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Reflecting On “Founder Mode”

Partners in Excellence

It is tough work, but work that everyone in the organization revels in, because of its impact over the long term. Manager Mode revels in sky rocketing bureaucracy, titles/position, meaningless metrics. Manager Mode revels in meetings, measuring status by busyness and how many meetings can be crammed into a day.

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Generative AI, Telling Us What We Already Should Know?

Partners in Excellence

I’ve become relatively agile in prompt engineering, so I keep tweaking them, trying to find that “Aha” revelation. I start thinking, perhaps we are failing our people in training, supporting, coaching, and reinforcing things they should know to be effective and efficient in doing their jobs.

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How Authenticity in Sales Training Is Lost

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Sales training today covers a plethora of sales styles or models. I know this to be true when speaking to my clients and sales leads who tell me they can tell what type of sales training the salespeople have experienced by the questions they ask. This revelation only reaffirmed what I learned from my own personal experiences.

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“The Joy Of Selling…,” Have We Lost It?

Partners in Excellence

” Whether it’s bad prospecting, bad Social Channel interactions, bad selling, weak sales management, ineffective training, and so forth. Sadly, I don’t see many “sellers” reveling in this fun or challenge, these days. Regular readers know that I write a lot about “pet peeves.”

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“It’s Better To Look Good Than Be Good….”

Partners in Excellence

But we revel in the data and analytics we have at our fingertips. We read the right books, take the right sales training, listen to the right podcasts, but we fail to apply the principles in those. We are proud of our ARR growth and our ability to scale, yet we are spending more to get the revenue than the revenue we produce.

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

Partners in Excellence

Later revelations included referring a lead to a seller more appropriate for the client, even including a competitor; such selfless actions lead to positive referrals and future sales. Eventually I came to a larger revelation; the problem with “sales” lies at the core, the heart, the primary goal or objective of selling.

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Presentation Training Lessons Learned from Tokyo 2020

Eyeful Presentations

Instead, we revelled in the amazing stories of sacrifice and commitment that each Olympian puts in to perform on the biggest World stage. That’s pretty much the thinking with Eyeful’s presentation training. Presentation Skills Training – From ‘Connect’ to ‘Sustain’: [link]. Presentation Training – One Customer’s Story: [link].