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Over Achievers on the Sales Force - We Have it All Wrong
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| Believe it or not, our six-year-old son is an over achiever.
He has spelling tests each week and his teacher gives the class bonus words for extra points. He loves the bonus words and extra points so much that he has duplicated the process on his math tests.
The teacher gives the class 20 math questions each week but (right now they are working on problems like 7 + 4) no bonus questions on the math. Our son takes it upon himself to add 4 bonus questions (he includes bonus questions like 800 +600) because he feels he can do more.
This begs the question, how do you measure your over achievers?
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How To Improve Your Own Time Management Through Seven Strategic Questions, According To Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach
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| Time is such a precious commodity and it is highly valued by strategic thinkers. Strategic thinking people want to get the most benefit out of their time and they have discovered that a great way to do just that is to develop the ability to ask yourself the strategic questions at the right time. And the beauty of this technique is that you only need to invest no more than sixty seconds to ask those questions before you begin any specific activity, task or assignment. The skill of asking the right questions must be acquired and as time goes by you will improve your ability to ask the real strategic questions. It is important to learn how to ask questions and one tip is to have your questions begin with the word “what.” Here is a list of seven strategic questions to ask. |
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Keeping Your Variable Compensation Programs in Compliance with the FLSA
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| Ever wondered how to keep your bonus/incentive programs within the FLSA guidelines? Then this is all you need. |
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Over Achievers on the Sales Force - We Have it All Wrong
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| Believe it or not, our six-year-old son is an over achiever.
He has spelling tests each week and his teacher gives the class bonus words for extra points. He loves the bonus words and extra points so much that he has duplicated the process on his math tests.
The teacher gives the class 20 math questions each week but (right now they are working on problems like 7 + 4) no bonus questions on the math. Our son takes it upon himself to add 4 bonus questions (he includes bonus questions like 800 +600) because he feels he can do more.
This begs the question, how do you measure your over achievers?
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Sales Management Training Tips: Coaching the Talented-Slacker
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| Meet Jane.
Jane is an experienced and successful district sales manager who could work in any industry and for any company. In fact, there are many Jane’s in all companies. Jane is performance driven, a very good coach and a people person. Each month Jane is put to the test with different sales reps she must coach to success.
IBZ is a mid sized technology company. The company has had some tough years but has turned the corner. It pays it’s reps a combination of salary and bonus for achievement of targets. This year the bonus plans has a super bonus portion which accelerates when a rep is 5% over quota.
Jane wants to get 2009 off to a great start. In one of our monthly coaching sessions Jane, was expressing her frustrations with one of her most tenured sales reps.
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Probing: Leading and Controlling with Questions
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| What: is a probe
Why: do we use probes
Questions are one of the most powerful weapons in a salesperson’s arsenal of procedures and techniques. Questions require a prospect to participate actively in the sale. Questions help us learn the prospects hidden wants and needs. Questions give us time to gain lost composure.
We must become excellent question askers and effective listeners.
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Socratic Struggles
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| Using the Socratic Method to guide discussions is a well known tool. The method is frequently used in educational situations, but it can be a powerful tool at work if used well. The caveat is that it can be dangerous if used poorly.
What has been your experience with using the Socratic Method? Are you alert to when other people are using the method with you?
The attached article has some of my thoughts on this subject and gives a list and examples of the six types of socratic questions.
1. Questions of Clarification.
2. Questions that probe assumptions.
3. Questions that probe reasons and evidence.
4. Questions that probe perspective.
5. Questions that probe consequences.
6. Questioning the question |
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Online Marketing Strategies: Bonuses, Discounts, Coupons & Special Orders
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| There are any number of marketing strategies that can help you improve your sell-through ratio - regardless of whether you are selling online or offline. These include using bonuses, discounts, coupons and/or special orders.
Each of these approaches has an advantage, depending on the manner in which they're used. In fact, you can utilize a number of these in conjunction with each other...
There are some schools of thought that say that providing your clients and potential buyers with bonuses is better than offering a discount. I certainly full into this camp - I believe that offering a bonus is preferable to offering a discount!
Let's take a look at why. e A bonus is meant to attract people to complimentary (tie in) products or services, as well as encouraging the buy-through. |
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What questions should I ask when buying a business?
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| There are many questions buyers typically ask when thinking of buying a business that include the level of sales, qualifications and motivations of the employees, questions about landlord and suppliers. While these questions are helpful and appropriate, this article offers some more questions that will help in the decision of buying a business. |
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Can Your Salespeople Sell More Effectively by Asking More Questions?
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| Selling by asking questions is hard. A list of questions isn't the answer. Left to their own devices, your salespeople won't be able to create the kind of questions that are needed. You might not be able to either. |
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PLANNING FOR SUCCESS – PART 4 – CLARITY/SO WHAT?
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| Already we have discussed eleven key clarity questions that you must have answered in order to effectively and successfully plan for a better new year. But there's a bonus question that may be the most important question. Here we give you that question along with the ultimate acid test to use against all of your answers. Planning for a successful future is absolutely essential to survive, to thrive and to grow in todays business world. Here's how to get it done and get it done right! |
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