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From Strategy to Results: How to Drive Sales Execution Excellence

PDG

Leadership From Strategy to Results: How to Drive Sales Execution Excellence Written By: Dan Snyder November 7, 2023 – 5 min read You’ve likely heard the saying, “Execution eats strategy for breakfast.” ” It’s a riff on Peter Drucker’s famous words, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.”

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Mind the Gap: How to Assess Sales Performance Gaps to Achieve Execution Excellence

PDG

Essentially, they know what to do because you’ve trained them. The question is, are they doing it? This is the knowing/doing gap. The knowing/doing gap refers to the disconnect between what we know we should do and what we actually do in practice.

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Demystifying Why Leadership Development Often Fails

PDG

Not Recognizing the Knowing-Doing Gap Let’s face it: a lot of new leader readiness programs don’t do enough to prepare leaders for the realities of the job. The issue is that it often stops there, with no real system in place to drive sustained behavior change. That’s the knowing-doing gap in action.

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Louder than words

E-Learning Provocateur

Everyone knows that change management is hard. Culture eats strategy for breakfast; an organisation’s culture doesn’t change over night; something about herding cats; the change curve; etc. Cross-reference the KASAB framework to close the knowing-doing gap. Recruitment.

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21st Century Leadership

Jay Cross

What’s required today is a wholesale shift to a new way of doing things. The knowing/doing gap surrounding the advent of the network era is humongous. As always, companies also need to streamline and improve their processes to fight entropy and hardening of the arteries: implement new strategies.

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Free L&D webinars for July 2019

Limestone Learning

Top organizations are embracing coaching as an integral part of leadership performance, and in response, the Goleman EI team has launched new training strategies with executive coaches from around the world. This session will look at the strategy used by a sr. New coach training and development findings.

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Re-imagining the Book

Jay Cross

These range from low-level how-to things like job aids to big-picture items like implementing strategy. “Picasso said, ‘I do things I do not know how to do in order to learn how to do them.’ There are doubtless many more topics.

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