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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>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:21:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
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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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is internal competition eating away at your sales results?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:30:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ethics & Values]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sales Talent]]></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, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m not a sales person but I have to sell.  What do I do?</title>
		<link>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2010/465/sales-attitudes/i-don%e2%80%99t-like-being-labelled-a-sales-person-but-i-have-to-sell-what-do-i-do/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:45:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Attitudes & Behaviours]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Call Reluctance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After thousands of hours of study and many years honing technical skills to be a competent professional in your chosen field, it can come as a rude shock that you now need to sell your services and capabilities as well.  In today’s busy market, a competent selling capability isn’t a nice-to-have it is an essential [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Measuring and managing the right things in sales</title>
		<link>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2009/339/sales-management/measuring-and-managing-the-right-things-in-sales/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:05:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Performance Management]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who wants to work with accountable, responsible, and self-directed sales people?  Of course we all want these types of sales people in every sales team.  Yet, most businesses do not support this by setting up their sales team to clearly measure and manage their sales performance.
Sales performance management begins with accurate role descriptions and perception, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>4 valuable life skills that make for success in sales and any other role</title>
		<link>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2009/254/sales-emotional-intelligence/4-valuable-life-skills-that-make-for-success-in-sales-and-any-other-role/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 08:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emotional Intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self Development]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many things written and said about effective sales people, effective leaders, successful entrepreneurs, great teams and so on.
Many descriptions are in circulation.  There is an overabundance of experts recommending this approach one day and that approach the next.
Those of us who want to be effective and successful often follow the advice of those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Entrepreneurial Sales Person</title>
		<link>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2009/214/success/the-entrepreneurial-sales-person/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:06:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Attitudes & Behaviours]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Relationships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self Development]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As part of my ongoing professional  and personal development I belong to a CEO leadership group where we meet monthly and discuss a whole range of topics to stimulate our thinking and decision making.
Recently we discussed the concept and qualities of Successful Entrepreneurs.  Besides making the obvious comparisons with ourselves as to whether we met [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What’s in a relationship?</title>
		<link>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2009/126/relationships/what%e2%80%99s-in-a-relationship/</link>
		<comments>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2009/126/relationships/what%e2%80%99s-in-a-relationship/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:09:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Attitudes & Behaviours]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics & Values]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Relationships]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[



  
The term ‘Relationship Selling’ is often bandied about by sales managers and sales people without properly defining what it really means.I often hear “We are in relationship selling” or “We need relationship sales people” however what I do not hear being asked is:

What type of relationship are we talking about?
What type of relationship [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Test of Character</title>
		<link>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2008/122/success/a-test-of-character/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:42:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can honestly say I did not enjoy the early years of my sales career.  I initially found it hard, relentless and sometimes really distressing.  I was asked to do things I didn’t always understand that significance of.  I often felt overly scrutinised by the constant monitoring of activity and performance by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Dark Side</title>
		<link>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2008/109/uncategorized/the-dark-side/</link>
		<comments>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2008/109/uncategorized/the-dark-side/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 05:56:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Attitudes & Behaviours]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emotional Intelligence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How well can we manage ourselves, our teams and businesses in a crisis or tough times?
Are our actions and behaviours putting us, our people and our businesses at risk? 
As leaders and managers we are on show and our actions often speak louder than our words.  In challenging times this is even more evident. [...]]]></description>
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