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	<title>Barrett Sales Blog &#187; Sales Talent</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>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>
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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>Transitioning from the old sales paradigm to the new world of social sales</title>
		<link>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2011/756/sales/transitioning-from-the-old-sales-paradigm-to-the-new-world-of-social-sales/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 07:25:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Relationships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Skills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Talent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I began my career as a professional sales person in the early 1980’s we were trained in product and client communication skills focusing on handling objections.  We were given business cards, product brochures, a geographic territory of clients to manage and grow, and a car to get around in.  We did not have mobile phones, let alone smart phones [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Yin Yang of Selling</title>
		<link>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2010/722/sales/the-yin-yang-of-selling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 23:11:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sales Assessments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Relationships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Skills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Talent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Value Creation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the 20th century the emphasis on B2B selling had a distinct aggressive ring to it.  So much so, that you could walk down the halls of many businesses and think that you were involved in big game hunting.  Many of these teams saw selling as an extreme sport, or more precisely, Big Game Fishing or Hunting. Customers were ‘Targets’. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How can we learn from our best sales performers?</title>
		<link>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2010/684/sales-training/how-can-we-learn-from-our-best-sales-performers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 00:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sales Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Talent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Training]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How do we get the rest of our sales team learning from our top performers?  Should we get our top sales performer in front of our sales team to teach them how to be more effective? Well that all depends… How well does that top sales performer understand how and why they sell well? Can they articulate what they do [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Attitudes & Behaviours]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics & Values]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Performance Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Relationships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Talent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Success]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teamwork]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Value Creation]]></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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		<title>How do you create future sales superstars?</title>
		<link>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2010/554/sales-management/how-do-you-create-future-sales-superstars/</link>
		<comments>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2010/554/sales-management/how-do-you-create-future-sales-superstars/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 04:35:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Attitudes & Behaviours]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Assessments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Skills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Talent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Training]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Strategy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/?p=554</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How many of us entered our sales careers with our eyes wide open? Fully aware of what it takes to be an effective sales person &#8211; ably resourced with the tools, processes, plans and support essential to our success. Knowing full well what you were getting yourself into. For most, if not all of us, our initiation into sales was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How fit is your sales team?</title>
		<link>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2010/490/sales/how-fit-is-your-sales-team/</link>
		<comments>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2010/490/sales/how-fit-is-your-sales-team/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 07:45:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sales Assessments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Skills]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this year we had the opportunity to put a client’s field sales force through the Barrett Sales Fitness Circuit to test their sales fitness. The Sales Fitness Circuit is designed to reinforce and continue the process of learning from the Barrett Sales Communication Training. The Sales Communication competencies (skills, knowledge and mindset) covered in the initial training is put [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What do your sales people really need to know and apply?</title>
		<link>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2009/305/sales/what-do-your-sales-people-really-need-to-know-and-apply/</link>
		<comments>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2009/305/sales/what-do-your-sales-people-really-need-to-know-and-apply/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 02:24:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sales Assessments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Skills]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/?p=305</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In today’s market selling skills training does not equal product training or pressure tactics.  If product training or pressure selling (the hard sell) are on the top of your sales training agenda or the only training you offer your sales people then you may want to rethink your sales training strategy. What is expected of sales people today by way [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Testing times when recruiting ‘good’ salespeople</title>
		<link>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2009/265/uncategorized/testing-times-when-recruiting-%e2%80%98good%e2%80%99-salespeople/</link>
		<comments>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2009/265/uncategorized/testing-times-when-recruiting-%e2%80%98good%e2%80%99-salespeople/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 02:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Recruitment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Assessments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Research]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I consider how I spend my time professionally, I find it is often devoted to demystifying two things: 1. What is ‘good’ selling? 2. The proper use of psychometric assessments, especially in sales recruitment Having written on the former on many occasions, I would like to dedicate this space to the latter – the proper use of psychometric assessments [...]]]></description>
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