Networking, networking, networking! We get it, networking is an important part of the business scene and if you’re not networking then you are some sort of business professional leper. The thing is, everyone acts like networking is a very prestigious skill that can only be learned in some kind of underground workshop and you can’t get into because you don’t know..
When participating in any new experience or activity it can be very easy to become overwhelmed by the "newness" of the situation. This overwhelming feeling or sensation can sometimes take priority over all other functions or senses we may need. Have you ever been in a new situation where you have felt that you were very present and participatory, however, when..
Rating Question – Rating questions are used to get an employee to upfront about his or her view of their performance. Rating questions have the added convenience of categorizing performance into either a knowledge, skill, or behavior based function. Knowing how your employees rate themselves will help you to discover any major performance gap issues.
Objective of Employee Assessment: The objective in doing an employee assessment is to define the performance levels needed by the employee. In doing the assessment it will help the manager and employee find out where the GAP of learning is within specific performance aspects.
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..
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..
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!
Somewhere along the way coaching employees has gotten the incorrect reputation of being this cute, soft, cuddly feelings focused hoo rah rah. Believed to be nothing but a superficial moral boost with no result producing capabilities, the employee coaching concept has been brushed off by many who continue to manage (and lose) employees using more “traditional”..
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..