Harvard Business

JUNE 12, 2017

companies spend over $70 billion annually on training, and an average of $1,459 per salesperson — almost 20 percent more than they spend on workers in all other functions. Yet, when it comes to equipping sales teams with relevant knowledge and skills, the ROI of sales training is disappointing.

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Consulting Matters

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Dan Weedin is an author, speaker, consultant, coach, podcaster and founder of Toro Consulting , a firm that specializes in small business growth, particularly in the insurance/risk business. Betsy Jordyn: We were at a business training where we were learning how to grow our consulting practices back in the day. What happened to you?

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

You are trained on how to get into a CEO’s mindset within a lifetime of an engagement while being an outsider. ” “I was working in a wine shop during my undergrad and started to realize that I was able to close more sales by being a trusted advisor to my client rather than acting like a sales rep.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 23, 2017

The strange part is how today’s AI works, building subroutines of patterns, and loops of patterns about other patterns, training itself through multiple layers that are only possible with very large amounts of computation. Once validated, the pattern-finding methodology is strengthened by feeding it more data.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2017

The model simultaneously compared sales of different types of products with local demographic and financial statistics to come up with a single efficiency measure for each salesperson relative to their peers. Methodology. The dichotomy continues when it comes to methodology.

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