Kai Davis

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Here is a selection of services and products from friends and colleagues that help meet your needs and help you grow. Specials on Kai's Products 34% off Quick Start Roadmapping Get the complete Quick Start Roadmapping for $99 (instead of $150). You'll get the book, resources, SOPs, guides, templates, and videos. The result?

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LSA Global

AUGUST 25, 2020

Is It Time to Pivot Your Sales Strategy? Are you and your sales team agile enough? You will find out just how quickly you can pivot your sales strategy and your sales team when a crisis occurs. Do you need to pivot your sales strategy or sales approach? And now we have one – COVID 19.

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LSA Global

MARCH 15, 2020

Every Sales Team Would Like to Convert Sales Leads Faster. Your sales conversion rate measures the effectiveness of your sales team at turning sales leads into new customers. It measures how often your sales reps are turning prospects into real business. New sales leads grow cold surprisingly fast.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

We are excited about the rise of experiments in organizations and have spent much of the past few years thinking about how to design and interpret them. One simple and often overlooked way for larger companies to experiment is to randomize the introduction of new products across a set of markets.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 14, 2018

High Performance Sales Needs High Performance Sales Planning. If you want better sales performance, you need better sales planning. The goal for most sales teams is pretty straightforward – grow profitable sales. It takes a clear go to market sales strategy combined with a sales plan to make it happen.

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Effective Managers

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

how can we reduce costs? how can we do more with less? These questions and associated measures, while important, ignore the internal disruption (in some cases dysfunction) that reduces productivity. Session 2: Metrics vs Strategy. Learn more about Session 1 and register here: [link]. A Common Pitfall in Business.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 15, 2020

It’s a great challenge to accurately measure the effects of advertising, packaging, distribution channels, media expenditures, social media Likes and Tweets, and sales organizational structure on brand share or sales revenue. Products should be tested and optimized. Let’s draw a distinction between the micro and the macro.

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1 to 1

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Marketing and sales teams have traditionally had two separate objectives in most organizations: the marketing team works to get leads and fill the top of the funnel, while the sales team focuses on the bottom of the funnel and closing those leads. Lead prioritization is another people-based way brands can boost sales.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Outbound B2B sales are becoming less and less effective. In fact, a recent survey found that connecting with a prospect now takes 18 or more phone calls, callback rates are below 1%, and only 24% of outbound sales emails are ever opened. Why are more and more buyers avoiding salespeople during the buying process?

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Rick Conlow

JANUARY 2, 2023

By not dancing, CEOs cost their companies billions of dollars of lost employee innovation, productivity, and customer service. Among CEO top priorities are sales growth and profit. While companies must grow and make money, executives often forget how it happens. Customer loyalty generates sales growth and profit.

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Consulting Matters

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Now, there's only so much I can share with you on a podcast about practically using these power skills and how everything else we have been chatting about in these organizational consulting series fit together. It provides mission and purpose, brand, vision, goals, desired customer experience, products, and service offerings.

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Rick Conlow

MAY 17, 2023

Lack of awareness or education: Leaders may not be aware of servant leadership principles or may not understand how to apply them effectively. How to Implement Servant Leadership with your Team Here are seven proven steps for implementing servant leadership in a company or with your team.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 10, 2017

Sales executives with even moderately large, distributed sales forces rely on data to help them understand which activities and behaviors lead to the best outcomes. Refining Sales Team Structure and Roles. At the highest level, Workplace Analytics can provide a factual foundation for decisions on sales structure and roles.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 30, 2018

One question that has long plagued organizations is how to improve performance among frontline workers, the people who actually drive customer experience. To show how it works, we’ll walk you through an example. For example, in one store, a challenge was how to get more walk-in customers. Shana Novak/Getty Images.

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Buzzsprout

MARCH 28, 2024

It's an excellent time to learn how to harness this medium whether you're a podcaster selling ad space, or a brand looking to promote your product. In this blog, we'll break down everything you need to know about podcast advertising and show you how to leverage different types of podcast ads for optimal results.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Think hard before blindly committing to another sales pitch. Looking at one metric for gauging customer advocacy, the Net Promoter Score, promoters are worth nearly three to seven times more in lifetime value than detractors, depending on the market. You have earned the right to ask them for another sale. Not so fast.

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Rick Conlow

AUGUST 21, 2023

The High Payoff of Employee Recognition Research shows employees with little, or no recognition exhibit decreased job satisfaction, higher turnover, lower productivity and engagement, and greater stress or burnout. For example, one of our clients wanted to increase sales results with existing customers.

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LSA Global

JUNE 18, 2020

For those struggling with how to stand apart from the pack, the encouraging news is that Gartner Research reports that over 50 percent of customer loyalty is driven by how you sell – more than the impact of your brand, product, service, and price combined. The Sales Challenge. Create Strategic Sales Clarity.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2017

One client I worked with recently — let’s call it Sales and Product Co. For Sales and Product Co, this meant the C-suite routinely scheduling time to discuss progress, and leaving enough space in their diaries to be available to discuss issues and blockages as the need arose.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Because I teach a course on Product Management at Harvard Business School, I am routinely asked “what is the role of a Product Manager?” ” The role of a Product Manager (PM) is often referred to as the “CEO of the Product.” Defining and tracking success metrics. Core Competencies.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

In one global consumer products company that I work with, my firm’s organizational assessment revealed an unusually intense degree of aggravation over how much time was consumed by meetings, leaving “only evenings to do our day jobs,” according to one interviewee. How to Design an Agenda for an Effective Meeting.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 1, 2018

Jenny Dearborn Data Driven: How Performance Analytics Delivers Extraordinary Sales Results. Congratulations to LSA Client, Jenny Dearborn, the Executive Vice President, Human Resources at SAP, for publishing her book: Data Driven: How Performance Analytics Delivers Extraordinary Sales Results. Realistic and Actionable.

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Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2018

Our research , which focused on CEO succession in the American health care system, examined the impact of CEO succession on productivity and efficiency. How to make your company more nimble and responsive. We reached these conclusions by comparing 490 CEO succession decisions with a control group of 1,150 firms in the health sector.

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LSA Global

APRIL 4, 2023

merging with another company, opening up a new sales territory , or launching a new product), the faster you can execute the strategy, the more likely you are to stay ahead of the competition. Goals, success metrics, roles, responsibilities, scope, and interdependencies for each stream of work is known and committed to.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Along the way, I’ve talked to hundreds of founders, sales and marketing leaders, customer success VPs, and front-line reps about how to build a customer-first SaaS organization. Here’s how I’d recommend shifting your thinking about customer success as you grow: Founding Stage (0–5 employees). What to do.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 31, 2017

After all, if you’re trying to sell a product or strategy, you need to be able to demonstrate that it is both practical and high margin. The most important concepts to grasp are “how to measure profitability, EBITDA, operating income, revenue, and operating expenses,” he says. ” Focus on key metrics.

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LSA Global

JULY 20, 2017

Other leaders believe success metrics must be set low enough so that people can consistently exceed expectations without setting themselves up to fail. Ultra-stretch goals may work for some super-charged salespeople but, in the final analysis, they are counter-productive. We believe that both sets of leaders are wrong.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

To successfully transform to a more agile enterprise, companies must make conscious choices about where and how to become agile. It also means you have to figure out how to make the agile and traditional parts of your organization effectively operate with one another. This takes time.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 23, 2018

Truth is, you can have the right portfolio of investments, the right metrics and governance, the right stage-gate development process, and the right talent on the right teams — but if you don’t design the right handoffs between your teams, all of that planning falls apart. But a sickening number of those investments fail.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Every step of the process was measured, and real-time metrics were easily accessible. When Bernstein hid a set of production lines from managers’ view, the performance of employees on those lines increased by 10% to 15%. They will represent the products more consistently. Metrics emphasized speed.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 29, 2018

” Here are some pointers on how to make the request. ” The memo’s bullet points ought to “provide concrete metrics of the impact you’ve had,” descriptions of “solutions you’ve delivered” and financial outcomes for which you’ve been responsible. “Do you want more power?

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 1, 2017

Sales isn’t what you do. Here’s how. Get top-level guidance and metrics. Ask the bosses to tell you: How much time do they expect employees to spend learning during work hours? How will your unit’s monthly, quarterly, and annual goals change as a result? You’re not a data scientist.

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Martinka Consulting

MARCH 5, 2015

Last week I discussed Rotary’s emphasis on sustainability, training and the use of metrics on International projects. I mentioned what I called the most important part of the project – training of the teachers on how to best use technology to improve classroom efficiency. We have to have metrics. Part two of two.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

One type of data scientist creates output for humans to consume, in the form of product and strategy recommendations. Data science for humans: the consumers of the output are decision makers like executives, product managers, designers, or clinicians. They are decision scientists. They are modeling scientists. What is the output?

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Large companies deal on a global level with multiple divisions producing a variety of products. It is increasingly difficult to get the right product to the right customer at the right time at the right price. Develop clear success metrics to track progress toward strategic goals. Varied Buy-In.

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Consulting Success

JANUARY 8, 2018

Video Transcript: Let’s talk about metrics. Specific metrics that you can use to get more clients, win more business , and actually grow your consulting business. There’s four metrics in one track. Metric number three that you want to track is proposals. These four metrics give you a lot of information.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

It helps to know how to go fast to create better organizational change. The short and focused sprints of the hare can teach us another lesson on how to accomplish real change in the workplace. Not surprisingly the project was not a success – sales velocity decreased, customer dissatisfaction increased, and employee frustration grew.

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