Sales Training: Are Sales Leaders More Receptive to Training Than Salespeople?

Dave Kurlan is a top-rated speaker, best-selling author, sales thought leader and highly regarded sales development expert.

When a room full of sales leaders arrive for two days of intensive training, there are many things that can and do happen.  Here are ten of them:

1. They can and do resist if they were sent there.  If they chose to come, on their own, resistance never occurs!  Fortunately, the resistance fades away by the end of the first day.
2. They can and do see the magic of how proper sales coaching should be conducted.
3. They can and do pick and choose what to embrace and bring back to their offices and teams.
4. They can get a much better grasp on what it takes to make their sales force change-ready but some won’t take the time to do so.
5. They can understand the subleties of how to shape their sales environment but it’s not as exciting as mastering sales coaching.  So even though one can’t coach effectively without shaping their environment, some will fail to execute that important step.
6. They can and do see the power, efficiency and magic of a well thought-out, time-tested, proven, customized, optimized sales process.  But old habits are hard to break and some still want to demo and present too early in the new process!
7. They can and do get a much better understanding of how to effectively motivate their various salespeople but some will forget most of it by the time they return to their office.
8. They can and do understand how to more effectively and consistently find, assess, interview, select, hire, on board and retain better salespeople but some would rather work harder and longer and do what they have always done instead of trusting that a time-tested, proven, customized, effecient sales recruiting process will make it as easy as advertised.
9. They can and do learn the power of the daily huddle as a great way to hold their salespeople accountable to the KPI’s that will drive revenue.  However, some will ease into this by conducting a weekly huddle, mistaken in their belief that weekly will work as effectively as daily.
10. They can and do learn the power of a staged, criteria-based pipeline and what it takes to keep it filled.  Most will implement this upon their return.

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