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25 Years of Sales Leadership Evolution

By Don Sutherland / 16/09/2020 / 12 Sales Trends Pages Category, Blog, Sales Coaching, Sales Leadership, Sales Management, Sales Trends

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On Barrett’s 25th anniversary, Sales trend 9 from the Barrett 12 Sales Trend Report for 2020 explores the evolution of Sales Leadership over the past 25 years and highlights what excellence in Sales Leadership looks like now.

This is a condensed version of Sales Trend 9, to read the original version you can download the report for free.

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Sales skills are life skills

By Sue Barrett / 16/09/2020 / Blog, Human-centred, Life Skills, Sales Skills, Sales Training, Self Development

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Have you ever tried to persuade someone about the merits of a new idea, service or initiative? Most sure you have. People do this all the time; in our personal, professional and community lives. It is part of being a human, and it’s Selling.

Everybody live by selling something, whether we know it or not; whether we like it or not. Selling is when humans solve problems, …

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Hey, Sales Teams RUOK?

By Sue Barrett / 09/09/2020 / Attitudes & Behaviours, Blog, covid-19, Resilience, Sales Coaching, Wellbeing

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Thursday 10th September 2020 is International ROUK day.

We thought it would be appropriate to reach out to all the sales teams out there who are navigating their way through the pandemic and acknowledge that selling is a challenging career at the best of times, and COVID-19 has added a whole new level of pressure that can affect our mental health and wellbeing.

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Why a Sales Career is brilliant for women’s health & well-being

By Sue Barrett / 03/09/2020 / Blog, Education in Sales, Entrepreneurship, Gender & Sales, Life Skills, Sales Skills, Wellbeing, women-in-sales

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It’s Women’s Health Week (7 – 11 September). This is a national campaign, raising awareness of the importance of maintaining good health and well-being for all women and girls.

As a woman who’s been in business and sales for over 30 years, a business owner for 25 years of those years and a working mother for 22 years, I thought I’d weigh into this topic and share …

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Why Collaboration, not Competition, leads to better sales results

By Sue Barrett / 28/08/2020 / Attitudes & Behaviours, Blog, Collaboration, Common Ground, Competition, Ethics & Values, Sales Management, Sales performance, Sales Research, Sales Results, Selling Better, Success, Teamwork

Traditionally, the trope of the solo sales superstar or rainmaker has ruled the hearts and minds of many. Lauded for ‘single-handedly’ winning major accounts, bringing in the most amount of deals, or some other super human sales feat, what might surprise those not as familiar with sales and how selling works, is that none of these sales superstars could have achieved their results without the help of others, because no one lives or works in isolation.

Despite the popular myths, it has been known for nearly 20 years that the most successful salespeople are collaborators and team players, not individual sales …

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Where have businesses been exposed during the crisis when it comes to Sales?

By Sue Barrett / 20/08/2020 / Attitudes & Behaviours, Blog, covid-19, CRM, Prospecting, Remote selling, Sales Culture, Sales Results, Sales Skills, Sales Strategy, Sales Training, Strategy

When the coronavirus pandemic took hold of the world in early 2020 it was nearly impossible to imagine the effect it was going to have in our lives and how it was going to affect our businesses and livelihoods.

Since March 2020, we have been tracking what’s happening with a range of businesses across markets and what they are doing, or not doing as the case may be, to adapt their sales processes, sales teams and strategies to stay in business, attract and retain customers, and sell better in the New Normal.

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Will we ever return to traditional classroom education?

By Sue Barrett / 13/08/2020 / Attitudes & Behaviours, Blog, covid-19, Education in Sales, Sales Essentials, Sales Skills, Sales Training

When was the last training workshop you attended with a group of people in a brick and mortar classroom or training facility? A while ago I suspect.

For the vast majority of learners in businesses, schools and universities, the traditional face to face classroom setting is not available during the restrictions of the current pandemic.

Does this mean an end to formal education and learning? Of course not.

What it does mean is that, at no other time in history, we have the perfect opportunity to re-frame, re-imagine and re-design education and formal learning and effectively re-engage learners in how to upskill, learn, …

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Selling Better, Faster

By Sue Barrett / 06/08/2020 / 12 Sales Trends Pages Category, Blog, Education in Sales, Sales Essentials, Sales Forecasting, Sales Results, Sales Training, Sales Trends, Selling Better

Sales trend 8 from the Barrett 12 Sales Trend Report for 2020 highlights specific approaches businesses are taking to help their sales teams sell better, faster using technology, modern learning practices, and the wisdom of the crowd.

This is a condensed version of Sales Trend 8, to read the original version you can download the report for free.

The time is NOW to lift our game when it comes to how we deliver sales education, how we do sales forecasting, and how we spot and capture sales opportunities across our entire organisation so we …

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Why the federal government should be teaching businesses how to sell

By Sue Barrett / 04/08/2020 / Blog, covid-19, Sales Essentials

This article first appeared in Kochie’s Business Builders.

While JobKeeper has been a very important and necessary scheme to help stave off immediate business closures and job losses for the short term, it’s not designed to last forever. Loan Guarantee Schemes, with the best of intentions, won’t and don’t solve poor strategy and sales revenue issues either. Who’s going to lend any money to businesses with no or poor sales, or no viable go-to-market strategy? Any self-respecting SME cannot and shouldn’t borrow more money if they don’t have some certainty about where their business opportunities, customers, and …

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Adapting the sales strategy & processes of your business to sell better in the New Normal

By Sue Barrett / 29/07/2020 / Attitudes & Behaviours, Blog, Business Acumen, covid-19, Sales Results, Sales Strategy, Strategy

Within every crisis lies the demise of some and the making of others. Within every crisis also lies a myriad of opportunities.

Those first movers who gain an early advantage will realise the opportunities first in the new normal and make it harder for the competition to match.

So when it comes to the making or breaking of businesses, especially during a crisis, having a clear purpose, an adaptive sales strategy, effective sales processes and proactive, agile sales teams are key. This means that our businesses need to read and quickly adapt to the changes in market dynamics then pivot, if need …

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