One-on-one coaching sessions provide the ideal forum to encourage employees to communicate with you, advance strategic vision, and attain goals. Here you have a place catered to the needs of your individual employees, where you can focus on each of them in turn, working to improve their strengths and overcome their weaknesses. Your sessions should…
Just because you have been an outstanding sales professional and successful manager doesn’t automatically mean that you’re ready to coach a team. Coaching, like selling, takes a developed skill set. Unfortunately, companies too commonly fail to teach their leaders to be coaches. They might make ideal managers, but they don’t create smart coaches. If you…
While I’ve often said that sales is a profession to be proud of, the ego is an expensive liability, so get rid of it and start right now investing in getting better. Selling is a skill, and as such, improving it requires practice. You’re either improving it or losing it. Practice allows you to focus on…