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My Latest Sales Epiphany From Watching Playoff Baseball

Understanding the Sales Force

My latest sales epiphany happened while I was watching Friday’s American League Championship Series game between the Yankees and the Guardians. Where location, location, location is the mantra of real estate professionals, coach, coach, coach should be the mantra of Sales Leadership professionals.

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Big Ego Sales Managers and Small Business Owners Are Still Too Many

Increase Sales

As I listened to her, I realized that even today with all the management and sales training; the countless books and webinars; and the availability of small business coaches and consultants, there are far too many short sighted sales managers and small business owners. as per your existing sales agreements.

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Properly Handled Mistakes Create Stronger Relationships

Adaptive Business Services

Let’s examine that … Back in the 80’s, I was the sales manager for a local office equipment company. It was then that I had an epiphany. There is a caveat to this title. Not a lot of money, but a nice touch regardless. This gave the customer an extra layer of confidence. No company is perfect. To err is human.

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Bring Out The Diamond Brilliance Within High Performing Sales Teams

Increase Sales

To change from under performing sales teams to high performing sales teams begins from the inside out. When sales management, small business owners to C Suite executives understand change must first come from within they will understand my client’s epiphany: Change is about where I am inside, about me.”.

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Trap Tales – Obstacles to Success

Pipeliner

Epiphany breakthroughs get you to a new level of thinking. With a society and culture that wants to point the finger at someone else, it is very tough to teach accountability. Referring to this as a trap is a language that helps people realize and accept the reality of the situation.

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5 Psychology Tips From An FBI Hostage Negotiator That Will Make You Sell Better

Sales Hacker

Voss had an epiphany of sorts upon leaving the Bureau; he realized that several of the skills he’d learned and honed ‘in the wild’ during hostage negotiations were directly relevant – and essential – to the business arena. Chris Voss served as a hostage negotiator at the FBI for close to a quarter of a century.

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Managers, Experiencing Coaching Resistance? How To (Re) Introduce Coaching To Your Team That Creates Buy In and a Safe Environment for Employees – And For You. Part One

Keith Rosen

Given this insight, some comments and questions that follow in the wake of this epiphany are as follows. It was more directive and prescriptive advice or telling them what to do than it was coaching.”. Okay, so lets say I have not officially been coaching my team as of yet nor have I rolled out any structured coaching program.

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