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    Servant Leadership Is Powerful Sales Leadership

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    Many sales leaders, when they transition from individual contributor to sales leader, continue the same behaviours they demonstrated as a sales person. They love the hunt and get excited by the prospect of winning the deal. Very often this can lead to disengagement & de-positioning of the sales team.  When it comes to leading your team, do you find yourself solving the team’s problems, believing that through solving the problem, you are serving them?  I certainly believed that, until I discovered that solving the team’s problems for them was actually creating an environment of co-dependency. As a result, I was not serving them at all. The key is to develop independent thinking within the team.  Great sales leaders recognise there is a better way – servant leadership. Serving their team so that the team has the opportunity to be sustainably successful. Are you a servant leader?

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    Your Leadership Legacy With Oakland McCulloch

    October 22, 2021

    In today’s episode, I had the privilege of chatting with Retired Lieutenant Colonel Oakland McCulloch. Oak has over 40 years of leadership experience and has recently published a book ‘Your…

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    Creating Great Impressions

    October 21, 2021

    When it comes to communicating with our team, customers and key stakeholders, many of us leave the outcomes to chance. In other words, we ‘wing it’. Sometimes we get lucky…

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    Building Your EQ Muscle

    October 19, 2021

    I love working with Sales Leaders who have a high level of emotional intelligence (EQ). However, there are countless sales leaders across many different industries who are severely lacking in…

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    Breakthroughs Happen On The Other Side Of One More

    October 18, 2021

    Are you curious as to what it is that separates the exceptional performers, whether they be in business, sport, or entertainment, from their competitors? Many point to talent as being…

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    Welcome To The Bottom Rung

    October 15, 2021

    For many in sales, there is a desire to transition into sales leadership and for many, it is about the prestige, the title and the perceived influence that comes with…

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    Be Relentless In Your Standards

    October 14, 2021

    I enjoyed some awesome conversations with clients this week, in particular in relation to standards of excellence. A key element of becoming an exceptional sales leader is to identify what…

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    Are You Projecting Self Confidence?

    October 13, 2021

    As sales leaders, we are the barometers of our team and our team is a mirror in that they are simply a reflection of us. It is therefore vital that…

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    Make Excuses Or Make Progress – You Can’t Do Both!

    October 12, 2021

    If there is one thing that frustrates me more than anything else – it is sales leaders and teams making excuses for where they are at: Sales target is too…

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    Are You Helping Or Hindering?

    October 8, 2021

    In working with leaders, I find that many of them can’t help but get involved in tasks and projects, sometimes doing things for their team, rather than allowing their team…

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