Tuesday, September 28th, 2021
Sales competitions 7.4 2021
The Great Northwoods Sales Warm Up –…
Tuesday, September 28th, 2021
A new paradigm for CPD in sales
Why there needs to be a fresh approach to the personal development of sales executives and their managers. Many readers of this article may already be in superb sales organisations; however, for those in the sales field it will come as no surprise that many small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) have little in the way of formal sales training that could be…
Tuesday, July 27th, 2021
Five key topics for KAMs
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Cranfield Key Account Management Forum. Here’s what participants discussed in Q1. In 2021 we mark the 25th anniversary of the Key Account Management Forum at Cranfield University. Following the Covid-19 pandemic the Cranfield KAM Forum has created a series of on-line seminars to complement the regular face-to face meetings that will resume…
Monday, July 26th, 2021
Psychological contract
Introducing the psychological contract into sales education Introduction This paper discusses the relevance of the “psychological contract” to the sales process and its potential contribution to the field of sales education. This viewpoint has emerged through the author’s 40 years etic and emic perspectives of direct observation of sales executives, five years involvement in national and international university sales competitions,…
Monday, July 26th, 2021
ISP events 7.3 2021
Webinar: Sales leader round table (limited places) 16 July 2021: 9.00 am – 9.45 am BST Simon Goodison and Neil Massa, Directors of Smarter Not Harder Solutions Tips to support your team to achieve and exceed sales goals: Understand how the changes in the last 18 months shaped the lives of your team and how as a leader you can…
Monday, April 26th, 2021
Sales competitions 7.2 2021
Pensacola Pitch Collegiate Sales Competition – Hosted…
Monday, April 26th, 2021
Open courses and events 7.2 2021
Sales Essentials for Success – Cranfield Executive Development 2-3 June 2021 Sales Essentials for Success gives you the tools to build and create a sales function that is strategically directed and controlled. You’ll gain a fundamental knowledge of the tactics that must be employed on a daily basis to succeed. £2,200 + VAT (concessions available) – execdev@cranfield.ac.uk +44 (0)1234 589292https://www.cranfield.ac.uk/som/open-executive-programmes/growing-businesses/sales-essentials-for-success…
Monday, April 26th, 2021
APS events 7.2 2021
Webinar: Cracking the Code for Communicating Price Increases 29 April 2021, 15.00-15.45 pm BST (09.00 am CST) Tim Riesterer, Chief Strategy Officer at Corporate Visions – Nearly 70 percent of companies describe their price increase conversations as “50:50” or worse in terms of how well they go over with customers. It’s no surprise that most price increases aren’t received well….
Friday, April 23rd, 2021
Landmark merger for UK sales profession
March 2021 may well prove to be a turning point in the standing in which the UK’s sales profession is held. Two of the organisations serving the sales community have announced a merger to create a unified professional body. The relatively recently founded Association of Professional Sales (APS) is merging with the much older Institute of Sales Management (ISM) to…
Friday, April 23rd, 2021
Supercharging sales
UK lawmakers warn that Britain is suffering from a shortage of salespeople and sales skills. MPs say much more needs to be done to recruit and train people with strong B2B selling skills. Last month’s report by Westminster’s All-Party Parliamentary Group for Professional Sales underlined a persistent problem for the sales profession in the United Kingdom: quite simply, not enough…
Friday, February 26th, 2021
Sales competitions 7.1 2021
NCSC VIRTUAL – National Collegiate Sales Competition…
Friday, February 26th, 2021
Open courses and events 7.1 2021
Key Account Management Best Practice – Cranfield Executive Development 10, 12, 26 Mar 2021 – live online Joining an experienced group of fellow KAM practitioners, you will gain: State-of-the-art knowledge and tools for creating an effective key account management process. Strategic understanding on how to focus your time and attention appropriately in the development of key accounts. Improved collaboration skills…
Friday, February 26th, 2021
APS events 7.1 2021
Webinar: Coaching your sales team through personal change. Why is it important? 4 March 2021, 14.00-14.45pm GMTPresented by Grant Van Ulbrich, Director, Sales Transformation – International, Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. We’ve all heard about change management through our work careers, and usually whenever organisations launch a new programme, there’s an element of change management that is involved. However, recent research…
Tuesday, November 10th, 2020
Write like a pro
As a sales leader you may be a great talker, but how do you find your written voice? No matter how skilled you are as a practitioner, no matter how you have grown and flourished professionally, if you cannot express yourself with simplicity, in language unencumbered by business jargon, your work counts for little. Nowhere is this more evident than…
Tuesday, November 10th, 2020
Mapping out the solution
Here’s how to use “systemic intelligence” collaboratively. Article summary Let’s face it! We all need as much as help as possible in the current business climate. Systemic Maps are coaching tools that sales leaders can use for faster problem-solving and more effective decision-making. In this article, we explore “mapping” as a tool, in the sense of a fast and powerful…
Monday, November 9th, 2020
Mind the (skills) gap!
Article summary Finding the time for training and development while meeting customer needs (and achieving bottom line results) is a universal struggle faced by nearly all sales executives. The struggle is especially real for those in the highly competitive IT industry, where rapid strategic and industry change require ever-increasing time and effort to stay “in-the-know”. SAP’s Sales Coaching Team has…
Friday, November 6th, 2020
The Magic 6
How to lead virtual (and hybrid) meetings. In spring 2020, meetings changed. Instead of physically meeting up with colleagues, everything moved online during lockdown. Of course, sales teams have been catching up with colleagues in the field by phone or video chat for years, but, in March, everything went remote: team meetings, client meetings and much, much more. While meetings…
Friday, November 6th, 2020
Focus on strategic planning and sales enablement
Sales methods must change in a post-COVID-19 world. It is often said that people buy from people. Many of the world’s top salespeople have relied on their personality and ability to quickly establish a rapport with customers to become highly successful. While this trend may continue in future, the dynamics of sales have to change dramatically in a post-COVID-19 world….
Friday, November 6th, 2020
SIX KEYS TO UNLOCK PROBLEM-SOLVING POTENTIAL
DO RIGID PROCESSES WORK IN TODAY’S WORLD…