Category Archives: Motivation

Dan Kennedy’s #1 secret success selling weapon – A podcast interview

INTERVIEW WITH PAUL VITTLES a professional listener. Uber marketer and mentor to the worlds most successful online marketers, Dan Kennedy says that listening is his #1 secret success selling weapon. In this interview Ian explores with Paul Vittles (a professional listener), how to profit and create both customer and team engagement through the skill of listening. Paul Vittles has more than 20 years’ experience as a consultant, advising businesses, government departments, public services, and not-for-profit organizations. Paul has been a professional researcher”listener” for 27 years, and he continues to work with leading blue-chip clients as a knowledge-based consultant.

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Leading and bringing out the best in your sales people – A podcast interview

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What does parenting and great leadership have in common? In this podcast, I interview Dr Yvonne Sum. Yvonne is a pioneer in Parent Leadership coaching; inspiring professional and executive parents. She brings out the authentic best in people simply by her energy and unwavering belief that everyone is born a genius. Dr Sum transforms leaders using her Parent Leadership model as a metaphor for business and community leadership from the hear. She teaches how to incorporate work-life balance and how to foster learning partnerships at all levels of the organization and community. Listen as we discuss how to create a … Read more

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Why your job may well be at risk

If you are unable to get all you need to do done, because all of what is on your plate… Then this video is for you. Here’s a new spin on an old idea..The 4 D’s This video is an extract from one of the training sessions from “The Sales Coach Academy” It’s a little over 20 minutes. So…Make sure you have a pen and note paper handy, cause you’ll want to be taking notes…This is good stuff! Enjoy Ian

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Sales coaches: How to inspire confidence in your sales team

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Last week interviewed Katherine Orford. Kathryn Orford is the Confidence Coach. She helps individuals and teams to achieve greatness and equips people with the essential skills, beliefs, behaviors and a positive mindset to produce outstanding results previously thought of as pure fantasy. As she says”We all have the ability to thrive, succeed and accomplish. Sometimes it just takes someone to jolt you off the plateau and blast you into the stratosphere.” In this audio interview you will strategies and tools to inspire yourself and or your people with confidence. Enjoy with my compliments Interview with the Confidence Coach -Katherine Orford … Read more

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The single BIGGEST STRATEGY of the world’s top performing sales managers

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Interviews with Ian Segail on the value of sales performance coaching as a sales improvement strategy. Listen as Ian discusses what the world’s top performing sales managers do to consistently hit their sales numbers month in and month out with a highly motivated sales team.

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The # 1 reason why your message doesn’t influence others

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If your influence on others is hit and miss…. then I recommend you watch this video. In this video, Simon Sinek will show you a simple but powerful model for inspirational influence. He demonstrates his  golden circle influence model using examples that include Apple, Martin Luther King, and the Wright brothers .. Find out why your sales, marketing and other influence messages are missing the mark by watching this TED video -Click on the link or the picture to access this simple and yet powerful influence wisdom Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action    

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Sales Management – The surprising science of motivation

Sales Management Needs to Understand How to Motivate the Sales Team What if the way we motivate our sales people was completely arse-about-face? What would you say if you were told that it has been proven that the greater the incentive the lower the performance? In this very powerful video you will learn why we in business have “motivation” all wrong. Watch this video of a powerful TED talk by Dan Pink. In this video career analyst Dan Pink, examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don’t: Traditional rewards aren’t always … Read more

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The top 5 highest leverage activities of effective sales management.

Effective Sales Management by Leveraging High Value Activities Last month whilst I was doing a sales team productivity audit for a large multinational account, in my feedback report I quoted an old CSO Insights report wherein author Jim Dickie from CSO Insights, wrote, “In the absence of proactive sales management, reps will actively reside in their comfort zones”. The report called for me to lay out a 6month sales productivity improvement plan. As a key part of that plan I laid out the following high leverage activities that my client’s sales management team needed to adopt.

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