In our COVID 19 world virtual communications have never been more important than right now. This could be informally with friends and family, or increasingly, in our business context. What is certain, when we return to ‘normal’, it will not be the ‘normal’ that we were used to. The seismic shock that we are experiencing will shape the future. It will never be the same again.

Why good sales needs a good process..

But it’ll stop me…

What do you think when you hear the word ‘process’? Putting that question to salespeople tends to elicit two extreme responses. Firstly, it’s often “love it, gives me structure, that’ll help” or, very frequently, an internal scream – “it’ll restrict me, I can’t be myself, I don’t want to be a robot”. Which camp do you fall into?

I remember growing up there was a book called 'All that you wanted to know about (insert topic), but were afraid to ask.' I was reflecting on this recently and on my experience of working with over 15,000 sales people over the past (nearly) 30 years.