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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

In this article, I’ll explore the reasons for mediocre outcomes and provide some insights into how you can improve program effectiveness. 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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Optimizing Teams for Best-In-Class Sales Performance

PDG

This article explores the challenges facing sales teams in the life sciences industry and what sales leaders can do to optimize their teams for best-in-class performance. One of the main issues is the complexity created by these efforts. Complexity creates two significant issues. First, it creates more work.

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Balancing innovations and implementation

Janet Clarey

Why do they fail so often? Six stumbling blocks are identified by Klein and Knight (article attached): New technology can be unreliable and imperfectly designed [hassle]. impatience issue]. Maintaining status quo (knowing-doing gap). Journal Article: Innovation Implementation. & Knight, A.P.