Psychology

Alice Kemper Sales Manager Tips: 3 Proven Actions + 2 Bonus Tips to Help Teams Crush Quotas Consistently
Alice Kemper Sales Manager Tips: 3 Proven Actions + 2 Bonus Tips to Help Teams Crush Quotas Consistently In yet another powerhouse interview, CEO Steve Benson hosts sales leadership veteran Alice Kemper, who reveals her "secret three actions" for sales managers aiming to hit quotas without the burnout. Drawing from 36 years of trailblazing - from teaching to managing dozens of reps at American Greetings - Kemper shares battle-tested tactics on coaching, analytics, and motivation. In this article, we've taken Kemper’s interview and boiled down her wisdom into five actionable insights, blending the core trio with ride-along extras and sales psychology gems, so you can implement them tomorrow. Afterwards, if you’d like to listen to the full…
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Mark Bowden: Sales Success Through Body Language & Nonverbal Communication
Mark Bowden: Sales Success Through Body Language & Nonverbal Communication As a sales professional, if the expert behind the acclaimed TED Talk on the importance of body language also had plenty to share on the subject of nonverbal communication in sales, you’d want to absorb and apply everything he had to say, right? That’s how we felt too, as Steve Benson sat down with Mark Bowden for an eye-opening discussion on how to level up your sales process by simply understanding and harnessing body language better. Voted the world's top body language professional, Mark Bowden shared game-changing tactics drawn from his work with Fortune 500 CEOs and G7 leaders…
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Unlocking your Social Brain to Grow Sales
Unlocking your Social Brain to Grow Sales How can we increase our social awareness to interact with others in a more efficient, inspirational and influential way? In today’s interconnected world, collaborating well with other people is an increasingly important skill. One way of thinking about our social interactions is to use the SCARF Model, which can help us make those interactions more successful. David Rock’s SCARF Model is a summary of important neuroscientific discoveries about the way we interact socially. The model is built on three central ideas: 1. Your brain treats social threats and rewards with the same or even greater intensity as physical threats…
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