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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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    The Number Adult Learner Requirement: ATTITUDE

    Fri,May 08,2015 @ 06:17 AM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    When we think of training, coaching, mentoring, just to name a few of the methods in our marketplace we tend to gravitate to things like behavioral change or skill building or talent development. At the foundation of anything an adult learner does is their personal attitude. An attitude is a choice, a skill set, and a behavioral attribute that must be practiced and nurtured on a continuous basis...

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    My sales team keeps lowering our prices ... What Can I Do?

    Thu,Mar 26,2015 @ 08:04 PM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    One of the most common things I hear in selling is the battle of selling value and handling the buyers price objection. So often sales leaders and managers provide rhetorical feedback such as you have to negotiate and sell value when in fact most salespeople may not know how to do that or understand that type of feedback.Here's a simple formula to understand your sales team's ability down to each..

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    Why I Coach

    Sun,Mar 08,2015 @ 04:50 PM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    Recently, I was a guest on a radio show and that was the host’s first question. I was surprised by my answer at first because it came to me so quickly, but was also a great teaching tool for me to reflect and appreciate my career. My answer was in direct regard to my college internship at IBM. I still remember the days I was in my boss’s office Martha Sheffield. I also remember my sit down..

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    Getting Management to Support Training with Coaching

    Fri,Mar 06,2015 @ 11:08 AM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    It’s the # 1 question we get ... "How do I get management buy in for coaching" or "How do we get upper management to buy-in to their managers coaching"?

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    The Attitude Teeter Totter

    Mon,Feb 16,2015 @ 06:53 AM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    What do we know about attitudes?

    1. If we leave employee attitudes to chance will they gravitate to positive or negative ones?
    2. When people hear the word attitude today typically do they gravitate to the thought of positive attitudes or negative attitudes?
    3. When we go home and watch the evening news at 6 PM do we watch positive things or negative things?
    4. Do people arbitrarily exhibit negative..
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    Coaching An Attitude is Two Steps

    Fri,Feb 13,2015 @ 06:48 AM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    INTRODUCTION:

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    Why Do We Even Coach?

    Fri,Feb 06,2015 @ 06:15 AM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    Why Coaching is Important by Carly Kleiman

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    Sales Managers – Consider Using Peer-to-Peer Coaching

    Fri,Jan 09,2015 @ 07:17 AM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    I have found great success in developing salespeople through what we call peer-to-peer coaching. As a manager, you may have two salespeople on your team that need development of a particular sales skill or knowledge around a product that they are selling.   

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    3 Questions to Ask An Underperforming Sales Person

    Wed,Jan 07,2015 @ 07:20 AM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    Sales people can have bad years but they need to be honest with themselves. When asking a sales person why they had a down year the typical response is the economy was bad or our marketing was subpar or our industry was in a downturn. You rarely hear “I was not very good at needs-based selling and my negotiation skills are terrible”. Gosh I hope you are laughing! But guess what good sales people..

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    Coaching Teams in 4 Steps

    Tue,Jan 06,2015 @ 04:45 AM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    You know the term "Silos" when we desribe teams that do not work well together. Why is it? Why do people struggle to work with one another at times? Sadly, it takes sometimes just one person to break down the fiber of a good team.

    There are four steps to building a really good team:

    1. Establish Rapport - this is where we build awareness of one another as people by doing activities that facilitate..
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