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Thursday Jun 18, 2020
Thursday Jun 18, 2020
Let's pretend it is possible to implement 100% of your change programmes successfully!
#IanDodds has been a champion and practitioner of #inclusiveness and #diversity for the past 50 years. He started out life on a council estate in the North of England, and early on he realised he was different from others at school. He earned a place at Oxford University and quickly became inspired to create inclusive work environments as a manager within ICI. He was working in one of the worst performing factories in all of ICI. He realised that there was a void in communication between managers and employees. A branch of the Communist party had been established, industrial conflict, high staff turnover, low productivity were all symptoms of this symptomatic failure.
Ian started talking to workers without judgement or prejudice. The very fact they were being heard opened them up to trusting him. He did the same with management, eventually managing to get both sides to listen to each other. In under 5 years he turned the worst into the best performing factory in ICI and he rolled out his approach across the business.
The impact? Great working environments, with happy, loyal, fully engaged staff operating in multicultural, employing the best local talent and attracting top performer internationally, increased profitability, optimised efficiency and enhanced shareholder value and profitability.
Have a listen to my interview with Ian and let me know what you think.
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Sunday Jun 14, 2020
Sunday Jun 14, 2020
Public sector innovation in Sweden is a shining example of what's possible with a small team of committed innovators, a modest budget and a mandate to make things better when government works in partnership with its citizenry. There are powerful lessons in this interview on #leadership, #management, #inclusiveness, #diversity, #hiringoutsiders, #accountability, #agilethinking, #agileteams, and #teambuilding every business leader and manager can learn from.
#PatrickLinqvist is chief innovation advisor for the city of Helsingsborg in Sweden. He's been tasked to make his city a centre for innovation and I am very much looking forward to 2022 when they host their innovation expo. Patrick and his team are asking the questions any modern city should be asking but probably isn't. The city government is investing SKR250bn (£21m) in thinking differently.
They are tackling the toughest questions around education, transport and an ageing population. They have been given permission to experiment and they are allowed to fail so they aren't constrained into playing safe. They have engaged the population from primary school children to pensioners, commuters to critics to design a better future for Helsingborg's citizens. Patrick discusses the challenges they face every day, the brilliant idea of "gap managers" whose job it is to bridge the gaps between groups to eliminate silo mentality and group thinking.
I cannot begin to thank Patrick for opening up my eyes to what is possible with enlightened city leadership and a willingness to imagine a brighter future. What could our government learn from following Helsingborg's lead? Bubble bursts...!
Patrick can be found on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/patricklindqvist
Check out his views on driving #change onYouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=rHF4hARZn38&feature=youtu.be (Talk on Change)Twitter: patlindqvist--
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Tuesday Jun 09, 2020
Tuesday Jun 09, 2020
#JodyWilliamson discusses the surprising aspects of #SalesEthics with me. We debate when you have no right not to sell, and it's not in a time of crisis.
Covid has made a lot of salespeople squeamish about selling and that is a HUGE mistake. There are people out there in your market who need help. Who the hell are you not to help them? We are seeing companies pull their foot off the pedal which is going to result in problems downstream if they aren't already killing companies.
Great managers will let you fail but will not let the business fail. There are a lot of managers who are in danger of doing precisely that, letting their businesses fail. They giving terrible direction and advice to their salespeople, they didn't use the lockdown to train and coach their salespeople, they encouraged stupid, damaging behaviours like premature, unnecessary discounting; they've let negative thinking take over and are moving the target instead of modifying their salespeople's behaviour.
Jody is one of the people I respect the most in sales and he shares nugget after nugget of sales and management genius in this episode.
Jody can be contacted:
LinkedIn Profile: linkedin.com/in/jodywilliamson
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Friday Jun 05, 2020
Friday Jun 05, 2020
#DavidDavies, the Cod Father, former #1 frozen fish salesman and international DJ has spent the past 35 years helping small technology businesses. Dave and I co-wrote #MakingChannelSalesWork #MCSW which has quickly become the go to bible for turning around and/or building successful #SalesChannels, #Alliances and #Partnerships.
Lack of Boardroom congruence, misalignment and an unhealthy focus only on empirical data, silos and empire building instead of focusing on having the biggest positive impact. Dave introduces the idea of developing a #ValueProvocation instead of a #valueproposition. This is only possible if you have a clear, singular vision. A failure to have that cohesive vision and aligned focus, means that teams you will suffer from organisational Chinese whispers.
People step as led. Executives often send unintended messages with how they behave and what they measure but these fly in the face of their stated intent. In the channel, this is amplified and the positive or negative impact is even greater.
We discuss what makes for successful channel development, the importance of being committed to developing and growing other people's businesses, the vital qualities of being able to train and coach how to sell to your end user. Developing channels is hard. Really, really hard. What are the mistakes vendors make when building their channels, hiring channel managers and channel chiefs, identifying the right kind of partners, the critical importance of understanding how to run a partner's business. Hiring channel managers who were big, swinging enterprise Richards at a megalithic vendor rarely work out.
How will Covid impact sales, and what is the opportunity this represents to capitalise by building your channel with cultural experts locally? We discuss the faux pas trap faced by non-local salespeople and culturally unaware leadership.
This episode is packed with warnings signs, real world advice that has been learned from our 70+ years combined scar tissue, great advice that works when building a partner-centric, customer-centric channel to deliver a win-win-win outcome. BRING A PEN AND PAPER to this episode. Listen more than once.
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Tuesday Jun 02, 2020
Tuesday Jun 02, 2020
#GeoffBurch is back! Geoff's childhood was unorthodox. His parents escaped the Gestapo in Vienna in 1938. They were out with friends at the opera, and at the end of the performance one of his officer friends warned him not to go home as he was going to be arrested. A Viennese Jewish psychiatrist, Geoff's father taught him about the bizarre, self destructive, delusional nature of people with stories of his patients.
Geoff grew up to be a maladjusted, troubled youth who naturally fell into sales. His stories will make you howl with laughter whilst making the point about why people do what they do, even though it is rarely rational. We explore #TransactionalAnalysis in detail, discuss its application in sales and management, and generally have a rip roaring time.
If you ever have need to a belly laugh at your sales or management kick off, Geoff is your man for the job.
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Sunday May 31, 2020
Sunday May 31, 2020
#JeffJHunter has a background in developing virtual teams, serving founders of tech start ups to develop their personal brand and become known as experts in their field.
Jeff describes branding as intentional transactions. He describes the 4 elements to your personal brand
- Connection - how are you really connecting with your target audience?
- Omnipresence - where are you and how do you show up?
- Relevance - why should people listen to you? How are you of value to the people you serve? What problems do you help solve?
- Engagement - what's the evidence that you are helping people? How are you helping them achieve their desires?
We discuss the importance of genuinely paying attention, listening to hear what another person is saying, understanding to the other person's satisfaction.
If you focus on making your clients the hero, there must be a villain. The villain is the problem your clients are trying to defeat. Be very careful not to make yourself the hero. Your job is to be your clients' guide.
Jeff makes the point that marketing is always about generating the right results. We explore where you start when developing your personal brand and the answer is obvious but will probably surprise you.
Why is there a disconnect between sales and marketing? Why must you have an ongoing conversation with your existing customers? How do you deliver valuable content? How do you identify villains in your prospects' world?
Jeff and I will upset you if you are looking for an easy life in your marketing and your sales.
Contact Jeff at:
Jeff LinkedIn Profile: linkedin.com/in/jeffjhunter
Websites-
JeffJHunter.com (Company Website)
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vastaffer.com/ (Company Website)
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virtualassistantmarketing.com (Company Website)
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Tuesday May 26, 2020
Tuesday May 26, 2020
**** This is a MUST LISTEN episode if you are on my sales training programme ****
This is a masterclass in pricing genius. #DavidAbbott, author of #HowToPriceYourPlatypus, shares 4 simple psychological pricing strategies to help you get paid what you're worth. He spills the beans on how to get buyers to negotiate in £1's, £10's and £100's instead of £1000's, £10,000's and £100,000's.
Whether you are selling products or services, your house or your company these strategies work in the real world. We explore the power of pricing techniques by starting from a better position before you ever negotiate. The better your starting point, the better your ending point.
We discuss the importance of making the decision to proceed at the start of the sale, then make dozens of little agreements instead of making one big decision at the end.
David also explains how you can use your win-lose ratio as a trigger to raise your prices.
You'll find yourself slapping yourself on your head when you realise how simple getting pricing right is, and what a pig's ear you've made of discussing pricing in the past
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Saturday May 23, 2020
Saturday May 23, 2020
#CarynKopp has been opening doors by phone for her business clients for nearly 3 decades. She has built a team of experienced door openers, accumulating 300+ years of lessons from cold calling. We discuss why the phone is still relevant and an incredibly powerful route to market. We role play various common scenarios and offer up some better alternatives to traditional prospecting strategies.
The phone is an incredibly powerful sales tool which is underused and underestimated. Its power lies in the intimacy a phone call creates. The buyer is letting you right into their personal space, speaking directly into their ear.
Many salespeople have grown up with the myth that prospecting by phone doesn't work any more. This is a bullshit fabrication of social media "gurus" trying to peddle their programmes to suckers. Bad telephone prospecting doesn't work. It NEVER worked. A great prospecting mindset, with great technique and the right intent can be super effective. And as part of a mix of prospecting activities, it is even more powerful than just cold calling alone.
We discuss why so many sales managers are incapable of training and coaching their salespeople to use the phone and reach a depressing conclusion which offers great managers a fantastic chance to get even further ahead.
You can contact Caryn via:
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koppconsultingusa.com (Kopp Consulting USA)
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Thursday May 21, 2020
Thursday May 21, 2020
#PaulAlexandrou is a seriously effective storyteller. Founder and CEO of #ModernEquivalent, Paul helps fast growth companies adapt to moments of deep change. Pivots, strategic change, outrageous growth are often very uncomfortable. Managed well, those moments can deliver incredible competitive advantage. Mismanaged and they can sound the death knell for your business or a life of mediocrity swimming with all the other fish in your pond.
The danger of being feature obsessed is that you paint yourself into a box as a commodity provider. MinimumViableBrand (#MVB). Story and brand are misplaced in marketing departments. Founders are so close to the narrative and that informs decisions at a product and culture level. Paul believes it's imperative to position brand and story in the C-suite for them to use them as a lens, especially at moment of change.
Your story is the narrative of why you exist. It's the bridge that connects who you are as a business and what matters most to the people you serve. Story is too important for it to be merely a marketing output. Does your story tell how are you different or make you sound like everyone else?
CEOs are the chief story tellers. Companies that are winning are leaning into the challenge by pivoting around their purpose or their brand, often away from their old feature sets. CEOs need to embrace their responsibility. They need to author and co-author their story with their teams so they are at the centre of their story as it evolves. Paul introduces the concept of the Brand/OS (operating system) to keep the brand fluid and iterative so it evolves with real world market conditions.
If you are scaling up your business, this is essential listening. If you don't leverage your story and your brand effectively, you are going to make that growth heavy going and you will become an obstacle to your own growth. You will create confusion, conflict and silos, you may take on money that is divisive, leading to politics and turf wars due to misalignment.
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Tuesday May 19, 2020
Tuesday May 19, 2020
#JohnRosso inspires me. He's been an inspiration to me for the past 17 years and is someone all Sandler trainers and clients have been influenced by. His impact cannot be overstated within our community.
John and I explore what's going on in the sales community under Covid-19. We investigate what's working and what isn't, what managers can do to help or hinder their salespeople. And what salespeople are doing to hinder themselves. He uses real world examples to show best practices and what the average salespeople and average managers are doing. If you are doing those things, take a hard look in the mirror and ask yourself why? Is it fear, apathy, ignorance, denial or ego that holds you back the most?
If you are fan of qualifying for BANT (budget, authority, need and time) you are going to hate this interview because we put that ugly baby to bed once and for all when we discuss the importance of qualifying conceptually. Average (BAD) salespeople try to qualify for BANT because they've been taught to do that by terrible managers (94% of managers are UNQUALIFIED for the job based on SRC's 2020 global research study, and frankly, I'm amazed it's that low a percentage!). John sheds light on a far more elegant way of engaging in the qualification process that true sales professionals will love.
I'm not going to give away any more. Have a listen. Pure gold throughout.
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