Obviously you can’t make an entire turnaround in your behavior over the course of just one day, but you can and you absolutely must begin taking steps today towards your goals. A plan or course of action does you no good unless you take a step and then another and then another. However, you need…
Passion is not something that a leader can teach, as if he or she could impart the information and then give a test to see how well team members understood passion and embodied it in their work. Rather passion is the result of a person doing the right job or having the right career. It…
Life throws curve balls at us frequently, and we’re inundated with inconveniences and forces outside our control. Yet even in these circumstances we are free to act. Perhaps for reasons beyond your control you are not able to live your dreams today; nonetheless, you can make choices today to reach out for your dreams. What…
Potential customers and clients get apprehensive around sales people because they often feel pressured into purchasing a good or service they don’t really need. The sales person assumes, with little to no questioning, exactly what the prospect desires, in effect treating him the same as everyone else. Don’t do this. Each prospect you meet is…
Now they need to do one of these with sales leaders.
“The first principle of contract negotiations is don’t remind them of what you did in the past – tell them what you’re going to do in the future.” “I never realized that batting a little ball around could cause so much commotion.” “On an All-Star Team, I vote for players of one kind-those I enjoy…
A salesman was demonstrating unbreakable combs in a department store. He was impressing the people who stopped by to look by putting the comb through all sorts of torture and stress. Finally to impress even the skeptics in the crowd, he bent the comb completely in half, and it snapped with a loud crack. Without…