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Creating a not-so-formal leadership development program

Insperity

Do a few of your in-house customer service reps need to learn the art of outside sales and contract negotiations? After all, your customer service reps are going to have to go on several sales calls with your top salespeople to absorb and learn before they’re ready to fly solo. Who gets developed?

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Reskilling: What is it and why is it important?

Insperity

For example, a retailer might reskill its in-store salespeople to work as remote customer service agents to support a change in focus from brick-and-mortar to e-commerce sales. Recruiting, interviewing, vetting and hiring new employees is expensive and time-consuming, even before you get to onboarding.

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3 Tricks to Scoring That Sale

Success

I received an email from a prospective client who said her company really wanted to hire me to speak to its sales staff. The CEO needed to make sure the sales director was onboard, though. So next I met with the sales director. Then the CEO and sales director together. And then with the CEO one more time.

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5 essential traits of effective everyday leadership

Insperity

The customer service representative who takes extra time to thoroughly handle a client’s issue, even though she knows doing so may increase her average call time and count against her numbers, is a good example of adaptability. That means organizations spend less money on training, recruiting and onboarding.

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To Engage and Retain Employees Provide a “Mini” Job Rotation During Employee Orientation

Workplace Psychology

When you look at how companies typically onboard new employees and the lack of follow-up employee development training, it’s not at all surprising that so many employees struggle with not fully understanding what their colleagues do and how their companies operate. 3-day job rotation for Wk. 1-day debrief for Wk. 1-day debrief for Wk.

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What Salesforce learned after saving 50,000 hours of work using AI

Work Life

And the software giant builds the products that are used by employees at some 150,000 workplaces, from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies; from sales and customer service teams to marketing and tech teams. And then after that, I had a long background in sales, selling HR software. And now we’re at 73,000.

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Has Employee Training Gotten Dull? Use Gamification to Enhance It

Success

Quizzes with a point system may be used to onboard new employees and share critical information in a fun, welcoming way to help them get started at the company. Or the sales team can be incentivized to meet or exceed their quarterly goals through sales contests, competitions and giveaways with prizes for the best numbers.

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