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Virtual Training Can Outperform the Classroom

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Tim Riesterer When it comes to creating lasting behavior change in salespeople, the assumption is that virtual sales skills training is a pale imitation of in-person classroom training. But what if an online training alternative could be proven as effective?—?or than classroom training? Live classroom training.

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Letting Your Prospects Train You

The Pipeline

That will involve letting your prospects train you. It’s hard to confidently go down the rabbit hole when your nerves and energy are consumed, keeping their planned flow on track. Something you learn by letting your prospects train you. Train The Prospect. Refining how they prospect and conduct discovery.

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Getting More Implementation From Your Outstanding Training Programs

Sales and Marketing Management

me) to actually absorb your outstanding training materials, then put them into action to achieve the desired results? . You share these your people and train them in the implementation of these strats and tacs. I also spent the last 40 years training and developing thousands of salespeople and managers. Charbonneau.

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Sales Lessons We Can Learn from the 2024 Olympics

No More Cold Calling

They train with unparalleled rigor. When they do provide sales training, it’s often done in a vacuum—without reinforcement, coaching, accountability linked to KPIs, and practice—which makes that initial effort a waste of time and money. And it takes more than a few hours of training to master new sales skills.

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Business Success Requires A Positive Mindset and High Energy

Smooth Sale

Photo by GDJ via Pixabay Attract the Right Job or Clientele: Business Success Requires A Positive Mindset and High Energy Others can feel our vibe through our words, actions, and deeds. By creating a fix-it plan with goals, too, energy lifts, we feel the enthusiasm for a calmer road ahead.

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Leadership Development in the New Millennium

Steven Rosen

One of the VP’s said he was not happy with the impact of the corporate training program that he was mandated to use. I asked him what they were doing to sustain their excellent training. I asked him, “what sustainment components did the supplier provide to ensure the managers could take the great training and apply it in the field?

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The Law of Least Effort (#guestpost)

The Pipeline

Finding ourselves unsure of the depth of a given threat (an opportunity to be bold), we revert to the instinct of energy preservation. Our primal brain assures us: “Hey, I’m just preserving my energy in case a greater threat comes along.”. It’s a survival technique. There is a built-in justification for doing so.

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