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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 “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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Optimizing Teams for Best-In-Class Sales Performance

PDG

The average sales rep spends an average of two-thirds of their time in non-revenue generating activities, leaving only 35.2% Learn More & Register The Knowing/Doing Gap The key to advancing talent is bridging the Knowing/Doing Gap. Complexity creates two significant issues.

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From Strategy to Results: How to Drive Sales Execution Excellence

PDG

Create alignment by regularly communicating the strategic goals, reinforcing their importance, and linking them to daily tasks and activities. 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

E-Learning Provocateur

Using the 4+4 Part Employee Lifecycle as my guide, I will share my thoughts on some of the ways in which your capability framework can add value to your organisation’s activities in terms of recruitment, onboarding, performance, and offboarding. Everyone knows that change management is hard. Recruitment.

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9 Ways to Increase Online Student Engagement

WBT Systems

Instructors should explain the purpose of each course activity and connect it to the learning outcomes for the course. If students know why they’re doing an activity and how it will impact them, they’re more likely to invest themselves in it and complete the work. #3 3 – Present clear, organized learning materials.

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Free L&D webinars for September 2018

Limestone Learning

In this respect, there is often a “knowing-doing” gap to be filled. This webcast will explore how simulations can be used as an effective tool to bridge this gap and the benefits they can bring to learning and development within organizations. How do creators build engagement into their videos?

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