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Use Questions Not Reasons When Selling
Use Questions Not Reasons When Selling

For your customer, it’s not your product that is exciting, it’s the fixing of THEIR ISSUE that makes the product exciting. If everyone has great products and services then competition shifts from who has the best product to who can best improve the customer’s operations, and that’s what you need to be thinking about. To […]

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Virtual training
Virtual Presentation Skills Training

Back in the tumultuous days of March 2020, our resident presentation skills team were wondering how to adapt the LDL Presentation Skills programme to the new remote working environment. At the time, we didn’t know if the transition to remote learning would be a temporary, or a permanent change. A year later, it seems like […]

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Mind Game of Selling
The Mind Game of Selling

Top salespeople know it’s the mind game that makes or breaks them, especially in the new normal. Timothy Galway in his inner game books says, the theory of the inner game is that our performance is dependent on our state of mind, therefore the real game is to get into the right frame of mind and hold ourselves there.

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3 Ways To Build Your Leadership Resilience

The great philosopher Mike Tyson famously said, “Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth”. Well, Covid has been a punch in the mouth for many of us. It has made leading a team harder than ever before. How do you lead when you can’t see your people, when you have reduced incentives, constant change and many other challenges?

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How To Use Your ‘Meta Differentiators’ To Increase Sales

As an experienced seller you will know how important it is to sell the difference to your customer. To succeed in a competitive market, where products and services are becoming more alike, you need to know what your differentiators are and how they benefit your customer. Often referred to as USPs, these differentiators exist in […]

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Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT) – A New Way To Train Your Team

Traditional face-to-face (F2F) training has always been the default option for learning. It’s engaging, it’s interactive, and done well it’s enjoyable. But in today’s environment general unease around travel and group meetings make it less than ideal. While some may adopt a ‘wait and see’ approach, for others the solution is LIVE virtual instructor-led training (VILT).

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Working from Home? – Tips to Sustain Connectedness (from Google’s Veronica Gilrane and LDL)

Working from home may sound like a dream, but there are also major challenges. On this blog we show you how to sustain connectedness when working remotely with lessons from Google’s People Analytics Manager, Veronica Gilrane.

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How To Be a Kick-ass Boss: ‘Radical Candor’ by Kim Scott

As part of the LDL Learning Review, we are encouraging all of our team members to get involved in discussing the latest ideas and insights in the worlds of sales, management, leadership, negotiation and presentation skills training. This month, LDL’s Marketing Manager, Tom Fielder, reviews Kim Scott’s ‘Radical Candor’.

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Can You Engage & Motivate Your Team?

As a ‘modern manager’ you need to be able to lead, engage, motivate and inspire your team. Here are 15 quick tips which, if you apply, will help you get that little bit more from everyone around you.

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