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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

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

PDG

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. Learn More & Register The Knowing/Doing Gap The key to advancing talent is bridging the Knowing/Doing Gap. We call this an E.F.F.—Excuse

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A Framework For Content Curation

Learnnovators

. * Truisms such as this one are typically met with suspicion from certain quarters of the L&D community, but in this case the research on the comparative efficacies of lectures, worked examples, PBL etc appears to add up. This content jumps the knowing-doing gap by helping the learner apply the concepts back on the job.

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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. Look through the 70:20:10 lens to leverage the gamut of experience, exposure and education.

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A framework for content curation

E-Learning Provocateur

. * Truisms such as this one are typically met with suspicion from certain quarters of the L&D community, but in this case the research on the comparative efficacies of lectures, worked examples, PBL etc appears to add up. This content jumps the knowing-doing gap by helping the learner apply the concepts back on the job.

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9 Ways to Increase Online Student Engagement

WBT Systems

An online course that merely provides information is no better than any other in today’s competitive lifelong learning market. Provide tips on time management, goal setting, and planning and prioritizing work. Help students cross the knowing-doing gap by having them immediately apply what they’ve learned.

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