and effort doing sales training that never deliver bottom line results. We’ll explore the twelve most common reasons why sales training fails and what to do to avoid them. The twelve reasons are: 1. No support. …
To be a successful sales manager and increase sales you must learn how to effectively perform curbside coaching. Every sales call presents “lessons to be learned”. Salespeople who learn these lessons best develop their capabilities and improve their performance. Those who don’t or can’t learn the lessons find themselves doomed to mediocrity or failure. Your …
Improving sales performance is an ongoing challenge for sales executives and business owners. One tool available for accomplishing this goal is sales training. Sales training is an option if you need to change salespeople’s behavior or improve their skills. Ultimately, sales training must produce good performance to be worth the time and resources it takes …