Listening is a part of everyday life; amazingly few of us do a good job at it. The average person speaks between 160-200 words per minute, however our mind is capable of processing 4-5 times more information than that in the same length of time, making it very easy for us to begin thinking about other things. We live in a fast paced world where often we are watching television, cooking dinner,..
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Why we should kill the typical employee performance review
Years ago I was walking through a client site, it was strangely quiet and all the manager's office doors were shut. I asked a manager, “What’s going on around here, why is everyone so quiet today?” He responded by explaining that all the managers were busy doing their yearly reviews of their staff, and that they were due to HR by the end of the day. While this may be a typical scenario, it left..
Turn your sales team's experience into a tailored sales training handbook
We often speak about utilizing group discussions and best practices as a part of your employee coaching program, to help improve your sales team. Now we propose you to take it one step further, and actually document these best practices, to create the greatest sales handbook your team could ask for. You can read hundreds of books and articles about selling, but who better to learn sales tips..
Sales Techniques: Adding Value for Customers Takes Skill and Practice
Adding value creates business opportunities, and cannot just be some directive we give people, it takes time and practice to add value to customers. Please listen to this short audio file that reveals how to add value against the customer's needs and not your own.
Handling Common Sales Objections and Improving your Sales Skills
Below are three top sales objections along with strategies to overcome them and improve your sales skills.
New survey demonstrates the importance of building leaders.
According to a recent survey by the Hay Group, 64% of the top 20 Best Companies for Leadership, say their people are expected to lead even when they are not in a position of authority, a mere 35% of average companies have this mentality. By expecting that all employees demonstrate leadership skills they are developing employees internally to move up their ranks. Strategies like this reduce turn..
Free Whitepaper: Using Social Media to Increase Sales
Download this FREE whitepaper now for a 4-Step process to creating your own social media strategy for selling, including a look at specific ways to use popular social media sites to increase leads and sale. Use these sales techniques to increase sales now.
Follow Up to Nurture Leads and Create Business Opportunities
Nurturing leads has become more important and more difficult than ever for creating business opportunities:
Have the Marvels of Technology Made us Rude?
A recent survey, conducted by Robert Half technology, shined some light on the use of technology and manners in the workplace. With the emergence of new mobile technologies, smaller and smaller laptops, and other portable devices comes a decline in our everyday courtesy for others. According to their work 51% of CIO’s surveyed said that the increased availability of mobile electronic gadgets has..