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How to Choose the Right Sales Trainer

Mindflash

Selecting the best sales training provider for your company’s needs isn’t easy. As recently as seven years ago, one of the largest groups of companies consuming sales training were in the high technology industries such as telecommunications, software, hardware and related services. Sales Skills Subject Areas.

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The Best (and Worst) Practices in Sales Training: Q-and-A with Geoffrey James

Mindflash

What really works — and doesn’t — in corporate sales training? What do most companies consistently get wrong with sales training? The most common error is probably confusing sales training with motivational speaking. Sales is primarily about relationships and how people react to each other.

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The State of Sales Training in 2012: Top Trends and Takeaways

Mindflash

On December 7, 2011 ESR delivered a webinar presentation on the state of sales training (download the MP3 or PDF—free registration required). It was an hour full of valuable intelligence and insight for sales training companies and sales trainers in corporate L&D organizations. That’s why they come to ESR.).

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Goodnight Mum

Learning with e's

In the Shetland Islands she taught herself to make traditional Shetland knitwear and earner an income from the sales. She was coached by our next door neighbour and would haggle with the best of them down in the marketplaces. Wherever Mum went, she picked up new skills. Fight for the weak. Goodnight Mum. See you in the morning.

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Seven Things I Learned This Year

Tony Karrer

Learning Coach Model Very Powerful In 2010, I had a great experience where Dr. Joel Harband wrote a series of articles for my blog on Text-to-Speech in eLearning. Please let me know if you want to be a Learning Coach for me on another topic. I’ve had to find ways to filter the flow and figure out when/how to reach out.

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How To Make Training (or Anything) Stick

Mindflash

So I went back to our training materials — part of the program was figuring out how to use key attributes of our company’s CRM system to better manager the sales team’s workday — to see if we’d missed some key element of stickiness, since the sales team had gone right back to its old and ineffective ways right after their training sessions.

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Four Core Elements of Great Learning — and How to Avoid ‘Teaching by Telling’

Mindflash

So after some coaching, the student teams started again and made some significant improvements in moving the conversation and adapting to the learning styles of their audience. We are in a world that is constantly sharing information — in effect teaching, coaching, and educating others. I saw my MBA class heading in the same direction.

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