30 years ago, B2B sales people drove around in their company cars with a trunk full of brochures, catalogs, and samples. Marketing relied on salespeoples' relationships to "get the word out" in a way that simply mailing the content could not match. To customers, salespeople were the "Keepers of the Information". How else would a customer know about a product or service if not for the classic sales call?

Annual performance reviews are a given in business. What is not a given is timely and meaningful feedback throughout the year. Yet research shows that providing ongoing feedback in smaller chunks, while situations and circumstances are still fresh in the employee's mind, is more effective than a one hour meeting once per year.

The toughest thing for sales people is to ask questions and REALLY stay silent. They just talk too much and sabotage a sales person’s success. Sadly, most sales people are not aware of this as prospects and client typically don t share this. This webinar will teach creative ways to build great sales people who ask consistently open-ended questions, actively listen, and DO NOT TALK TOO MUCH!

There is little question that many sales hiring authorities are taking a new look at this misunderstood, but critical function. They have learned, all too painfully, that their hiring methods of the past don't apply any longer.

The numbers don’t lie—prospecting is challenging. Consider: It takes 18 dials to connect to a single buyer 10-30% of your customers will stop doing business with you each year Your sales team has a 56% greater chance of attaining quota if they engage buyers prior to buyers contacting potential vendors

This session is geared specifically toward helping sales managers and sales professionals create more effective and more persuasive B2B sales presentations.  

Surgeons and pilots save lives using checklists. How can you use sales playbooks to save deals and help your team achieve their goals? How many lives were saved using checklists?  What mistakes do B2B salespeople often do?  How about sales managers - what mistakes do they repeat?  How can a checklist prevent common mistakes and help us sell more?

If you are not getting leads off LinkedIn, you are not using it properly. LinkedIn has over 400 million business professionals on their platform that can potentially help your business. On the other side, if you are not using a sales automation tool to reach out to the leads you get from LinkedIn, you are wasting hours a day that could be spent closing sales..

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.

Uncommunicated expectations are often unmet expectations. That won’t fly when you are trying to talk with your customers’ executives! With complex solutions, often it becomes clear that higher-level support is required to make the sale. What does it take to engage your customers’ executives in a meaningful way? C-suite executives are busy and hard to reach. They are, however, willing to meet with salespeople but with very specific expectations. In order to be effective, your salespeople need to plan carefully for the call, do their homework, and, most importantly, understand those "secret" expectations.

As sales people, we are always looking for our next prospect. We’re picking up the phone and making calls to brand new people, we’re reaching out to strangers on LinkedIn, and we’re asking for introductions and referrals from our clients and networking partners. While all this activities are important, we’re ignoring the people that are already in our network who we probably should be nurturing.

Are you ready for the new normal? Virtual selling—working a deal remotely when you can’t be there in person—is how to close B2B deals today. With business uncertainty at an all-time high, any vendor that’s not on board will get trounced by their competition.

Every strong, confident, and effective business leader should actively work to develop and hone their own authentic presentation style. Whether you are gearing up to give a formal presentation to hundreds of people or a preparing for a critical sit-down with two people, this program will push the boundaries of your capabilities. Fabulous presenter? We turn up your potential. Nervous beginner? We'll get you comfortable and capable with a myriad of speaking situations. Every leader can learn to be a better, stronger, and more effective at persuading their audience. 

This session is prescriptive and actionable. We will roll up our sleeves and discuss practical ways to identify sales issues involving people, leadership, pipeline, and process and some top actions to take immediately to work toward bigger revenues. Determine what you know and what you just think when it comes to facts about your sales team.

If you haven’t stayed in touch, only 17% of clients return to their original provider for repeat business. These are clients who knew you and once appreciated your value. They’ve just forgotten you. It’s time to dive into your old client list and hunt for new opportunities. Whatever the reason they aren’t engaged with you now, you can win them back.  

A true webinar experience isn’t just the event itself. It’s everything that happens from concept creation to on-demand archive that determines how much demand and ROI your webinar will generate. To make your webinars stand out from the crowd, it’s time to look at the entire experience through a different lens.

Congratulations, you’ve finally filled those open sales positions and soon your team will be at full strength! How solid is your onboarding program? Can you define the milestones from first day to first sale? Can your sales managers tailor the onboarding program based on the strengths and experiences of each new hire? Do you have opportunities for practice, peer feedback, and asynchronous coaching?  How about developing your existing salespeople? Where can they improve?  Have you built a culture of continuous growth and improvement? Or is training an "event" your team needs to get through to check the development box?  

Every salesperson knows that important buying decisions and complex sales are rarely made by an individual—multiple decision-makers are the rule rather than the exception. Yet few salespeople know how to effectively untangle the complexities associated with influencing multiple people with various priorities in making a single buying decision.   

What’s the number one issue facing L&D professionals today? It’s "Scrap Learning," a term that describes the gap or wasteland between training delivered and not applied back on the job. Said differently, it’s the flip side of training transfer. You might be wondering how big the problem is. According to several research studies, estimates range between 45 and 85 percent. These percentages make it a critical business issue because it wastes both money and time, two precious organization resources. 

Are your managers and trainers armed with the right tools to coach teams effectively? In today's business landscape, fulfilling the growing demand for impactful and measurable skill development poses a significant challenge. Employing a sophisticated ai-driven coaching platform can revolutionize this process, enhancing consistency, tracking progress, and leading to measurable improvements in employee performance and satisfaction.  

How did an employee engagement provider generate more than $3 billion in additional revenue? How did the maker of a firebrick exponentially increase their sales? It’s all about the stories we tell — especially those we tell about and to ourselves.  

New research shows that more than economic or business concerns, human capital-related challenges like retaining and developing leaders is now the #1 priority for CEOs. It’s what keeps them up at night more than anything else. Yet, despite the best efforts of the L&D and training communities, traditional leadership development programs gain little traction or have an impact on business results.  

The next frontier of organizational success is more human than you might think.  

Every buyer has a unique personality—and the best sales professionals know how to adapt their pitch to match. The DISC Personality Model is a powerful tool that helps salespeople quickly identify a prospect’s decision-making style, communication preferences, and buying behavior. By tailoring your approach, you can build instant rapport, handle objections more effectively, and close more deals.