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
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
I remember it like it was yesterday. I designed a personnel restructuring and hiring plan for my organization to help us scale to meet the requirements being placed on us by our latest PE investor. I had gone over the details and gained the support of Sue, my executive sponsor. She then invited me to present the plan to the senior leadership team. I always considered her a collaborative and amiable leader. For example, she told me the board had been briefed and supported the plan. However, she went on to say that the board had a few questions about the project before providing their final approval. After Sue’s guidance, I believed I was well prepared for the presentation and meeting.
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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.
Ahhh, the glory days of a sales kickoff (SKO) where hundreds or even thousands meet for an energizing five days in places like Las Vegas, Singapore, or Budapest. Those venues are on pause for now; however, your SKO can still deliver energy and success virtually with the right formula of inspiring keynote speakers, results-driven soft-skills training, and actionable breakout sessions. This three-part series will explore how your sales enablement leadership can seek out and ensure the delivery of premier sessions for your SKO, starting with finding the best keynote speaker for your business.
Personalized demos help prospects and clients visualize themselves using your software solution. Wouldn’t you agree? The challenge is the volume of demos a typical PreSales professional performs in any given week means that demo personalization is often not realistic. Traditionally, demo personalization requires creating a new application image with new records, prospect branding, and data. Enter Navattic. These ingenious PreSales professionals built a no-code demo workflow tool to help you better connect with your prospects.
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While PowerPoint, Keynote and Prezi have plenty of reliable features, they’re clunky and slow compared to some of the new solutions that are out there. Their ubiquitous familiarity could even hurt the impact of your message.
Break away from the tried and true, or tired and boring. The following tools can freshen up your presentation game while giving you the convenience that a web-based creation platform offers.
Read More »Look Good in a Hurry! The Top 5 Alternatives to PowerPoint, Keynote and PreziIn an earlier blog post, we discussed “un-tethering’ in a live presentation. Three zones: laptop, arms-length, approach the audience. Time guideposts: 10 seconds or less, 10 seconds to a minute, a minute or more. Nice & straightforward. Life’s good.
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