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Quadrant #1

Mark: *hears his own name in a game*

Mark: *excited squealing*

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Man is the only animal for which his existence is a problem which he has to solve

Erich Fromm

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5 ways to increase sales performance

Think outside the sales process. No matter how good a sales process or system you have the potential to increase performance lies in the skills of your sales teams.

Here are 5 ways of building increased performance into your sales training and coaching:

Reframe limiting beliefs about what's possible and achievable.

Challenge accepted beliefs about the state of relationships with clients and prospects.

Teach advanced rapport and relationship building skills.

Fine tune the skills of your top achievers and see their performance soar to even greater heights.

Run workshops to share best practice amongst the sales team.

You will be surprised at how much more potential exists to increase sales within the limitations of your sales executives' mindsets. When you know how to release this your sales can hit new peaks on a frequent basis. Once they have the skill they will use it every day.

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Welcome to the game of Business Consequences!

The purpose of this game is to have an interactive, upbeat exploration of the consequences (productive and non-productive) of what we do as individuals, teams and organisations.  At Quadrant 1 International we work with a cross section of organisations from both private and public sector and see a variety of business approaches and behaviours - some work some don't!   Only recently we were working with an organisation whose attitude was 'kill the competition!'.  Immediately following this we were in discussions with an organisation with a completely different attitude - 'let's share expertise with the competition and collaborate'.  The head offices of these two companies were on opposite sides of a major London trunk road - in other words within spitting distance of each other.  So how do company cultures become so diverse?

So here we go with round 1 of Business Consequences -

What are the consequences of doing something just because 'that's the way we have always done it!?'  This could be in the way your company organises meetings, the way it delivers information, the way it 'expects' presentations to be delivered, the appraisal system, personal development training, how the car park is organised or anything else you consider to be either productive or non-productive.  Looking forward to hearing your comments.

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So funny! I knew a boss like this once. Keep an eye out for the next episode coming your way very soon.

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You can only focus on one thing at a time, and because there is so much demand for your attention from so many directions, it is easy to be distracted. Then you wonder why you are unable to remember facts, names, dates, numbers, places, times that you thought you had listened to. Want to prove it to yourself? Click the link in the title to take this advertisers challenge!

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