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3 Ways to Optimize Sales Performance and Be Ready for the Coming Boom

Integrity Solutions

Product knowledge and selling skills, by comparison, are much less predictive of sales success. We have to address the whole person by developing the skills, mindset and attitudes as well as the product knowledge, techniques and tools. We’re at a pivotal moment right now, and there’s too much at stake.

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Are your sales training efforts keeping up with customer expectations?

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In our study of 200+ sales organizations , 84% of respondents told us that “Achievement Drive” contributes as much or more to a salesperson’s performance as sales skills or specific product knowledge.

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Building Sales Confidence is Everything

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Are you helping people build up confidence in themselves and what they’re capable of as much as you’re helping them build up their ability to recite product knowledge and use their CRM system? Think about what your organization focuses on when it comes to sales development. The Right Questions Create Contagious Confidence.

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The Edge That Will Help Sales Leaders Get Ahead

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For example, many coaches focus on product knowledge or developing selling skills. Other aspects of a robust L&D system — e.g., providing effective coaching tools, peer practice-sharing — create slight bumps in sales objective achievement, but nothing comes close to matching the increase you get from coaching the coaches.

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Can Better Questions Lead to More Wallet Share?

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If they learn how to ask questions first, though, they can offer a product that meets the need, thus solving a problem (or helping) the customer. Lack of product knowledge. It’s only natural that an associate who’s not familiar with certain products isn’t going to open up the opportunity for a discussion about them.

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Get to the Heart of the Sales Mindset and Increase Questioning Confidence

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The message for bank and credit union trainers: While sales training often focuses on expanding product knowledge and building skills , that’s not going to solve a problem like this one, which is one of will. Why Addressing Motivation Matters. Both skill and will play a role in an employee’s selling success.

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Are your sales training efforts keeping up with customer expectations?

Integrity Solutions

In our survey of 200+ sales organizations , 84% of respondents told us that “Achievement Drive” contributes as much or more to a salesperson’s performance as sales skills or specific product knowledge.

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