How To Give a Great Team Demo
How to give a great team demo? Well, we can learn a thing or two from my 3 year old. After all, adults are justRead More »How To Give a Great Team Demo
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Sales Kickoff Success 2023- Breakout Sessions
Part 1 and Part 2 of this series revealed our secret ingredients for successful SKO keynote speakers and SKO soft-skills training sessions. We discussed vetting and aligning your keynotes to your strategic initiatives and the importance of coaching your executives for impact and effectiveness. We also covered why an SKO is strategically the best time to upskill your sales organization and the importance of not being overrun by breakout session requests from departmental leaders. But, informative breakout sessions are crucial to the knowledge transfer of departmental initiatives. In this final segment of our three-part series on Sales Kickoff Success, you will learn how to maximize the effectiveness of every breakout session speaker.
Sales Kickoff Success 2023- Soft Skills Training
Leverage Video Before, During, & After Your Next Software Demo!
If you’re in Sales or PreSales in a technology company, you know all about the importance of securing the “technical win.” Accomplishing this step means you are over a significant hurdle in every sales process. However, the longer it takes to ensure the technical win due to complicated demos, complex-looking software, or a lack of buyer consensus, the more likely the sales process stalls or even dies. You can prevent that from happening through skilled demo techniques and by leveraging video. This article will focus exclusively on how you can use video before, during, and after your main demo to accelerate your technical win.
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The Art of Storytelling in Business: 20 Places to Utilize Storytelling
It is hard to argue the value and impact of storytelling in business. Great stories capture people’s attention, imaginations, and emotions. Compelling stories inspire everyday buyers around the world. If you’re like most people we talk to, you’ll likely remember an excellent keynote speech or the opening of a C-Level presentation delivered by inspiring speakers with “the gift.” Perhaps you even feel great storytellers are born with this gift. Ahhh, but stories can be told by anyone and many different situations and venues and, they can all be told by you! The reality is that almost every day, you have the opportunity to create stronger emotional connections through storytelling. So, here’s my question: when you intend to persuade or motivate an audience to take action, do you always inform and educate or, do you use storytelling to shift their thinking?
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12 Tips for Home Office Success
You’ve been directed to work from home. You’ve done it before but, now it will be for an extended time. In this blog, we’ll provide you quick and effective ways to have the right setup, tools, techniques to increase your effectiveness with team members, clients, and prospects. For client-facing roles, we will also provide tips for building momentum in the sales process that simply aren’t achievable in traditional, face-to-face encounters. Shockingly, you will learn how to become MORE productive than when you were in the office! The following are excerpts from our recently released video course, “HomeOffice2Win!”
Once Upon a Time…
When I hear that phrase, I remember reading bedtime stories to my sons when they were youngsters. As adults, stories help us understand complex concepts, and just like when we’re younger, they forge connections with the storyteller, open up our imaginations, and help us receive new ideas.
5 Sales & Leadership Books That Should Be on Your Bedside Table
Stay at the top of your game with our list of leadership must-haves. This list of books can help ease the stress of where to start. Pick up any of these books today and instantly improve your leadership style!
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