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Selling Isn’t Easy, So Why Do We Keep Hitting The Easy Button?

Partners in Excellence

We all know that selling is hard. We’ve never studied how someone prepares for and executes a high impact meeting. We may “learn the mechanics” about how to make a high impact sales call, but we haven’t actually experienced it in practice. Selling is hard! Selling isn’t easy.

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Designing High-Impact Onboarding Experiences

Highspot

You want to understand if onboarding helped to equip sellers with the foundational skills to sell effectively. To understand if your learning program resulted in behavior change or exposed skill gaps in need of remedying, leverage analytics to help you evaluate impact. Wed love to hear from you.

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Who Is This Important To?

Partners in Excellence

In the context of the issues they face, the impact is small. If selling reduction in admin time/tasks represents a few percent of their overall expenses, they may have bigger fish to fry. For example, if we are selling software technologies, while IT may be key, it represents a net incremental expense to them.

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Coaching Our Customers

Partners in Excellence

At the end of the article, I had and Afterword, suggesting the same principles used in high impact coaching within our own organizations should be applied in working with our customers. High impact coaching is collaborative, learning conversations. I recently wrote an updated version of “ What Is Coaching ?”

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The “Things We Don’t Want To Do”

Partners in Excellence

How would I know how adversely they would impact the things I revel in doing, the things I love spending time on? But we have spent the time on this, we understand the things that are really impactful in our outreach. Selling, leadership, building/growing businesses is tough work.

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AI Role Play for Sales Managers: How to Train and Sell Better

Highspot

Short, high-impact coaching: 10-15 minutes In-depth coaching: 20-30 minutes Rapid decision-making under pressure: 5-10 minutes AI Role-Play Scenario Planner Use this planner to outline personalized AI role-play situations for your sales managers. Help them build confidence in handling objections.

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Dear SaaStr: How Do I Become a Better SDR?

SaaStr

Focus on Solving Problems, Not Selling Features : The biggest mistake SDRs make is talking about features or offering to buy coffee. The ones who stick it out and master the craft often move into AE roles or other high-impact positions. It’s more work than a cloned email. No one cares.