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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 “knowing-doing gap” refers to the disparity between what individuals know they should do and what they actually do in practice.

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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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Optimizing Teams for Best-In-Class Sales Performance

PDG

This article explores the challenges facing sales teams in the life sciences industry and what sales leaders can do to optimize their teams for best-in-class performance. As a sales leader, your primary responsibility is to drive revenue growth for your organization. It’s the skills needed to succeed tomorrow.

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From Strategy to Results: How to Drive Sales Execution Excellence

PDG

– Harvard Business Review Where Do the Execution Wheels Fall Off? Studies show that 90% of organizations fail to execute their strategies. Identifying Knowledge Gaps Work with your team to identify any knowing/doing gaps hindering execution in the upcoming year.

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Supercharge your learning programs with follow-up coaching

CLO Magazine

The newly trained people didn’t really have time to figure out why, so they would write off the learning and go back to their old, not-so-great way of doing things. It bothered us that the investments organizations were making in L&D were going down the drain. Bridging the knowing-doing gap.

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Learning Vs. Performance -- The Dichotomy

ID Reflections

In this context, a discussion with a friend led me to the video on Knowing-Doing Gap by Bob Proctor. Some further research into the Knowing-Doing Gap led me to his website: [link]. He brings up some interesting aspects of the conscious and the unconscious mind. I think this could have a huge impact.

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21st Century Leadership

Jay Cross

A new CEO with a grand vision of social networks, openness, innovation, experimentation, and continuous improvement is not enough to turn a large organization around because she’s saddled with a legacy culture. Managers and professionals who have grown up taking and giving orders simply don’t know how to adapt.