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Easy Ways to Improve Your Sales Intelligence

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Physical aids like highlighting or practice testing are widely used to improve student success. Just as agility training prepares your body for the unexpected, altering rehearsal conditions to vary your environment is good exercise. Remember to test on key points as well as sequence of topics to keep yourself aligned.

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Developing Leaders: Know That Confidence is Not Competence

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In their research, David Dunning and Stav Atir have studied the pitfalls of overconfidence. The researchers confirmed these truths and exposed the trouble with overconfidence. But when researchers tested entrepreneurs, they found a tendency to believe they had expertise when they didn’t. Accept the truth.

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The Just-In-Time Training Revolution

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Author: Tim Riesterer, Chief Strategy and Research Officer, Corporate Visions When it comes to enabling salespeople to be great “in the moment” across the different types of selling situations they face, the technology is there. The bad news: Messaging content and skills training approaches are not always present. That’s the good news.

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How to Excel at Standard Sales Jobs

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However, many experts say that successful selling is primarily a skill set that can be developed through training and experience. A ‘Sales Gene’ May Amplify Adaptive Learning The question of what it takes to make a good salesperson has been asked of some serious academic researchers. What Skills Do Standard Sales Jobs Require?

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Birding the Eshowe area, South Africa

10,000 Birds

The African Pygmy Goose to me looks a bit like an annoying teenager on a subway train who wants to highlight the fact that he wears enormous earphones. In 1964, two researchers described a new species, the White-chested Tinkerbird, and brought a specimen back to the UK. It still looks pretty much like a Purple Swamphen to me.

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Why Your Salespeople Won’t Follow Up With Prospects

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Be certain about this, however: you can’t solve an ability problem with a motivation solution, and you cannot solve a motivation problem with a training solution. . Here is the test: has there been sufficient training and testing in the past? Researching a solution for the customer? It’s more one than the other.

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Animal Researchers' Emotional Blackmail

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Here's a succinct letter to the editor that summarizes the emotional blackmail propogated by animal researchers. The million dollar ad campaign by the Foundation for Biomedical Research (“Critical research,” Nov. Tags: animal research drug companies medical research. From the Spokesman-Review in Spokane, WA.