Creating Sales Standard Work

Many people/organizations struggle in creating a sales workflow. It is usually to confining or on the opposite end nonexistent. In my thinking, Standard Work is what creates the WOW in the sales process. However, Standards are the most fundamental and misunderstood concept. Your standards are the way you go about what you do and how Read More …

Are you developing WICKED Salespeople?

Most sales opportunities are just not that obvious anymore that seems to be the job of automation, not sales. However, are we enabling salespeople to handle wicked problems? Are we training them in the areas of exploration, scenarios, emergence & sensemaking? Wicked Problems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_problem Cynefin Framework: https://cognitive-edge.com/

How We Learn – Dissonance

Using Lean Thinking in the fields of sales and marketing and to some extent, the more softer-feely approach of Toyota Kata seems very mechanical. I was reviewing a video from Solution Tree and enjoyed the terminology of the cycle of learning they used especially the word dissonance. It describes the area of tension that exists Read More …

Lean Sales and Marketing: Hiring Learners (Part 11 of 11)

[arve url=”https://youtu.be/wCnbtp2eoss” /] This short video is one of an eleven-part series on Lean Marketing. You can watch the entire series in its entirety on YouTube at https://youtu.be/WLzCUThAQ18 or in short, approximately five-minute sections. The videos serve as an introduction in creating a Lean Marketing system. You can’t write and teach Lean Sales and Marketing. Read More …

Lean Sales and Marketing: Clustering Intro (Part 10 of 11)

[arve url=”https://youtu.be/YjVAbOUqHuE” /] This short video is one of an eleven-part series on Lean Marketing. You can watch the entire series in its entirety on YouTube at https://youtu.be/WLzCUThAQ18 or in short, approximately five-minute sections. The videos serve as an introduction in creating a Lean Marketing system. You can’t write and teach Lean Sales and Marketing. Read More …