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

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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

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Despite all of the time, money, and resources devoted to leadership development, the hard truth is that many leadership development programs often fail. 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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Unleash Life Sciences Field Rep Potential with the Performance Matrix

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The Knowing/Doing Gap: Tackle the Challenge Like a Boss Before we dive into the nitty-gritty of the Performance Matrix, let’s first talk about a universal challenge known as the Knowing/Doing Gap. As a sales leader, it’s your job to bridge that gap for your team.

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Optimizing Teams for Best-In-Class Sales Performance

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Learn More & Register The Knowing/Doing Gap The key to advancing talent is bridging the Knowing/Doing Gap. The Knowing/Doing Gap is one of the most studied concepts in human psychology. It’s the idea that we all struggle to do what we know we need to do.

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From Strategy to Results: How to Drive Sales Execution Excellence

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This can lead to a breakdown in communication, a loss of trust, wasted resources, pressure from senior leadership, and worse. – Harvard Business Review Where Do the Execution Wheels Fall Off? Identifying Knowledge Gaps Work with your team to identify any knowing/doing gaps hindering execution in the upcoming year.

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Louder than words

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Highlight the resources that are available to them to develop their capabilities now. Resist the urge to dump masses of resources into their respective buckets. Cross-reference the KASAB framework to close the knowing-doing gap. The new recruit is motivated, keen to prove themselves, and hungry to learn.

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Learning Vs. Performance -- The Dichotomy

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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]. They are usually the ones to volunteer information, ask questions and try out new ways of doing things.