Is Your Sales Team Prepared to Sell to a Team

We spend a lot of time discussing the inner working of our teams and breaking down silos between everyone. We will all admit that it requires work, and most of us will even say maybe some outside help or facilitation. When we start working with others, we might even if we are real progressive, invite Read More …

Is the Role between Product Development and Sales Changing?

Matt Barcomb (Twitter: @mattbarcomb) has over 18 years of experience as a product development leader that takes a pragmatic, systems approach to change. He partners with organizations to help leadership teams develop and deploy strategy, optimize product management and development, and evolve traditional HR functions into modern talent development practices. Matt will be presenting this Read More …

Sales Relations Card

Do you carry a card around with you as a reminder? For many years, like 20 or so, I carried around a card clipped out of the book “Yes” or “No”: The Guide to Better Decisions  by Spencer Johnson. for those that do not recognize the name he co-authored The One Minute Manager with Ken Read More …

Structure of Lean in Sales

When Applying Lean to Sales and Marketing many companies try to use traditional approaches and use the typical segmentation strategy. I like to organize the Structure of Lean in sales through the path of SDCA, PDCA  and EDCA. This is a quick summary for part of a webinar, I did for Lean Frontiers the other Read More …

Introducing a Little Sales Kata

This is just a quick outline on part of a webinar I did for Lean Frontiers today. They will be uploading the webinar on their website. I made a quick introduction to what we may call Sales Kata that was derived from this previous post, Using the Coaching Kata in Sales.  This is based on Read More …