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Every Employee Needs Sales Skills to Thrive

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The same skills deployed by your sales team are also invaluable to individuals not in sales roles. Skills associated with sales can enhance interactions between your employees and customers, among team members and with management.
Simply handing your sales team a playbook or giving them videos to watch is not sufficient. The way we train should look less like a lecture hall and more like a kitchen — messy but productive, with excellent treats awaiting us as a result.

5 Effective Sales Training Skills

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If training is to have a significant impact on sales performance, it has to concentrate on building a manageable number of skills.
The last 12 months have been my own real-life version of “Undercover Boss,” transitioning from being a CEO to a sales rep back to a CEO. I thought I understood what it took to be a successful sales executive. I was wrong.