sales coaching
Are limiting beliefs undermining your success?
Every sales manager has encountered a salesperson who just can’t seem to “get it.” This is the underperforming team member you work with on the same thing over and over, and no matter how much training, enablement, and coaching you provide, they just keep making the same bad decisions, having the same bad conversations, and experiencing the same bad outcomes.
How all those trucks on the road can help you stop discounting
We've been doing a lot of traveling this summer to baseball tournaments (20-second video showing how one playoff game ended), college baseball showcases and back. During these travels, one thing has become abundantly clear. Trucks and construction. Lots of trucks. Lots of construction. Lots of congestion on the roads because of all those tractor trailers.
5 questions from psychology you need to ask your sales team
“There are five questions that determine whether a person will do something or not. These five questions have been heavily investigated at the individual psychological level, the psychobiological level, all the way down to cells and molecules. If you know the answers to these questions, you know whether the person will do something or not.”
Customers and rational behaviors
Too often, I’m in reviews with sales people whining, “The customer is irrational!”
You don't have as much time as you think
Most sales professionals are notorious optimists. We always think our next big sale is right around the corner, that the opportunity we were excited about last week is definitely almost ready to close, and that we’re going to absolutely make our quota this time.
Why sales coaching needs to get closer to the individual
Have you heard the phrase, “Never in the history of calming down, has anyone ever actually calmed down, by being told to calm down”?
