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Unblock your Sales Genius
The secret of genius is no secret at all. It is simply a matter of developing strengths until they become extraordinary. Unless weaknesses are a threat, people can ignore them or compensate for them. Developing self-awareness and self-knowledge may be the greater challenge.

How Many of Your Salespeople are Addicted to This?
Is there too much "Hopium" on your sales team?

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Selling A Competency or a Responsibility
Is selling a competency reserved for those with "sales" in their titles or is it a responsibility of everyone in the organization? Top performing companies see selling as a competency important to everyone in leadership or a position of influence.

Lead Generation = Dollar Creation
All businesses are built on two areas of competency – people skills and marketing skills. Many sales people who are more than adequate in their sales and people skills are struggling today. The reason is most sales people lack enough opportunities with customers. Lead generation = dollar creation.
Territory Management vs. Account Management
Terms such as Account Development, Account Management and Territory Management are often interchanged indiscriminately by many a sales people and managers thus creating confusion when it comes to sales planning, portfolio allocation and recruiting the right kind of sales person for your business. I thought it might helpful to define these terms and give you a little more perspective. All sales people involved in developing long term viable business relationships with the right kind of customers should be doing Account Development: Here is our definition of Account Development taken from the BARRETT Sales Competency Dictionary.

Your Sales and Sales Management Questions Answered
In an article last week, I provided the post to a sales competency contest. The final question in that survey asked the participants for any sales issues they needed help with. Today I'll answer the first four of those questions below:
LEADERSHIP IS INSIDE-OUTSIDE
A potential leader requires solid knowledge that comes only from inside and he should have competency to complete the things internally. The whole earth is following the principle of ‘Inside-Outside’. Competency is also created inside and bringing it outside up to 100 per cent is leadership. Leadership is always performance, never position and always regardless of power.
Your Sales and Sales Management Questions Answered - Part 2
In an article last week, I provided the post to a sales competency contest. The final question in that survey asked the participants for any sales issues they needed help with. Today I'll answer the first four of those questions below:
The Foundations of a Strategic Competency System for Leadership Development
Nurturing competency in leadership becomes “strategic” when organizational objectives match the competency development required to achieve them, and, the efforts are coordinated with human resources.
Commodity Value Proposition - An Oxymoron?
How do you find your value proposition when everything you do and everything you sell seems to border on being a commodity because everybody is trying to do the same thing to create competitive advantage? “Oh, but we’re different. We sell our World Class Service.” Right ………………………. How many companies do you know that don’t say they have world class service. Many say that servicing the customer is their core competency. If they truly do have world class service, service is not their core competency it’s what they are doing to create and maintain that level of service that is their true core competency.
Framework for Competency-based Management
This framework provides a set of specifications for the development and implementation of competency profiles, tools and mechanisms in support of career management, learning and development, succession planning, recruitment, performance management and staffing.

The framework covers:
• Why competency-based human resource management is implemented;
• The structure for the development of competency profiles, including how jobs are clustered into career streams for competency profiling purposes.
Sales Traction - The Key to Measuring the Number 1 Sales Competency
How can you truly measure the number one Sales Competency? Traction.

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