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4 Risk Assessment Criteria that Will Save Your Job

SBI Growth

This question comes as a natural follow up to most decisions. Whenever you make change, risk is sure to follow. In terms of budgeting you have one thing to look forward to: “How much will the number grow for 2014?”. And how will I reach it if I can’t even make this year’s number?”. If not, start brainstorming.

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2 Ways to Accelerate & Expand Reach on LinkedIn

SBI Growth

Your Reach on LinkedIn will be one of your best sales assets in 2014. 84% of B2B decision makers begin their buying process with a referral. LinkedIn Profiles, Reach & Referrals is how you make your number in 2014. What else can you do to make the number in 2014? How do I know? Because numbers don’t lie.

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One Easy Tool to Improve Sales Efficiency Now

SBI Growth

Sign up for SBI’s 7th annual research tour: " How to Make Your Number in 2014 : A Sales Strategy You Can Execute." Daily, your reps are faced with important decisions about how they spend their time. To make this a reality, reps should use the Customer Priority Scorecard and: Gather the relevant data at the customer level.

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Book review: The Strategy Book by Max McKeown

Red Star Kim

What is the informal decision-making process? link] There’s advice to jump your uncertainty gaps by decision-making and actions which involves risk. Strategy is a stream of decisions and actions”. He notes that your optimism (or pessimism) will impact decisions as well as ability to make fast decisions.

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Coaching and Consulting – People and Problem-Solving skills

Red Star Kim

It’s worth touching on some related skills : Facilitating Essentially, facilitation is about making communication, interaction, collaboration or learning easier. Facilitation skills provide opportunities and resources to a group of people that enable them to make progress and succeed. But coaches resist the temptation to tell.

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10 Things I Wish I Knew Before Becoming a Sales Manager

Hubspot Sales

Here are some chilling statistics that might make you think twice about taking on a front-line manager role: Sales managers cannot control 83% of the metrics they're held accountable to. There are a few things I do to make sure I’m forecasting accurately. Spend more time recruiting in the beginning than you think makes sense.

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What a User-Friendly Tool for Strategy Execution Looks Like (And Why Your Organization Needs One)

AchieveIt

As the strategy leader, you face a number of challenges — updates delayed, clarity lost, team resistance, and decision-making based on gut feeling rather than data. It needs to empower the plan managers with robust features while offering effortless navigation for end users making updates or seeking status reports.