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July 19, 2011

The Importance of Soft Skills in Sales

Filed under: Mike Shallanberger,Sales Process Assessment,sales training — MikeShallanberger @ 1:00 am

Selling Skills Aren’t the Only Soft Skills Your People Need

Schneider Sales Management most often works with clients in the context of a comprehensive sales and service culture change effort. We’ve written often as to why these initiatives succeed or fail—the sales training effort, the effectiveness of coaching and feedback, the organization’s sales process, and the level of employee focus and accountability. We’ve also had numerous opportunities to observe as our client’s tackle major technology conversions, wholesale product line changes and mergers/acquisitions, and can attribute the success and failure of these efforts as well. The degree of success is often determined not by the core elements of the change initiative, but rather by how equipped the organization’s managers and employees are from a soft skills and project management standpoint. (more…)

March 23, 2011

Strategic Selling Online Sales Training Class begins March 29th

Filed under: sales training — admin @ 2:19 pm

Learn how to gain access to target sales prospects, identify the best sales opportunities, improve the success rates of sales calls, and improve client relationships. This class is recommended for all banking and credit union sales personnel who specialize in advanced sales.

Visit our course schedule for details.

December 20, 2010

Are You Ready to Go Virtual in 2011?

Filed under: Ben Kinning,sales training — BenKinning @ 1:56 pm

We strongly believe that classroom based, instructor led training is still the best way for employees to begin the process of mastering new sales and service skills. The ability to interact and share ideas and experiences with peers helps build knowledge, along with practical application of that knowledge. Being with an experienced, energized instructor, who brings life to the materials and content, can expand the potential of our employees and have them reaching to do more than they ever thought they could. While online training has become more important, a group session, led by an instructor, remains the most effective way to transmit knowledge, plus shape a cultural change in how employees think about sales. (more…)