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Can a Motivational Speech Increase Drive in Your Salespeople?

Companies often include motivational speakers in their training systems, and a good motivational speaker can spark some fresh thinking and bring energy into the program. However, these speeches will not be a cure-all for your sales team. Unfortunately, even the most inspiring motivational speakers cannot transform a low-Drive person into a high-Drive person. Since only 15% of the general population actually have the skills necessary to succeed in sales, it is imperative to manage your expectations ahead of time. Can a Motivational Speech Increase Drive in Your Salespeople? was last modified: August 1st, 2013 by SalesDrive, LLC

Be Wary of “One Size Fits All” Sales Training

Often sales managers bring in sales trainers and make it mandatory for everyone to attend. And often the outcome is disappointing . . . not only are a good percentage of the salespeople, who attend, busy reading text messages and tuned out, but after the time and money is spent there is no noticeable change in behavior. Usually the reason for this breakdown is that different salespeople have different needs, so a salesperson who is already adept at persuasion is going to be bored stiff at a persuasion seminar, while the well-organized salesperson will perceive a time management seminar as

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Can You Train a Low-Drive Salesperson to “Hunt” Successfully?

The answer, for the most part, is “No.” A lot of data now shows that almost all successful salespeople who are asked to go out and develop new business share the innate personality characteristic psychologists call “Drive.” Learn why low-Drive salespeople could be hurting your sales and how to find the right high-Drive salespeople. Importance of Drive in Sales Drive consists of sub-characteristics including Need for Achievement, Competitiveness and Optimism that cannot be taught beyond adolescence. We each develop these characteristics by early adulthood through a combination of our inborn characteristics and the circumstances of our upbringing. The

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Can a Motivational Speech Increase Drive in Your Salespeople?

Be Wary of “One Size Fits All” Sales Training

Can You Train a Low-Drive Salesperson to “Hunt” Successfully?

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