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Most of us send text messages on a daily, if not an hourly, basis in our personal lives - and have for many years. Increasingly, many professional organizations are utilizing instant messaging applications at the office as well.

Managing Employees through Motivation

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Motivation is fundamental to employee engagement and performance. It is what drives us to set and attain goals. The goal of employee engagement is to enhance employees to exercise discretionary effort and the best way to achieve it is through motivating...
Every seller has been there. It’s the meeting with eight stakeholders, no one’s on the same page, and half the group is glancing not-so-furtively at their phones. Perhaps it’s the prospect so far down the buying process that your call is just his...

Everyone Needs a Little Support

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Let’s face it, adopting new knowledge and skills on the job can be quite challenging, especially when employees are continually asked to upskill to meet the demands of the changing workplace.

Three Trends Tying Sales Training to Business Results

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Sales training professionals have long suffered with the frustrating reality that reps tend to forget most of the information they learn in a matter of days. What we’ve come to understand is that to claim success with any training initiative, sales reps...

Combating the Forgetting Curve

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Learning leaders are well acquainted with the learning curve. They're not giving sufficient attention, however, to what is known as the "forgetting curve." This refers to what happens when the training's not reinforced: employees quickly forgetting what...

Positive Reinforcement in the Workplace

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One of the best ways to motivate a team and produce phenomenal results in the workplace is by using positive reinforcement. When positive reinforcement is used, you focus less on what people are doing wrong and more on what they’re doing right.