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Mind the Gap: How to Assess Sales Performance Gaps to Achieve Execution Excellence

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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

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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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Optimizing Teams for Best-In-Class Sales Performance

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In other words, the more complicated the sales process becomes, the less likely it is that reps will be able to sell effectively. Your job as their sales leader is to stay attuned to their needs and provide consistent coaching and feedback to allow them to improve and grow professionally. Complexity creates two significant issues.

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From Strategy to Results: How to Drive Sales Execution Excellence

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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. Tactics for Effective Strategy Execution To transform strategy into real results, it is imperative to shift the focus from planning to a relentless commitment to tactical implementation.

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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]. We know that effective learning leads to visible behavior change. People should start to do things differently.

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Louder than words

E-Learning Provocateur

Effective performance management complements development planning to provide the employee with guidance on improving said performance. Cross-reference the KASAB framework to close the knowing-doing gap. Performance Management.

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A Framework For Content Curation

Learnnovators

I should know: I’ve used them as a student, I’ve seen my peers create them, and I’ve created them myself. Surely we can put more design into our curation efforts so that the fruits of our labour are more efficient, meaningful, and effective…? Consider the trusty instructional design heuristic of Tell Me, Show Me, Let Me, Test Me.

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