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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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Unleash Life Sciences Field Rep Potential with the Performance Matrix

PDG

In this article, we will explore some of the basics of PDG’s Performance Matrix and how you can harness its capabilities to drive sales success. This is that frustrating disconnect between what your team knows they should be doing and what they actually end up doing. The Performance Matrix is your secret weapon.

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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]. Maintaining status quo (knowing-doing gap). Journal Article: Innovation Implementation. successful implementation). impatience issue].