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Don’t Let That Stop You: Overcoming Objections in Discovery Meetings

The Center for Sales Strategy

One of the most important, and often most fun, parts of the sales process is discovery meetings. These are often referred to as “needs analysis meetings,” and their main goal is to uncover the desired business results of the prospect or client. The success of these meetings lies in both the setup and the execution.

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Achieving the 90/10 Ratio: Improving Meeting Efficiency for Success

AchieveIt

Some of your organization’s best minds fill the boardroom for a scheduled strategy meeting. This meeting presents a valuable opportunity to harness their expertise and identify solutions to the most pressing issues facing your strategy. In a one-hour meeting, that’s just 6 minutes. No guidance for the frontline team.

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How to Prioritize Attendee Experience During Virtual Customer Advisory Board Meetings

Customer Think

Today, virtual CABs are becoming more common as virtual meetings and events become the norm. Customer Advisory Boards (CABs) provide crucial insights into your target audience by working with your top customers. However, virtual CABs present a few challenges: It may be […].

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How to Ensure Your Product Selection Meets Customer Needs

Customer Think

When a company truly prioritizes its customers’ needs, it takes its offerings from good to great. It elevates a product into an experience that can both retain existing customers and attract new ones. In my experience, I’ve found that this customer-centric principle applies regardless of whether you’re manufacturing pincushions or F-16 jets.

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5 Tips and Tools for Finding When to Meet and Book Meetings

Hubspot Sales

How many meetings do you have today? spend five or more hours in meetings per week. Whether you're meeting with prospects, clients, or colleagues finding a time to meet can be a challenge, especially when everyone's calendars are equally as busy. Meeting Tips. Make sure the value of the meeting is clear.

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Getting Capacity Planning Right: Aligning Resources to Meet Demand

Planview

The object of internal resource management (PPM) is to improve the business inside the company, which often involves working with constraints, prioritizing ideas and tasks, and evaluating how many you can take on. An agile approach to capacity planning that utilizes balanced, fixed teams can overcome many of these challenges.

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Prioritizing People: The Essentials of Servant Leadership for Leaders

CMOE

To help curb turnover and retain talent, leaders need to prioritize employee engagement and show team members how essential they are to the overall success of the organization—and servant leadership may be the cure. This can be in team meetings, emails, or other forums and will help to boost team morale.