By Simon Hazeldine Most salespeople think negotiating power comes from confidence, preparation, or holding their price. It does not. Your real power comes from one thing, how deeply you understand…
By Simon Hazeldine Every day, your customers and stakeholders are drowning in decisions.Which supplier to choose. Which project to prioritise. Which meeting to attend. By the time they speak to…
By Simon Hazeldine We live in an in-between era. Field sales went virtual almost overnight during the Covid pandemic, then snapped back to something that resembles the old world, only…
By Simon Hazeldine There is a dangerous myth that still infects too many sales teams and negotiators: that being “reasonable” is the key to success. Be pleasant. Be cooperative. Keep…
By Simon Hazeldine Walk into most sales organisations and you’ll see the same thing. A wall of dashboards. A sea of charts. A leadership team obsessing over conversion rates, pipeline…
By Simon Hazeldine Walk into most sales organisations and you’ll hear the same mantra: “We’re performance-driven.” On the surface, that sounds impressive. But dig a little deeper and you’ll often…
By Simon Hazeldine For decades, quotas or sales targets have been treated as the sacred cornerstone of sales performance. They are the benchmark, the target, the “line in the sand”…
By Simon Hazeldine For decades, sales training has revolved around the art of persuasion. Scripts, objection handling, closing techniques. The underlying assumption? If you say the right words with enough…
By Simon Hazeldine Sales leadership is not just about driving revenue. It is about shaping culture, holding people accountable, and making the tough calls that others avoid. Yet many sales…
By Simon Hazeldine If you want your sales team to operate at peak performance, you need to start looking beyond the traditional sales training playbook. You need to start looking…