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Sales Experts Disagree on the Right Way to Train Salespeople
I was involved in a nearly week long, on line discussion with about a half dozen other sales experts in the Top Sales Experts Group at LinkedIn that to date has included about 41 volleys. The original question, raised by the UK publisher of modernselling.com, asked whether there was a right way or a wrong way to train salespeople. While there was some agreement on some points, there was much disagreement on many points.

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Overenthused And Undercapitalized
Your sales and marketing success depends on your business model. There are three main business models and what you sell and how you sell it is dependent on having a plan and process that is alignment with your model.
Origins of NLP
Back in the 70's NLP started as a meta-model, or a model for making and changing other models. The NLP meta-model focuses on verbal models, and how language both shapes and reflects human thought. The two explained their meta model in The Structure of Magic. They first used the meta-model to find how highly successful therapists like Milton Erickson and Virginia Satir managed to help so many people. They wanted to know: What language and behavioral patterns did these therapists have? In Erickson's case, how did he consistently produce deep hypnotic trances? What happened in the client's mind as they changed?

The Art of Changing Your Mind Before You Change Your Life
In a recent issue of my newsletter, Lifestyle and Workstyle REFLECTIONS, I touched upon the concept of a strategic lifestyle plan. Much like the strategy an entrepreneur might use to develop a sound business model, the strategic lifestyle plan serves as a tool to manage one's life more effectively. The key, of course, being that the lifestyle one carves out for oneself is in alignment with one's values, goals and priorities.

Personal Alignment
At some point, most of us have experienced that vague feeling that something isn't quite right .... even if we cannot quite put our finger on what it is. Maybe we feel we are running on a fraction of our full potential. Or that we lack the full measure of courage / confidence that we would like to have. Or perhaps we believe we have everything in place, but our intuition does not quite go along with this analysis. This may be indicative that some "alignment" is missing. Here is a brief overview of some of the key elements of personal alignment, even if the full relationship between them is too complex to represent here.

2009: Make It A Great Year
This is a process we do with our clients, at the beginning of every new year, to support them in having the year be more productive, more successful and more satisfying than it otherwise would be. The process is based on two fundamental principles which determine the success of an organization. The first principle is that nature abhors a vacuum and, by creating a vacuum in your company or firm, you create a space for the things you want to come into your experience. The second principle is the principle of alignment discussed in detail in the article entitled The X Factor: Alignment.

Internet Business Model
Compared to the traditional business model, the internet business model is in many ways more powerful and absolutely more accessible to anyone. Entrepreneurs from all walks of life are successfully implementing this business model.
Why Bother With Distributed Leadership?
There are many ways to measure alignment. But you can only achieve alignment across the board through distributed leadership. Implementing such strategies develops leadership in each unit of your operation and at different levels of your organization. You actually end up empowering employees to act and give them the knowledge about what must be done.

Business Model vs Business Plan
A business model is not a business plan and a business plan is not a business model. Your business plan documents how you will execute your business model. Your business model is your proprietary methodology used to acquire service and retain your customers.
Measure your Marketing/Business Alignment
Being aligned with your business seems very simple and straightforward, yet many organizations feel that their Marketing department is not fully aligned with Senior Management. Measure your business alignment with Demand Metric’s downloadable Marketing/Business Alignment Tool and understand your current maturity level.
Strategic Alignment – The Missing Link In Most Organizations
Achieving strategic alignment is a major undertaking for any organization, but it is worth the effort. When there is unity and alignment, the energy of the entire organization is focused on those priorities that result in the realization of the vision and the successful execution of the business strategy.

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