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Virtual selling provides organizations one of the greatest opportunities of our lifetime. It now only drives the opportunity for sales coaching and team development, it also provides insight to something that most sales organizations and people struggle to deal with. During this episode we will teach you four strategies and reasons why virtual selling provides you a unique opportunity during this time and beyond.

Also we would encourage you to purchase the book Virtual Selling by Jeff Blount and you can get that book on Amazon: click here

Virtual selling provides organizations one of the greatest opportunities of our lifetime. It now only drives the opportunity for sales coaching and team development, it also provides insight to something that most sales organizations and people struggle to deal with. During this episode we will teach you four strategies and reasons why virtual selling provides you a unique opportunity during this time and beyond.

Also we would encourage you to purchase the book Virtual Selling by Jeff Blount and you can get that book on Amazon: click here

To help illustrate this episode here is a poll we did on linked - provides some unique insights:

In a coaching relationship who is responsible for the success of the coaching outcome the Coach or Coachee (person being coached) ?

This 20 minute lesson teaches multiple strategies to adapt to the new world of selling virtually as well as leveraging video platforms along with how to coach to those changes successfully. There's so many opportunities right now the New World provides sales teams.  It is absolutely imperative sales people and more importantly sales leaders drive those elements of change successfully. During this podcast I mention a number of opportunities such as:

Self-Awareness leads to higher Emotional Intelligence and more thoughtful approaches to situations in the workplace where their reaction determines the outcome.  Helping your teams to become thoughtful and self-aware can lead to healthier workplace cultures and can cultivate more positive workplace relationships.

No matter how brief the interaction with a customer is, it can have a much larger impact that it may seem!  Here's how to coach your teams to make the most out of even the shortest of interactions and leave your customers feeling as though they're building a positive relationship with your team member:

There is only things dividing people today from our views of political issues to racism to certainly how people see the pandemic crisis. What's amazing during difficult times is how much we do not listen to each other or have thoughtful conversations, rather we seem like were m ore in attack mode and trying to convince the other person why they are wrong. I think we are all guilty of this and hopefully the podcasts below can shed a little light and creating some more common ground.

Conflict is, believe it or not, avoidable in the workplace through setting expectations for the quality of communication among members of the team.  The strategy below walks us through how to coach a team member through making improvements to their communication strategy to avoid future conflict.

This is a sample coaching map from our book series Coaching Conversations - we hope you find this helpful!

Today, we are online all the time. People are getting fatigued as being online for training and meetings can be fatiguing. Here is a poll we did on linkedin and no surprise people are getting fatigued. Here is the poll:

This post teaches a very specific question methodology all NEW managers should know and utilize: