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How Companies Choose Sales Training Companies is Backwards

Understanding the Sales Force

Do you partake of dessert prior to eating your appetizer? Do you eat your dinner in the morning and have breakfast at night? Would you prefer to have the builder complete the finish work on your new house prior to framing it and installing the roof? Would you back your car out of the garage before opening the garage door?

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Companies Surprised by Unexpected Remote Selling Challenges

Understanding the Sales Force

For most salespeople and companies, the last three weeks has been an absolute roller coaster. Most companies expect their sales teams to be not only active, but proactive; to replace face-to-face meetings with virtual meetings; and to continue pipeline building so that there is business to close when we return to work.

Company 367
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The One Thing the Best Customer Experience Companies Do Differently

Sales and Marketing Management

The way to tell which companies are the pretenders and which are legit is by asking just one simple question: “Who is in charge of your company’s customer experience?” The majority of companies don’t have anyone who owns their customer experience or who loses sleep at night over how the company is treating customers.

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Why Sales Transformation Achieves Better Results Than Sales Training Alone

Understanding the Sales Force

You brought in sales training but it didn't achieve the expected change because the training didn't address the bigger problems that went beyond selling skills. You may not have realized that companies really need sales transformation and while sales training can be part of that transformation, on its own, it usually underperforms.

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Beyond the Basics: How to Develop and Retain a Top-Performing Sales Team

Speaker: Brendan Sweeney, VP of Sales at Allego

📈 Traditional sales training methods focus heavily on the first few weeks in the sales role. You will also learn: New ways to modernize your traditional sales training approach 🚀 How to embed personalized ongoing coaching and development with ease 🎯 The impact of AI on motivating your sales team 🌐 and more!

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Unleashing AI in a 124-Year-Old Company

Steven Rosen

By addressing objections, providing training and support, and showcasing success stories, sales leaders can help their teams embrace AI and leverage its benefits. This level of transparency and efficiency impresses customers and strengthens their loyalty to the company.

Company 296
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Should Your Company Hire a Fractional Sales Manager?

Anthony Cole Training

Many companies are struggling with finding talent in today’s environment, and it is particularly difficult to find top-notch sales management talent. Unfortunately, most sales managers have no formal training in leadership, management and coaching skills, so how do you find the right person? The list of responsibilities is long.

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[Live Webinar] Creating Delightful Customer Education Programs that Drive Business Outcomes

Speaker: Daniel Quick, Head of Customer Education, Asana

Every day, customers are faced with a multitude of different, often competing, priorities and your training program is no exception. Therefore, it’s critical that both your content and your learning experience are highly engaging, especially when training is voluntary, as it often is for customers. Register now to reserve your spot!

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Essential Guide to Sales Engagement – Overcome the Challenges of Remote Selling

Sales teams are trying to prospect, connect, and manage an effective sales cycle, yet many companies are falling short of hitting their sales numbers. Sales engagement takes a broad view, leveraging process, tools, training, and a host of other capabilities to ensure that your efforts align with each prospect along their buyer journey.

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In the Race to Win More Customers, Sales Needs Digital Transformation

Salesforce users were surveyed about the forces shaping today's workplace. Discover the results and why investments in digital transformation and automation are pushing sales teams ahead.

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Maximizing Sales Training ROI with eLearning

Speaker: Ray Makela, CEO Sales Readiness Group

Companies spend about $20 billion a year on various forms of sales training. Still, many sales leaders report low ROIs from their sales training initiatives. So how can you ensure that your investment in sales training is producing excellent results. Reinforce training to turn new skills into lasting habits.

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Supercharge Your Sales Training ROI with eLearning

Speaker: Ray Makela, CEO, Sales Readiness Group, and David Jacoby, President, Sales Readiness Group

Companies spend about $20 billion a year on various forms of sales training, but many sales leaders report a low ROI from their sales training initiatives. The value of corporate training is notoriously hard to measure, and if you don't have a clear ROI, you won't be able to continue investing in upskilling your sales team.

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Leveraging Training to Go Beyond with Sales Enablement

Speaker: Matthew Hawk, VP of Instructional Design and Training Delivery, Synchrony

As many companies begin to consider or implement sales enablement technologies, one question keeps popping up: what should your training content strategy look like? Core principles and guidelines to follow when creating your sales training. Some simple tips and tools that any size company can use to craft eLearning.

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Reconstructing Your Product Sales Training for Success in 2022

Customer meetings will be harder to schedule, sales rep turnover will be higher, and traditional Product Sales Training (Lunch ‘N Learns, Demo Days, Sales Meetings) will be tougher to execute. Success stories of leading companies. Understanding the options. Assessing the need. Criteria for selecting a platform/vendor. Content creation.

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How to Transform Training with Conversation Intelligence Technology

Speaker: Jonathan Carlson, Senior Director of Marketing, Allego & Jake Miller, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Allego

Imagine if you could go back and review every phone or video conversation at your company: training sessions, conferences, sales calls - anything and everything - and have a teachable analysis ready almost instantly. You could identify topic trends, coachable moments, and examples of what good (or bad) looks like.