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How Allego Helps Sales Trainers Solve The ‘One-Room Schoolhouse’ Dilemma
When it comes to national sales meetings, smaller sales training departments face the same dilemma as one-room schoolhouse teachers: How do you leverage your limited time and resources to train a diverse group of people—all at the same time? If learning content for the event is too advanced, new hires may get hopelessly lost. If it’s too basic, you risk putting the experienced reps to sleep. At large organizations, the simple solution is to divide the reps into different classes, design customized content for each class, and run concurrent workshops. Of course,... Continue Reading
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Modern Learning Methods Help Sales Leaders Control the Controllables
Sales leaders have little or no control over what their competitors are doing, or when their reps will gain access to key decision-makers (if they’re even able to do so in the first place). However, they can control how their sales team pitches their products and responds to customer concerns. In industries such as healthcare, medical devices, and pharmaceuticals, your team’s execution of the “how” has become increasingly critical. A decade ago, salespeople could walk through a physician’s door and get a face-to-face meeting. Today, access is very limited. Even if you... Continue Reading
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The Benefits of Modern Learning Technology for Sales Initiatives
This blog post is the second part in a series on modern learning technology adoption In the first part of this article 6 Ways Global Sales Teams Can Promote Modern Sales Team Adoption , we examined how sensitivity to cultural differences and stressing the benefits of best practices sharing can fuel faster adoption of Allego across a globally distributed sales force. In this part, we’ll look at the benefits of gamification, influencer campaigns, and aligning modern learning technology with your company’s global and regional sales initiatives. Gamification Question: What’s the difference between adaptive reinforcement... Continue Reading
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6 Ways Global Sales Teams Can Promote Modern Learning Adoption
Upon seeing a telephone for the first time in 1876, President Rutherford B. Hayes told Alexander Graham Bell, “That’s an amazing invention, but who would ever want to use it?” Although many sales managers and reps immediately appreciate the benefits of a modern sales learning platform, some are like Hayes: it sounds great but they’re not sure they’ll actually use it. This is true in any organization, but promoting widespread adoption of modern learning technology in a globally distributed sales force can be especially challenging. To overcome these challenges, we’ve assembled 6... Continue Reading