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Coach Your Sellers to Improve Sales Conversations with Buyers

Studies show that the best sellers receive a regular, ongoing schedule of sales coaching, and the best sales managers deliver coaching regularly.

The Power of the Company You Keep

Be mindful of the people surrounding you and how they are helping you or hindering your progress. There are many ways to create and build more valuable relationships in your professional life.

Managing Yourself: The Power of Non-Stop Renewal

Non-stop renewal focuses less on the accomplishment of a particular learning objective and more on instilling a disposition to look for learning in day-to-day work routines.

5 Tips to Use Conflict to Develop Your Leadership and Team

Involve teammates in setting guidelines to address all conflicts and reassure them that disputes will be resolved swiftly and objectively when they arise.

How Do YOU “Feed Back”?

Giving feedback isn’t an innate skill. Doing it well takes a whole lot of upfront planning, skill, and some practice, too.

L&D Best Practices: Strategies for Success (April 2023)

Training magazine taps 2023 Training APEX Awards winners and Training Hall of Famers to provide their learning and development best practices in each issue. Here, we look at Marine Corps Community Services Miramar’s Leadership Series.

Soft Skills Are Now Core Competencies

Leadership experts now emphasize qualitative skills such as empathy and communication with as much rigor as quantitative skills such as finance and engineering. They believe these “soft” skills should be renamed core competencies.

Productivity Coach’s Corner: Discussing Reality and the Future of Training

As you think of the future, what conversations do you need to have, with yourself and others? Find a way to invite them to the table. Bring them to your place, or go to where they are.

“Assumicide” Prevention for Training/HR Professionals Amid Talent Shifts

Rather than being informed by the correct data and information, leaders’ outdated understanding of how talent is acquired and grown can lead to poor outcomes or even dire business circumstances.

Sticky Notes: Teaching Interpersonal Communication

Whether communication is in-person, electronic, in scheduled meetings, or around the water cooler, here are tips to help employees conquer four common communication issues.

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