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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

Employees might enter leadership positions for career advancement rather than a passion or interest for leading teams. 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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From Strategy to Results: How to Drive Sales Execution Excellence

PDG

When revenue targets are missed, tension can rise between marketing and sales teams. As sales leaders, you must hold yourself and your teams accountable for executing to strategy. You can have the most brilliant strategy in place, but unless your sales team executes it effectively, your strategy is just a collection of ideas.

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Louder than words

E-Learning Provocateur

Cross-reference the KASAB framework to close the knowing-doing gap. Not only do they identify the capabilities that someone needs to succeed in their current role, but also the capabilities they need to succeed in their next role. Look through the 70:20:10 lens to leverage the gamut of experience, exposure and education.

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21st Century Leadership

Jay Cross

Managers and professionals who have grown up taking and giving orders simply don’t know how to adapt. The CEO and her team flip the switch but the lights don’t go on below because they’re wired differently down there. What’s required today is a wholesale shift to a new way of doing things.

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Free L&D webinars for July 2019

Limestone Learning

In this session, you’ll learn about how coaching can help individuals, teams, and enterprises build resiliency to avoid or alleviate burnout. The impact of EI on informal coaching and team performance. You’ll learn how to: Establish your leadership team's baseline. Define the ideal traits of high performing teams.

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