In this next chapter in our continuing WhiteSpace webinar series, Heather Sager tackles the pernicious problem of meetings and how they gobble up talent capacity and time to work.

Have you seen the recent B2B buying research? Study after study report that buyers: don\'t trust salespeople do more and more of their own research don\'t believe they understand them or their businesses grow weary of stereotypical seller behavior.

There are 8 steps to rolling out an effective social selling program. In this webinar, Sales and Marketing leaders will learn what it takes to roll-out an effective program that generates business opportunities.

Research shows that as much as 90% of professional learning is informal and experiential, taking place out in the world and not in a classroom. It\'s what people do every day in their personal lives when they access content from sites like Google, YouTube, Yelp, and TripAdvisor. Yet companies are ignoring how employees intuitively learn and forcing them to train in the exact opposite way.

It\'s no secret that it\'s an employee\'s job market. With U.S. unemployment rates hovering below 4%, it\'s harder than ever to hire the talent you need today—and harder still to hold onto the people you have. Take control of the situation! Build a Culture of Recognition & Engagement where employees want to work for your organization because they feel connected to your mission, valued by their managers and supported by everyone—from co-workers to top management.

Vengreso recently published an original report titled "The State of Digital Selling with LinkedIn in 2019". The report is based on survey results from B2B sales reps across five industries: professional services, technology, manufacturing, healthcare, and financial services. There were some definite surprises when it comes to how reps are (or are NOT) using LinkedIn for business development.

The purpose of this paper is to explore the 17 innovations occurring to the methods of training and learning. Some are in their infancy; others are more mature. Additionally, we\'ll suggest some neuroscience-based practices to help you develop your organizational training.

Vengreso recently published an original report titled The State of Digital Selling with LinkedIn in 2019. We surveyed 862 B2B sales reps across five industries: professional services, technology, manufacturing, healthcare, and financial services to assess their digital selling skills. The sales reps were asked 10 multiple-choice questions about how they use LinkedIn in their sales activities to assess how their use of LinkedIn impacts their digital selling results. Tune into today’s episode as Bernie and his guest Kurt Shaver, Co-founder and CSO at Vengreso, summarize the key findings that are published in the 20-page report. Get the full report on the Vengreso website or at stateofdigitalselling.com. Don’t miss out on the full report’s finding to understand how reps are being effective in digital selling through LinkedIn.

There is a lot hype these days about “Modern This” and “Modern That.” What does Modern Selling even mean? And what is Modern Learning? And how can you get past the hype and combine these modern maxims to improve sales performance and deliver profitable growth for your company?

In sales, we often find ourselves grappling with a false choice – do we focus on relationship building with the customer, or focus more on winning the deal at all costs? It can often seem like there is no middle ground, we have to either perform like a hardliner or try and gain the customer\'s favor. But it is not, in fact, an either/or situation. This white paper explores the middle ground between building relationships and winning the deal and offers helpful tips on ways to nurture both your relationship with the customer while keeping your eye on the prize. Read more to discover how it might be the way salespeople think about their customer relationships that prevents them from focusing on and winning the deal. JMReid Group is a training company that provides sales programs with this middle ground at top of mind. If you like what you read, contact us in the interest of your sales team at www.jmreidgroup.com.

Learning leaders have so many choices on how to deliver on the strategic promise of a learning organization, but there\'s so little time. Making these choices mean the difference between a growing, high-performance organization and one that struggles with the skill gaps that erode competitive value proposition.

Targeted lead generation combined with automated follow-ups is key to increasing your sales. If you are looking for more demos, more prospects, more sales, you need to be utilizing the tools that will help you save hours a week, but also fill the top of your sales funnels.

Workplace Application: Attendees will learn key steps and processes to build high performing teams while focusing on engagement. This session will focus on the key steps to building a high performing team. You will leave energized with a blueprint that will enable you to transform your teams into high performing functional teams and will take home team building tools, exercises, and approaches. This session will bring you through a team evolution process incorporating the best work of Lencioni, Tuckman, Blanchard, and of course, Kelleher.

Imagine your sales team gets invited to attend an exclusive networking event filled with senior decision-makers at companies that fit your ideal customer profile. Would you expect them to do their homework before they arrive at the event? How would you expect them to behave at the event? Would they grab a cocktail and stand against the wall for the entire event, quietly making comments to people as they pass? Or would they work the room, confidently striking up conversations with people they\'ve researched online, connected with and began developing authentic relationships proving they have the experience these buyers are seeking from a seller? As a sales leader, you\'d never hire a rep who couldn\'t represent your brand at an important event without proven experience and know-how to conduct meaningful conversations with qualified buyers. This is precisely how high-performing and experienced sales professionals approach digital selling with LinkedIn.

Sophisticated “sales enablement” platforms are becoming more accessible and are rapidly moving into budgets and project plans for middle market sales teams. This trend has the potential to massively impact sales productivity for these firms – but only if sales leaders can nail the implementation process and avoid getting distracted by lengthy projects that add little value.

When was the last time you left a webinar with 1-2 points that you can take home to your organization, implement and dramatically increase your output?

Sales coaching is a powerful way to reinforce learning and help reps master key skills – you know it, we know it. It\'s part of why video coaching tools have become so popular recently.

For the third year, Training magazine and Wilson Learning Worldwide have teamed up to conduct the Annual Leadership Survey focused on creating effective leaders and preparing the next generation of leaders.

Let’s be real. Sales training shouldn’t be like “catch and release” when fishing. The event-based sales training approach of the past hasn’t produced bottom line results, except for the elite producers, who are at the far right of the performance bell-curve and are lifelong learners. We need an approach that works for everyone, or as many as possible.  

THE KEY IS TO ADDRESS THE UNIQUE CHALLENGES OF SELLING OVER THE PHONE. There are two immediate challenges: Inside sales is different and selling over the phone is difficult. If you manage an inside sales or telesales team, you realize these as the unique hurdles to selling and managing customers over the phone. The purpose of this paper is to share with you experience gained from research in hundreds of organizations since 1996 that will help you respond to areas that are inhibiting the performance of your inside sales organization. By reading this white paper, you will learn: Three simple steps to tripling your success rate over the phone. The one reason a lower level of contact will sponsor you to a higher-level contact. The top two techniques for building value over the phone. Keys to leaving a highly-effective voicemail. How to overcome the five common challenges to discovering honest needs.

"You get what you recognize and reward" is considered the Greatest Management Principle in the World. Join the world\'s leading expert on this topic and related ones (Employee Engagement, Employee Experience),

Sales leaders today wear many hats and time is always scarce. If time is limited and we noted sales teams need coaching what is a leader to do?

Walt Disney was not your typical businessman. He didn\'t go to college. He didn\'t have an MBA. He hated org charts. It\'s doubtful he ever drew up a vision and mission statement. And yet he succeeded beyond what anyone\'s imagination. He did it through an unorthodox approach that made Disney one of the world\'s most admired companies and a place where inspiring leaders train and develop exceptional employees who deliver amazing customer service.

One of the toughest challenges salespeople experience is objections. We get objections during the prospecting such as were already working with someone I don\'t have any time. We get competitor objections. We get price objections. We get budgetary objections.