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Selecting the right sales training for your company is the result of a careful examination of your goals and an honest appraisal of your staff’s current strengths and weaknesses.

In hard times, when the premium on having the best-trained employees is at its highest, training often gets relegated down the priority list.

This process provides a range of planned, integrated, and highly tailored support for both external new leaders and internally promoted leaders.

Rather than fixating on outdated standards, we should focus on the user experience. Does content work? Does it get in the hands of employees quickly, effectively, and efficiently?

International training has its challenges, but these can be overcome with planning and forethought. You also may find that your training capabilities improve over time as you gain a broader perspective that leads to new insights and a different point of view.

Modern learners are savvy and expect to be treated with respect for their knowledge and experience. They have little patience for “nice to know information,” unprepared trainers, or clumsy technology. If those requirements aren’t met, they will go elsewhere.

Giving feedback with GRIT—using generosity, respect, integrity, and truth—makes a huge difference to your team, and it costs you nothing except a little time.

Four essential ways big companies should be thinking small.

After finding out my cancer was cured, I was preoccupied with the question, “When so many do not survive cancer, why me?” One philosophical answer is: If we’re alive, our mission on Earth isn’t finished. But I am 69, so how big a vision is possible for a person of my age?