Pay-off: Increase your rewards more comfortably Investment: 6 minutes Sign up to weekly posts here You’ve surely heard that the uncomfortable thing is often worth doing? You know, really, that you should do it. It would probably make a big difference to your career or life. And you know that things will probably stagnate if …
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Pay-off: A short guide to what it’s worth learning next Investment: 4 minutes Sign up to weekly posts here Here’s my top five: How to think (far beyond your default level of thinking) How to learn fast How to identify and solve the right problems How to lead How to sell These, I think, are …
…and my challenges to each! Pay-off: Begin developing a mindset that grows your career and business Investment: <2 minutes The value here is if you actually pause to answer each of my questions rather than just read and smile at them 🙂 1.”I don’t have time to sell” You say that, but…you have 10,080 minutes …
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Pay-off: Never again struggle to introduce yourself Investment: <4 minutes You’re about to meet someone for the first time, step into the unknown, and hopefully strike up an enjoyable conversation. It could be your next valuable business, career, or sales relationship that might just be the turning point you’ve been waiting for. But first, you’re …
Pay-off: Improved outcomes when talking to people Investment: 4 minutes You may already be familiar with how to pre-empt objections in conversation but do you use this opportunity-creating conversational approach fluently, consistently and successfully? Regardless of your experience, this post should help you open more valuable opportunities in your work and life more consistently, and …
Pay off: Plenty of ideas to improve how you learn, sell, and learn to sell Investment: up to you, but make it count 😉 I thought a round-up of this years posts so far that people found useful, shared or that led to conversations with me might be useful: For sales / non-sales leaders: 13 …
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Pay-off: increase the chances of a second sale Investment: 4 minutes This is another one I’ve been asked about recently by professional service consultants keen to secure more work with their clients. It’s one thing selling in your main solution. But how do you connect that to further business? How do you set things up …
Pay-off: Avoid recruiting BD imposters who like to look good, but won’t deliver Investment: 2.5 minutes Sales / BD leaders: Do your BD people want to be good at BD? Or do they want to appear to be good at BD? Good at BD Do they prioritise their own performance improvement, and remain honest about …
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Pay-off: Quickly spot potential sales talent for B2B/nonsales/technical/start ups/professional service sales Investment: 4 minutes How would you go about identifying potential sales talent in your nonsales people? I’m increasingly asked to help businesses do this and it’s certainly a healthy question for businesses to ask: “Who could and should be contributing to developing our business, …
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Pay-off: spot the hidden valuable opportunities Investment: <2 minutes Many people in BD seem to have ‘opportunity planning’ all wrong. Either they don’t do it at all, they don’t do it enough, or they do it and begin to believe that things will go to plan, being unprepared then to deal with unexpected surprises or …
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