Brooks Group

MARCH 25, 2024

Sales teams that don’t follow their sales process find it difficult to meet sales goals. That’s why many leading sales organizations are turning to The Brooks Group’s IMPACT Selling ® program to equip their teams with proven selling skills that get measurable results. The data backs this up. What is IMPACT Selling ® ?

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Flevy

APRIL 30, 2024

Customer Journey Mapping is an essential tool for organizations aiming to enhance customer experience and deepen engagement across all points of interaction. By systematically representing the Customer Journey, businesses can align their operations to better meet customer needs, ultimately driving satisfaction, loyalty, and growth.

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Flevy

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The Strategic Thinking Games provide Decision Making models for senior executives to choose from and use as per the situation. Each of the Strategic Thinking Games warrants employing a different mindset and decision-making approach to confront the challenges presented by a particular problem. Organization Learning.

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Nutshell

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Most people find meetings to be a painful experience—and not without reason. Meetings often lack an agenda, purpose, or direction, and on top of that, they’re usually inconveniently scheduled and easily get off track. Make the Meeting Convenient. Ensure Your Meetings Are Purposeful.

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Planview

APRIL 29, 2022

In this post, we’ll show you how to become a modern PMO that enables your organization to adapt to an ever-changing professional landscape. We’ve included four webinars in this post to help you make this shift. Making the transition is vital to helping your organization achieve its business goals in the face of change.

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Flevy

APRIL 25, 2024

In the field of Market Research and Consumer Behavior Analysis, a significant problem that organizations face is the inability to fully grasp and interpret the subconscious thoughts and emotions of their consumers. This method has been adopted across various industries, revolutionizing the way organizations understand consumer attitudes.

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ClearPoint Strategy

JULY 7, 2021

If there is one phrase that represents both enormous potential and challenges to organizations today, it is big data. And yet data-driven decision making is more important than ever. When done right, dashboards provide valuable insight into the health of an organization and strongly influence executive decision making.

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Brooks Group

APRIL 23, 2024

This blog post takes a deep dive into the key benefits and drawbacks of the sales profession to help you make an informed decision. Commission-based pay and fluctuations in sales volume can make it challenging to predict your monthly or annual income. This can make it difficult to maintain a healthy work-life balance.

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Brooks Group

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In the dynamic world of sales, where every decision can make or break a deal, harnessing the power of data is critical. In a landscape where intuition must be complemented by concrete evidence, sales metrics empower managers to make informed choices. High-performing organizations effectively track a wider range of sales metrics.

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SuperOffice

JANUARY 19, 2022

Types of customer meetings. Along with a sequence of emails, companies with long sales cycles arrange three meetings before the conversion happens: Discovery meeting. This is your first meeting with a warm, qualified lead that’s held with the goal of understanding the specific needs of a prospect. Follow-up meeting.

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ClearPoint Strategy

MARCH 15, 2021

Linking budget to strategy allows an organization to use resources efficiently to further its mission. Closer alignment between strategy and budget also ensures an organization’s longevity through trying times. In today’s world, hospitals and health systems face increasingly challenging circumstances.

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Brooks Group

JANUARY 24, 2024

This is good news for B2B sales teams that have faced economic headwinds, shrinking customer budgets, and delayed or canceled purchasing decisions. But even throughout this tough period, some sales organizations have found a way to meet or exceed targets—and feel confident in their ability to do it again this year.

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Brooks Group

MARCH 7, 2024

Buyers generally make up their minds in the first few seconds whether the time spent with you is going to be valuable. This makes it far more likely they will listen to you—and that you’ll make the sale. They make buying decisions about products and services they don’t personally use.

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Brooks Group

APRIL 10, 2024

Prospecting Techniques: Before the Sales Call The right sales skills and a consistent set of best practices before sales calls will make prospecting time more productive. Make sure every team member has a professional headshot, sales title, and product-oriented “About” section. Here are some to focus on. Pre-call planning is critical.

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Nutshell

AUGUST 28, 2023

The stages of the sales process 5 less-common (but still important) sales process stages 4 formats for organizing your sales process Strategies for creating and improving your sales process Challenges of a sales process What is a sales process? DOWNLOAD THE FREE LIST 2. Table of Contents What is a sales process?

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Nutshell

MARCH 19, 2024

As the backbone of any business, the sales team needs to be efficient to meet targets and ensure the company remains profitable. When you can pinpoint dips in productivity and identify the elements that contribute to slower workflows, you can make the changes needed to support your sales team.

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Brooks Group

MARCH 28, 2024

As buying processes grow more complex, it’s becoming increasingly important for sales professionals to gain access to senior executives and C-level decision makers. Today’s major purchasing decisions often involve cross-functional buying committees that include executives from the C-suite. Your prospect lacks budget authority.

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Brooks Group

OCTOBER 24, 2023

They will also be highly educated in the sales process your team has been trained in, and the sales enablement tools that will make the reinforcement successful. The coach is there to answer any questions, and to make the seller feel comfortable putting their new tools into action. Download this white paper to help guide your decision.

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AchieveIt

AUGUST 23, 2023

Organizations have been navigating through an era marked by profound shifts. Organizations now face an imperative to infuse their strategies with adaptability, resilience, and agility. There are a number of strategies that organizations and strategy leaders can adopt to fortify their strategic planning and execution processes.

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Nutshell

MARCH 15, 2024

This includes getting to know the prospect, their organization, role, wants, needs, and pain points. DOWNLOAD Ready to become a better sales leader? It’s also great for separating prospects who are just kicking tires from those who are closer to making a decision and taking action. But how do we do that?

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In this article, we discuss how sales and marketing collaboration makes a difference and provide tips and tools for making this collaboration more efficient. Collaboration makes it possible for messaging to evolve based on real-time feedback. Table of Contents How can Sales and Marketing collaborate? Case studies.

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AchieveIt

JULY 10, 2023

Quarterly tracking seems like a reasonable approach, giving you enough time to assess performance and make the necessary adjustments. We’ve seen it take some organizations anywhere between four to six weeks to carry out their quarterly update process. Decisions cannot be made confidently.

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Brooks Group

APRIL 19, 2023

The first key fundamental that IMPACT Selling ® teaches is how sales reps can make their first impression a good one. They are interested in hearing expert opinions, industry insight, and anything that may guide them as they make business decisions. Download the interactive pdf here.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 11, 2020

It’s safe to say 2020 has been the year of virtual meetings. Everything from large-scale conferences to staff meetings, to meetings with prospects, are hosted remotely. Video conferencing tools are a worthwhile investment for organizations of all sizes, especially with remote work becoming the norm. Google Meet.

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Brooks Group

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

This requires upskilling for many sales organizations. Here are some tips you can use to reimagine your sales kickoff, while making it meaningful and relevant. Leverage Technology to Expand Who and When During the pandemic, many organizations were forced to hold fully remote or hybrid meetings.

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Brooks Group

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

You need to stand out to make buyers want to do business with you. We arranged to meet at the store. If they have good relationships and can get things done within their own organizations, that means they have that skill set. The bottom 20% focus on two things: “How do I make my number?” I work at [new store].”

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 26, 2012

How are you, the sales operations leader, going to measure the effectiveness of your 2013 Sales Kickoff Meeting ? Over the last three years the traditional sales kickoff meeting has drastically changed. Measuring the effectiveness of sales kickoff is challenging for most organizations. Did it meet all of their objectives?

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Planview

JANUARY 10, 2022

At Planview, we have two great products that meet the varying needs of Professional Services organizations—whether it be products for Professional Services companies, professional services groups embedded in product companies, or those providing Managed Services. Key Resources to Guide Your Organization’s Success.

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ClearPoint Strategy

DECEMBER 2, 2021

We put together this guide to help organizations like yours get more out of their KPIs. Here’s how we define KPIs : Key performance indicators (KPIs ) are the subset of performance indicators most critical to your business at the highest level of your organization. Download this list to see 56 objectives organizations commonly track.

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AchieveIt

JULY 24, 2023

A few months into implementing their carefully crafted strategy, a team gathers for an organization-wide meeting to present updates on their respective initiatives. It ensures that every department within an organization is reporting on the same key performance indicators (KPIs) and initiatives.

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Flevy

MARCH 26, 2024

For consulting firms, these frameworks are part of the bread and butter that enable them to consistently deliver value to client organizations across industries and geographies. Supporting Content and Features : Identifying the content and features that support the customer’s journey and meet their needs at each stage.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 1, 2012

Do you want to increase sales and meet your 2013 goals? Over the past year, many organizations have built buyer personas (Read more about buyer personas here and here ). 4 Keys to Making the Persona Project Successful. Note: If your organization has already built personas skip to second key. Hey, Sales Operations leaders.

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ClearPoint Strategy

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Download our free templates to get started. Before you go any further, take the time to develop these statements, or take a critical look at your current iterations to make sure they’re still relevant. A vision statement declares where your organization wants to be three to five years in the future. Review and make changes.

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Mike Kunkle

AUGUST 8, 2023

7 Common Barriers to Sales Transformation Barrier 1: Siloed Mindsets and Departments One of the most persistent challenges in many organizations is the presence of siloed mindsets and departments. This abundance of data can lead to analysis paralysis, where decision-makers are overwhelmed without the insights to drive action.

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MDI Training

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Coach potentials: AI can make learning suggestions Answers from ChatGPT: The four main roles of a leader according to Covey – building trust, developing vision, implementing strategies, and coaching potential – can be supported to varying degrees by AI technologies. “What can humans do better?”

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Brooks Group

AUGUST 28, 2023

So, sales organizations need focus on improving their sellers’ sales skills and strategic thinking abilities. Value-based selling is a sales approach that focuses on giving value to prospects and customers throughout their decision-making process. Customers today have more information, more choices, and freedom.

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ClearPoint Strategy

JULY 28, 2021

What makes your organization special? The VRIO framework is a strategic analysis tool designed to help organizations uncover and protect the resources and capabilities that give them a long-term competitive advantage. Looking for a VRIO decision tree template? How close are your competitors to overtaking you?

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