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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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    3 Way to Improve Your Selling Technique

    Fri,Jun 15,2012 @ 03:40 PM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    3 Way to Improve Your Selling Technique

    • Craft Practice- Make a commitment to improving performance through practicing her or her technique. Role-playing is a great activity to simulate interactions with customers and practice difficult or challenging scenarios based on employee based needs.     

    • Needs Based Selling Expertise- Sales professionals must have the ability to uncover customer needs..

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    Coaching To What Motivates Your Employees

    Fri,Jun 15,2012 @ 10:20 AM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    Coaching To What Motivates Your Employees

    Inside sales people are those people who will simply sit in one place for seven to eight hours a day, to not only make a living, but attain specific goals and sales challenges in order to gain not only greater success, but greater financial prosperity. This in itself takes a special person to truly gain and garner success. In addition to successful sales..

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    Why Sales Managers Fail: Part Two

    Thu,Jun 14,2012 @ 02:19 PM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    Managing sales people is tough, really tough. It's vital we drive better numbers but also better performance, thus people! This video will help provide some insight as to how coaching can assist a sales manager in developing better performance and profits!

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    How to Help Your Employee's To Succeed

    Wed,Jun 13,2012 @ 10:15 AM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    How to Help Your Employee's To Succeed

    Sales management is not always easy. We expect a lot out of salespeople because we want to succeed, and we always want to see better performance and increased profitability. Coaching is tough. Most of the time, sales managers delegate instructions and expect to see their employee’s automatically hit their goals and make their bottom line, but what we really..

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    Training Reinforcement: Idea # 1

    Fri,Jun 01,2012 @ 03:50 AM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

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    4 Coaching tips to Build Selling Skills

    Wed,May 30,2012 @ 01:48 PM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    4 Coaching tips to Build Selling Skills

    ONE- First things First

    Know your products/services inside and out, this way you can listen intently to what your customer is saying rather than mentally running through products/services trying to remember details and specifics. 

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    Policy versus True Performance

    Thu,May 17,2012 @ 02:00 PM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

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    Coaching Sales People in the Field Takes Focus

    Fri,Apr 27,2012 @ 08:11 AM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

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    The 4 A's of Employee Coaching

    Fri,Apr 20,2012 @ 09:30 AM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    The 4 A's of Employee Coaching

    How to leverage the 4 A's of coaching to build better employee Performance:

    • Attitude - do you as a coach possess the proper attitude toward coaching? Before you answer, do you look at employees when they make mistakes with anger or frustration, or do you look at it consistently as an opportunity to build a better employee?
    • Actions - When coaching, are you..
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    5 'Big Picture' Coaching Tips

    Thu,Apr 19,2012 @ 03:00 PM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    5 'Big Picture' Coaching Tips

    1. Business coaching is a process NOT a destination.  Don’t get hung up if you don’t see the progress your looking for right away, keep trying.
    2. Only target 1 - 2 performance areas at a time.  More than that is just too much for someone to handle and be successful with.

    3. Coaching is about being proactive, while management is about being reactive. Keep any eye out for..

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