Consulting Success

DECEMBER 4, 2017

He began as a door-to-door salesman, and progressed to sales manager, sales director, and eventually marketing director before becoming a CEO for a finance company. After working your way to the top, you, like John, may find that there is more you can accomplish with your skills and talents.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Research shows that managers see far more leadership potential in their employees when their companies adopt a growth mindset — the belief that talent should be developed in everyone, not viewed as a fixed, innate gift that some have and others don’t. But what are those organizations doing to nurture their talent?

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Successful Independent Consulting

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Now I run a national talent agency for HR consultants as well as the Professional Independent Consultants of America, both organizations that help independent consultants be successful. One way to get over the psychological hurdle is to avoid calling it “sales”. I made the leap to independent consulting in 2004 and never looked back.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 30, 2017

Success in a sales force requires having strong talent up and down the organization. A weak salesperson will weaken a sales territory, a bad sales manager will damage their team and dampen results in their region, and a poor sales leader will eventually ruin the entire sales force. Consider two examples.

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LSA Global

MARCH 17, 2025

Top 8 Research-Backed Sales Management Skills to Master We know from sales management training that leading a sales can make or break sales performance. Sales success requires a thoughtful combination of strategic thinking , people skills, and analytical expertise to effectively lead, manage, and coach a sales team.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Yet, our organizational alignment research found that the alignment of strategy and talent accounts for 60% of the difference between high and low performing companies. To be effective, talent management strategies must be anchored by clear, believable, and implementable business objectives that company teams understand and commit to execute.

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Consulting Matters

AUGUST 26, 2021

Your heart won't be in it, and your clients will know that you are trying to land them for the sale and not out of a heart of service. Consultants are focused on enhancing leadership AND organizational capacity. The Difference Between the Role of a Consultant and a Coach Hired by a Leader in an Organization.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 4, 2017

It’s common for leaders of sales teams to focus almost exclusively on short-term tactics and current operations while failing to think and act in a way that supports the longer-term needs of their businesses — and it’s hard to fault them. Talent matters. Denver Post/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 4, 2017

It’s common for leaders of sales teams to focus almost exclusively on short-term tactics and current operations while failing to think and act in a way that supports the longer-term needs of their businesses — and it’s hard to fault them. Talent matters. Denver Post/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 16, 2018

Consider the example of Nicolas, a regional sales vice president at a medical devices company. When promoted to his new role, he inherited a group of district sales managers responsible for selling to hospital systems in their respective geographies. Talent Developers: attract, assess, develop, and retain talent.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Many know and use the nine-box model , for example, to map past performance against future leadership potential. The people the model identifies as those with the most promise are often the ones a company will invest in through additional training and talent development programs. But are these measurement methods still valid?

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 31, 2018

Developing a diverse leadership pipeline can benefit companies in all sectors. And yet black women’s advancement into leadership roles has remained stagnant , even as the number of them in professional and managerial roles has increased. How People Get Ahead. They pursue management challenges.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2018

By Brian Selby, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales Operations, Tableau Software. How often is your sales team making important decisions based on gut feel? Are your sales resources allocated properly to drive growth? Historically, sales has been labeled an art. Why does this happen in so many companies?

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Coca-Cola recently reshuffled its leadership team to focus on growth, innovation, and digital. Unilever has acquired Dollar Shave Club , a young startup, for $1 billion in a move to introduce a new model of subscription sales. This shift gives CPGs an opportunity to gain rich insight into the tastes and habits that drive their sales.

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Clarity Consultants

MAY 27, 2024

A Longstanding Partnership for Excellence Since 2013, Clarity Consultants has partnered with this leading financial services company on nearly 100 projects, demonstrating a solid commitment to talent development and excellence in the industry. Click to read the Case Study!

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LSA Global

JANUARY 23, 2023

The overall objective of the Sales Leadership Assessment was to help to create the expectations, competence, and confidence for the Director of Sales to perform at the Sales VP Level. The post LSA Global Delivers Sales Leadership Assessment for High Tech Company appeared first on LSA Global.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Many are investing heavily in hiring talent with data skills and building out data proficiency across the organization. Since this is first and foremost the responsibility of leadership, early executive buy-in on becoming a more data-driven company is paramount. Insight Center. Scaling Your Team’s Data Skills.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 21, 2023

The sales force was being asked to shift from selling products and features to selling SaaS solutions across multiple product lines and service offerings in different geographies and sales territories. This included business sales training best practices for managing results-based sales metrics.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

100% Job Relevance 100% Satisfaction 50% Knowledge Gain 100% Net Promoter Score After putting their entire APAC sales team through customized solution selling training , this high growth technology client wanted to design and deliver a customized sales management training program for sales leaders to help meet aggressive growth targets.

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LSA Global

JULY 24, 2023

Their sales and service teams know the challenges clients face and build technology that empowers clients to solve them holistically as trusted advisors. desire, productivity, capability and results and drive higher engagement by leveraging neuroscience to motivate the desired sales behaviors. Learn more about getting aligned.

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LSA Global

MAY 8, 2023

The cross-selling strategy was part of a strategic sales initiative to grow globally while achieving economies of scale across markets, regions, products, services, and suppliers.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 5, 2016

These two leadership styles, which I and other researchers refer to as dominance and prestige , respectively, reflect two fundamental strategies people use to navigate their way through social and organizational hierarchies. Some leadership situations call for dominance, whereas others call for prestige.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

APRIL 11, 2022

A lot of businesses are experiencing a leadership shortage. CEOs need a strong leadership pipeline to thrive, but it's not easy to build. In fact, perceptions of leadership effectiveness and readiness often differ between executives and the frontline. Leadership development investments don't have to be a big gamble.

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LSA Global

MARCH 11, 2024

The Sales Management Training results were: 100% Job Relevance 100% Satisfaction 133% Knowledge Gain 96.7% The Sales Management Training results were: 100% Job Relevance 100% Satisfaction 133% Knowledge Gain 96.7%

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Redwood Shores, CA – LSA Global, the leading business consulting, coaching, and training firm that helps fast growth life science, technology, and service companies by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with strategy, today announced results for a program entitled Sales Management and Leadership. 97% Job Relevance.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Sales support: This has sometimes not been the purview of the CMO at all, but has been taken up and led by the sales team alone. This area is measured by the generation of leads and the support of the field marketing organization, which in turn directly supports and enables the sales organization.

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Brimstone Consulting

MARCH 29, 2022

Further, the organization had not invested in leadership development nor was there a common leadership language. Following the assessment, Brimstone began by working with the leadership team to develop a comprehensive strategy. The senior leadership team then went through Brimstone’s Performance Leadership (PL) program.

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Brimstone Consulting

JUNE 7, 2022

Additionally, the process enhances leadership development and growth. After the leadership team went through the strategy and leadership team alignment process , they wanted to accelerate pieces of the strategic business framework. Case Study How Business Acceleration Teams Helped Increase Sales and Drive Results.

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LSA Global

APRIL 15, 2024

The customized Leading Sales Teams Training for LATAM Sales Leaders was designed to align with and reinforce business sales training and solution selling training programs that sales reps and distribution partners had participated in within the last 6 months. That takes consistent and frequent sales coaching.

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LSA Global

APRIL 20, 2022

This global high growth real estate services firm wanted to ensure their sales strategy was on track before investing the time and resources in business sales training to accelerate their ability to qualify, pitch to executives , negotiate, and close. The sales process and framework for each pursuit is fairly inconsistent.

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Clarity Consultants

OCTOBER 6, 2016

After reading descriptions about both tactics, it seems like most articles are making a sales pitch for the carrot method. She explains that if a sales team only works for the carrot, the carrot must be increased “ again and again ” to have a similar effect. How does one manage without spoiling employees too much?

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Rick Conlow

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Talent, information, and desire are not enough to be successful in a career. Never forget that talent, knowledge, and desire aren’t enough to achieve that. Your attitude determines if you use your talent, knowledge, and desire. Pre-play positive results on sales, goals, and customer contacts. But do not worry.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 22, 2016

From there, you will delve into the less-well-known intangible assets such as the talents and skills of your workforce, the IP that exists within your organization, and networks of people and organizations that exist outside the traditional boundaries of your firm. Organizational transformation must begin with a leadership transformation.

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LSA Global

MAY 13, 2024

Do You Have the Right Talent to Execute Your Business Strategy? Because your strategy must go through your talent to be successfully executed, it is no surprise that organizations must have the requisite capabilities and confidence to move strategies forward. Strategies that are misaligned with talent are asking for trouble.

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Rick Conlow

JUNE 19, 2023

Bottom-line, companies with people-first culture led by Servant Leadership principles outperform their competitors. They need to adapt their leadership styles, communication strategies, and performance evaluation methods to accommodate remote work. Conduct weekly but short virtual performance discussions to offer coaching.

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Brimstone Consulting

MAY 6, 2022

There is more to “the right people” than strategic talent acquisition. Further, when leaders move people internally and bring in new talent, they are more likely to have their transformation efforts succeed. In our work, we have seen organizations make strategic talent changes, but not communicate these changes across the organization.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Compelling evidence indicates that leadership moderates company performance and results. But, maybe you feel the importance of effective leadership is often overstated and are somewhat skeptical of the real impact leadership has on a business. Great leaders achieve great results and create great company cultures.

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