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Optimizing Teams for Best-In-Class Sales Performance

PDG

performance & Measurement Optimizing Teams for Best-In-Class Sales Performance Written By: Sean Frontz March 20, 2023 – 6 min read In today’s highly competitive business environment, talent development is a crucial factor for success. This process may look different for each team member.

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Demystifying Why Leadership Development Often Fails

PDG

Employees might enter leadership positions for career advancement rather than a passion or interest for leading teams. 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.

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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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From Strategy to Results: How to Drive Sales Execution Excellence

PDG

When revenue targets are missed, tension can rise between marketing and sales teams. – Harvard Business Review Where Do the Execution Wheels Fall Off? Studies show that 90% of organizations fail to execute their strategies. As sales leaders, you must hold yourself and your teams accountable for executing to strategy.

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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. The answer was no.

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Free L&D webinars for July 2019

Limestone Learning

In this session, you’ll learn about how coaching can help individuals, teams, and enterprises build resiliency to avoid or alleviate burnout. The impact of EI on informal coaching and team performance. Additionally, L&D continues to be leveraged as a reactive response to skill gaps, retention challenges, and poor performance.

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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.