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Demystifying Why Leadership Development Often Fails

PDG

LEADERSHIP Demystifying Why Leadership Development Often Fails Written By: Rich Mesch December 19, 2023 – 7 min read Companies spend billions on leadership development every year. The issue is that it often stops there, with no real system in place to drive sustained behavior change.

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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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From Strategy to Results: How to Drive Sales Execution Excellence

PDG

Identifying Knowledge Gaps Work with your team to identify any knowing/doing gaps hindering execution in the upcoming year. These gaps might relate to product knowledge, market trends, elevating HCP engagement, optimizing omnichannel, or improving sales techniques. Doing so lowers the bar of effectiveness.

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Louder than words

E-Learning Provocateur

Due to the nature of my role I have posited these arguments in terms of employee development. Highlight the resources that are available to them to develop their capabilities now. Effective performance management complements development planning to provide the employee with guidance on improving said performance. Development.

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21st Century Leadership

Jay Cross

What’s required today is a wholesale shift to a new way of doing things. The knowing/doing gap surrounding the advent of the network era is humongous. developing new products and services. The 21C Leadership Project. Business organizations still need to perform their classical functions: making sales.

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Free L&D webinars for July 2019

Limestone Learning

Tuesday, July 2, 2019, 8AM – 9AM PT: Customer Service Training Discussion with Lisa Crockett and Host Kristen Hayden Safdie Join EngageTHEM.org Founder, Lisa Crockett and Host Kristen Hayden Safide, as they discuss customer service training—with a bonus discussion about developing a portfolio. New coach training and development findings.

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9 Ways to Increase Online Student Engagement

WBT Systems

Help students cross the knowing-doing gap by having them immediately apply what they’ve learned. Remind instructors and TAs that everyone watches their behavior in online community discussions. 7 – Get students to take action on what they’ve learned. These actions could include: Participating in an online forum.

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