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

PDG

Assuming you’ve adequately onboarded all your sales reps—instructing them on product knowledge, sales process, market dynamics and competitors, technology usage, industry regulations, and so on—they should be well-prepared for the dynamic world of life science sales. Essentially, they know what to do because you’ve trained them.

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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

As we continue to create new systems, technology, tools, and processes to help sales, we are inadvertently contributing to the problem rather than solving it. The average sales rep spends an average of two-thirds of their time in non-revenue generating activities, leaving only 35.2% 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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Free L&D webinars for September 2018

Limestone Learning

In this respect, there is often a “knowing-doinggap 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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