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    What REALLY Motivates Employees ... You Need to Check This Out

    Tue,Jul 17,2012 @ 09:28 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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    Coaching Sales People with Attitudes: A Real World Case Study

    Sun,Jun 24,2012 @ 09:11 AM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

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    Self Reflection Planning Questions

    Tue,Jun 19,2012 @ 05:00 PM | Posted by: Codie Lynn Thompson

    Self Reflection Planning Questions 

    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..

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    Coaching Term Of the Week: Rating Question

    Tue,Jun 19,2012 @ 08:30 AM | Posted by: Codie Lynn Thompson

    Coaching Term Of the Week: Rating Question

    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.

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    How to Perform An Employee Assessment

    Mon,Jun 18,2012 @ 01:00 PM | Posted by: Codie Lynn Thompson

    How to Perform An Employee Assessment

    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.

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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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    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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    Employee Coaching To-Go

    Mon,Jun 11,2012 @ 03:30 PM | Posted by: Codie Lynn Thompson

    Coaching To-Go

    Employee coaching is not just a one-time miracle activity that will magically makeover your staff into top performing sales people. Becoming a coach means that you will most likely have to overhaul your current leadership style. The good news is that making that becoming acclimatized to coaching is an easy, natural progress that will fell less like work and more like, while, being..

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    Dethrone the Prom Queen

    Fri,Jun 08,2012 @ 01:30 PM | Posted by: Codie Lynn Thompson

    Dethrone the Prom Queen

    “For a cheap date and a good time call employee training!” That’s right, we’re saying what everyone else is thinking. Employee training is washed up and it’s time to move on. Training may have flirted and hair flipped it’s way to popularity but, just like every former prom queen, training is now faced with the harsh reality of it’s inevitable fast, hard fall to the bottom...

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