Behind every great sales team, there is a sales manager that helped them achieve their numbers and their success. They helped inspire their team and motivated them to enhance their performance in every way possible. They coached their reps through the tough times and gave them the tools to help them meet their bottom line. Great sales managers are hard to come by, but they all share a couple..
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What Really Motivates Employees?
You’d be shocked to find out that employees are not motivated by money or incentives.What really drives them is progress.A study conducted by Teresa Amabile, a Harvardprofessor, asked 600 managers what they thought was the number one thing that motivated people in the workplace. Most believed that it was recognition, and guess what, they were wrong.Employees were than asked to document, via an..
Coaching Everyday Is Vital to An Organization's Success
Its critical to coach everyday and inspire people to open their minds to getting better tomorrow. Invest in others and they will ultimately invest in themselves.
Keeping Sustainability During the Summer Months
Today is an important day for most Midwesterners because it marks the beginning of summer and the end of those cold, brutal winter months. With all the distractions of summer days, managers may begin to worry about one thing: their employee’s sustainability. Sustainability- to keep up or keep going. Everyone has those days, when work is the last place you want to be, and you’ve already..
Transform Like Kobe
In honor of the NBA playoffs, we have decided to go with basketball themed blogs, and how could we write blogs without mentioning Kobe. Kobe is one of the greatest basketball players of all time (being a Bulls fan, I won't say he's as good as Jordan), but with greatness comes controversy. Over the past few years, Kobe has been great and not necessarily fair to his teammates.
Even Ron Artest Can Teach Us a Thing or Two About Coaching
From infamous to famous, as most sports writers put it, Ron Artest has certainly made quite the comeback. It has been a long road for Artest ever since that brawl in Detroit, but it was one that he traveled well. There were many steps that the new NBA champion had to take to restore his superstar status, and many of these steps can be applied in the sales industry.
How to be the Doc Rivers of the Sales World
So, you want to have a high performing sales team, but you don't know where to start. You could try reading hundreds of training books, you could send your employees to a seminar or you could have turned on the TV and watched the NBA playoffs.