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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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    Success is a Choice !!!

    Thu,Jan 13,2011 @ 06:03 PM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    Success can ONLY occur if you make a decision thats what you want. Recently I met with a sales person at a client site where he continually demonstrated how he had not yet made a decision to be successful. Here is an audio narration of that dialogue:

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    Handling Price Objections Will Be Critical in 2011

    Sat,Jan 01,2011 @ 12:23 PM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    The economy is coming back and now we may have the urge to raise prices or say no to price concession requests from clients. We have to be careful.

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    The NEW Role of Employees Can Expand if Coached !

    Fri,Dec 31,2010 @ 08:35 AM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    The role of today's employee should and must change. This audio link will teach you three unique opportunities for all employees to help the bottom line of your organization:

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    Own Your Sales Success & Challenges

    Wed,Dec 29,2010 @ 08:52 AM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    Are you successful when you hit your goals as a sales person, but not responsible when you don't? We have to own our goals, successes, and even our failures to truly become great sales   people !

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    Great Training & Marketing Tool: Video Email

    Sat,Dec 25,2010 @ 11:29 AM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    I have been using a really cool little video email tool for both training and marketing:

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    Are You Ready for 2011 Selling???

    Fri,Dec 24,2010 @ 09:03 AM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    2011 is upon us and the last two years have been great years to challenge us as sales professionals. So how did you do? If you were not as successful what specific changes are you implementing to create success. We as sales people have to own our challenges and NOT simply subscribe to the excuses "Its not me, its the economy". On the other hand if sales are up is it you or the economy getting..

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    Always Stay Positive

    Wed,Dec 08,2010 @ 01:53 PM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    We have recently launched our new service called Always Stay Positive. Its sole objective is to help organzations and it's employees adopt positive attitudes for greater performance and productivity. Here is a link to an overview of the program:

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    Why Sales Coaching???

    Wed,Dec 08,2010 @ 01:51 PM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

     A client asked me why do organizations really need their managers to become salkes coaches. It got me thinking we need to at times to go back to the basics so here they are:

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    Coach Coach Coach

    Mon,Nov 22,2010 @ 12:30 PM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    I received three emails today from clients sharing successes with coaching. All three really were not great coaches when we began; therefore, I wanted to share that coaching takes time to develop the confidence and skill to become a great. Coaching will open a manager's mind to not only what is possible with their employees but themselves as well!
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    How to Handle Price Objections

    Mon,Nov 15,2010 @ 09:27 AM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    Price objections- a salesperson's worst nightmare. Handling price objections requires confidence and sales know-how. It is a skill that needs to be practiced over and over before it can ever be truly effective. Inexperienced reps usually cave and offer a lower price, while others run to the manager to ask for advice. Great salespeople know that instead of jumping immediately to reduction of..
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