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 For decades, sales leadership has revolved around two words: the pipeline. Forecast calls, pipeline reviews, quarterly reports - they dominate how we track progress. Yet here is…
By Simon Hazeldine Every sales organisation has targets. They are the heartbeat of most commercial strategies, the rhythm by which managers measure performance, and the stick (and occasional carrot) that…
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…
By Simon Hazeldine Walk into most sales organisations and you will hear the words “leader” and “manager” used interchangeably. Titles like Sales Leader are slapped onto business cards and LinkedIn…