Sunday, March 25th, 2018

Time to fix the sales apprenticeship logjam

Teething problems and delays with the UK’s sales apprenticeship programme are frustrating employers. At the time of writing in early March, it is National Apprenticeship Week in the UK. This time last year – during the 2017 National Apprenticeship Week – there was considerable excitement that the standards for the first-ever degree apprenticeship in B2B sales would swiftly be approved…. 


Saturday, April 22nd, 2017

Learn and earn

Can the forthcoming apprenticeship programme for B2B sales catalyse a new era of professionalism? If anything underlines why we so desperately need the new Level 6 Degree Apprenticeship, it is the sustained effort a dedicated group of sales leaders and educationalists have had to put into educating government about business-to-business sales as a career and to convince the “powers that… 


Saturday, April 22nd, 2017

Government approves landmark sales apprenticeship standard

In what is seen as a landmark for the sales sector, the government announced its approval for the first-ever apprenticeship standard for business-to-business sales professionals in England on 3 May. The standard is for a Level 6 Degree Apprenticeship, which will enable participants to gain a Bachelor’s degree on completion of their apprenticeship. Consultation on the assessment plan for the… 


Saturday, April 22nd, 2017

Apprenticeship plan lights way forward for sales

New milestone passed on the route to sales professionalism. Momentous change is happening everywhere. It’s manifest in business, in politics, through the ebb and flow of people and talent around the world, in the climate, and not least in the advent of technology – and this is just as true in the world of selling as it is in other…