Mike Kunkle

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

I am exceptionally pleased and excited to announce that Felix Krueger of FFWD and I launched The Building Blocks of Sales Enablement Learning Experience on November 25, 2022. Recent lay-offs have shown that the oft-coveted “seat at the table” with executive leadership can’t be taken for granted.

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Upland

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

But before you jump head-first into the sales process, there are four fundamental things you must know: 1. A pressure is anything that has a direct impact on your customer’s ability to reach their goals. Why do you need to know your customer? You need to know your customer because customers buy outcomes.

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Mike Kunkle

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

In this article, I want to talk about using multi-factor analysis to maximize your sales performance improvement. The reason you’d do this is because there is rarely one right answer, or one performance lever to pull, that will deliver the maximum performance improvement with a sales force.

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Mike Kunkle

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

In this post, I will offer advice about how to measure the ROI of your sales enablement program. I do have a video on this topic, from my newsletter, Sales Enablement Straight Talk , as an additional resource. This is why Buyer Acumen is the first block in the Building Blocks of Sales Enablement framework. Get alignment first.

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Strategic Account Management Association

MARCH 2, 2022

Numerous studies have revealed a direct correlation between companies with diverse teams and business success and impact. By Gordon Galzerano, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Timberwilde Consulting Group. We are all in a race to attract, develop and retain top talent for our organizations. The business case for diversity.

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Brooks Group

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Sales training is essential to your company’s success. It’s a powerful tool for developing the full potential of every sales professional on your team. The Brooks Group’s training programs are led by expert sales trainers (aka facilitators) with real sales experience.

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Mike Kunkle

JULY 2, 2022

Senior sales leaders and C-suite execs, this one’s for you. In an expanding number of vertical industries (but not yet everywhere), the concept of “enabling the sales force” has exploded. Way back in 2003, I worked in a department called Performance Development and led the Sales Performance Development team.

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Brooks Group

OCTOBER 24, 2023

A sales training initiative can be one of the most impactful things you can do to improve your organization’s success. What is a Sales Training Reinforcement Program? Sales training is designed to teach your sales team new techniques and skills.

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Red Star Kim

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The 2019 second edition of this book (subtitled “How to apply neuroscience and psychology for improved learning and training” ) provides fascinating insight and practical ideas to incorporate neuroscience into learning and development initiatives. It should be essential reading for anyone in a L&D, HR, training or coaching role.

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Mike Kunkle

MAY 30, 2023

The goal of “enablement,” whichever term you use for it (sales, revenue, buyer, buying, performance, other) is ultimately to improve organizational performance. There are also other factors at play, such as product-market fit, strategy, the chosen sales model, organization design, or lack of top-down support, that also influence our work.

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Red Star Kim

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

MBD executives, advisors, managers, client services executives and BDMs from law firms, economics and management consultancies joined a PM Forum workshop on “Coaching and Consulting Skills for Marketing and Business Development”. We tackled delegate questions as well as coaching and consulting scenarios along the way. The terms (e.g.

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Red Star Kim

MARCH 1, 2024

At the recent Training – PM Forum on “ Buy-in, engagement and stakeholder management ” workshop we welcomed executive and manager delegates from legal and accountancy firms as well as a delegate from Poland. Achieve more engagement and buy-in: Relationships, Plan, Expectations, Benefits, Persuasion and Training.

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Mike Kunkle

OCTOBER 2, 2022

We’re all in sales, right? I think the answer depends on what you mean by that (intent) and how you define “sales.” I get the intent of the “we’re all in sales” message, generally, much like Dan Pink’s book, To Sell is Human. Well, maybe. But that’s not selling, per se.

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Red Star Kim

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

As an fan of Challenger sales (and the variant Insight Selling Insight selling – building on consultative selling models (kimtasso.com) I was delighted to see that one of the originators – Matthew Dixon – turned his focus to selling in professional services. Only one— the Activator —shows a positive impact on performance and revenue.

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Upland

OCTOBER 21, 2022

When used effectively, account planning benefits businesses by delivering more revenue, happier customers, and more effective sales teams. . In addition to identifying key challenges, account planning helps establish sales leaders as trusted advisors to their customers. What is Account Planning? Who is Account Planning For? .

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Sales Outcomes

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Effectively targeting and pursuing segments of customers or prospects is foundational to salesperson and sales organization success. Targeting is simple and based on equally simply “sales math” – focus selling efforts on the segments that will provide the best return on investment and opportunity for revenue and profit growth.

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Mike Kunkle

AUGUST 27, 2019

In the first post in this series , I defined Learning, Training, Development, and Education. Training: Training is job-related learning about what, why, and how (and maybe when and where) to do something (or multiple things), to be successful in a specific role. Goals of Organizational Learning for Sales.

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Mike Kunkle

MAY 11, 2022

Sales Transformation. I’ve been involved in sales transformations that were entirely focused on getting the best-possible performance out of the sales force (ranging from a 30 to 600 percent increase in sales), independent of retooling the rest of the organization. The Elements of Sales Force Effectiveness.

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Mike Kunkle

OCTOBER 24, 2021

It’s a cruel twist of fate for senior sales and revenue leaders that as the year barrels toward a close with urgency to maximize the remaining time, that strategic and tactical planning for the next year must happen at the same time. And for sales enablement leaders who are integrated into the sales force they serve, it’s no different.

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Brooks Group

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Exceptional sales management is key to an organization’s success—yet the role of a sales manager is one of the most challenging. Leading a sales team has become more difficult due to an evolving business landscape, technological advancements, changing customer expectations, and a host of other factors.

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Red Star Kim

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Having confident leadership with a strong vision, backed up with a robust business plan and strategy and evidence of progress was attractive to potential recruits. This post summarises some of the key themes emerging from the recent online MBL “How to manage and grow your private client practice” full day session .

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Nutshell

MARCH 31, 2023

As a sales manager, you want to stay up to date with the latest sales trends, keep up with your sales skills and knowledge, and continually build your management and leadership expertise. In this post, we’ll share some of our favorite resources for sales managers. Here are some of our favorites.

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MDI Training

AUGUST 17, 2023

Promoting Cohesion and Retaining Talent: Leadership in Focus In a changing world of work, where motivation and employee retention are crucial, leaders are increasingly in the spotlight. Current statistics send alarming signals: 60% of leaders receive no leadership development at all.

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Showpad

APRIL 9, 2020

Sales managers are tasked with not only leading their teams, but providing them with all the resources and support they need to develop trust with buyers and shorten sales cycles. Coaching is more of a challenge today, with sales reps often working remotely from their home offices. What is sales coaching?

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Account Manager Tips

AUGUST 14, 2022

Leadership 7. Sales Find the course that's right for you How to identify your skill gaps Define success What goals do you need to achieve? 21 free courses for key account managers to boost your skills now A key account manager has to grow and retain their clients. It's not an easy job, and you need many different skills to do it well.

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Showpad

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Measuring the ROI of sales enablement is truly the master discipline. You learned about the three critical success factors of enablement , how to l everage sales enablement for digital transformation and how your leadership is required to lead through change. For instance, sales enablement creates an ROI of up to 15.3%

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CMOE

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

A strong coaching culture is integral to the long-term success of the modern workplace. Developing a successful coaching culture involves purposeful actions and a focused effort. Strategic Coach offers curated content with blog posts, ebooks, worksheets, and guides to help entrepreneurs overcome roadblocks and achieve their goals.

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Showpad

JULY 21, 2020

In this edition, I’ll be discussing why you as an executive in a sales, marketing or CX leadership role play a mission-critical part when it comes to making sales enablement successful in your organization. . Another aspect is how to make sales enablement the engine of your digital transformation efforts. .

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Mike Kunkle

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

“As in other studies we’ve done, this year’s enablement study found that sales process and sales methodology adoption rates above 75% resulted in above-average gains for revenue plan attainment, quota attainment, and win rates, with a big boost at adoption rates greater than 90%.” increase in revenue plan attainment 17.1%

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Brooks Group

APRIL 1, 2022

Studies indicate that participants in traditional curriculum-based training forget more than 80 percent of the information they were taught within 90 days. Sales training that sticks, however, results in behavior change because it’s reinforced. That requires involvement and buy-in from both sales leaders and salespeople.

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MDI Training

MAY 30, 2023

Inner Development Goals for a better leadership world Many companies invest in training and programs to prepare their leaders for the challenges of business. But in addition to traditional goals such as increasing sales and optimizing efficiency, Inner Development Goals (IDGs) are also gaining importance.

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Brooks Group

MARCH 6, 2023

There are no one-fits-all solutions for sales training. The best programs are the ones tailored to your organization and sales force. That is where role-specific sales training comes in. For a program to be effective, it must be tailored to the needs of your sales force; otherwise, it can be counterproductive.

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Red Star Kim

JUNE 20, 2022

Delegates on my coaching training sessions often ask for recommendations of good books on coaching and this is a mature, comprehensive and challenging exploration of what it takes to be a great coach. So here is a book review of Coaching skills: A handbook by Jenny Rogers. What is coaching? .

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Revenue Storm

APRIL 19, 2022

As Sales Leaders, our primary role remains to attract and retain the best sales talent we can. Further, to ensure the training program delivers a solid return, you may have invested in professional sales coaching training for yourself. So, what now? Sound familiar?

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Brooks Group

OCTOBER 19, 2022

What’s the Difference Between Role-specific and General Training? Sales training typically accomplishes one of two things. . The training will either provide learning around a specific skill, or the training is focused on improving the learner’s ability to succeed in their entire role. Sales Manager.

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MDI Training

JUNE 26, 2023

Peter Grabuschnig Trainer, Coach & MDI Partner Peter is a partner and trainer at MDI, advising major international corporations on implementing hybrid work policies and building a hybrid work and leadership culture. The trend towards a more flexible working world is likely to be unstoppable.

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MDI Training

AUGUST 22, 2022

A leadership novel for the first-time leaders. that aims at coaching first-time leaders into effectiveness, through fictional situations and characters. Introduction: Luca is a sales representative in a company (Aurora Inc.) Lead’ is a Must-Read. In other words, a self-development book within a fictional setting.

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