Based upon ES Research Group's experience and regular surveys, most decisions regarding third-party sales training content providers are made for the wrong reasons in the wrong way. The result is wasted time, money and significant lost business opportunity. 

Research shows when sales people follow their sales process they are more likely to meet their goals and quota. Sales Leaders need to drive the selling process as well as the performance required within each stage of the selling.

Did you know that depending on how it is used, money and other cash-based awards could actually negatively impact your engagement strategies?  This presentation combines scientific studies and examples to show the way that rewards, recognition, program design, and communications should be properly used to stimulate activity and engagement.

Discover the advantages and disadvantages of the modern salesforce and how you can keep your team’s skills sharp - wherever they work.

It’s the common sales manager nightmare: your salesperson comes in with a "great opportunity," but the customer needs a massive discount. Why does this happen so often? Because your salespeople only know how to bargain ("he wanted a 20% discount, but I talked him down to accepting only 10%!"). What we really want salespeople to do is negotiate in a way that strengthens the relationship with the customer while keeping a good profit for you. In this session, you will learn how to get your salespeople to negotiate their way to success and not bargain away your profits.

It is a fact—you can’t move from a needs-based selling proposition to a value-based proposition without knowing how your customer creates value. Unfortunately, most salespeople don’t have a clue how their customers create value, or what questions to ask about the value creation process to uncover hidden needs. In this session, you will learn what your salespeople need to understand about the customer’s value chain, and how to uncover the hidden needs in order to improve that value creation process. As a result, your salespeople will be able to create greater differentiation and generate higher win rates.

Do you use PowerPoint on a day to day basis? Would you like to get more done? Get better results? It's possible! This online PowerPoint masterclass is perfect for anyone struggling to make their slides stand out.  

Building and maintaining a qualified, correctly sized pipeline is the key to sales success because no problems = no sales. Your sales pipeline is a collection of other people's; problems, worries and struggles. There are many reasons why sellers and their managers struggle or fail to do so.

When you've presented the proposal, but opportunities aren't closing, you need strategies to compel prospects to make a decision. And discounts aren't the way to do that.

There are hundreds of assessments on the market today and its very confusing! The challenge is assessments are grossly misunderstood and each assessment company claims theirs is the best. It’s what they don’t tell you that gets you into trouble.

Selling is hard enough - don’t make it harder by ignoring your customer’s buying journey.  Sales strategies that take into consideration how customers go through their buying journey will lead to winning more sales. 

Basic Premise:   Sales is often viewed as an occupation that has little job security. In actuality, sales is one of the most secure professions you can enter.

We’re all well aware that today’s workforce is very different then that of just last year. Whether your organization is now returning to the office, staying remote, or implementing a hybrid model, there is a need to connect employees together and create meaningful collaboration to support organizational priorities. Plus, employees are looking for ways to stay connected with each other and methods for accelerating their ability to upskill in areas critical to team, organizational and personal success.

Webinars do generate leads. People lost faith in webinars as a lead generation source in 2020. They didn’t get leads. Prospects didn’t attend. The problem isn’t the webinar. It’s what you’re doing before, during, and after that’s failing to drive attendance and convert leads.  

Work as we know it has changed. Forever. In order to thrive, organizations must re-invent themselves and embrace the new normal. A Top 200 Global Thought Leader to Watch in 2021 and author of the newly released book, Remote 101: The Secret to Engaging Virtual Workers, Jill understands how organizations operate, and what they need to do to attract, retain, and engage employees. Are remote workers incredibly productive? Yes, but they also say they feel unsupported and disconnected. The companies that will come out on top are the ones which create and execute a strategy to effectively manage remote workers, and the new hybrid work environment.   

This webinar will teach conversational skills that can expand sales performance and results. Sales has so many situations that sales reps need to be ready for; therefore, it's imperative that reps are conversational ready. Often success can be attributed to product knowledge or relationships when in fact what we say, how we say things and when we say things can often deter or accelerate the sales process.

Are you confident your important presentations always lead to the results you want? 

More leads won't get you more business unless you do this...  

In addition to facing the global pandemic, spiking inflation, and near-recession, today’s leaders must deal with trends such as the "Great Resignation," "Quiet Quitting," and "Bare Minimum Mondays." Likewise, they must figure out how to handle the dramatic changes that likely will result from emerging technologies such artificial intelligence-based tools. All this while piloting their employees and organizations toward optimum performance.   

Once upon a time in a land far, far away, trainers told creative, captivating stories that piqued the interest of colleagues, clients, and customers. These trainers did not say, "Trust me on this" or "Take my word for it," nor did they overwhelm their listeners with complex bar graphs or slay them with bullet (points). Rather, they used the power of storytelling to get people to agree, believe, comply, or act. Stories help people sit up and listen, and most importantly, connect!  

Not every great salesperson knows how to tell a great story. But great storytellers can sell just about anything. Join us as we break down the basics of what makes a good story, what's in it for the person to whom you are selling, and how to target the story to their needs.

Influence, The Cornerstone Of Leadership Development

Discover innovative strategies to enhance customer retention and encourage repeat business through LinkedIn social selling techniques. This webinar, presented by Social Sales Link, LLC, explores how to effectively use LinkedIn not just as a tool for acquiring new leads, but as a vital platform for maintaining and deepening relationships with existing customers. Learn actionable methods to make your social selling efforts more personal and impactful, ensuring customers remain engaged and loyal.  

Communication is the number 1 skill in business, according to LinkedIn. Now more than ever, clear communication and visibility are key to success. Expect to learn how to speak and present with confidence, lead difficult conversations to positive outcomes, and position yourself on LinkedIn — together with Oliver Aust, bestselling author, podcast host and founder of the Speak Like CEO Academy.