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Ten Solutions to Making Sales Training Work

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Sales training can be highly effective. It can also fail to provide the ROI you expect. Here are 10 reasons why sales training doesn’t work, and solutions to help you implement a successful sales training program:

Four Steps for Coaching a Sales Rep

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Are you content with your sales team’s current level of performance? Many sales managers are even though they have salespeople who are underachieving. They are either content with those results or uncertain as to how to drive the team to higher levels...
This is a story about two companies’ sales funnels. One company has a sales funnel that improves win rates, the other doesn’t. Company A uses the most common approach, orienting its sales funnel to the steps of its sales process: qualifying, solution...

Salespeople, Coaching and Gamification

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We have completed three related research pieces over the last year and a half, focusing on sustaining the impact of the sizable investment that corporations make in sales training.

Chart-topping Tools for Supporting Sales Coaching

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Integrating tools and technologies into your learning or training initiative requires a fine balance¬ — picking tools that help enable learning, but in no way distract the learner from absorbing the content.But, what about tools that support a...

Five Things Proactive Sales Managers Do Differently

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A recent review of a sales manager job description for a Fortune 500 company shows that about 85 percent of the responsibilities assigned to sales managers, were related to sales coaching.
Sales organizations can increase revenue when they focus on improving how their salespeople interact with prospects and customers. Some companies struggle to effectively coach salespeople for improved sales call impact and improved call quality....