One-way facilitation, where virtual trainers ask one question and move on to the next subject, is like the - Hi!, Hello, and Good-bye!" - conversation. The virtual trainer signals to the learner that the learning is bound to be shallow, most likely lacking depth, expectedly boring, and possibly a total waste of time.  For virtual learners to be engaged, we need to facilitate penetrating and in-depth conversations. We want learners to be glued to your session - all ears, excited, and anticipating the end of the session so they can quickly apply ideas.

A person’s credibility is no different in virtual meetings than face-to-face meetings, yet many people exhibit behavior on camera that undermines their efforts to build trust and calls their credibility into question. Traditional methods of building trust fail in virtual meetings when you are unaware of how the camera (and thus, your customer or team) reads and interprets certain on-screen behaviors. In this session virtual-selling expert Julie Hansen shares the must-know secrets from her new book, "Look Me In The Eye: Using Video to Build Relationships with Customers, Partners and Teams."

I’ll show you how to teach your sales team to  build the 5 core stories every business needs to attract, engage, and endear high-value audiences. Then discover my ‘Cashflow Content’ system for turning those stories into an endless supply of social media, email, blog, ad, and sales content that converts.

Spend a week with high-performing sales professionals and you’ll find a common theme. They plan and intentionally invest in the right prospects, clients, and sales activities. They’re both strategic and tactical, and they over-achieve in their sales results.

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.

With supply chain constraints, long lead times, and inflationary pressure driving uncertainty, it is more important than ever for your sales team to sell value over price.  Are your salespeople able to drive sales conversations that help buyers discover the full value of your product or service?  Do they ask great questions, uncover compelling reasons to buy, and create urgency to act now?  Are your sales managers coaching your salespeople to get better at selling value?  

It’s January and you want a fast start. Yes, prospecting during a pandemic has been challenging. But you can put that behind you. It’s time to fill your pipeline and set yourself up for a successful year. Join prospect attraction authority Kendra Lee and learn how to set yourself up for a fast start with a prospecting plan that targets your top markets, referral partners, and stretch opportunities.

In an environment of nonstop meetings, there are few tools as indispensable as the icebreaker. If you’ve tried to run meetings with Zoom, Google Meet, or other video conferencing software, you’ve probably noticed screens can impose a distance that is challenging to overcome. When participants don’t feel engaged, meetings are less productive. But when you deploy the right icebreaker at the start of your virtual meeting, you help participants get mentally in the room, connect with one another, focus on a common goal, and  get energized to contribute.  

If you can just inspire and enable the middle 60% of your sales team to increase their sales just 10 - 20%, they can have the greatest impact on boosting your company’s sales and profits. The key is to understand each sales rep’s current level of engagement, then to empower them with the resources and support they need to amp their performance and succeed. 

Teach your sales team how to ditch the drawn out, worn out webinar for a snappier version that commands epic engagement, off-the-charts close rates, and authentic sales without the ‘salesy’ tactics.

During this webinar, five specific strategies will be taught to help sales organizations launch sales coaching practices for success in 2022. Sales coaching is not a new industry or endeavor, rather due to recent times the practice of sales coaching has dramatically changed and provided unique opportunities.

Have you ever heard that Eskimos have multiple words for "snow?" That’s because it’s so much a part of their world and the different types of snow may have different consequences for them. In Sales Enablement, we have the opposite problem with "content." We toss around the word "content" a lot, but it means different things to different people. And yes, there are multiple types of content, each of which has a different potential impact on sales performance. Why not maximize them all?  

What worked for so many years when compensating sales professionals is no longer sufficient. Given today’s tight labor pool and a rush by entrepreneurial types to start their own businesses, putting a comprehensive package of pay, benefits and extra perks together has never been more important. SMM's Focus Report on sales compensation looks at how to get compensation right and hold on to your best salespeople. Articles address: Why a competitive salary is merely table stakes 4 shifts in sales compensation How to combat the Great Resignation Why gaining insight on what drives reps nuts will help you keep your team intact

Just about every business professional is on LinkedIn, but few truly understand the power of the platform and how to make it work for them. Ted Prodromou will show you how.  

Depending upon where you are in the world, you may be back in the office or gearing back up to facilitate in-person classes. Or, you may be getting ready to deliver hybrid classes - which have a mixture of in-person and online audiences.

Sales hunters proactively look for business opportunities. They start every day ready to pound the virtual pavement and convert prospects. They’re effective and difficult to find. Too often, business leaders think they’re hiring a stellar hunter. A few months later, they realized the candidate’s greatest sales skill was selling themselves.  

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.   

Be in on the discussion as The Bob Pike Group and companies all around the world prepare for a return to classroom F2F training. We’ve heard from clients and brainstormed our own solutions to make classrooms safe and attendees comfortable. This is your chance to grab tested ideas and also share what people expect in your workplace or industry as we all figure new normal out together.

Sales is not just a numbers game, it's an intelligence game. B2B buyers expect sellers to know their business and consistently bring relevant ideas for improving it. Remarkably, HALF of U.S. salespeople don’t even look at the prospect’s website before making their first call. When salespeople take just a few minutes to do pre-call preparation using this framework, they stand apart from their competition.

Some aspect of meeting virtually is here to stay, but B2B sales and marketing professionals are eager to return to trade show environments and live marketing events. In-person events produce stronger leads, present opportunities for unplanned encounters and provide a means to build trust in a way that cannot be duplicated virtually. This Focus Report explores why businesses are ready to return to exhibit halls and what these events in a post-pandemic world will look like. With an understanding that hybrid is here to stay, we learn from experts how to make it work with trade show and marketing efforts.

As companies calibrate the balance between remote and in-office work, company cultures may be facing their greatest challenge in generations.  

Do you want 2022 to be your best year yet? It may feel counterintuitive, with 2021 still barreling toward a close, but if you haven’t already started, this is the time to be planning.

Leveraging existing connections to gain access to targeted stakeholders is one of the most powerful tools LinkedIn offers. Through targeted LinkedIn searches, participants will learn how to find out who in your network can make introductions to ideal clients and referral partners and proven outreach strategies to start meaningful conversations.

"Work" and "fun" have historically been considered polar opposites. It was thought that you can work or you can have fun, but you can't do both at the same time--or in the same place. Work is what you do for your paycheck and fun is what you do on the weekend. Most of us must work to earn money to live, and sometimes enjoying the work we do seems like a luxury we can't afford. Or can we? Download this article from some recommendations.