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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

Despite all of the time, money, and resources devoted to leadership development, the hard truth is that many leadership development programs often fail. In this article, I’ll explore the reasons for mediocre outcomes and provide some insights into how you can improve program effectiveness. That’s the knowing-doing gap in action.

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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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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. Learn More & Register The Knowing/Doing Gap The key to advancing talent is bridging the Knowing/Doing Gap.

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From Strategy to Results: How to Drive Sales Execution Excellence

PDG

This can lead to a breakdown in communication, a loss of trust, wasted resources, pressure from senior leadership, and worse. – Harvard Business Review Where Do the Execution Wheels Fall Off? Identifying Knowledge Gaps Work with your team to identify any knowing/doing gaps hindering execution in the upcoming year.

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Learning Vs. Performance -- The Dichotomy

ID Reflections

In this context, a discussion with a friend led me to the video on Knowing-Doing Gap by Bob Proctor. Some further research into the Knowing-Doing Gap led me to his website: [link]. They are usually the ones to volunteer information, ask questions and try out new ways of doing things.

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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].