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	<title>Barrett Sales Blog &#187; Performance Management</title>
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		<title>Signs you are at risk of losing your top sales performers</title>
		<link>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2011/1435/success/signs-you-are-at-risk-of-losing-your-top-sales-performers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 06:05:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There they are every day bringing in the deals. They’re always prospecting, meeting  clients, networking, making suggestions about how to do things even better and they never discount unnecessarily.  Best of all your clients are happy. They’re happy with your offering, happy with your service, happy with the sales support they get and your business is profitable. Top of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why we should manage &amp; measure Sales Inputs rather than Sales Results</title>
		<link>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2011/965/success/why-we-should-manage-measure-sales-inputs-rather-than-sales-results/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 00:07:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you leave your sales results to chance?  Well you might be if you are like most businesses that are too fixated on Sales Results – the Outcomes. Managing by numbers, sales managers can get blinded by measuring the number of sales made and revenue and profit margins achieved rather than focusing on the vital activities that produce these outcomes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can a sales manager be an effective sales coach?</title>
		<link>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2011/864/sales-management/can-a-sales-manager-be-an-effective-sales-coach/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 07:54:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coaching]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sales Leadership]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coaching usually focuses on two areas of development to achieve excellence: skills and performance. Excellence in performance is knowing the right processes to apply in the right situation, coupled with the personal insight to know how to apply them wisely.  An effective sales coach is there to help people achieve excellence and realize many more benefits. However to be an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why hiring or keeping the 600lb sales gorilla is a mistake</title>
		<link>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2010/719/sales-management/why-hiring-or-keeping-the-600lb-sales-gorilla-is-a-mistake/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 23:46:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Attitudes & Behaviours]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics & Values]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Performance Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recruitment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Leadership]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For many years the legend of the 600lb sales gorilla or Alpha sales superstar has been strutting the hallways and boardrooms of businesses.  Often revered for achieving top of the league ladder sales results, yet feared by many for their aggressive, manipulative, ego centric, demanding, intimidating antics, countless CEO’s and sales managers have allowed these sales prima donnas to remain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why we should put the Trainer back into Sales Management</title>
		<link>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2010/630/sales-management/why-we-should-put-the-trainer-back-into-sales-management/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 00:15:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coaching]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Up until 20 years ago, a key function of a sales manager’s role was the regular training of their sales people.  What did this look like?  Well, something like this: weekly 1 hour power training sessions for the sales team focusing on honing key skills, bi-monthly half day or 1 day sessions drilling down on account planning, strategy, market and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Through the looking glass</title>
		<link>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2010/620/sales-management/through-the-looking-glass/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 01:02:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Attitudes & Behaviours]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emotional Intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Performance Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Management]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Through the looking glass was voted by you as the number 8  Sales Trend for 2010. Many sales people are tired of being told that they need to sell like someone else to be successful.  Many are unsure of what they should be modelling.  Too often they are told to ‘just be like’ someone else but with no reference to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Latest findings from the world of Sales Transformation</title>
		<link>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2010/614/sales-management/latest-findings-from-the-world-of-sales-transformation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2010/614/sales-management/latest-findings-from-the-world-of-sales-transformation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 04:50:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Performance Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Leadership]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently had the opportunity to MC and attend the Optimising the Sales Force Conference &#8211; OSF2010 which was the follow up to the inaugural OSF2009.  Building on last year’s success, this year’s conference was attended by over 120 high level sales leaders across Australia.  Once again I was privileged to be part of the panel of international and local [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More lessons from MasterChef &#8211; Can you take the heat?</title>
		<link>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2010/596/sales/where-is-our-resilience/</link>
		<comments>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2010/596/sales/where-is-our-resilience/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:21:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Attitudes & Behaviours]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emotional Intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Performance Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Skills]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the saying goes, “If you can’t take the heat get out of the kitchen”.  Once again MasterChef has served up some great life lessons.  Last year I wrote about the great leadership, coaching and mentoring we can learn from MasterChef.  Again Garry, George, Matt and the other guest chefs showed us how to excel in this area of leadership. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Collaboration &#8211; The New Competition</title>
		<link>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2010/572/sales-management/collaboration-the-new-competition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2010/572/sales-management/collaboration-the-new-competition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 01:31:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Customer Service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Performance Management]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New Competition was voted by you as the number 7  Sales Trend for 2010.  Over the coming years, we will see collaboration become the new competition.  Markets around the world are crying out for collaboration as innovation and differentiation become scarce in a sea of commoditised products and services. Sales people who see themselves as collaborators, both internally (colleagues, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is internal competition eating away at your sales results?</title>
		<link>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2010/560/sales-management/is-internal-competition-eating-away-at-your-sales-results/</link>
		<comments>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2010/560/sales-management/is-internal-competition-eating-away-at-your-sales-results/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:30:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many sales cultures are traditionally based on respect for authority, status and success, and encouraging competitive, challenging and achievement-oriented atmospheres. Although this is not true for all businesses, especially in the 21st Century! There are a growing number of businesses adopting more collegiate, lead team approaches. However, despite different types of cultures, sales performance and results are usually derived from [...]]]></description>
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