Last year, I had the good fortune to see the premiere of producer Jeff Orlowski's documentary, The Social Dilemma, in person at the Sundance Film Festival. The documentary shows how technology companies encourage us to spend more time on their platforms by creating algorithms designed to excite, agitate and addict us to want more. Each time we check a Twitter feed or Facebook update, we get a dollop of opiate-like reward hormones. This pinging and dinging creates a dopamine-addiction feedback loop, effectively rewarding the brain for losing focus and for constantly searching for external stimulation. We get pulled deeper into…
Too many sellers look for new business in the wrong places. They’re in the dark when it comes to engaging with today’s information rich, time starved consumer. They fail to adapt to new methods of prospecting, discovering information, creating value, and holding the customer’s attention. In fact, according to new research by Gartner, sellers engage in behaviors today that thwart sales.
Your junk drawer provide a perfect metaphor for your sales process. Your junk drawer, like your sales process, undergoes a natural sort of entropy. We litter them with ideas, metrics, and white papers; we pile on more information and clutter our slide decks. We assume if one taco sauce is good, fifty must be better.
The benefits of coaching sales teams are undeniable. However, Bad or nonexistent coaching causes negative behaviors to become ingrained in your culture and repeated year after year. Whether you’re a manager or a seller, read these 5 deadly coaching mistakes and make certain you give and receive coaching designed to improve and sustain sales performance.
