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The Center for Sales Strategy Blog

21 Books on Our Shelves for Personal and Professional Development

21 Books on Our Shelves for Personal and Professional Development

Creating an environment where employees can develop is important to both their personal and career growth.

When you create a work environment that fosters a culture of learning for you and your employees, you will reap many positive returns.

Topics: developing strengths company culture

Hold Your Applause

Hold Your Appaluse

Thank you! Thank you!  Really, Thanks. Please hold your applause until the end of the sales meeting. 

What? 

You mean that you haven’t been interrupted during your sales meeting by thunderous applause from your salespeople?  Really?

Topics: successful sales meetings Sales

Acquiring Top Talent: 5 Things You're Forgetting to Do

Acquiring Talent

When it comes to hiring top talent, there are five areas often overlooked in the recruiting process that, when done well, can lead to onboarding your next superstar team member.
Topics: recruitment sales talent

Weekly Roundup: Sales Challenges, Humble Leaders + More

Humble Leader

- MOTIVATION -

"True leaders always practice the 3 R's: Respect for self, Respect for others, Responsibility for all their actions."

 

- AROUND THE WEB -

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8 Sales Challenges and Priorities for 2022– HubSpot

Even as we move toward some semblance of normalcy, sales, as a field, is still fundamentally different than it was just a few years ago. There are a host of new and emerging sales challenges that salespeople have to account for.

In the interest of helping you identify and overcome those issues, we reached out to sales experts and conducted some research. Here are eight of the main concerns facing salespeople in 2022 — as well as perspectives on how to address them. >>> READ MORE

Topics: Wrap-up

Twenty Years of Sales Experience or One Year of Experience Twenty Times?

Twenty Years of Sales Experience or One Year of Experience Twenty Times

In 2022, we're challenging you to reconsider the way you're doing business to improve your sales performance.

The sales process is constantly changing and it's changing more rapidly than ever, yet there's a generation of salespeople still selling like it was any year before 2009.

Also in the mix are sales managers not adept to the evolving sales world, and therefore, might struggle to lead their team to good sales results.

Topics: sales strategy sales performance sales process

Executive's Guide to Hiring Sales Reps

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Are you looking to expand your sales team?

There's no doubting that more sales, scales, and finding the right people are essential to a successful business.

From finding the right candidates to training them for success, we've got you covered. Don’t waste time and money on the wrong sales reps. Use this guide to find the best ones for your business. It will help you avoid costly mistakes and make the process easier for everyone involved.

Topics: hiring salespeople

Does Your VBR Sound Like a Pick-up Line?

Does Your VBR Sound Like a Pick-up Line

To pick someone up has been used as slang, according to Dictionary.com, since at least the 1600s.

Today's pick-up line means a rehearsed remark to strike up a conversation with the goal of pursuing a more gratifying relationship later.

Many salespeople have a rehearsed line meant to initiate a relationship with a prospect to satisfy their need to make another sale. Even when you’ve tried to find a Valid Business Reason (VBR), you might still end up sounding like you’re using a pick-up line.

How can you tell if your VBR has value to the prospect?

Topics: valid business reason

Identifying Redundancies for Sales Managers: What To Know

Identify Redundancies

Approximately 1.2 million employees were laid off or discharged in December 2021. As businesses recover from the chaos of the COVID-19 pandemic, identifying redundancies is essential for growth.

But what is redundancy?

In this article, we explain how overlooking signs of redundancy is affecting your business and how you can start strategizing for redundancy.

Topics: sales performance

Weekly Roundup: 2022's Economic Slowdown + More

2022s Economic Slowdown

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"A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example."

 

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The Top 3 Things to Consider for 2022's Economic Slowdown– The Great Game of Business

In 2021, industrial sectors experienced Accelerating Growth, creating crunches on capacity, exacerbating concerns surrounding the labor market, prompting a willingness to purchase raw materials at higher costs than perhaps would have otherwise been desired.

Folks, we are moving into a period of slowing growth. It is still growth, but not at the pace that you’ve come to know and most likely expect. >>> READ MORE

Topics: Wrap-up

Retain and Grow Top Performers with a Development Plan

Retain and Grow Top Performers with a Development Plan

The top organizations in any marketplace place a high value on their people because they are the foundation on which success is built.

They place an even higher value on managers who can develop top performers. Yet, all too often, business leaders hire people they believe in and sit back to see what they can do.

Topics: business development sales training recruitment sales talent