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    Tim Hagen

    Tim Hagen

    Tim Hagen founded Progress Coaching, a Training Reinforcement Partner Company, in 1997. His entrepreneurial career began in college leading to positions in sales, sales management, and sales training for small and large corporations, and eventually ownership of several training companies. Tim is often a keynote speaker at companies teaching the value of coaching and conversations in the workplace. He possesses a unique combination of hands-on experience, academics, and innovative insight to solve the industry’s most common challenges specific to workplace performance. Tim holds a bachelor’s degree in Adult Education and Training from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
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    Coaching Attitudes Is Fun

    Wed,Aug 24,2011 @ 07:33 AM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    Bad Attitudes can hinder a business but with coaching they can be solved. Bad attitudes can tear co-workers apart, can decrease productivity through out the office, and make co-workers unwilling to work together.Managers reluctant to coach this bad apple back to a productive member of a company, can cause this problem to grow at an insurmountable rate. This makes everyone of those problems..

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    So What Happens After the Workshop? (For Managers)

    Thu,Jul 28,2011 @ 11:22 AM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    Weeks after a seminar or workshop, employees find it difficult to change their day-to-day work. So, managers need to put training reinforcement and coaching into place.  The two methods are different, but both employ the same types of techniques. When they are both utilized together, the results increase dramatically and employee skill sets greatly improve.

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    So What Happens After the Workshop? ( Part 2)

    Wed,Jul 27,2011 @ 09:01 AM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    Not all employees learn the same, and group sessions may intimidate some. So, managers need to be prepared with other methods that will encourage workers to put their best foot forward. There are two types of coaching that encourage training reinforcement and continuous learning without using an employee’s peers.

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    So What Happens After the Workshop? (Part 1)

    Mon,Jul 25,2011 @ 02:59 PM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    Workshops and seminars are a great way to instigate new techniques or to train employees about a product. They provide helpful tools and tips to improve sales, and they give representatives real world applications that are geared towards the bottom-line. After most workshops, employees return to the office re-focused and ready to make an impact; however, a couple months down the road those tips..

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    Training Reinforcement + Coaching = Performance

    Tue,Jul 19,2011 @ 08:43 AM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    Training is important to every business. Employees go through training sessions when they begin at a company, and most are sent to seminars at least once or twice throughout their employment. These sessions provide tips, tools and techniques to perform a job to the best of a person’s ability, and they are beneficial to employees…for about a month or two. Oftentimes, upper-level management does..

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    The Managers Role in Price Objections

    Wed,Jul 13,2011 @ 10:34 AM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    Handling price objections is a skill that needs practice. Most salespeople need to build their confidence in this area since it can be a daunting task when a customer proceeds to push for them to lower the price. Managers need to step in and coach their employees through the process of rejecting a price objection. This can require one-on-one coaching, group sessions or peer-to-peer meetings.

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    Three Tips to Handling Price Objections

    Wed,Jul 13,2011 @ 10:25 AM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    Price objections. They are the one thing every sales person receives, and it is an area that most sales people need help. A sales person’s typical response is to go to the manager to find out if the product or service price can be lowered, and while in some cases this may be necessary, it is not always the right solution. There are ways to combat price objections:1. Fully understand the..

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    Recent Research Shows Us Why We Need to Coach Our Employees

    Tue,Jul 12,2011 @ 07:08 AM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    I recently read a great piece by Maritz Reserach and it blew me away. We really need to coach our employees for a variety of reasons and this research really tells us why.

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    Employee Attitudes Can Affect Customer Reviews

    Mon,Jul 11,2011 @ 03:35 PM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    Experiences. They are what drive customers to continue using a company’s products and services, and they shape our consumer’s thoughts and beliefs about a company as a whole. These days, people are using the World Wide Web to voice their opinions, and they are being heard:

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    How Managers Can Help Reinforce Your Training

    Thu,Jul 07,2011 @ 09:43 AM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    How Managers Can Help Reinforce Training

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