When I started hiring and training salespeople twenty years ago, the profile was salespeople with “drive,” “closers.” “Go-getters” who are “aggressive.” Then the psychologists got involved and replaced those dinosaur words with more evolved, academic terms like extroversion, ego drive, and perseverance. I have just worked with a client whose hiring profile included these very […]
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Dan Smaida – August 25, 2016 Have you noticed a couple of things going on in the pipelines of your millennial sellers? – Pipelines are full of prospects that look demographically appealing, but aren’t closing – Salespeople are getting meetings and more meetings, but not enough forward progress – Opportunities that were “sure to close” […]