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The Radicalization of Sales Training Starts @ the Edges

Living in Learning

Reflecting on this choice of title, I can imagine some rather extreme images springing forth in the minds of long-time sales training purists. I say this with confidence because the topic of facilitating learning at the edges of the ecosystem has freaked out both platform trainers and instructional design professionals before.

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The Radicalization of Sales Training Starts @ the Edges

Living in Learning

Reflecting on this choice of title, I can imagine some rather extreme images springing forth in the minds of long-time sales training purists. I say this with confidence because the topic of facilitating learning at the edges of the ecosystem has freaked out both platform trainers and instructional design professionals before.

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EPSS Runs Wild – Product Training Found Dismembered

Living in Learning

Having been a Sales Trainer, Sales Training Manager, and Director Sale Training in a couple of previous lives, I nearly jumped out of my chair when I read a blog post by a new networking contact, David Brock. First-hand experience and many many road miles confirm how wasteful product training can be.

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EPSS Replaces Product Training – Could It Really?

Living in Learning

Having been a Sales Trainer, Sales Training Manager, and Director Sale Training in a couple of previous lives, I nearly jumped out of my chair when I read a blog post by a new networking contact, David Brock. First-hand experience and many many road miles confirm how wasteful product training can be.

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EPSS Replaces Product Training – Could It Really?

Living in Learning

Having been a Sales Trainer, Sales Training Manager, and Director Sale Training in a couple of previous lives, I nearly jumped out of my chair when I read a blog post by a new networking contact, David Brock. First-hand experience and many many road miles confirm how wasteful product training can be.

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Work Context Is Ground Zero for Expanded Role of Training

Living in Learning

"How many sales deals do sales reps close in the classroom? How many process decisions by managers prevent creation of material waste while taking an on-line training course? How many impactful customer complaints are resolved in training role-plays or simulations?"

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Myths, Monsters & Performer Support

Living in Learning

Training as a profession has always sort of been in a “sales” role. Selling the shift from classroom training to on-line e-learning, and then back again as a compromise to protect a draft pick and a player to be named later. The biggest “sale” of all was that “Training drives performance!”